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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

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

Oils people compare

Each pair has a page of its own: the figures side by side, what a swap without recalculating does to the superfat, and the same bar made with either.

What can replace an oil

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.