BATH SALTS & SOAP RECIPES

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PEACH SHOWER GEL

3/4 cup distilled water
1/4 cup shampoo concentrate (or substitute with 1/2 cup unscented
shampoo
and increase salt to 1 tsp.)
1/2 tsp. table salt
1 tbs. apricot kernel oil
15 drops peach fragrance oil
5 drops vitamin E oil (2 capsules)
1 drop orange food coloring (optional)

Warm the water and pour into a ceramic bowl. Add the apricot kernal
oil, salt, peach fragrance oil, vitamin E oil (just break open the
capsules) and coloring. Stir until well blended and thick. Pour into
a squeeze bottle and close.

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COLD COMPRESS RECIPES

Carrot Soap
1 oz almond oil
5 oz wheat germ oil
7.5 oz grapeseed oil
12 oz coconut oil
12.5 oz olive oil
1 oz castor oil ( I warmed this and put my fo in it added at trace)
1 drop roe (which I added not thinking that the wheatgerm would be enough)
5.4 oz lye
7 oz of water
7oz of fresh carrot juice (can or frozen would work)
added the lye to 7 oz of water melted oils. At 100 degrees I mixed lye into water and stirred with a whisk till it was well
incorporated. I hit it with the stick for only a couple of seconds. I then went back to stirring briskly with the whisk and slowly
added the carrot juice once again I hit it with the stick for a couple of seconds to make sure the carrot juice was well mixed. I
continued to mix with the whisk until the first sign of trace ( I was using plumeria fo which was suppose to accelerate trace) I
then added my warmed castor oil with fo in it. I continued to stir with the whisk and every so often hitting it with the stick for a
second or 2 till trace then poured into mold..

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Beginner's Recipe-Cold Process

Cocoa Butter 1.25 oz
Coconut oil 4 oz
Olive Oil 9 oz
Canola Oil 9 oz.
Castor Oil .5 oz.
Water 9 oz.
Lye 3.25 oz 5% superfat
Vanilla Fragrance Oil .047 oz. 2% of total oils

Following safety rules, combine lye into water, stir and set aside to cool to
100F. Melt the cocoa butter, take off heat and add coconut oil and allow to
melt. Add the liquid oils and re-heat if necessary to 125F. Combine water/lye
solution and fats, following soap making instructions...stir till light
trace...kinda like thin gravy..add the fragrance oil, stir and pour into
prepared mold. Insulate well..let rest 24 hours. Unmold and cut into bars
when the soap is firm to the touch but leaves a tiny imprint of your finger
in it. This soap will be creamy white and gradually turn chocolate brown from
the vanilla.
This will give you 23.75 oz. of soap or about 6 to 7 bars of wonderful
soap..Allow to cure for 4 weeks for good soap,6 weeks for great soap and 8+ weeks for howling good, I can't believe I did that soap!
Variations- use Orange Spice F/O instead of vanilla
use Sandalwood F/O instead of vanilla
use no fragrance at all.


Patti's Cocoa Butter Soap©2001

15 oz. coconut oil
16 oz. cocoa butter
1 oz. unrefined shea (can use refined, a matter of preference)
2 oz. olive oil
1/2 oz. castor oil
1/2 oz. jojoba
12 oz. distilled water
5.11 oz. lye (6 % superfat)
1 TBLS. white kaolin clay
I add the jojoba at light trace...the kaolin clay is mixed in with the oils
before mixing with lye/water mixture..the clay is optional, but I like the
feel it gives to the soap.

This soap has a wonderful cocoa butter scent...you can also use unscented
cocoa butter if desired, and fragrance of your choice...


Milk Choc Mink

Castor oil (6.25%)= 1 ounce
Cocoa Butter (10%) = 1.6 ounce
Coconut Oil(35%)= 5.6 ounce
Jojoba(2%)= .32
Palm (10%)= 1.6 ounce
Olive(36.75)= 5.88
3ounce milk
3 ounce distilled water
1/4 teaspoon cocoa powder
.16 ounce peppermint eo

Note: The bar when finished is a nice dark tan, I wonder if it could be made
a bit darker and more choclatey looking with some other addition?
Have fun!
This is one of my best selling soaps. This is enough to fill one 12"
long 3" pvc with a 12" loofah in it:

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Dad's Shamrock Soap©2001, Denise Washburn

2 ounces castor oil
12 ounces coconut oil
14 ounces olive oil
12 ounces palm kernel oil
5 ounces wheat germ oil
15 ounces water
6½ ounces lye

***1 tablespoon hydrated chrome green
1 ounce olive oil
you will only use 1 teaspoon of this mixture in your soap.

1 ounce Bay Rum essential oil from CG

Mix hydrated chrome green and one ounce of olive oil...set aside. Mix lye with your water. Measure your oils and melt them together. Add one teaspoon of your hydrated chrome green olive oil mixture to the oils. Combine lye solution to your oils at 100°. Bring to a trace and add your bay rum essential oil. Pour into individual molds. I used the shamrock Milkyway molds I got from BB. This can also be poured into any molds, and then sliced into bars. I poured what didn't fit into my shamrock molds into a Torengo's can.

