{"id":904,"date":"2017-12-03T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2017-12-02T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:45:40","slug":"hair-soap-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/hair-soap-c\/","title":{"rendered":"More hair soap for C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I had J’s handy-dandy digital scale available (my parents only have a poorly-calibrated analog postal scale), I decided to make yet more soap, this time focusing on better hair soap for sibling C.<\/p>\n

The first bar soap I made was 100% tallow, about 5% superfat (in excess of the saponification stoichiometric ratio), with some amount of sodium hydroxide. The lather is thick and creamy, but not voluminous or stable.<\/p>\n

To attempt to fix this, the new bar of soap was made with mostly tallow (since I can get this locally, cheaply, and fairly sustainably- it’s considered a waste product of meat production), some coconut oil (supposed to make cleansing soap), and some hemp (because I had it on hand). I used sodium hydroxide again because I wanted to make bar soap (and I don’t have KOH).<\/p>\n

Here is the full recipe<\/a>, made using SoapCalc<\/a>. There are other soap calculators, but SoapCalc has a whole bunch of pre-loaded oils so you can easily play around with your soap’s properties (how hard, cleansing, moisturizing, etc it is).<\/p>\n

The soap seemed to turn out fine. It’s curing now. I used my dad’s 40-year-old pH paper (left over from his days in grad school) to make sure the saponification reaction proceeded as expected.<\/p>\n

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I like the puck shape. Bars with square edges are so uncomfortable to hold. I molded the soap in plastic take-out cups, the taper of which caused the pucks to have slightly different diameters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I had J’s handy-dandy digital scale available (my parents only have a poorly-calibrated analog postal scale), I decided to make yet more soap, this time focusing on better hair soap for sibling C. The first bar soap I made was 100% tallow, about 5% superfat (in excess of the saponification stoichiometric ratio), with some … <\/p>\n

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