Sorbitol (70 % solution)
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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
Sorbitol is sold as a solution in water: USP sorbitol solution is 28.5–31.5 % water and the rest sorbitol, and Roquette’s weighs about 1.30 g per mL.
Roquette; USP primary source
How much
- 1–4 % of the oils filled in Rustic Wise supplier or guide
The calculator fills in 1 % of the oils: 10 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: at light trace.
- Also used: in the water, before the lye.
- Stir it in as it is.
Rustic Wise supplier or guide
What it does to the recipe
- 30 % is water, taken off the recipe’s water.
Roquette; USP primary source
Worth knowing
- Caution: It heats the batch: work cool and do not insulate it, or it can crack or overflow the mould. Rustic Wise supplier or guide
Spoons and drops
- 1 tsp ≈ 6.41 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 19.2 g
- 1 cup ≈ 308 g
Roquette; USP primary source
INCI name
Sorbitol
- CAS number
- 50-70-4, 1259528-21-6
- EC number
- 200-061-5
- As weighed
- Sorbitol 70 %, Aqua 30 %
Guides that discuss it
Sources
Roquette, NEOSORB 70/70 B: density about 1.30 g/cm³ at 20 °C. USP 29, Sorbitol Solution: water 28.5–31.5 %.
Rustic Wise, sorbitol in soap: "between 1 and 4 percent sugar/sorbitol per weight of oils", the solution at trace; it heats but is "less prone to scorching".