Soap Lye Calculator - Trace
Karol Jaworski Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Soap Lye Calculator - Trace is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Karol Jaworski. Requires iOS 17. Updated October 17, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 10 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v1.41
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About Soap Lye Calculator - Trace
Calculate lye, log every batch, and keep your soap recipes in one place. Trace is a lye calculator, recipe book and batch log for cold process and hot process soapmakers. LYE CALCULATOR - NaOH or KOH amounts for your oil blend, by weight or by percentage - 33 oils with SAP values from SoapCalc's oil table, checked against Codex Alimentarius ranges - Superfat, water-to-lye ratio and KOH purity (100%, 95%, 90% or 85%) - Grams or ounces; decimal points or commas - Run every recipe through a second lye calculator before you make it BATCH LOG - Log each batch with its oils, lye, water, temperatures, trace and costs - Cure countdown with days remaining and a Ready badge - Weigh-ins to follow water loss during the cure - Rate each cured batch: pH, lather, conditioning, hardness and scent RECIPES - Save your own recipes and scale them to any batch size - Start a batch from a recipe with its oils filled in - Filter by testing, proven or production - 30 starter recipes to begin from SOAP PROPERTIES - Predicted hardness, cleansing, conditioning, bubbly and creamy lather - Iodine value and INS TRACE PRO - Unlimited recipes and batches - All 7 property predictions - All 30 starter recipes The free version includes the lye calculator, 5 saved recipes, 10 batches, hardness and cleansing predictions and 3 starter recipes. Lye is caustic. Wear goggles and gloves, add lye to water (never water to lye), and keep children and pets away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.41 · Updated October 17, 2026
Correction: the coconut oil lye value was 4.4% too high (0.191 instead of 0.183 g NaOH per gram of oil), so recipes with coconut oil got more lye than intended. If you made a recipe with coconut oil at a superfat below about 5%, recheck it in this version and in a second lye calculator before using those bars. - Every oil's SAP value rechecked against SoapCalc and Codex Alimentarius; jojoba, beeswax, tamanu, cupuaçu, rice bran and others corrected - KOH purity setting for liquid soap (most KOH sold is 90%) - INS now uses the standard formula (it read about 60 points low) - Ounces in the calculator, recipes and batches when chosen in Profile; decimal commas accepted - Start a batch from a recipe with its oils filled in; recipes can be deleted - Lye safety notes next to every lye amount - Pro subscribers no longer see the paywall while the App Store is still answering
App privacy
The developer, Karol Jaworski, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics
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