Hydrogenated Coconut Oil
INCI Hydrogenated Coconut Oil. Saponified with NaOH it is listed as Sodium Hydrogenated Cocoate, with KOH as Potassium Hydrogenated Cocoate. CAS 84836-98-6; EC 284-283-8, as CosIng gives them. Also: Coconut oil, hydrogenated, Hardened coconut oil, Fully hydrogenated coconut oil, Coconut oil, 92 deg, Coconut oil 92 deg, Coconut oil 92, 92 degree coconut oil.
Published values
| Saponification value | 248–265 mg KOH/g |
| Used by the calculator | 256.5 mg KOH/g (midpoint) |
| SAP for NaOH | 0.1829 g/g |
| Iodine value | ≤ 2 g I₂/100 g |
| INS (SAP − IV) | 255 |
| Melting point | 30–38 °C |
| Unsaponifiable matter | ≤ 0.8 % |
A bar made of 100 % Hydrogenated Coconut Oil
Conventional qualities summed from the fatty-acid groups; a single-oil bar is a reference point, not a recipe.
How much lye
| Oil | NaOH | KOH |
|---|---|---|
| 500 g | 86.9 g(84.0–89.7) | 121.8 g(117.8–125.9) |
| 1 kg | 173.7 g(168.0–179.5) | 243.7 g(235.6–251.8) |
| 1 lb (454 g) | 78.8 g(76.2–81.4) | 110.5 g(106.9–114.2) |
| 2 lb (907 g) | 157.6 g(152.4–162.8) | 221.1 g(213.7–228.4) |
For this oil alone at 5 % superfat, with pure sodium hydroxide (NaOH) or pure potassium hydroxide (KOH); in brackets, across the published range of its saponification value. KOH is usually sold at 90 %: divide by 0.9. For a whole recipe, open the calculator.
Fatty-acid profile
Saturated : unsaturated 97 : 3
| Fatty acid | Published range, % | Used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caproic acid | C6:0 · saturated | ≤ 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Caprylic acid | C8:0 · saturated | 5–9 | 7.0 |
| Capric acid | C10:0 · saturated | 4–9 | 6.5 |
| Lauric acid | C12:0 · saturated | 44–52 | 48.0 |
| Myristic acid | C14:0 · saturated | 15–20 | 17.5 |
| Palmitic acid | C16:0 · saturated | 8–11 | 9.5 |
| Palmitoleic acid | C16:1 | ≤ 1 | 1.0 |
| Stearic acid | C18:0 · saturated | 8–14 | 11.0 |
| Oleic acid | C18:1 | ≤ 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Linoleic acid | C18:2 | ≤ 0.5 | 0.5 |
| α-Linolenic acid | C18:3 n-3 | ≤ 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Arachidic acid | C20:0 · saturated | ≤ 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Gadoleic acid | C20:1 | ≤ 0.2 | 0.2 |
Compared with other oils
Where these numbers come from
The composition table was read from this HTML page, where the "not more than" sign is an image (images/chars/le.gif, rendered here as <=); entries carrying it are recorded as max, the others as min-max. Melting range <741> 30-38 C, acid value NMT 2.0, peroxide value NMT 5.0, unsaponifiable matter NMT 0.8 %; no saponification or iodine value. The page scan of the same monograph on the same mirror prints "Official from May 1, 2012" and the same values (its text layer carries any limit signs as U+2264, which pdftotext keeps only with -enc UTF-8).
Same Table 1 composition, melting range 30-38 C, acid value NMT 2.0, peroxide value NMT 5.0 and unsaponifiable matter NMT 0.8 % as USP 35-NF 30; the page marks the deletion of the heavy-metals test "(Official 1-Dec-2015)". No saponification or iodine value.
Printing date 29 January 2026. Iodine value max. 2,0 g I2/100g (Ph. Eur. 2.5.4); free fatty acids max. 0,10 % (Ph. Eur. 2.5.1); peroxide value max. 1,0 meq O2/kg (Ph. Eur. 2.5.5); refractive index (60 C) 1,440-1,443 (Ph. Eur. 2.2.6). pdftotext -layout offsets the parameter names by two rows against the method/unit/value columns; -raw keeps each name with its method and value.
