Olive Oil Makes Great Soap
All Cloud Nine Soaps start with my basic recipe, which is made up of a large percentage of olive oil. I love working with olive oil for a lot of reason, one of them is that it is slow to saponify, which gives me plenty of time in the soap-making process to play around with colors, patterns, and additives.
Olive oil is high in oleic acid - an omega-nine fatty acid that is found naturally in many vegetable sources. The major component in olive oil is the triglyceride esters of oleic acid. I won’t bore you with the chemistry of that statement but will instead tell you, it’s the good stuff. Olive oil is rich in antioxidants and antioxidants work very well as moisturizers. One of the primary reasons why olive oil works so well as a moisturizer is because of...