Olive oil is among the primary vegetable oils being utilized to make soaps. An olive oil has a reputation to have derived from the Castile Castle during 1567. There has been a lot of soap purists that said, for a Castle soap to be genuine, the soap must be composed from 100% olive oil.

Although the lather that a 100% olive oil-made soap is not that creamy and smooth as what other conventional soaps produce, and rather they are slimy, it did not obstruct the making of olive oil soaps.

There have been many evolutions when it comes to olive oil soap recipe. The many variations of olive oil soap recipe differ from the amount of ingredients that it contains. After all, olive oil soap recipes are not purely made of an olive oil. Like this one basic olive oil soap formula, it has to have other components.

The ingredients have to contain 80% of olive oil, 10% of palm oil and 10% coconut oil. If you want to make approximately 4.5 pounds of olive oil soap, you should use 40 ounce of olive oil, 5 ounce of palm oil, 5 ounce coconut oil, 16 ounce water, 6.7 ounce lye and some essential or fragrance oils depending on your preference.

The other olive oil soap recipe uses 60% of olive oil, 20% of palm oil and 20% of coconut oil. The other formula would have to compose 60% of olive oil, 10% of palm oil, 20% of coconut oil and 10% canola oil. Still the amount of fragrance and essentials will depend to your liking.

After the gathering of ingredients, begin the soap-making process by weighing the oils, then heat and melt it. Mix the lye in the soap container, combine the lye and oils in one completely.

After this, you may add essential or fragrance to the mixture. You can also put some extras or additives. You may also mix colors for variations. After that, pour the mixture in a mold, clean it up and set the soap.

The composition of oils in an olive oil soap recipe produces the slimy lather result of the product, instead of being foamy and smooth. The use of lye neutralizes the soap-making procedure. Lye and olive oils are combined with colors, moisturizers like glycerin and fragrances, which are a perfect component for soaps.

The lower graded olive oils are actually more preferred in an olive oil soap recipe because it has a lower price and due also to its saponification properties.

Olive oils are not only ideal for making soaps. They are also best for cooking.