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Olive oil soap bar recipe.
Olive oil 8 40 oz.
Coconut oil 16 oz.
Olive oil 5 oz.
Lye between 1 5 and 2 2 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.
Full recipe included great for beginners and uses only two oils coconut and olive oil.
But not all soaps labelled castile are truly 100 olive oil.
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.
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Avocado oil 9 12 oz.
Learn how to make bar soap at home.
To make about 4 5 pounds of soap you would use.
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.
The two steps that will help your batch of castile soap to harden and cure quicker are using sodium lactate and a water discount.
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.
Avocado oil helps tame flyaways and is particularly suited for curly hair.
Palm oil 5 oz.
Lard or palm oil 1 4 oz.
The resulting bars were so gentle and mild yet slippery and low suds.
Plastic container s with lid for the mold e g.
Of olive oil soap.
Castor oil 1 4 oz.
Of fragrance or essential oil according to your preference.
Pour water 5 cups into the 2 quart pot.
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.
Gently add the lye and stir carefully with spoon to mix and dissolve.
18 ounces of lye.
A 100 olive oil soap recipe is also called a castile soap recipe in english speaking countries.
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.
1lb 454g batch 5 superfat 35 7 lye solution.