Sweet almond oil is great for color treated hair thanks to its natural color staying properties.
Olive oil soap bar recipe.
I heard the stories about real castile soaps.
Coconut oil 16 oz.
Avocado oil helps tame flyaways and is particularly suited for curly hair.
Using castor oil at 5 to 10 of your recipe be forewarned using more than 15 castor oil tends to make the bar sticky tacky and rubbery.
This centuries old soap recipe is made with pure greek olive oil indisputably the best olive oil in the world thanks to the perfect terroir also known as the perfect combination of soil.
The two steps that will help your batch of castile soap to harden and cure quicker are using sodium lactate and a water discount.
Coconut oil 5 60 oz.
Olive oil is one of the few oils that can make a great bar of soap when used as 100 of the oils of the recipe.
It makes a very mild soap that won t strip the skin of its natural oils in the same way that soaps with more cleansing oils like coconut oil can.
Avocado oil 9 12 oz.
Coconut oil results in harder soap bars than olive oil but olive oil tends to be more nourishing making it ideal for dry hair or damaged hair.
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To make about 4 5 pounds of soap you would use.
1lb 454g batch 5 superfat 35 7 lye solution.
Full recipe included great for beginners and uses only two oils coconut and olive oil.
Olive oil 5 oz.
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How to make olive oil soap.
Rubbermaid etc makes about 10 pounds of soap 5 cups of water distilled if available but not necessary 20 cups of olive oil.
Olive oil soap recipe ingredients for 2 1 2 lbs.
Of fragrance or essential oil according to your preference.
Pour water 5 cups into the 2 quart pot.
Plastic container s with lid for the mold e g.
Gently add the lye and stir carefully with spoon to mix and dissolve.
Castor oil 1 4 oz.
Of olive oil soap.
But not all soaps labelled castile are truly 100 olive oil.
18 ounces of lye.
Lard or palm oil 1 4 oz.
Lye between 1 5 and 2 2 oz.
Olive oil 8 40 oz.
The resulting bars were so gentle and mild yet slippery and low suds.
Palm oil 5 oz.