The oils
| Oil | As the source prints it | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut Oil | Cochin cocoanut oil · 846 parts | 100.0 % |
Everything else
- Water — 24 parts
How it is made
| Process | Cold process |
| Alkali | Lye (soda), 35 degs. B. · 470 parts · 35° Bé |
| Superfat | Not stated |
| Water | as the source states it |
| Iodine value | 8 |
| INS | 248 |
What the numbers say
Hardness 80 above 29–54
Cleansing 68 above 12–22
Conditioning 9 below 44–69
Bubbly lather 68 above 14–46
Creamy lather 12 below 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.
The source
One of the few in the book that is genuinely cold-made, so the stated lye is the lye the bar keeps and a superfat can be computed from it.
E. G. Thomssen, Soap-Making Manual: A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1922, p.43. Soap-Making Manual: A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant · read 2026-09-22