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Basic Soap
32 oz. blended vegetable oil or olive oil
74 oz tallow
3 oz
cocoa butter
14 oz lye
41 oz cold water
Follow basic
soapmaking directions to prepare lye solution and oils. . Slowly pour
the lye solution into the oils while stirring. Complete soap as
per usual instructions. This soap is mild with long-lasting,
creamy bubbles. It traces quickly, sets up and dries quickly. Good
choice for hand milling; accepts additives readily. Can be used in
milled soaps either in a moist or dry state. Soap is hard when
cured.
Bee Good
Soap
Almond oil 16 oz.
Canola oil 26 oz.
Coconut oil 32 oz.
Olive
oil 28 oz.
Soybean oil 26 oz.
water 48 oz.
lye 18
oz.
Beeswax 4 oz. (.5 oz per pound x 8 lbs.)
Honey 4
oz. " "
" " " "
Heat oils to 150 degrees F. Add
beeswax (you can grate it, chunk it, pre-melt it). Cool to 115
degrees F. Lye and water to about 110 degrees F. Add
lye/water to oils, at light trace, add the honey. Stirtill well
blended. Pour no more than an inch deep. Cover with Saran
type wrap prevents soda ash). Don't wrap with a blanket, just put
a
cookie sheet over the top, as this will get warmer than soaps
without honey. You can scent this as you like, add scents at light
trace.
Peppermint Tea
Soap
24 ounces Canola Oil (Olive Oil would probably trace faster)
24
ounces Coconut Oil
38 ounces Vegetable Shortening
12 ounces Sodium
Hydroxide
5 cups Peppermint Tea (cooled to room temp. otherwise a
big, volcanic,mess!)
2 droppers Tea Tree Oil
2 ounces Cocoa
Butter
1/4 ounce Peppermint Oil (you could add more if you
want)
Dissolve the Soduim Hydroxide in the Peppermint Tea. Melt
down your oils. Try to get them both in the 95-98 Degree range before
combining. Add the Tea Tree Oil, Cocoa Butter(melted), and Peppermint
oil at lighttrace.
Mine took over an hour to trace, I think this was
from the Canola Oil. It looks good today, should be ready to unmold by
tomorrow. The color is turning lighter as time goes
by.
Shelia
Chocolate
Soap
8 ounces shortening
6 ounces coconut oil
2 ounces olive
oil
(2.34 lye for 5% excess fat), (2.2 for 8% excess fat) ounces
lye
6 ounces water
1/4 ounce unsweetened baking
chocolate
2 ounces white chocolate
Melt fats, add
chocolates. Mix lye and water. When fats and lye are 100 F
stirred together, it looks curdled and separated. Blend it
up and pour it out. Blender on low for 20 seconds. Pour
out. Looks weird. Turns light then dark. Smells like Devil's
Food Cake.
Honey
Soap
12 oz veg shortening
4 oz coconut oil
1 oz beeswax
1 cup
distilled water
2 oz lye
1/4 cup honey
Mix lye and water, allow
to cool. melt vegetable shortening. Over a double boiler, melt wax
and coconut oil together and keep warm. When shortening is
120* and lye is 100*, pour lye mixture into shortening and stir until
tracing occurs. Pour wax and oil mixture into soap mixture stirring
constantly ( the mixture will get VERY thick with
the addition of the
beeswax mix) When the beeswax mixture is completely blended, stir in the
honey and pour into molds. Unmold after 24-48 hours. Allow to age
for 3 weeks.
Chocolate-mint
Soap
10oz shortening
4oz coconut oil
2oz olive oil
2.24 oz
lye
6 ounces distilled water
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
2
droppers peppermint essential oil
Hold back one ounce olive oil to
mix with the cocoa powder, melt the rest of the oils
together. Mix the lye and water and allow to cool. With the lye
mixture at 95* and the fats at 115* pour the lye into theoil and stir
until it traces.pour into molds. unmold after 48 hours,and cut if
needed. Allow to age 3 weeks.
Peanut Butter
Soap
8oz shortening
4oz coconut oil
3oz peanut oil
2oz
lye
3/4cup water
3 tablespoons peanut butter (creamy)
2
tablespoons cocoa powder (optional, makes Reece's soap)
Mix water and
lye and set aside to cool. melt fats together and allow to
cool. When lye is 95*-110* and fats are 120*-130* pour lye into
fats and stir until it traces. Add peanut butter and cocoa powder
and stiruntil well blended. You might even want to hold back an
ounce of the peanut oil to mix the peanut butter and cocoa powder with
to help mix it.
Cuddle Me
Soap
4 lb 8 oz Olive Oil
8 oz Coconut Oil
2 lb
Vegetable Shortening
8 oz Avocado Oil
8 oz Sweet
Almond Oil
Lye: 473 grams lye
3 lbs spring
water
Extras: Superfatted with 3 oz calendula-steeped olive
oil
Scented with 2.5 oz lavender essential oil
I used a bit of
avocado oil and sweet almond oil for their softening and healing
properties. Because of the low coconut oil content, it doesn't suds up
that much, but it does feels pretty good. I had wanted to add chamomile
EO for its properties, but the oil was just too expensive. Weight wise,
this is based on the Soap Essentials recipe from Susan Miller Cavitch's
book.
This is also one of the l..o..n..g s..l..o..w trace recipes.
After stirring it for about 30 minutes, then stirring occasionally over
the next 3 hours (and trying hard not to worry that I may have a bad
batch). After letting it sit overnight, it traced fine.
Castile
Soap
128 oz. Olive Oil (8 lbs.)
16 oz. Lye - Sodium Hydroxide (1
lb.)
48 oz. Water (3 lbs.)
Temps 110F
You can divide this
recipe up if you don't want to make this much at a time. This will take
a longgggggggggg time to trace, like maybe even days, itdoes for me
anyway. If you have a stick blender, that might speed it up.
I've
never tried the stick blender yet with olive oil soap so I dont' know. I
wrap a blanket around the pot the whole time, to keep the warmth in.Use
the lid on the pot too. I think this is important with castile
soap. Every time you check on it, you will see that there is a
layer of oil that has floated to the top. You need to stir this back
into thesoap, every time you
check on it. You should check on it *at
least* every few hours (that is, if your not using a stick blender). You
will notice that eventually the oil layer that floats to the top, gets
thinner and thinner, when you arechecking on it. When there is no more
oil floating to the top, or very little, between checks, you can pour
your EO's in. I wait, even after
this to make sure that the EO has
been incorporated, as this may float to the top and you'll have to
reincorporate it back in. Once you are sure that no more oil will float
to the top, and they are all incorporated, then you can pour it into
your mold and insulate. It will take a very long time to get hard in the
mold. Can't tell you how long,that varies.
I use around .7 Essential
oils, per pound of oil, so for this recipe that would be 5.6 oz.
Citrus Kitchen
Soap
15 oz. Tepid water
5.8 oz. Lye
16 oz. Coconut oil
10 oz.
Olive oil
2 oz. Aloe vera oil
2 oz. Castor oil
2 oz. Jojoba
oil
2 oz. Wheatgerm oil
2 oz. Orange EO
1 oz. Lemon EO
½ oz.
Grapefruit EO
½ oz. Lime EO
1 oz. Powdered lime zest
Blend
water and lye. Cool to 100.Melt coconut oil. Add other oils. Heat or
cool to 100. When temps match add the lye to the oil mix. Stir until
soap traces. Add EO's and lime zest. Dry 24 hours.
Cure 2-4
weeks.
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