Susan's White Soap Recipe

Castor oil 2 oz.
Coconut oil 20 oz.
Refined olive oil 34 oz.*
Lye 8 oz.
Water 19 oz.
*Don't use extra virgin or virgin. I get this refined stuff at Costco,
and it's butter yellow in the bottle. The extra virgin comes through to
the soap as a (rather nice, I think) scent and very pale greenish color.
But if you want really white white, you gotta go refined.

One-Bar Soap Recipe

0.6 oz lye
1.5 oz water
1.5 oz olive oil
1.28 oz coconut oil
1.5 oz palm oil
Combine at 120°. May take as long as 20-30 minutes to trace. Can pour into styrofoam cups which will insulate for you.

Strawberry Soap (Rebatched)

You can use Citric Acid, or even Fruit Fresh (which is a brand of powdered Citric Acid) I use about 1/4 tsp in a 2lb rebatch, with about 1/2 cup of fruit...so take that to your ratio box.....and you get 1/4 tsp per 1/2 cup of fruit.....so maybe that will help you figure what you need for your
particular batch?
BTW, the astringent properties of the berries is best derived from using the whole fruit, not just the juice. And strawberrys are very high in vitamin C
already, not to mention Betacarotin....just watch that mold thing real careful, and don't add too much thinking if some is good, more is better. Your soap won't set up right if you add too much. IF you can bring yourself to do it, whirl you berries a few seconds in the blender, and then pour off
the juice and use primarily the pulp...that is where you get the most benefit of the astringent without adding too much water/moisture to your rebatch. But if you are like me and can't seem to get past the thought of "wasting"
that lovely berry juice to color the soap, measure how much you have and subtract it from the water the recipe calls for for the rebatching. And please, please, please, be patient as it all melts together. Use low heat, and stir and stir and stir, but don't turn the heat up. It will be slow, but oh! so well worth the wait!

Mosaic Soap

(I make a soap that is very popular with my customers it consists of leftover scraps of my CP (all colours) which are usually in little curls from peeling them with a carot peeler to bevel the edges and smooth them off. I put these scraps in a large rectangluar mold and pour clear M&P over it. THe result is quite beautiful, and all the colour show through
and it is always the first soap picked up at my shows. I call this "CURLS & SWIRLS". Even though it is not additionally scented, the scents from the CP soaps linger and mix together and everyone loves the smell. No two batches are ever the same. **CP soap = Cold Process Soap
or homeade lye soap

Whey Cool Soap

11 oz Sunflower oil
8 oz coconut oil
7 oz palm oil
11.37 oz Whey ( you could sub milk if you wanted; I'm sure..I also read that you could put store bought yogurt in cheesecloth and the water strained from that is whey; you could use that too)
3.98 oz lye
Mixed when lye water and oil reached 100 degrees
Added 1/4 tsp green pigment to a little amount of water (about 1/2 TBLS) which I heated first, so as not to shock my oil mixture. Also added Peppermint EO until it smelled good. LOL About 1 tsp. Added pigment and EO at trace.

Holli Cranberry Coconut Soap
Large Batch

80 oz olive
6 oz coconut oil
19.7 oz water
4.3 oz coconut milk (woulda used more milk, less water, but at the time
I was experimenting and this was all I had for coconut milk --next time
it will be 12 oz water and 12 oz milk)
11.5 oz lye
3 cerise color chips
1 oz cranberry FO
1 oz coconut FO
Set aside 2 oz coconut oil. Mix lye/water bring to 85-90 degrees. Heat olive and coconut oils and get to 110 degrees. Mix together, get trace. Heat the other 2 oz of coconut milk and melt the color chips in it while it heats. At trace, add the fos, then pour in the coconut oil/cerise color blend and gently swirl into the soap. Very gently as
when you pour it will swirl more. That's it! I did add titanium dioxide first to whiten the soap, but it wasn't necessary, the white part would have been a nice creamy color without it.

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Cream and Honey Soap

6 ounces coconut oil
6 ounces crisco
4 ounces olive oil
2 ounces lye
1 cup water
1/4 cup honey
2 ounces beeswax
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Melt coconut oil and Crisco together. Pour lye into the water. Melt the honey, beeswax and olive oil together. When the lye/water is 110 and the coconut oil/Crisco is 130, pour the lye/water into the oils. After this traces, pour the honey mixture into the traced soap. After pouring in the honey/beeswax pour in the cream. I used heavy whipping cream. Don't ask me why I did this...I will plead insanity. Continue stirring until blended and pour into molds. Unmold after 24-48 hours after pouring. Age3 to 4 weeks.

Raspberry Oatmeal Soap

12 oz grated soap
5 oz water
1/4 cup finely ground oats
1/8 oz Raspberry Fragrance oil
Combine the grated soap and water in a saucepan, and set on medium
heat.
When the soap has melted, add the ground oats, and raspberry fragrance.
Stir well, then pack into molds and let sit until hardened.

