Including butters in a basic vegetable oil recipe can add desirable properties to soap. Any number of vegetable butters are available to soap makers,
including almond, avocado, olive, mango, shea and cocoa to name a few. Kokum is yet another, one that I've used before and found that it contributed to a hard bar with nice lather.
Kokum butter is obtained from the fruit kernels of the ‘garcinia indica’ tree, a tropical evergreen that grows along the western coast of India. It is a butter rich in the conditioning fatty acids oleic and linoleic. It also contains the antioxidant Vitamin E as well as stearic acid which contributes to its characteristic hardness. Recommended usage in a soap recipe is from 2 - 5 percent. I added it at a ratio of just over 3 percent.
Kokum butter is a great addition to any soap recipe including this batch scented with Pineapple and Coconut fragrance oil.
Kokum butter is obtained from the fruit kernels of the ‘garcinia indica’ tree, a tropical evergreen that grows along the western coast of India. It is a butter rich in the conditioning fatty acids oleic and linoleic. It also contains the antioxidant Vitamin E as well as stearic acid which contributes to its characteristic hardness. Recommended usage in a soap recipe is from 2 - 5 percent. I added it at a ratio of just over 3 percent.
Kokum butter is a great addition to any soap recipe including this batch scented with Pineapple and Coconut fragrance oil.
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