Hello,

I've found it always best to run your own lye calculations to avoid many of the complaints I see posted. When I ran lye calculations, I found the following:

Oils: 48 ounces

LYE KOH (Potassium Hydroxide): 259 grams (its always best to use grams to measure your lye)

Water (to mix with the LYE): 18.24 ounces (517.09 grams or 1.140 lbs)

Here is a soap calculator to use. Its not the only one, but the one I prefer:

http://soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcwp.asp

I've not yet made this recipe, so I'm not sure how much water will be required to fully dilute the resulting soap paste, so I'll start with the noted 80 ounces and see if I require more or less.

My experience is mostly with Cold Process (CP) soap making, and have just started playing with liquid soap making. Its different, but still just as interesting and enjoyable as making bar soap.