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African fruit butter. Balanced profile makes a good all-round bar component.
INCI: TRICHILIA EMETICA SEED BUTTER
Mafura Butter (TRICHILIA EMETICA SEED BUTTER) is a soap-making butter used in handmade soap recipes. Its SAP values are 0.1380 for NaOH and 0.1940 for KOH, which helps dial in accurate lye amounts.
Typical usage stays below 20% of total oils. In practice, it is vegan, palm-free, best treated as a specialty ingredient rather than a bulk base oil.
Mafura Butter has an NaOH SAP value of 0.13800 and a KOH SAP value of 0.19400, meaning approximately 138g of sodium hydroxide saponifies 1kg of this oil. It is typically used at 0–20.00% of total oil weight in cold process soap recipes.
Shaded areas show the ideal range for balanced soap. Values outside these ranges may still produce good soap depending on the overall formula.
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