Shaving Soap Puck Recipe
Olive oil kills lather so it should never be your primary oil for a shaving soap.
Shaving soap puck recipe. This shaving soap recipe also has a very high percentage of castor oil which helps give the soap its robust lather that is needed for shaving. The soap during the pour is extremely smooth due to the higher water content and the inclusion of sodium lactate. What you have here is a recipe for some terrible shaves.
Youll find the Natural Shaving Soap here. So I use a 6040 ratio of KOHNaOH in my recipe. Its completely up to you.
325g Soy Wax 1146 oz 195g Coconut Oil 697 oz 65g Cocoa Butter 23 oz 65g Castor Oil 23 oz 796g Water 28 oz 44g Sodium Hydroxide 155 oz 73g Potassium Hydroxide 261 oz Extra Additives for Shaving Soap2g of tussah silk small pinch optional 10g Sodium Lactate. Another component is the type of lye that is used. Until today shaving soaps still remain in high esteem with shavers who savor the traditional aspect of the wet shaving experience and with men who appreciate having a bit more control over one of.
This is a basic recipe for 1 lb of Shave Soap. Williams Mug soap one of the higher tallow soaps is only estimated to have only 9 coconut oil with tallow being 70. This shaving soap recipe can be poured into a cylindrical mold and cut into bars poured into individual cavity molds or poured directly in tins.
You do have some things right though. Potassium salts are more soluble than sodium salts. Shaving soaps made their first appearance in the 14th century and were the only choice for shaving men until World War I when shaving creams became widely available.
Tinker with replacing that olive oil with something else. Its recipe4 High-Foaming Cream soap. I combine the total stearic and palmic acids and aim for a combination of over 60 in my shave pucks.