Olive Oil | Soap and Skincare Carrier Oil

Description

New season olive oil is coming soon – stock is in low supply at present.

Botanical name: Olea Europaea

Perhaps the most popular of all soap making and skincare oils, this olive oil is grown locally.  A lovely greenish yellow, olive oil has a mild scent and is a versatile addition to your ingredient range.

Used in soap making up to 100%, the world is your oyster when it comes to formulating with olive oil.  It contributes to a more conditioning, silky bar of soap, though doesn’t have a significant lather, so is often combined with hard oils to bring the lather up a bit.

Olive oil is also a wonderful addition to your skincare products, with body butters and balms just the beginning of the products that it words beautifully in.

• Lauric Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 0%
• Myristic Acid (hardness, cleansing, bubbly lather) 0%
• Linoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, lather silkiness) 6-14%
• Oleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, lather silkiness) 63-83%
• Palmitic Acid (hardness, stable creamy lather) 7-17%
• Ricinoleic Acid (conditioning, moisturizing, stable creamy lather) 0%
• Stearic Acid (hardness, stable lather) 3-5%
• Iodine Value (hardness, conditioning) 79-95 (on a scale of 0-100, with more hardness at 0)