Moisturizing Liquid Soap with Jojoba

This is a lovely, moisturizing liquid soap recipe that balances the cleaning power of coconut oil with the moisturizing of sunflower and jojoba. The high percentage of castor oil helps mitigate the cloudiness caused by the unsaponifiables in the jojoba. But it'e not going to be a crystal clear soap base.
This is the recipe I used for my oven process liquid soap.

Prep Time: 45 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours

Ingredients:

• 18 oz. coconut oil
• 10 oz. sunflower oil
• 10 oz. castor oil
• 2 oz jojoba
• 8.9 oz potassium hydroxide
• 26.7 oz distilled water to make lye solution
• .3 oz. fragrance or essential oil - per 8 oz. of soap paste - more or less to preference
• 4 tbs, of a 5% borax solution - per 8 oz. of soap paste
• 8 oz. distilled water - per 8 oz. of soap paste for dilution

Preparation:

Following the basic instructions in

1. Measure out and melt your oils
2. Make your lye solution
3. Mix the oils and lye together
4. Bring the mix to trace
5. Cook the paste using either the traditional crock pot method, or the oven process method - I cooked this recipe about 4.5 hours
6. Test for done-ness - because of the cloudiness of the jojoba oil, this is a hard recipe to test for done-ness. I always just cook it a little longer to make sure it's all done saponifying.
7. Neutralize the soap (see below)
8. Dilute the soap - I find that about 9-10 ounces of boiling water to 8 ounces of soap paste works really well for this blend.
9. Add your fragrance and/or color
10. Let the soap rest/sequester for a week or two. Once the soap has "rested" you'll see some of the unsaponifiables have settled to the bottom of the jar. If you want a clearer soap, be sure to pour the soap into your soap bottles carefully so as to not stir the settled soap.

Neutralization
For this recipe, I neutralized it a bit differently than in the traditional liquid soap making process. I used a 5% borax solution made of:

• .5 oz. borax
• 9.5 oz. almost boiling water

To neutralize this soap, I used 4 tbs. of the 5% borax solution per 8 oz. of soap paste.

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