Creating your own cold process soap recipes

Making your own recipes for cold process soap is actually pretty easy. We have a lye calculator on our site here. You just input the different weights of the oils you want to use and the calculator will tell you how much lye to use. Remember that you cannot substitute oils in a recipe without recalculating the lye.

As a general rule, most people use a ratio of at least 50% liquid oils (such as olive, sunflower, sweet almond) to 50% solid oils (tallow, cocoa butter, coconut oil).

We suggest making one pound batches as a trial, that way if the recipe needs tweaking - you didn't make a large amount!