Soap Sheet 1
Soap Sheet 1
Almond, Sweet
Apricot Kernel
Arachis
Avocado
Avocado Butter
Babassu, brazil nut
Beef Hoof
Beeswax
Borage
Brazil Nut
Butterfat, Cow
Butterfat, Goat
Camelina
Camellia
Candelilla Wax
Canola
Carnauba Wax
Castor
Chicken Fat
Chinese Bean
Cocoa Butter
Coconut
Cod-liver
Colza
Corn
Cottonseed
Earthnut
Emu
Evening Primrose
Flaxseed
Goose Fat
Grapeseed
Hazelnut
Hemp Seed
Illipe Butter
Java Cotton
Jojoba
Kapok
Karite Butter (Shea)
Katchung
Kokum Butter
Kukui Nut
Lanolin
Lard
Linseed
Macadamia
Maize
Mango
Mango Butter
Meadowfoam
Mink
Mustard
Neat's foot
Neem
Nutmeg Butter
Olive
Ostrich
Palm
Palm Butter
Palm Kernel
Palm, Stearic
Peach Kernel
Peanut
Perilla
Pistachio Nut
Poppyseed
Pumpkinseed
Ramic
Rape
Rapeseed
Rice Bran
Ricinus
Rose Hip Seed
Safflower
Sal Butter
Sesame Seed
Shea Butter
Shortening (veg.)
Soybean
Sunflower Seed
Sweet Oil
Tallow, bear
Tallow, beef
Tallow, chinese vegetable
Tallow, deer
Tallow, goat
Tallow, sheep
Tamanu
Theobroma
Tung
Walnut
Wheatgerm
Recipe Name:
Alkali: NaOH
Estimated INS Value:
Oil
(Bar Soap)
191
Butterfat, Cow
Total:
20
100.0%
20
100.0%
SAP
191 0.1619
Oz NaOH
Super-fatting Oil
3.238
3.238
20.0
3.2
6.6
29.8
24.1
4.0
6
Pounds Ounces
1
4.0
0
3.2
0
6.6
1
13.8
1
8.1
Weight in Oz
Notes:
Total:
1.2%
Recipe Name:
Alkali: NaOH
(Bar Soap)
Scale To:
or
or
Butterfat, Cow
Total:
Oz NaOH
20
100.0% 0.1619
3.238
20
100.0%
3.238
Total Oz
Oils
Lye
Water
Total
After Cure (15% water)
Bar Size (Oz)
Number of Bars
20.0
3.2
6.6
29.8
24.1
4.0
6
Pounds Ounces
1
4.0
0
3.2
0
6.6
1
13.8
1
8.1
Weight in Oz
Total:
1.2%
Notes:
Hi, just a few notes about this template, how to use the workbooks created from
it, and the methods used for certain operations. There's a short FAQ at the
very end of this document.
Installation
-----------(These instructions are based on installing the template for use by MSExcel97,
on a machine running MSWindows95/98/ME/NT.)
The best place to keep this template is in your Templates folder. Your
Templates folder should be in the folder in which you installed Microsoft Office
or Microsoft Excel. For example: on my machine the Templates folder is
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates'.
Basic usage
----------Once you have saved the template to your Templates folder, here's how to create
new workbooks from it:
1) Start Excel
2) Click 'New' on the 'File' menu, which opens up the 'New' dialog box.
3) On the 'General' tab of the 'New' dialog, pick 'soapsheet.xlt'.
4) Click the OK button.
5) A new workbook called soapsheet1 should appear in Excel.
There are only two worksheets in this workbook that you need to be concerned
with when you play with your soap recipes. They are the sheets labeled "Recipe
Worksheet" (the one you're on by default when you create a new workbook from the
template) and "Scaled Version". The fields that may be changed on the Recipe
worksheet are:
-
Recipe Name
Alkali (NaOH for
fields under the
fields under the
fields under the
Lye discount
Bar Size (Oz)
Notes
Entering a recipe is as easy as picking oils from the drop-down list attached to
the Oil fields and entering the amount of each you want to use. Then, if you
want, enter super-fatting oils the same way, enter a lye discount, and perhaps
change the bar size. That's it. Everything else will be calculated for you.
