Thanks Yooper. If it is only the cloudyness, that wouldn't be a problem for me. The main reaso why I would want to make liquid soap is that I can design something which suits my skin and my girlfriend would probably also like to use it as a shower gel, but clarity is not an issue for us.
I have now ordered the essentials for the first soap (hard soap) and also the chemicals for the liquid soap. I will make about 1kg hard soap first and then will probably experiment with smaller amounts of liquid soap.
I designed a recipe based on what I have read here and on the main soap making pages to suit my dry skin which sometimes has dermatitis kind of itchy spots. The really hard and heavily chlorinated water in the UK certainly does not help....
The recipe for a hard soap goes as follows:
5%Castor oil for the skin
20%coconut for hardness, foam and cleansing
30%palm oil, hardness, goes well with coconut oil
35%olive oil, for the skin (kind of a"base" oil)
10%cocoa butter for the skin and texture
7% super fattened
0.7% essential ginger oil
0.7% essential lemongrass oil
... personally, I would skip the essential oils, but I have a girlfriend
I ordered acually some more essential oils, I might split the batch and try two combinations, cedarwood and black pepper also somehow smells appealing in my mind. I read that the oils are best mixed in after medium tracing occurs, so technically it should be easily possible to devide the base before this point.
Hahaha, I even had to oerder a handheld blender.
If you guys see any flaws, please point them out before I have to find out by myself.