Learnin’ About Oil – Characteristics

Well, I was looking up some goat milk soap recipes and I found this very interesting list of oils and how they help in a soap. I thought I would share and let you all take a look at it.

Oil Characteristics

• Almond– gives a fairly good lather and is good to condition the skin
• Apricot kernel— this oil does about the same as the almond oil.
• Borage–same as almond
• Canola–same as almond
• Castor oil–same as almond but speeds up trace
• Cocoa butter–Gives a hard bar fairly good lather and is good for skin conditioning and speeds trace slightly
• Coconut oil–Gives a hard bar, good cleansing qualities, fluffy lather, and speeds trace slightly
• Corn oil–Same as almond
• Cottonseed–Fairly good lather
• Hazelnut–Fair lather and good skin conditioning properties
• Hemp seed–same as hazelnut
• Jojoba–same as hazelnut
• Kukui nut–same as hazelnut
• Lanolin–Give a hard bar that has fair lather is fair to good for skin conditioning if not allergic and speeds trace slightly
• Lard–Gives a hard bar that has fairly good lather good for skin and speeds trace slightly
• Macadamia nut–same as hazelnut
• Neem oil–same as hazelnut with healing properties
• Olive–same as hazelnut and gives a fairly hard bar
• Palm Kernel–Give a hard bar with good cleansing properties, fluffy lather and speeds trace slightly
• Palm oil–Give a hard bar with fair lather and speeds trace slightly
• Peanut–fair lather with good skin conditioning
• Safflower–same as hazelnut
• Sesame–same as hazelnut
• Shea butter–Gives a hard bar with fair lather and good skin conditioning and speeds trace slightly
• Soybean–same as hazelnut
• Soybean (Crisco type)–fair lather and skin conditioning
• Sunflower–same as hazelnut
• Tallow–gives hard bar with fair lather and good skin conditioning and speeds trace slightly
• Wheat germ–same as hazelnut

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