Hi all,
I've made several batches of liquid soaps but nothing like this one!
There was a post in the Soaper's Forum about using potato water for dish soap. Needless to say, I was fascinated!
Using distilled water I boiled 5 potatoes in a 2 quart pan and kept the water once the potatoes were done. I weighed out a portion of the water and reverse engineered a recipe from the amount of potato water. The water was left in the fridge overnight so I started with cool water.
Recipe? KOH (Potassium Hydroxide-you can make it from clean ashes!), coconut oil and the potato water! Simple right?
I brought it to trace, then cooked and stirred for about an hour. I then left it overnight to finish
gelling and when tested was neutral-no zap. PH was only 8! I used a little EDTA in my dilution water to aid with soap scum but other than that only boiled distilled water was added.
Right off the bat just washing the crock pot was an amazing experience!
Can you say flying bubbles? This soap even worked to get seriously greasy dishes and pans squeaky clean!
Absolutely awesome! Using a brush, a Dobie, sponge, or rag the suds are phenomenal! It works fantastic!
I left part of the soap unthickened to use in a foamer and the rest I added a very small amount of HEC to the soap, brought it to 170° and stick blended it. Perfect consistency. This is a keeper! This works as good as Dawn ever has and has no toxic chemicals.
I was concerned about it being drying to my hands but so far it hasn't been drying at all! I have some people trying it and so far they LOVE it too!
My thanks go out to the person in the soap forum who posted. I'll be making this for life! :-)
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| After Clarifying it's nearly clear! |
I'm using it a foamer bottle as well as a thickened version in my regular dish soap bottle. Absolutely love it!
Have a great day and God bless you!
Marla
MJR Soaps
MJR Soaps