What blend of oils does SoapMaker use for Shortening properties?
Shortening manufacturers consider their recipes to be trade secrets, so we have used an educated guess to determine the properties. For US shortening, we used an equal blend of Palm, Soybean, and Cottenseed oils. For Canadian shortening, we used a 30/70 blend of Palm and Soybean. Crisco no longer uses palm oil, just hydrogenated cottonseed and soy. 100% soy shortening is made from partially hydrogenated soybean oil. If you know the proportion of different oils in the shortening you use, you can easily calculate the properties, and add a new oil as follows… Say you use shortening which is 25% Palm and 75% Soy. You can add a new oil called “my shortening” and calculate the properties from those which SoapMaker shows for each of the constituent oils. For example, to calculate the SAP value for your shortening: my shortening SAP = (0.25 x Palm SAP) + (0.75 x Soy SAP) Do the same for all the other properties. KnowledgeBase index Top of Page Q: The volume of a drop in SoapMaker does not ag
