The oils
| Oil | Share |
|---|---|
| Olive Oil (virgin / refined / olive oil) | 80.0 % |
| Laurel Berry Oil | 20.0 % |
How it is made
| Process | Cold process |
| Alkali | NaOH |
| Superfat | 4 % |
| Water | 38 % of the oils |
| Iodine value | 82 |
| INS | 109 |
What the numbers say
Hardness 22 below 29–54
Cleansing 5 below 12–22
Conditioning 75 above 44–69
Bubbly lather 5 below 14–46
Creamy lather 17 16–48
Computed from the fatty acids of the fats above. The bands are what the craft has settled on, not chemistry — a bar outside one is not wrong.
Where these proportions come from
This row was the reason laurel berry oil was sourced: it pointed at an ingredient the database did not carry, the triage counted it, and the record now exists. Roughly a tenth of laurel berry oil is unsaponifiable, so the qualities here read a little softer than the bar does.
Olive oil with laurel berry oil, traditionally 2–30 % laurel; 20 % is the common mid-grade, and the grade sold as "20 %" in Aleppo and Nablus.
A canonical formulation: the proportions the craft has settled on for this kind of soap. Not transcribed from a document, and not copied from anywhere.