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Chia Seed Oil

Also: Salvia hispanica seed oil, Chia oil.

Calculate a 100 % Chia Seed Oil bar

Published values

Saponification value197–222.66 mg KOH/g
Used by the calculator209.8 mg KOH/g (midpoint)
SAP for NaOH0.1496 g/g
Iodine value180–220 g I₂/100 g (typ. 197)
INS (SAP − IV)13
Melting point
Unsaponifiable matter0.087–1.12 %

A bar made of 100 % Chia Seed Oil

Hardness 10 below 29–54
Cleansing 0 below 12–22
Conditioning 88 above 44–69
Bubbly lather 0 below 14–46
Creamy lather 10 below 16–48

Conventional qualities summed from the fatty-acid groups; a single-oil bar is a reference point, not a recipe.

Fatty-acid profile

Fatty acidPublished range, %Used
Myristic acid C14:0 · saturated 0.06 0.1
Palmitic acid C16:0 · saturated 6.7–7.2 (typ. 6.7) 6.7
Palmitoleic acid C16:1 0.09 0.1
Stearic acid C18:0 · saturated 2.78–3.45 (typ. 3.45) 3.5
Oleic acid C18:1 4.32–8.34 (typ. 6.42) 6.4
Linoleic acid C18:2 12.14–19.23 (typ. 19.23) 19.2
α-Linolenic acid C18:3 n-3 60.56–68.6 (typ. 62.16) 62.2
Arachidic acid C20:0 · saturated 0.29–0.55 (typ. 0.29) 0.3
Gadoleic acid C20:1 0.13 0.1

Where these numbers come from

MDPI (Foods), open-access copy via PubMed CentralComprehensive Chemical Characterization of Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) Seed Oil with a Focus on Minor Lipid Components (Oteri M. et al.; Foods 2022, 12(1):23; DOI 10.3390/foods12010023) · document dated 2022 · read 2026-09-20

Table 1 fatty-acid composition (n = 3).

MDPI (Materials), open-access copy via PubMed CentralPhysicochemical Characterization of Novel Epoxidized Vegetable Oil from Chia Seed Oil (Materials 2022, 15(9):3250; DOI 10.3390/ma15093250) · document dated 2022 · read 2026-09-20

Table 1 iodine value 197 g I2/100 g of the unmodified chia seed oil; Table 2 fatty-acid composition; Table 4 density and viscosity.

BMC (Lipids in Health and Disease), open-access copy via PubMed CentralFatty acids characterization, oxidative perspectives and consumer acceptability of oil extracted from pre-treated chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seeds (Imran M. et al.; Lipids Health Dis. 2016; DOI 10.1186/s12944-016-0329-x) · document dated 2016 · read 2026-09-20

Iodine value 193.42 g/100 g, peroxide value, free fatty acids (raw oil, day 0); Table 2 fatty acids.

Scientific Research Publishing (Agricultural Sciences)Physicochemical characterization of chia (Salvia hispanica) seed oil from Yucatan, Mexico (Segura-Campos M.R., Ciau-Solis N., Rosado-Rubio G., Chel-Guerrero L., Betancur-Ancona D.; Agricultural Sciences 2014, 5(3):220-226; DOI 10.4236/as.2014.53025) · document dated 2014 · read 2026-09-20

Table 2: saponification index 222.66 mg KOH/g, iodine index 193.45 g I/100 g, unsaponifiable 0.087 %, acid value 2.053, peroxide 17.5, refractive index 1.4761, relative density 0.9241.

Frontiers Media (Frontiers in Nutrition), open-access copy via PubMed CentralCold pressed oils: a systematic review on physicochemical properties, nutritional composition and pharmacological activities (Front. Nutr. 2026; DOI 10.3389/fnut.2026.1747029) · document dated 2026 · read 2026-09-20

Table 1 row 'Chia seed oil': iodine value 180-220, saponification value 197, unsaponifiable 1.12 %, density 0.93 (review's reference [39]).

Fatty acids: 'typical' values are Table 1 of the PRIMARY paper (Foods 2022, commercial chia oil, n = 3): palmitic 6.70, stearic 3.45, oleic 6.42, linoleic 19.23, alpha-linolenic 62.16, arachidic 0.29, eicosenoic C20:1n7 0.13 % (mapped to 'gadoleic' although the paper labels it the n-7 isomer). Min/max span two further measured data sets: Materials 2022 (PMC9100186) Table 2: myristic 0.06, palmitic 7.20, stearic 2.88, arachidic 0.55, palmitoleic 0.09, oleic 4.32, linoleic 15.8, gamma-linolenic 0.41, alpha-linolenic 68.6 %; and Lipids in Health and Disease 2016 (PMC5290651) Table 2 (raw seed oil, day 0): palmitic 6.76, stearic 2.78, oleic 8.34, linoleic 12.14, alpha-linolenic 60.56 %. Gamma-linolenic (0.41 % in Materials 2022) is not included under 'linolenic'. Iodine value: Materials 2022 measured 197 g I2/100 g (Table 1, used as 'typical'); Lipids Health Dis 2016 measured 193.42 +/- 1.14; Agricultural Sciences 2014 measured 193.45; the Frontiers 2026 review Table 1 gives 180-220 (used as min/max). Saponification value was NOT measured in any of the PMC papers; the range 197-222.66 spans the Frontiers 2026 review (197, its reference [39]) and the Agricultural Sciences 2014 paper (222.66 mg KOH/g, Soxhlet-hexane oil from Yucatan, Mexico, Table 2). Unsaponifiable matter 0.087 % (Agricultural Sciences 2014) to 1.12 % (review). Other values from Agricultural Sciences 2014 Table 2: acid value 2.053 mg KOH/g, peroxide 17.5 meq O2/kg, refractive index 1.4761 (25 C), relative density 0.9241; Materials 2022 density 0.9285. Caveat: Agricultural Sciences is published by SCIRP; it is a peer-reviewed journal paper by Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan authors but is the least authoritative document used here. Melting point not given (liquid oil). INCI not verified on CosIng in this session, left null.

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