Lyestone
Soap lye calculator
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Lyestone is a soap maker's lye calculator that lives on your phone, not behind a paywall and a slow website.
Pick the fats in your recipe and enter their grams. Set your superfat and water. Lyestone computes - in real time, as you slide - the exact grams of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) for a bar soap, or potassium hydroxide (KOH) for a liquid soap. Same recipe, both lye types, one tap to switch.
WHAT'S BUNDLED
• 43 saponifiable fats, ready out of the box - olive, coconut (76 and 92 degree), palm, palm kernel, lard, tallow, castor, shea, cocoa butter, mango butter, kokum, hemp, sweet almond, avocado, jojoba (treated correctly as a wax), babassu, sunflower, rice bran, sesame, neem, soybean, peanut, walnut, hazelnut, apricot kernel, grapeseed, evening primrose, argan, abyssinian, tamanu, meadowfoam, andiroba, rosehip, borage, pumpkin seed, marula, baobab, camelina, perilla, poppy seed, pomegranate, and beeswax.
• SAP values for both NaOH and KOH, cross-checked against canonical references (SoapCalc, ModernSoapmaking.com, the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild table).
• Per-recipe quality scores - hardness, cleansing, conditioning, bubbly, creamy - with a visible target band so you can tell at a glance whether your recipe is balanced.
• Iodine value (DOS risk) and INS, the two most-cited stability numbers.
• Quality warnings drawn from the literature: low conditioning, high cleansing, coconut-group dominance, wax-trace acceleration, KOH-superfat advisories, and more. Lyestone will tell you why your recipe is going to dry skin - before you pour it.
PROFESSIONAL FEATURES
• Lye concentration mode (master-batchers, soap-soaping by-the-spreadsheet types) - pin lye as a percentage of total solution instead of water-as-percentage-of-oils. 33% is one tap away.
• Fragrance load in oz/lb of oils → grams. Salt addition. Milk-soap flag with a reminder to freeze the milk.
• Markdown / CSV share - drop the calculation into your woodshop notebook, Reminders, or Messages with a single tap.
• Per-fat detail cards: SAP values, contribution scores, iodine, INS, plus a one-line note on how the fat behaves in a bar.
DESIGN PROMISE
No accounts. No analytics. No internet. No ads. Lyestone is a one-time $0.99 purchase - no subscriptions, no tiers, no unlocks. The app works the same on your phone, your iPad on the workbench, and the iPad locked in the woodshop.
SAFETY
Sodium and potassium hydroxide are highly caustic. Always wear gloves and goggles. Add lye to water (not water to lye). Lyestone is a hobbyist reference - consult primary sources and a soap-making mentor before scaling production.
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Lyestone 2.0 — a pro upgrade from a lye number to a full recipe formulator, still 100% offline.
• Fatty-Acid Lab: real 8-acid profiles for all 43 fats, so your soap's Hardness, Cleansing, Conditioning, Bubbly, Creamy, Iodine, and INS are computed from actual chemistry — with a "who brings what" breakdown and a saturated/unsaturated split.
• Additive calculator: citric acid with exact extra-lye compensation, plus sodium lactate, salt, clays, titanium dioxide, mica, and more in grams and teaspoons.
• "Same water three ways": water-as-%-of-oils, lye concentration, and water:lye ratio that interconvert.
• PDF recipe sheet export and an INCI ingredient-label generator (Sodium Olivate, and so on).
All chemistry is computed on-device and oracle-verified. No account, no network — everything stays on your device.
The developer, Robert Corbin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Size
- 3.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Provider
Robert Corbin
- Robert Corbin has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Copyright
- © 2026 Robert Corbin
