Thread: just finished my first melt and pour shave soap.

Sad, soon we can't buy anything.
Drug problems on Hawaii, I thought it was pure paradise over there!

Edit; what's a "keokitsune"?
Kitsune is fox, right?

were just like any other state or nation, we have beaches and forest ya but were also an island so everything had to be shipped here, we don't really have an export and everything is based on tourism. so everything here is super expensive. we pay the highest in the nation for gas, we are the second highest cost of living behind Washington DC, our living wage is $24.10 an hour so if you make under that an hour your gonna live kind of ghetto, McDonalds is around $9-$10 for a medium meal depending were you are and everything has to be air shipped here and anything electronic needs 2nd day air so we get completely reamed for shipping, at least as far as us states go although I'm sure Alaska also gets the short end of the stick too.

so it seems like I'm locked out of making the soft soaps but I've been thinking how good would an all coconut oil soap be as I don't want to spend a lot buying all kinds of other fancy oils and I already have a tub of it that we don't use. I know the general consensus is olive oil doesn't work well.

Read up on soaps and see if you can get something locally that all people outside of Hawaii would die for to get in their soaps!

I live on a island to, soon we will get snow so no surfing, haha.

Has anyone tried adding Shea butter? I have a 1 lb block of the melt and pour shave soap listed by the OP and am planning on making some soap later this month. I have the glycerin and clay. For 1 lb how much Shea butter should I add?

I add about 1 TBSP for every 16 ounces of finished soap. I also add grape seed oil and a bunch of others.

Question if I may;

Why do you add bentonite to the soap base?

cuz its in most shave soaps not made by a large company and most shave soap recipes call for it. I don't know the exact reasoning behind it but from my understanding from what I've read while trying to decide how I was going to do this was that bentonite powder holds a lot of water and helps provide a lot of slip to the lather, whether that's true or not or to what extent I'm not sure, all I know is the soap I have now works really well but I couldn't say wether or not the bentonite helps at all or if it's just the glycerin.