💜If you are looking Increase the Size of the Bubbles or the Amount of Lather in your soap recipe, try:

⬆Increasing the percentage of oils that contribute to bubbly lather, like coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and babassu oil. ⬇Decreasing the super fat of the total oils, as too many free oils can cut down on lather ☝Using a lather increasing additives like sodium citrate, sodium lactate, sugar ☝Replacing the water with a lather booster that contains sugars, like beer or wine

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💛If you are looking to stabilize or sustain lather in your soap recipe, try:

⬆Using castor oil at 5% to 10% of your recipe. (Be forewarned, using more than 15% castor oil tends to make the bar sticky, tacky, and rubbery.) ⬆Adding or increasing oils that support lather, like almond oil, lard, tallow, cocoa butter, palm oil, shea butter, or sunflower oil ⬇Decreasing oils that do not contribute a lot to lather (or hinder it), like olive oil

❤If you are looking to increase conditioning in a soap recipe, try:

☝Replacing the water with alternative liquids, like goats milk (or other milk), yogurt, or aloe vera juice ⬆Increasing the super fat of the total oils to condition the skin ☝Adding or increasing nourishing oils, like apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, or sunflower oil ☝Adding “luxury oils” at 5% to 10%, like argan oil, evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil, hemp seed oil, jojoba oil, meadowfoam oil, pumpkin seed oil, or wheatgerm oil

💚If you are looking to increase bar hardness in a soap recipe, try:

⬆Increasing your hard to soft oil ratio, by using a higher percentage of hard oils (oils that are solid at room temperature) ⬆Adding stearic acid at 0.5% to 1% of the total soap formula ☝Including beeswax at 1% to 5% of the total soap recipe ☝Adding sodium lactate at 1% to 3% of the total soap formula