Description
The modern soap calculator built for speed, clarity, and confidence.
Simple SoapCalc calculates safe lye and water amounts for cold process, liquid soap, and hybrid recipes — instantly.
But it does more than math.
Snap a recipe photo
Import recipes from books, blogs, YouTube screenshots, or handwritten notes. Simple SoapCalc reads the image and builds your recipe automatically — no manual entry.
Refine your oil blend
Use Blend Advisor to get smart suggestions for stronger bars, more lather, gentler recipes, or better balance. Pick a goal and apply it with one tap.
Build with confidence
• Calculate accurate lye and water amounts
• Build recipes by weight or percentage
• Adjust superfat and water-to-lye ratio
• View soap properties like hardness, cleansing, and conditioning
• Explore full fatty acid profiles
• Save and sync recipes across devices
Make Soap mode
Switch to a step-by-step workshop checklist with your exact recipe measurements when you're ready to make a batch.
Simple SoapCalc was created to make soapmaking feel calm and clear again — without clutter, spreadsheets, or guesswork.
Informational guidance — never pass/fail scores.
Always follow proper soapmaking safety practices when handling lye.
Terms of Service: https://simplesoapcalc.com/terms
Nouveautés (v1.12)
NEW IN v1.12:
NOW IN CHATGPT
• Simple SoapCalc is now in the ChatGPT App Store — brainstorm recipes through ChatGPT and we handle the math
FRAGRANCE SAFETY
• Per-oil IFRA warnings — push Tea Tree, Cedarwood, Rose, and 27 more essential oils past their Cat 9 cap and you'll see exactly where the safety line is
• 30 essential oils now have cert-validated IFRA Cat 9 caps — Rose, Geranium, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Ginger,and more
• Cumulative fragrance load banner — your total percentage updates live as you build the recipe
SMARTER ADDITIVES
• Pick an additive and the amount pre-fills to a safe starting point — no more guessing
• Warnings appear inline under each fragrance row in the editor — find what's over at a glance
• Tap "Why this amount?" on any curated additive to see usage range, IFRA cap, and scent character
VINEGAR LIQUIDS
• Apple cider vinegar now auto-adjusts your lye — the calculator handles the chemistry so you don't have to
CURATED LIST UPDATES
• Jasmine Sambac replaces generic Jasmine — Sambac is the safer species for soap, with much more headroom under its Cat 9 cap
• Spearmint, Clary Sage, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Geranium, and Rose moved into the right buckets so default amounts stay below their IFRA ceilings
• Search "ginger root" or "sambac absolute" — new aliases find the right entry
IMPROVEMENTS
• Pantry Variations duplicate-recipe bug fixed — same constraints now produce distinct variations
• Fast-trace warnings flag recipes with high coconut, castor, or rice bran — and ginger essential oil now joins the accelerator list alongside cinnamon and clove
• KOH/liquid soap recipes correctly suppress bar-soap unmold language; balanced-mix prose fixed for high-Castile blends
• Sharper unmold tiers ("Check at 12–24 hours"), better trace and cure predictions for high-coconut and pine-tar recipes, and additive amounts below 0.10 now show 2 decimals