Coconut Oil | Soap and Skincare Carrier Oil

Description

Botanical name: Cocos Nucifera

One of the most common base oils used in soap making is coconut oil, and there is a practical reason for its popularity. Coconut oil helps to produce a bar of soap that has excellent cleaning properties. Most important to the soap maker is the desirable fluffy bubbly factor that coconut oil adds to finished soap.

A versatile oil, often used in shampoo bars, laundry soaps, stain remover sticks, dish soaps in addition to hand and body soaps, coconut oil is a solid white oil below 25 degrees.  If living in a cool climate, a hot water bath (for the oil as well as yourself!) will have it melted fairly quickly.  This coconut oil is refined, bleached and deodorised, making it versatile for many applications without adding any scent to the finished product.

Coconut oil makes a hard bar of soap, though it does dissolve readily – and can be used up to 100% in cold process recipes (though for hands and body a high superfat is recommended – up to 20%)

• Lauric Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 44-52%
• Myristic Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 15-25%
• Linoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, lather silkiness) 1-3%
• Oleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, lather silkiness) 6-10%
• Palmitic Acid (hardness, stable creamy lather) 7-12%
• Ricinoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, stable creamy lather) 0%
• Stearic Acid (hardness, stable lather) 1-3%
• Iodine (hardness, conditioning) 30-45 (on a scale of 0-100, with more hardness at 0)