How to Formulate your Own Palm Oil Free Soap Recipes – Bottega Zero Waste

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If you want to learn how to make your own soap, there are a few terms which are very specific to soap making that you need to first understand fully. These terms are used to describe the way a soap maker decides to handle the recipe he/she is formulating to creating a particular soap. Superfatting or Lye Discount Every oil has a unique saponification value - the SAP value. This value determines the amount of sodium hydroxide necessary to transform the oil into soap. If you use less sodium hydroxide than wha the recipe calls for, you can obtain a more moisturising - or to better say - "superfatted" soap. By leaving behind some "unsaponified" oil does not mean that there will be oil dripping off your soap, but simply that the soap will be more moisturising. This process is also