Coconut oil saponification value 248-265 mg KOH/g, iodine value 6.3-10.6 (crude oil, advisory); unchanged in the 2026 print. Used for the hydrogenated oil because hydrogenation to iodine value 2 or less adds 0.05-0.08 g of hydrogen per 100 g, which lowers the saponification value by less than 0.1 %.
USP 35-NF 30 NF monograph 'Hydrogenated Coconut Oil' [84836-98-6]: the product obtained by refining and hydrogenating the oil obtained from the seeds of Cocos nucifera (Fam. Palmae). Melting range <741>: between 30 and 38 C; acid value (Method II) not more than 2.0; peroxide value not more than 5.0; unsaponifiable matter not more than 0.8 %. Fatty acid composition (<401>), printed as carbon-chain length / number of double bonds / percentage: 6/0 <=1.5; 8/0 5.0-9.0; 10/0 4.0-9.0; 12/0 44.0-52.0; 14/0 15.0-20.0; 16/0 8.0-11.0; 18/0 8.0-14.0; 20/0 <=0.2; >20/0 <=0.5; 16/1 <=1.0; 18/1 <=1.5; 18/2 <=0.5; 18/3 <=0.2; 20/1 <=0.2. The '<=' sign is an image (images/chars/le.gif) on the mirror's HTML page and a U+2264 character in the page-scan PDF, which pdftotext keeps only with -enc UTF-8 (its default Latin-1 output drops it and leaves bare numbers); pdftotext -layout also shifts those values half a row, while -raw pairs them as the HTML does. Entries carrying the sign are recorded as max, the others as min-max. Not mapped: saturated acids longer than C20 (>20/0), <=0.5 %, a group limit that cannot be assigned to one key. The 16/1, 18/1, 18/2, 18/3 and 20/1 rows are totals by chain length and double-bond count and are mapped to palmitoleic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic and gadoleic under this dataset's isomer rule; in a hydrogenated fat they include any trans (e.g. elaidic) and positional isomers formed during hydrogenation, and no source here prints a trans share. Representative total 104.6 % (limits counted at their maxima). Degree of hydrogenation: fully hydrogenated - at most 1.5 % C18:1 and 0.5 % C18:2 remain and stearic acid is 8.0-14.0 %. The iodine value is from Gustav Heess's specification for 'Coconut oil hydrogenated' (INCI Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, CAS 84836-98-6, EINECS 284-283-8): iodine value max. 2.0 g I2/100g (Ph. Eur. 2.5.4); the same sheet gives free fatty acids max. 0.10 %, peroxide value max. 1.0 meq O2/kg and refractive index (60 C) 1.440-1.443 (printed with decimal commas), and prints no saponification value, melting point or fatty-acid composition. USP 38-NF 33 prints the same composition table, melting range 30-38 C, acid value NMT 2.0, peroxide value NMT 5.0 and unsaponifiable matter NMT 0.8 %. Neither USP edition nor the Heess sheet prints a saponification value, the drugfuture pharmacopoeia index lists only USP-NF entries for hydrogenated coconut oil (no Ph. Eur./BP monograph), JP XVIII 'Hydrogenated Oil' is a generic monograph without composition or saponification value, and no other producer data sheet printing one could be reached; the saponification value is therefore coconut oil's, for the reason given below. The melting point is the USP <741> melting range. The salt names are CosIng's entries for Sodium Hydrogenated Cocoate and Potassium Hydrogenated Cocoate, the salts of hydrogenated coconut acid. SAPONIFICATION VALUE: no document prints one for hydrogenated coconut oil, so the record carries coconut oil's Codex band, 248-265 mg KOH/g. That is stoichiometry, not borrowing on faith: hydrogenation adds one H2 (2.016 g/mol) per double bond, and taking coconut oil from its Codex iodine value of 6.3-10.6 to the 2.0 maximum on the Heess sheet adds 0.05-0.08 g per 100 g, so the saponification value falls by under 0.1 %, far inside the band. The value derived from this record's own profile was 246.5, about 4 % low, because the estimator averaged molar masses by mass; by moles the same profile gives 254.9.
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