Making Red Palm Oil Soap/Hot Process Method

[mojuta1]

Thanks for getting back to me... The info is very helpfull... There's one rite here in az.., thanks a bunch again

[mojuta1]

I only found red palm oil where can I find palm oil without the red ????

[BuffAngela158]

@mojuta1 I found mine online at a soap supply company. It's based in BC and since i'm in Cananda it's the best place for me. Check google for a company close to you. You may get lucky and find that there is one that is close to you. I buy my palm oil in 6lb buckets. You can get the same effect of palm oil from using coco butter and it isn't as drying. But coco butter is more expensive. :)

[mojuta1]

Can you add color to the soap. Where did you get your recipe...

[BuffAngela158]

@mojuta1 you can add color but keep in mind with using red palm oil the red will affect any color you use so it may just end up brown.

[Seedcovers]

Looks nice and hard, when i use the red palm, it stinks up the soap

[BuffAngela158]

:) thanks, Yup it is a good hardness...lol. I find Palm oil very stinky too. Luckily the smell disappates after a week or so. If you use a bit of EO it should cover up the smell. I even used 20% of the Palm oil in this one and it didn't smell too bad after a week. That's with No EO's only honey. :0)

[BuffAngela158]

While I've only made Hot Process so far both ways have there good points. Hot process takes longer because of the cook but you can use your soap right away because the lye is cooked out. Cold process doesn't take as much babying buy more can go wrong with it. And you need patients because you can't use it for 6 weeks or less if excellerate the gel stage. Cold process is easier to make pretty swirls although a swirl or marle is possible with hot process as well.

[BuffAngela158]

Cold process is better suited to milk soaps because you can make it at a colder temperature so you don't burn your milk. Oh and hot process is best when using expensive essential oils because you don't need as much for the fragrance you want. ..Both these processes do require everthing in this video up until trace. The cold process you only need to get it to a light trace then add your additives and put itin the mold wrap it up and wait. lol I will be doing a cold process vid soon.

[636lover]

@BuffAngela158 Might I ask where you purchase your red palm oil from? I've gone to several of the African/Caribbean stores (it's a staple in Caribbean cuisine) but it's packaged in a strange way. Online it seems like everyone is backordered, completely out of it, or selling the refined oil.

[BuffAngela158]

@636lover Well I purchases mine at my local Scoop and Save. They specialize in providing bulk herbs, spices, candy supplies. They are also owned by a Jewish family so they have a lot of Jewish food. It was in a very strange container. It was in a 2L bottle that you would find ...say vinegar in. I had to cut it up because I was afraid that heating up the oil would do something to the oil. Next time i'll just heat it up. I put it in Mason jars once i got it out. LOL

[636lover]

@BuffAngela158 Oh Ok! See the African store had it in distilled water bottles and milk jugs so I was wary. I figured the oil probably came in bulk then they heated it up and put it in different sized containers but it seemed strange. Maybe I'll go back and check it out again. Thanks a lot!

[BuffAngela158]

@636lover hi, I just wanted to spread the news...I found out from the Soapqueen yesterday that all palm oil (red and refined) should be melted before you measure it so that you get all the fatty acid chains in your soap batch. Cool info. I guess I didn't need to detroy the container afterall. :0)

[bpereztab]

Very nice. Your soap bars are lovely!

Thanks for sharing.

[BuffAngela158]

@bpereztab Thanks...I had fun making them :)