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Just reading up on making transparent soaps in "The Soapmakers Companion", by Susan Miller Cavitch.
Basically, you need to start with oils that will work well; castor oil is good in combination with coconut oil and palm oil. Make it without any superfatting at all, and mix it often till it gets way past soft trace, almost to a pudding trace. Then there's faffing about, heating and cooling and straining and adding glycerin, alcohol and sugar syrup. It's a real hassle.
If you go down the synthetic route you can use triethanolamine or one of a variety of polyols; I haven't got a recipe for that, but I should imagine it could be easier.
Liquid soaps can be made by hot processing to get them clear, but again, for the home soapmaker it looks like a hassle.
You can buy 'melt and pour' (glycerine) soap that's clear, and a lot of soapers seem to like using it in combination with their own cold processed soap to get nice textures, multi layer effects, etc. |
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