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

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.