Create unique and vibrant soaps with this red oil

In this video I show you how I made soap with sea buckthorn fruit oil. It’s a beautiful and unique oil that can be used to create naturally colored, vibrant soaps. The oil is pressed from ripe sea buckthorn berries and it is high in antioxidants and carotenoids.
Sea buckthorn fruit oil has a very unique fatty acid profile that makes it great for soap making; it is high in palmitic, palmitoleic and oleic acid. Unfortunately, the color does bleed through, making the lather orange, but it doesn’t stain the skin.

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Sea buckthorn soap recipe:

Recipe calculated with https://soapee.com/calculator

Oils:
90 g sea buckthorn fruit oil (15%)
180 g olive oil (30%)
30 g castor oil (5%)
90 g shea butter (15%)
60 g cocoa butter (10%)
150 g coconut oil (25%)

Lye solution:
135 g distilled water
10 g citric acid
88.9 g sodium hydroxide (82.9 g if not using citric acid)

(38% lye concentration, 5% superfat)

Additives:
10 ml fragrance oil

Cure the soap for 4-6 weeks before using on your skin.

○ Citric acid information

When citric acid and sodium hydroxide lye (NaOH) are combined, sodium citrate is created. Sodium citrate works as a chelator in soap.

A chelator traps metal ions such as calcium and magnesium that can be found in tap water.

These metal contaminants can cause rancidity and soap scum in handmade soap.

A chelator binds to these metals so that they can’t bind to the soap molecules. This way the soap won’t react with them and the soap's lather improves + shelf life increases.

Citric acid does not lower the pH of soap. Instead it consumes some of the lye and increases the superfat. Add 6 g extra lye for every 10 g of citric acid added to a soap recipe if you want to keep the superfat % at the same level.

How much citric acid should be added to soap?

Usage rate in bar soap is 1-2% of the oil weight.

How to use citric acid

Add citric acid to the distilled water and dissolve completely before adding the lye, or make a separate solution of citric acid and distilled water and add to the oils.

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