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Make Modern Soap With Herbs, Beeswax And Vegetable Oils - page 4

by Elaine White

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Homemade Soap Recipes

This is the only recipe I've discovered that remains scent-free without adding fragrance to the recipe. This soap is a bit too harsh for bath soap, but great for cleaning, washing dishes, delicate laundry, etc. Great lather and no fragrance.

Ingredients:

* 16 oz coconut oil
* 2.8 oz lye
* 1 cup water (8 fluid ounces)

Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F

Estimated tracing time: 1 1/2 hours

Time in molds: 48 hours
Age: 3 weeks

In this article:

Lye

The Equipment List

The Ten-step Procedure

Herbal Soap

Superfatting Soap

Homemade Soap Recipes

 

Soap II -- Pure Soap Mink Oil Shampoo

Ingredients:

16 oz weight coconut oil
1/2 cup mink oil or (4 T. Castor oil)
2.9 oz lye
1 cup water (8 fluid oz.)
Oil room temperature.
Mix and use lye when the water turns clear. Put all ingredients in the blender.

Follow the instructions for "Blender Soap" Don't let this soap trace. Process until the mixture is smooth (no oil streaks) and pour it into molds. Leave in molds 2 days. Freeze soap 3 hours to release it from the molds. Age 3 weeks.

Soap III

Ingredients:

6 oz coconut oil
6 oz olive oil
5 oz vegetable shortening
2.6 oz lye
1 cup water (8 fluid ounces)
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Time in molds: 48 hours. Age: 4 weeks

Soap IV

9 oz vegetable shortening
4 oz coconut oil
3 oz lard
2.4 oz lye
3/4 cup water (6 fluid ounces)
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Time in molds: 24 hours. Age: 3 weeks

Homemade Soap Recipes : Soap V

A traditional and blender soap combination. The fats are expensive, but milk allows for about 12 bars, vs. only 6 bars of the same recipe without milk. Pretty sneaky, huh?

Ingredients:

8 oz weight cocoa butter
5 oz weight palm oil
3 oz weight castor oil
2.2 oz weight lye (sodium hydroxide)
1 cup cold milk (I used 2% right from the frig)
1 cup water
1 tablespoon essential oil (I added 2 chamomile tea bags and 2 jasmine tea bags, dry)

Fats: 100 degree range
Lye/water/milk combination: 125 degree range

Dissolve the lye in the water. Add all ingredients to the blender. Process about 30 seconds, or until the mixture looks smooth and a uniform color. It will not trace. Pour it into the molds (it won't separate, trust me)

Soap VI & VII

Ingredients:

16 oz lard or beef tallow
2.2 oz lye
3/4 cup water (6 fluid ounces)
Estimated tracing 45 minutes. Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F. Time in molds: 24 hours. Age: 3 weeks

Soap VIII -- Beeswax Castile

Ingredients:

16 oz weight olive oil
1 oz beeswax
1 oz palm oil
2.1 oz lye
1 cup water (8 fluid ounces)
(melt the beeswax with the fats)
Fat and lye/water temperature about 150 degrees F.

Tracing time: about 12 minutes FAST! (This is not a good blender soap candidate!) Time in molds: 48 hours. Place the soap in a freezer for 3 hours, then remove it from the mold.

 
Author:
Elaine C. White is the author of Soap Recipes: Seventy tried-and-true ways to make modern soap with herbs, beeswax and vegetable oils.








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