Formulating your own cold process soap recipes is easy! In this video, Bramble Berry CEO and Founder, Anne-Marie Faiola, goes over the basics of formulating cold process soap recipes.
To create your own recipe, start by choosing your base oils. You can use each one around 20-30%. For the remaining portion, consider what you’d like the bar to feel like. Do you want it to be super moisturizing, have a nice thick lather, or to be hard and long lasting? How you want your soap to feel and look will guide you in choosing your oils.
You can never go wrong with a 34/33/33 ratio. That’s 34% olive oil, 33% coconut oil, and 33% palm oil. They’re commonly used because they complement each other well. Palm oil acts as a secondary lathering agent and hardens the soap, coconut oil is cleansing and produces big bubbles, and olive oil is moisturizing and gives bars a silky feeling.
Looking for more information on how to formulate cold process soap recipes? These articles can help!
• Formulating Cold Process Soap Recipes:
https://bberry.studio/FormulatingCP
• Beginner's Guide to Common Soapmaking Oils:
https://bberry.studio/BeginnersGuidetoOils
• How to Substitute Oils in Cold Process Soap Recipes:
https://bberry.studio/HowtoSubOIls
• Palm Oil Alternatives in Cold Process Soap Recipes:
https://www.brambleberry.com/ingredient-information/oils-and-butters/art0028-palm-oil-alternatives-in-cold-process-soap.html
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Saponification
02:23 - Choosing Oils: Firm vs. Soft
03:56 - Soft Oils
04:22 - Choosing Oils: Properties of Oils
07:12 - Soap Made with One Oil
10:16 - INS Numbers
11:36 - Soap Recipes to Start
12:53 - Tweaking Recipes
14:52 - Choosing Oils: Design Elements
16:26 - Bloopers
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