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Here is one of my recipes .... since it is high in olive oil you may

find it traces kind of fast, I personally like that (I hate to wait a half

hour for trace,and I don't use and electric stick blender for soap making ;)

This is a big batch, but like I said, I have concerted all my recipes to use

18 oz of lye.

 

Makes about 12 lbs.of pretty green colored soap which lathers very nicely

and is also conditioning. Bars cure nice and hard.

 

Basic Green Soap

 

Olive Pomace Oil 65 oz

Coconut Oil 30 oz

Palm Oil 30 oz

Sweet Almond Oil 4 oz

Liquid 48 oz

Lye 1 - 18 oz can

1 oz Rose Hip Seed Oil (added at trace to superfat)

Essential Oil

 

While wearing safety goggles and gloves, add lye to liquid in a deep

container (I use a bucket), stir well. Do not inhale fumes. I do this

outside and at arm's length. Let lye water cool. Sometimes I make this

solution days in advance.

 

Combine fatty oils (except Rose Hip Seed oil) and heat oils to about 100

degrees. Remove from heat.

 

Add lye solution to your oils and stir well, be careful not to splash! I

usually stir rapidly at the center and then stir the sides into that.

Stir until mixture " traces " which means it starts to look

like custard/cake batter and a drop of the mixture off the spoon will

sit on top of the big batch of mixture in the pot for a moment before

sinking.

Castile soaps tend to trace quickly and a bit thickly.

For this reason I do not discount any of the water in my olive based soaps.

 

Now is the time to add the Rose Hip Seed oil and any EO's you may be using.

General rule is 2% EO ... use less for very intense scents like tea tree and

peppermint, use more for citrus oils ....

 

Pour into molds, let sit for a few days and remove from mold, cut and let

cure. (Olive soaps take a little longer to cure over all)

 

Always follow safety precautions (like wearing goggles)! No joke. Lye in

your eye is not fun and can blind you in seconds! Gloves are a darn good

idea too, that lye solution and raw soap will begin to eat your skin away in

a matter

of minutes. So, be safe, be cautious, and soap making is fun fun fun :)

 

*Smile*

Chris

 

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

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" Nightengale " <nightengaleoils

 

Friday, September 14, 2001 5:46 AM

Re: Tea Tree Soap

 

 

> MM Chris,

> Do you have a CP recipe that you would like to share?

> Thanks for all your help

> BB

> Nightengale

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