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Combine the dried milk, sugar, and borax in a bowl, stirring until well mixed. Add the water, vitamin E, and fragrance. Stir until you have a thick dough. Depending on the humidity in the air, you may need to cut the water amount back. Try adding a little at a time until you get the thick dough. Roll dough into a ball, one teaspoon at a time with your hands. Repeat until all of the dough has been used. Place the balls on a sheet of tin foil or waxed paper and let dry for twenty four hours. |
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Temperatures between 90-100 degrees Add at trace:
This soap has very nice texture when cut and lathers wonderfully! Nice for stick blending...doesn't become thick too quickly. |
Temps: 110-115 degrees For Gardener's Scrub Bar, Add:
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Add at light trace: Pulverize the dry botanicals one at a time using the smaller jar on your blender, if you have one. The soap is unscented, but had a slight smell of banana bread when cut (from the herbs, I guess). I had used a bit of beta carotene for soft yellow color, but think it would have been better without. You could use less of the botanicals and still have the overall effect in the finished bar...probably could cut back by half. If you leave the calendula petals larger, they would be prettier in the bars, but I'm kind of grossed out by chunks of stuff that are TOO big when they are floating around in the bath!
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Mix Finishing Solution and let marinate overnight, so as to let the Castor Oil leach Cocoa Butter out of the Cocoa Powder, which also serves for coloration. Cappucino Brulee Fragrance works admirably, but other Coffee and Chocolate fragrance also work. Increase Cocoa Powder for darker color, decrease for lighter color. When ready, pour lye into water & stir. Set aside. Mix and Heat Oils to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Put Oil mixture into mixing container. Pour lye water in and stir vigorously to prevent siezing. Tracing will be immediate. When thick enough, add finishing solution. Pour into mold. This soap hardens faster than most. Cover. Cut after 2 Days. Cure for about a month.
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Make as usual. Add the peppermint EO and clay at trace. This recipe makes a nice minty green soap with a chocolate mint fragrance that drives chocoholics wild. And the cocoa butter makes the soap creamy. i just love the way my skin feels after a bath with this soap! (Note that French clay is better for normal to oily skin).
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Method: Melt beeswax gently over a double boiler (or in the microwave if no double boiler is available). In a separate container, heat the Lanolin oil and Shea Butter up until it is fully liquid. Add the olive oil to the melted Lanolin oil and Shea Butter. Combine the beeswax and all the oil, stir well. Add flavoring (if desired) and pour into containers. |
Method: Add the half-n-half to the lye water after it has disolved. Make as normal. The lavender water should have the flowers removed before using. All ingredients are by weight unless otherwise noted. |
This soap has a nice fragrance and interesting look. As with all glycerin soaps, wrap tightly as the glycerin will attract moisture from the air. |
Melt oils and mix lye with water. Mix lye and oils at about 110 degrees. Wait for good trace and add wheat germ, honey, chamomile, turmeric and benzoin. I blend these last four ingredients into about 2 or 3 tablespoons of almond oil and then stir in. Make sure honey is fully incorporated. Insulate for 1 day. Makes a wonderful hard soap that lathers well. Mildly abrasive but very gentle and soothing to the skin. |
Make as normal. Add oatmeal and honey at trace.
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Nettle Soap
MethodPour enough boiling water to cover over 1 cup of tightly packed nettles, let cool, puree in a blender. Use this nettle puree as part of the lyewater and add more water enough to make for this 3 kg batch. This batch was cold processed. |
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P.S. - This soap seems to be very popular with people! For this batch add at trace:
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You can turn any soap recipe and make it into pine tar soap. The easiest method is to add the pine tar to the melting oils at the beginning. You can buy pine tar at most feed stores (it is used on horses hooves for conditioning purposes). Be sure label says 100% pine tar and not pine rosin. Use a disposable spoon to remove tar out of the container and drop it into the melting oils. They should break up as the fats melt and warm up - stir in and copletely blend the tar into the fats. Pine Tar soap comes to trace quicker than soaps without it - go with a higher water addition rate for the recipe rather than the low end suggestions. For a recipe that makes 28 bars you will use 32 ounces of water with about 6 to 7 ounces of pine tar to the pot with the base oils. If you decide to scent along with the natural smell of the pine tar... pick something that will blend well with that or enhance it... and you'll have to move quickly since the soap is going to want to set up quickly and you'll have little time for extra fussing around. Essential oils might be better behaved since you are already going to have soap with a tendency toward accelerated trace. Pine tar soap takes longer to harden up during cure, but once hard that it is very long lasting. |
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This gave a nice strong scent. I would not add more, unless you have Rosemary oil on hand and want to add a little of that. Harvest rosemary leaves and dehydrate for a few hours. Strip the leaves and run them through the blender - add with shavings and stir in just before pour. |
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Using a small container made for such purposes, I pulverized the dry herbs in the blender. The Rosemary still has some fairly long leaves, but that's okay and makes an interesting appearance in the soap. This soap did not get thick as quickly as the previous ones and I'm not sure if I poured it sooner, or it was because less fragrance oil was added at trace. |
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Make as normal. The shea butter in this soap makes it very moisturizing. |
Temperature: between 90-100 degrees You can use higher temps. (up to 120) and might want to if you are hand stirring. Use the stick blender and lower temp to allow more time before trace...which only took a few minutes.
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Traditional Soap from Home made Fat Drippings
Thoroughly clean fats by boiling in equal amount of water. Place kettle in a cold place to firm fat. Cut fat from kettle sides. Pour off water and waste. Scrape off excess wastes from bottom of lard cake. Clean kettle and replace lard cakes, melt over low heat. Dissolve lye in 1 quart cold water and let stand until cool, then add melted fat slowly. Stir constantly. Mix other ingredients together and add to first mixture. Stir until the mixture is thick and honey colored. Pour into pan lined with a clean white cloth. Before soap becomes hard, mark pieces into cakes or form into balls. When hard, store to allow further air-drying. |
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This is a basic recipe for "glycerin" soap.
Milling the Soap:
Use caution when adding alcohol to simmering soap. Be certain the soap is not too hot; do not boil. Once the glycerine has been made tranparent you now have a melt and pour base, which can be re-melted to add fragrances, colors, and embeds of your choice. |
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MethodBefore the lye gets mixed in add the lemon juice to the water. Add the essential oils at trace. |