The Best Oils For Soap Making will give you the highest quality soap in three categories.  

There are eight soap quality categories to look at when making your cold process soap.  The three soap qualities focused on here are: Soap Hardness, Bubbly Lather and Moisturizing Ability.  When you find the best oils for soap making in these categories, then you can combine, mix and blend those oils at various percent amounts to originate and develop an amazing soap of your own.  Looking at the soap quality numbers is where the magic happens! 

Do you like a hard soap bar?  Here are four of the best oils to make your soap bars harder.

Use Coconut Oil For Soap Hardness

Do you want a hard bar of soap?  Look for a soap quality hardness number higher than 70 in your oils. 

Some of the best oils for soap making have hardness numbers well above 70!  We have chosen the top four oils in our list below.  This is by no means a complete list of oils, There are plenty of oils with numbers under 70 that will harden your soaps.

These oils are listed on the SoapCalc's "Oils, Fats and Waxes" scroll down list.  Hardness is a soap quality that has a scale range of between (29 - 54).   The higher the number, the harder the soap will be.  As long as the Hardness number is higher than 45, you will have a hard bar of soap. 

Scroll through the list of Oils, Fats and Waxes at the SoapCalc.net and find the best oils for hardening your soap.  Here is a short list of Oils with Hardness numbers above 70.                 

1. Aloe Butter                                                                                                                                                                              Hardness: 74    Lauric Acid = 45    Myristic Acid = 18

2. Cohune Oil.
    Hardness: 75    Lauric Acid = 51    Myristic Acid = 13

3. Palm Kernel Oil.
    Hardness: 75    Lauric Acid = 49    Myristic Acid = 16

4. Coconut Oil.
    Hardness: 79    Lauric Acid = 48    Myristic Acid = 19

Have you noticed a pattern here?  The Lauric and Myristic fatty acid numbers are high and nearly equal in all four of these Oils, Fats & Butters.  These Oils listed alone at the SoapCalc provide hardness numbers that are well above 70 on the scale range.  As you include other oils, your hardness numbers fall closer into the hardness scale range between (29 - 54).

Do you enjoy a moisture rich soap bar?  Use four of the best moisturizing oils available.

Avacado Oil For Moisturizing

For the top moisturizing oils, choose oils with an INS soap quality number that's under 100.

Why?  Because these oils have higher moisturizing capabilities. Here are some of the best oils for soap making a moisture rich soap bar.

1. Sweet Almond Oil.                                                                                                                                                                   INS: 97    Iodine = 99    Oleic Acid = 71    Linoleic Acid = 18

2. Argan Oil.
     INS: 95    Iodine = 95    Oleic Acid = 46    Linoleic Acid = 34

3. Beeswax.
     INS: 84    Iodine = 10    Oleic Acid = 0       Linoleic Acid = 0

4. Avacado Oil.
     INS: 99    Iodine =  86    Oleic Acid = 58    Linoleic Acid:12

Beeswax

The higher amounts of Oleic and Linoleic fatty acids (with the exception of beeswax) are responsible for the moisturizing abilities of your soaps.

These four oils also have Iodine numbers of less than 100 as well. Ideally you want the Iodine number to be under 70 so the oils will not go rancid or get stale over time.

Beeswax has an Iodine number of 10 which is the only one that is under 70 on the scale.

All of the other oils have an Iodine number between 70 and 100 and that is OK. Why?  Because these oils will not be used alone but will be used together with other oils to make a transformational soap.

Here are four of the best oils to use if you want more Bubbles Suds and Lather in your soap. 

So you want to have abundant lather, bubbles and suds?  There are a handful of oils that will achieve your bubbly sudsy and lathery soap goals.  Bubbly Lather is a soap quality with a numbers range between (14 - 46).  The higher the numbers in this range, the higher the amount of bubbly lather you will have in your soap. 

Here is a list of specific oils that have bubbly soap numbers higher than 60 but less than 100.  Any number over 46 is off the charts on the bubbly lather scale of (14 - 46)!  Combine other oils with these, and you will offset the high bubbly numbers. 

1. Babassu Oil.                                                                                                                                                                            Bubbly number: 70    Lauric Acid = 50    Myristic Acid = 20

2. Tucuma Seed Butter.                                                                                                                                                              Bubbly number: 71    Lauric Acid = 48    Myristic Acid = 23

3. Murumuru Butter.                                                                                                                                                                  Bubbly number: 73    Lauric Acid = 47    Myristic Acid = 26

4. Nutmeg Butter.                                                                                                                                                                        Bubbly number: 86    Lauric Acid = 03    Myristic Acid = 83

These four Oils and Butters have the highest bubbly numbers listed on the SoapCalc.  The Myristic Acid numbers are all above 20 and Nutmeg Butter is the highest at 83!    

Combine the best oils for soap making in just three categories to create your transformational soap!

Now that you've chosen the best oils for soap making in three separate categories.  Combine these oils with others until you come up with your transformational dream soap!