Buttercup Coconut Soap with Cold Process

Buttercup coconut soap is made by cold process and hand made.
 Cold process mean is we didn't cook the coconut oil in the process.
Main material is coconut oil, coconut oil is good for cleaning oily skin. That's cleaning in soap's theory.
Why is Buttercup coconut soap making with cold process? cause making soap with cold process can have much glycerine in the result. Glycerine is very good for moisturizer our skin.
In the hot process, there is cooking the coconut oil cause it is the fast process to making soaps. But in the result, there is less of glycerine.
In simple terms, saponification is the name for a chemical reaction between an acid and a base to form a salt. When you make soap using the cold process, you mix an oil or fat (which is your acid) with Lye (which is your base) to form soap (which is a salt).
How exactly does this happen? In order to understand it, you must consider the chemical makeup of the acid and base being used in the reaction.
The base must always be composed of one hydroxide ion. For the most part, people use lye (one sodium ion and one hydroxide ion) as their base. You will notice that the sodium ion does not take part in the reaction at all. For this reason, other bases like potassium hydroxide can be used as well because it too is made up of one hydroxide ion. Potassium hydroxide is more prominently used for liquid soap making.

There are many different types of acids that will react with your base and saponify. Your acid could be olive oil, coconut oil, or tallow just to name a few. Each acid has a unique combination of triglycerides (compounds made of three fatty acids, attached to a single molecule of glycerol) which combines with the base (lye) differently. The amount of base needed to react with the acid will vary depending on the chemical makeup of the acid.
As you combine, and stir the carefully measured acid and base together, they start to react. The triglycerides within the acid release the single glycerol molecule (which turns into skin nourishing is glycerine) allowing the fatty acids to combine with the hydroxide ions within the base, forming soap.
As you can see, two reactions occur. The first reaction is glycerol turning into beneficial glycerin, and the second reaction is the acid and the base combining to form a salt which is your soap.

This the advantage of Cold Process and Hot Process for making soaps :


Deciding whether Cold Process is better than Hot Process, or viceversa, is just a matter of personal preference and soapmaking "culture" - a bit like deciding whether holidaying at the beach is better than mountain trekking, or whether black tea is better than white tea!
Both methods offer specifical advantages and disadvantages, and in our experience, the best way to choose is for you to read through the instructions and warnings for both

basic soap making methods (cold process, or CP and Hot process or HP), evaluate pros and cons, make up your mind based on your expectations and skills, and then apply the "golden rule": try for yourself, and see if you're happy with the results!

The advantages of Hot Process soap are, by general agreement, basically three:

1. Soap is completely saponified quicker than inCold process soap.
2. Essential and fragrance oils, superfatting oils, and other additives are added at the end of the cook and are not affected by the saponification reaction.
3. Hot Process soaps are easier to slice and do not crumble. For this reason, they offer a better alternative for those soapmakers who prefer to cut their soaps "on request".

There are however a few disadvantages, including the following:

• At the end of the cook, the soap paste is less fluid than with Cold Process, and not as easy to work with for moulds designed for larger batches (such as divider soap mold, for instance).
• Soapmakers disagree on the effects that cooking might have on the base oils, and some argue that cooking will reduce or destroy altogether the "live" properties of the oils. If it's true that even cold process soap must undergo an exothermic reaction, the difference between the highest temperatures reached by Hot Process and Cold Process is approximately 30ºC, which appears to justify these concerns.
• Although it's true that Hot Process soap can be used as early as a few hours after the end of the cook (and this is because the saponification process has been completed during this phase), no handmade soap can be considered truly ready to use in less than 4 weeks. As a matter of fact, because it uses a larger amount of water than cold process, Hot Process soap tends to require longer curing (drying) times than cold process soap.
• Cooking represents an energy waste, which can be avoided with cold process soap.

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