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Pine Tar Soap-Small Blue Mold
Solid Soap · NaOH · 100 g oil load · 5% superfat · 3 views · 0 saves
Making pine tar soap is straightforward, like most batches of cold process soap . It will come to trace very quickly, however, so you need to make a couple of adjustments to your standard procedures. Mix at low temperatures. You can try your batch with lye at room temperature and the oils at about 85 degrees.Use a lot of water in your recipe. A 2:1 ratio of water to lye is recommended but for this recipe, your water may calculate at about 2.7 times the amount of lye. Adjust your recipe to be slower to trace. Include slow-to-trace oils like lard and olive and remove quick-to-trace oils like castor and palm. Be careful with fragrance or essential oils that may speed up trace. Lavender tends to slow down trace. Don’t use a stick blender. Whisk it to mix it. While you measure out oils, put the can of pine tar in a large bowl of very hot water. This will help make the pine tar a bit more pourable when it comes time to add to the soap pot. While the pine tar is warming up in hot water, measure and begin melting hard oils. Once the hard oils have been melted, take the pot off of the heat. Add the liquid oils. Add Essential Oils now. Now you add the pine tar. It's sticky, so you can measure it right from the can into the soap pot . Note that this only works if you can put a hot soap pot on top of your scale. Put your soap pot on the scale and carefully measure out the correct amount of pine tar in the heated oils. Stir the oils and pine tar very well. Mold. CUT AFTER 24-36 HOUR
Soap profile
Bubbly, cleansing, condition, hardness, longevity, and cream relative to the selected soap type.
Target 18-30
Target 10-20
Target 44-69
Target 29-54
Target 25-50
Target 16-30
Fatty acid balance
Weighted from the oil phase using the current recipe percentages.
Printable formula
Pine Tar Soap-Small Blue Mold
Solid Soap · NaOH
- Oil load
- 100 g
- Superfat
- 5%
- Lye
- 16.0 g
- Liquid
- 38.4 g
Ingredients
| Ingredient | Type | Percent | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Kernel Oil | oil | 10% | 10.0 g |
| Citric Acid | additive | 0% | 0.0 g |
| Lard, Pig Tallow (Manteca) | oil | 28% | 28.0 g |
| Sunflower Oil, high oleic | oil | 17% | 17.0 g |
| Pine Tar, lye calc only no FA | oil | 17% | 17.0 g |
| Safflower Oil, high oleic | oil | 28% | 28.0 g |
Non-oil entries are shown as percentage of oil load for maker planning.
Soap quality
- Bubbly lather
- 7
- Cleansing
- 7
- Condition
- 57
- Hardness
- 22
- Longevity
- 16
- Creamy lather
- 16
Fatty acids
- Lauric
- 5
- Myristic
- 2
- Palmitic
- 11
- Stearic
- 5
- Ricinoleic
- 0
- Oleic
- 50
- Linoleic
- 7
- Linolenic
- 0
Batch preparation checklist
- Verify formula, lye type, scale accuracy, and all ingredient labels.
- Wear eye protection, gloves, long sleeves, and prepare a ventilated lye-safe area.
- Weigh oils, additives, scent, lye, and liquid in separate clearly labeled containers.
- Confirm mold capacity, batch lot code, cure rack space, and cleanup plan.
- Record actual temperatures, substitutions, trace notes, pour time, and unmold date.
Review notes
- Base oil total: 100.0%
- Primary oils: Palm Kernel Oil, Lard, Pig Tallow (Manteca), Sunflower Oil, high oleic, Pine Tar, lye calc only no FA
- Estimated raw material cost: $0.00
- Citric Acid is below the recommended minimum usage range.
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Pine Tar Soap-Small Blue Mold
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Net wt. 100 g
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Ingredients (INCI)
Lard, Pig Tallow (Manteca), Safflower Oil, high oleic, Sunflower Oil, high oleic, Pine Tar, lye calc only no FA, Elaeis Guineensis Kernel Oil, Citric Acid