Oldfashioned SoftSoap!

Softsoaps are  liquid/paste-soaps which are made of a type of lye that is  Kalium  (potassium) hydroxide for short: KOH.  The reason for using KOH is because the KOH molecule chain is shorter and gives a  more liquid (pasty) soap.

Old fashioned or “pioneer” soaps were made from lye that were made of wood ashes – and were primarily a soft, gooey soap. To harden this soap one could use table salt, which at that time it was expensive.

One can make beautiful shampoo, handswash, floorsoap and more with softsoap. You can use both the castile (olive oil) soap recipe  or the coconut soap recipe with KOH instead of NaOH. Notee, you can’t use the same amount of KOH så check the soap calculator. Though the KOH is a bit difficult to find, you’ll get often nice offers on Ebay.com or sometimes drain-cleaners can be a 50% KOH so they work!

Here is an nice recipe with pictures.
This is in a diluted form.

It will give you 10 or more showergels/shampoos depending on how thick/fluid you want it. Add coconutmilk (short life for the shampoo), 2-3 TS almond oil, 2-3 TS glycerin and scent.
It will give you 3 big bottles for woolwash/floorsoap. Add nothing but scent.
It will give you 20-30 handwash soaps for your dispenser. Add 1 ts olive oil and 1 ts glycerin and scent. 

 

 

 

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