The Scaled Version sheet allows you to take the recipe entered on the Recipe
sheet and scale it to whatever batch size you want. It shows everything from
the Recipe sheet except INS values, and includes the additional field "Scale
Factor". Scale Factor is the only field that may be changed on the Scaled
Version sheet, and is used as follows: to scale a recipe down to one half of its
original size, enter a Scale Factor of .5. To double a recipe, enter a Scale
Factor of 2. Enter whatever factor you want, 2 and .5 are just examples. You
get the idea.
New feature on Scaled Version worksheet: there are now three new fields that
allow the recipe to be scaled either to a total batch size in ounces, a total
batch size in ounces after cure, or a total number of bars based on the user
settable bar size. To use these, enter a number in any one of the three
fields (after typing the number hit return or select another cell to complete
your change), then click on the button next to the field. This will cause Excel
to automatically change the scale factor to achieve the batch size or number
of bars you specify. Please note that this "goal seeking" feature of Excel is
not perfect, sometimes it will not be able to properly scale to the number you
Version sheet, and is used as follows: to scale a recipe down to one half of its
original size, enter a Scale Factor of .5. To double a recipe, enter a Scale
Factor of 2. Enter whatever factor you want, 2 and .5 are just examples. You
get the idea.
New feature on Scaled Version worksheet: there are now three new fields that
allow the recipe to be scaled either to a total batch size in ounces, a total
batch size in ounces after cure, or a total number of bars based on the user
settable bar size. To use these, enter a number in any one of the three
fields (after typing the number hit return or select another cell to complete
your change), then click on the button next to the field. This will cause Excel
to automatically change the scale factor to achieve the batch size or number
of bars you specify. Please note that this "goal seeking" feature of Excel is
not perfect, sometimes it will not be able to properly scale to the number you
specify. If that happens, try fractionally changing the number in one
direction or another and then hit the button again. For example, if Excel is
having trouble scaling your recipe to a 64 ounce batch, try scaling to 64.1 or
63.9 ounces instead. If it still doesn't work, try changing the number a
little more. Also note that scaling to a batch size after cure or to a
number of bars is disabled when the alkali is set to KOH (liquid soap).
Bar Soap (NaOH) versus Liquid Soap (KOH) Recipes
-----------------------------------------------The alkali for a recipe is set to NaOH by default.
soap recipe, several things change:
its constituent oils. What does that mean to you? Probably not much. The
important thing is that (as related by Dr Bob) the 'ideal' INS value to shoot
for when formulating a soap recipe is 160. Now remember: 160 is only the ideal.
Most recipes, even really excellent ones, won't be at an INS of 160. The
majority of the ones I've looked at are in the mid 140's or low 150's. The INS
value's real utility is as a sort of rough gauge of how well your recipe is
balanced. In other words, if your recipe's INS is much above or way below 160,
you might want to take another look at things. Note that the INS calculation is
not done for liquid soap recipes.
INS Values of Individual Oils
----------------------------Many of the INS values for individual oils are borrowed from Dr Bob.
Specifically, the sheet calculates its own INS values based on the best SAP and
iodine values I could find, but where Dr Bob had a value, I defer to him. You
may note that a few of the oils listed have no INS. That's because Dr Bob
didn't list them, and I couldn't find iodine value numbers for them either. You
can still use those oils in your recipes, but they will be ignored in the INS
calculation for the recipe as a whole.
