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Renowned wound-healing oil from the Pacific. Dark green color, strong nutty scent.
INCI: CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM SEED OIL
Tamanu Oil (CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM SEED OIL) is a soap-making oil used in handmade soap recipes. Its SAP values are 0.1570 for NaOH and 0.2210 for KOH, which helps dial in accurate lye amounts.
Typical usage stays below 10% of total oils. In practice, it is vegan, palm-free, best treated as a specialty ingredient rather than a bulk base oil.
Tamanu Oil has an NaOH SAP value of 0.15700 and a KOH SAP value of 0.22100, meaning 157g of sodium hydroxide is needed to saponify 1kg of this oil. It is typically used at 0–10.00% 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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