Compare oils

Pick up to six oils to see them side by side: how much lye each takes, how soft or hard it runs, and what it is made of. Then give them percentages to try a blend before you save it as a recipe.

The oils

Oil 1 % in the blend

Oil 2 % in the blend

Oil 3 % in the blend

Oil 4 % in the blend

Oil 5 % in the blend

Oil 6 % in the blend

Side by side

A single oil’s hardness, cleansing and the rest are the same sums the calculator shows for a recipe, applied to that one oil. They explain what the oil brings to a blend; they do not predict how a soap of only that oil would feel.

What each oil is made of

The blend

Quality	Blend	Usual range

Why is the saponification value a band on the oil pages but one number here?

The oil pages keep the published range. A comparison needs one figure, so this uses the one the lye calculator uses, which the oil’s page names.