Canola versus Rapeseed oil
-------------------------All canola oil is rapeseed oil, but not all rapeseed oil is canola. The reason
for this is that rapeseed oil normally has an erucic acid content of up to fifty
percent, while in order for an oil to be called canola, it may have an erucic
acid content of no more than two percent. In other words, canola is low erucic
acid rapeseed oil. What does this mean to you? Well, the erucic acid of
regular rapeseed is largely replaced by oleic and linoleic acids in canola,
which CHANGES THE SAP VALUE. I have yet to see a saponification chart, either
published or on the web, which takes this into account. Every one of them
treats rape and canola interchangeably, and lists the SAP of regular rape, even
though the availability of regular rapeseed oil to the average North American
consumer is limited at best. Is this dangerous? Since the SAP of rape is lower
than that of canola, no, not really. It just means you're building an
additional lye discount into any soap that uses canola. Which isn't much of a
problem unless your recipe is already at the extreme of superfatting, or you're
trying to make transparent soap. Bottom line: use canola for canola, and any
of the other names (ramic/rape/rapeseed) for regular rapeseed oil.
Lye calculation and rounding
---------------------------Because most people don't have a way to accurately measure amounts smaller than
.1 ounces (well, I don't), the calculated amounts for lye and water are rounded
DOWN to the nearest .1 ounce. If you must round, rounding down is the only safe
way to go for lye, and unless you are making very small batches, a difference of
less than one tenth of an ounce should have very little effect. Note that you
may still enter amounts of oil to any level of precision you want, you just
won't ever get more than one decimal place of precision for the lye and water.
Water calculation
----------------The amount of water required for bar soaps is calculated based on the rule of
thumb of one pound of water for every three pounds of oils. There are other
rules of thumb out there, e.g. six ounces of water per pound of oils, ala the
MMS calculator, but I prefer the 1:3 rule. For liquid soap recipes the amount
of water is three times the total weight of the KOH.
After Cure calculation
---------------------The After Cure weight is an estimate of the total yield of soap after most of
the water has cured out of your bars. It is based on the rule of thumb that
when your soap is done curing it will have about 15% of its original water
content remaining.
Default values
-------------Every new soapsheet workbook will have a default alkali of NaOH (bar soap), a lye
discount of 0%, bar size of 4 ounces, and scale factor of 1. Any of these may be
changed. To save your changes for future workbooks, see "Changing the template"
The answer to these two questions has to do with the fact that lye amounts are
rounded down to the nearest tenth of an ounce, as detailed in "Lye calculation
and rounding" above. To answer the first question, by way of example: if you
specify a lye discount of 5%, which puts the lye amount at, for example, 7.39
ounces, the number 7.39 will be rounded down to 7.3, giving you a total
effective lye discount of almost 6.2%. That's a 1.2% higher discount, all
because you lost .09 ounces of lye to rounding. Are you with me so far? Now on
to question two... The reason why the total effective lye discount may be a
different value on the scaled version worksheet than the recipe worksheet is
that the amount being rounded off of the lye amount will almost certainly
change, and it will be a different proportion to the lye amount than in the
unscaled version. For example: say I have a recipe with a 5% lye discount,
which puts the lye amount at 8.66 ounces, which rounds down to 8.6, giving me a
total effective lye discount of around 5.7%. Then I go to the scaled version
worksheet and double the batch size. Now my 5% discount puts the lye amount at
17.32 ounces, which rounds down to 17.3, giving me a total effective lye
discount of only about 5.2%. This effect can work the opposite way too, with
the total effective lye discount going up when you change the batch size. It is
even more pronounced when you scale down to smaller batch sizes, because even a
small amount rounded off is a proportionately larger change than in a large
batch. I hope that makes sense to everyone. There's no way around this without
taking a smaller lye discount than what you originally entered.
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Soapsheet.xlt
A soap recipe spreadsheet template, written for Excel97.
Author: Chris Mathes ([email protected])
Version: 1.4
I wrote soapsheet.xlt because doing lye calculations by hand is cumbersome, time consuming, error prone, and not conducive to tw
playing with recipes. Additionally, I was dissatisfied with the inconvenience and lack of utility of the available on-line lye calculato
together my own tool that was portable, easy to use, and did what I wanted. I sincerely hope you like it.
I welcome any feedback you have at the email address above. Also, if you would like to be notified when a new version of soapshe
when the new stand-alone application version is done (many, many new features), send me an email and I will put you on the list. I
that the new, as yet unnamed application will also be free, and freely redistributable.
Notice:
This template is an original work of Chris Mathes, but may be freely redistributed under the following conditions:
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