Banana (mashed)
More lather. Tweak and Tinker supplier or guide
Opens the calculator’s starter recipe, 1000 g of oils, with this additive at the dose it fills in, ready to change.
What it is
Ripe banana, mashed: mostly water, with a good deal of sugar.
USDA FoodData Central primary source
How much
- 1 oz per pound of soap filled in Tweak and Tinker supplier or guide
- 0.55 oz per pound of oils (from a published recipe) Faiola, Pure Soapmaking primary source
The calculator fills in 1 oz per pound of soap: 90.3 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: into the oils.
- Also used: at light trace.
- Blend it smooth first.
Soap Deli News supplier or guide, Faiola, Pure Soapmaking primary source
What it does to the recipe
- 74.91 % is water, taken off the recipe’s water.
- 0.33 % is fat, which stays in the bar as extra superfat.
- 12.23 % is sugar, which heats the batch.
USDA FoodData Central primary source, Nerius, Soapmaking for Fun & Profit primary source
Worth knowing
- Caution: It heats the batch: work cool and do not insulate it, or it can crack or overflow the mould. Soap Deli News supplier or guide, Faiola, Pure Soapmaking primary source
Spoons and drops
- 1 tsp ≈ 4.69 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 14.1 g
- 1 cup ≈ 225 g
USDA FoodData Central primary source
INCI name
Musa Paradisiaca Fruit
- CAS number
- 89957-82-4
- EC number
- 289-602-4
Recipes that use it
Guides that discuss it
Sources
Tweak and Tinker, bananas in soap: "Banana (pureed): 1 oz / 28 g ... makes 1 lb of soap".
Maria Nerius, Soapmaking for Fun & Profit (1999): fruit and vegetable purée "must be calculated as a liquid".
Soap Deli News, banana soap: mixed with the oils before the lye water; "more likely to overheat the more banana you use".
Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking (Storey Publishing, 2016), recipes in chapters 8–10. 100% Castile-Brine Stamped Cube: "1 tablespoon sea salt" dissolved in the water before the lye, for 33 oz of olive oil. Oatmeal Soap for Babies: "2 teaspoons bentonite clay dispersed into 4 tablespoons distilled water" and "2 tablespoons colloidal oatmeal" at thin trace, for 15.1 oz of oils whose olive oil is infused with "2 tablespoons Egyptian chamomile" in a teabag in 14.5 oz of oil, 2 hours in a double boiler. Nettle & Yarrow Upcycle: "2 teaspoons dried yarrow powder dispersed into 1 tablespoon apricot kernel oil" in one of two halves of 24.1 oz of oils. Buttermilk Honeycombs: "3 tablespoons honey" at thin trace for 25.1 oz of oils. Banana Cream Pie Layered Bars: "1.2 ounces banana, 1.5 ounces whipping cream, and 1.5 ounces water, pureed" at thin trace for 35.2 oz of oils, then the freezer "for 24 hours to avoid overheating from the sugars in the banana". Annatto-Yarrow with Embeds: "1 tablespoon spirulina powder" and "1 teaspoon yarrow powder", added "directly to the hot lye-water", for 7.1 oz of oils; "2 tablespoons poppy seeds" in one of two halves of 34 oz of oils. Cucumber Layers: "1 ounce cucumber puree" into the whole batch at thin trace, 22 oz of oils. Gardener Scrub with Coffee Grounds: 50 oz of oils, the batter divided "into four exactly equal sections", one each for "5 teaspoons paprika", "5 teaspoons ground orange peel dispersed into 1 tablespoon of canola oil", "5 teaspoons brewed coffee grounds" and "10 teaspoons green zeolite clay". Indigo-Annatto Negative-Space Funnel Pour: "1.5 tablespoons indigo powder" whisked into the lye-water and "1 tablespoon alkanet root powder dispersed into 1 ounce sunflower oil" at very thin trace, 35.2 oz of oils; "In order to bring out the best color for the indigo powder, the soap must go through a hot gel phase". Black Tea Funnel Pour: 5.5 oz of brewed black tea added at thin trace, 5.5 oz of water for the lye, 33.1 oz of oils. Goat Milk Sunset Burst: "0.7 ounce goat milk powder dissolved in 1 ounce distilled water" for 17.1 oz of oils and "1 ounce goat milk powder" for 25.2 oz, added at trace: "To help avoid scorching, this recipe incorporates the goat milk by using a concentrated solution of powdered goat milk."