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FAQ

Handcrafted soaps made from scratch require three things to become soap: oil, water and lye. It is the chemical reaction between these ingredients that turns them into soap. Most soap also has other ingredients added to provide benefits to the soap, or to color or scent it.
This cold-process soap recipe uses just three ingredients: coconut oil, lye, and distilled water. That's it! The result is very hard white bars that won't dry out your skin and that have excellent lather. Coconut oil soap is also a recipe that traces quickly, so you do not need to use an immersion blender to make it.
Basic ingredients
  1. 20 oz. coconut oil.
  2. 10 oz. olive oil.
  3. 9 oz. distilled water.
  4. 4.78 oz. 100 percent pure lye.
  5. 20 to 40 drops of essential oils, if desired.
  6. colorants (optional)
  7. dried herbs or flowers (optional)
Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of long chain carboxylic acids. The formula of soap is C17H35COONa or sodium stearate. A soap (C17H35COONa) solution becomes a colloidal sol at a concentration of 1.2×103M.
NO, chemically-speaking, soap itself cannot be made without lye. Soap is made by blending oils (like olive oil or coconut oil), a liquid (water, goat's milk, etc.), and an alkali (lye). Lye is needed to convert oils into soap.
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