The SAP for coconut oil virgin is undoubtedly wrong.
Soaper's Choice gives the KOH SAP for virgin coconut oil as .257 and the NaOH SAP as .182. When I enter .257 for SAP using "add new" to create a custom oil profile in the SMF calculator, it returns a calculated SAP NaOH of .183, which is reasonable for coconut oil.
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Soaper's Choice gives the KOH SAP for virgin coconut oil as .257 and the NaOH SAP as .182. When I enter .257 for SAP using "add new" to create a custom oil profile in the SMF calculator, it returns a calculated SAP NaOH of .183, which is reasonable for coconut oil.
Refer to this SoapMakingForum thread for more information:
Coconut 76% vs Virgin Coconut Oil
Has anyone noticed that Soapmaking Friend has added Virgin Coconut oil to the options, and if you tick it, it changes the lye dramatically compared to the 76% Coconut oil. When I put the amounts in Brambleberry there is hardly any difference between virgin and 76% coconut oil for the Lye...
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and, this post and the one that follows:
Coconut 76% vs Virgin Coconut Oil
Has anyone noticed that Soapmaking Friend has added Virgin Coconut oil to the options, and if you tick it, it changes the lye dramatically compared to the 76% Coconut oil. When I put the amounts in Brambleberry there is hardly any difference between virgin and 76% coconut oil for the Lye...
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