This is a good second or third soap to make if you are a beginner, but you will probably love it so much that you will be making it again and again. It is a perfect soap for children as well as for adults. It is nourishing and has a lovely bubbly lather.
Oils used in this recipe
Here are links on where to buy the oils used in this recipe.
Please support www.Soap-Recipes.com by using our affiliate links to Amazon.com.
- Olive Oil
- Coconut Oil
- Shea Butter
- Castor Oil
We always use essential oils from Piping Rock. These oils are very cheap and of very good quality.
Recipe percentages, lye, and superfat
This information is for advanced soapers. Go to recipe if you are new to soap making.
- 50% Olive Oil
- 20% Shea Butter
- 20% Coconut Oil
- 10% Castor Oil
- 26.3% Lye Concentration
- 38% Water percent of oil weight
- 5% Superfat
- 27 oz Total oil weight (766)
Quality of the soap
| Soap Bar Quality | Range | This Recipe |
| Hardness | 29 – 54 | 33 |
| Cleansing | 12 – 22 | 13 |
| Conditioning | 44 – 69 | 64 |
| Bubbly | 14 – 46 | 22 |
| Creamy | 16 – 48 | 29 |
| Iodine | 41 – 70 | 65 |
| INS | 136 – 165 | 137 |
Recipe
Shea Butter Soap Recipe
Equipment
- 2 plastic, glass, or steel bowls
- Microwave oven
- Wooden or plastic spoon
- Silicone molds
- Stick blender
- Safety gear
- Kitchen scale
- Thermometer
- pH meter or test strips
Materials
- 13.50 OZ Olive Oil 250 grams
- 5.40 OZ Shea Butter 100 grams
- 5.40 OZ Coconut Oil 100 grams
- 2.70 OZ Castor Oil 50 grams
- 10.26 OZ Water 190 grams
- 3.66 OZ NaOH 67,8 grams
Instructions
- Read the soaping safely page, if you haven´t already
- Dissolve NaOH in water by slowly adding the NaOH to the water and stirring gently with the spoon. Leave the mixture, now called lye, to cool down
- Melt coconut oil and mix it with olive oil
- Wait until the lye is between 86 and 104 degrees F (20-40 degrees C) and heat up the oils to approx the same temperature if needed
- Mix the oils and the lye by slowly pouring oils in the lye
- Use a stick blender for 1-5 minutes until trace
- Pour your batter into a mold or molds as you prefer
- Check if the soap is firm enough to cut after 24 hours
- Cut the soap bars (if you used a big mold) and trim the edges
- Leave to cure e.g. in a paper bag for 4 – 6 weeks and check pH. Store it by room temperature
Soap characteristics
| Lauric | 10 |
| Myristic | 4 |
| Palmitic | 10 |
| Stearic | 10 |
| Ricinoleic | 9 |
| Oleic | 46 |
| Linoleic | 8 |
| Linolenic | 1 |