French Vanilla Almond Soap

1/3 cup whole almonds
10 oz grated soap
1/2 cup distilled water
2 tablespoon almond oil
1/4 teaspoon Dragon Bubbles French Vanilla Fragrance oil
Grind the almonds to a fine powder in a food processor or coffee
grinder
and set aside. In a heavy saucepan bring the water to a boil; then
reduce heat to a simmer and add grated soap. When the soap has melted,
remove the pan from the heat and add the almond powder, almond oil, and
vanilla fragrance oil, stirring until well blended. Spoon the soap into
a mold and let set for five hours or until hardened.

"Skatz"

2 oz castor
4oz cocoa butter
6 oz coconut oil
10 oz olive
10 oz crisco
2 0z lanolin
13 0z H2O
4.53 oz lye
total 34 oz 2.125#

notes: infused olive oil with eucalyptus leaves (chopped) for approximately week.
combined at 100 degrees, traced in about 45 mins. scented with 1oz. aloe vera & 1oz. northwoods fo left some eucalyptus pieces for visual effect, can be all veggie by leaving out lanolin & recalculating lye & H2O.

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Dee's Buttermilk Soap

48 oz Olive Oil
40 oz Lard
6.5 oz Lye
33.5 oz Water
2 oz Castor Oil
9 oz Buttermilk
4 oz. honey

Combine lye and water and set to let cool. Melt lard and after melted
add olive oil. Combine when lye is about 100 degrees and oil/fat is about 110. I used a stir stick and added to 2 oz castor oil at trace then set it up in a square rubbermaid storage container (my choice for large mold).
Let it set for a couple of days til you can unmold, then let it sit til you can grate. Grate it into a pot and very slowly melt, add the buttermilk (it should be room temp or slightly warmer). You can add the honey at any time, just keep in mild the longer the honey 'cooks' the deeper in color it will be and the more fragrant.

Antique Truffle
16 oz lard
2 oz castor
20 oz coconut
8 oz cocoa butter
4 oz palm
16 oz corn oil
25 oz H2O
9.48 oz Lye
3 TBS. White Choc. FO ( SunFeather)

temps. abt. 100 added Fo at thick trace
notes for veggie..sub. palm ( for lard )& recalculate H2O & lye ( MMS)
when I added the FO ..guess, I saw my first seize, went zoom to custard
state.

Sunflower Soap

1# 14oz water
12 oz lye

24 oz coconut oil
24 oz Olive oil
24 oz Sunflower oil
14 oz Palm oil

This makes a nice hard bar

White Wine Soap

15 oz. coconut oil
15 oz. olive oil
24 oz. crisco
7 3/4 oz. lye
18 oz. water/wine (I took 6 oz. wine, simmered about 5 minutes, then added enough water to equal 18 oz.)
1 oz vegetable glycerin
1 oz. avocado oil
Add the lye to the liquid (remember it 'snows on the
lake'). Be prepared for a lot of foaming. Be sure your container
is tall enough or it will overflow. In my case, the liquid also turned a
bright calendula orange. I panicked and added 1/8 tsp of water
dispersible titanium dioxide to the lye/liquid mixture, but the color calmed
down as soon as I added it to the oils. Probably didn't need the
titanium but it didn't seem to hurt the end product
I poured the lye/liquid mix into the oils when both
were about 120 degrees.
At light trace, I added the oz. of glycerin and the
oz. of avocado oil. As you can tell by my recipe, I don't superfat
heavily. If ran through the lye calculator, would probably be in the 5% range.
The fragrance blend I used was a blend of Sweetcakes
frosted berries (a definite 'winey' scent ) SC green tea and SC green apple pear. I believe it was 1 1/2 oz. frosted berries, something like 3/4 oz of green tea and 3/4 oz. of green apple pear. (the memory is going, going,gone!) One of the reasons I added glycerin and avocado oil
to this bar is that I thought that if vinegar is an astringent, that
perhaps wine might be drying, so thought some ingredients to add
moisturizing/softening would make for a nicer bar

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Egg Yolk Soap #1

10 ounces Palm Oil
4 ounces Coconut Oil
2 ounces Olive Oil
2 ounces lye
8 ounces water
3-4 egg yolks to weigh 2 ounces.

Mix lye and water. Set aside to cool. Melt Palm and Coconut oils together,
set aside to cool. When oils are at 110* and lye water is at 100*, gently
pour lye into oils. Mix until soap traces. Mix egg yolks and olive oil together. Carefully mix traced soap mixture into egg and oil mix, stir
carefully. Continue until approx 4 ounces of soap have been mixed into the
egg and oil. Add the egg and soap mixture slowly back into the main soap mix, pour into prepared moulds, allow to stand covered and
out of drafts for 48 hours. Remove form moulds, cut as needed, and allow to age open to air, 2-3 weeks.


Egg Yolk Soap #2

Here is an egg yolk soap recipe. I haven't tried it, so I can't vouch for it personally!
32 oz. Crisco
1 oz. grated (chunked) beeswax
4.35 oz. lye
12 oz. water
6 egg yolks, stirred well (removing white thingys - chalazas optional)
Put about 1 cup Crisco from your measured amount into
your pot and get it melted and hot. Add your grated (chunked) beeswax to
melt it also. Then start adding the balance of the Crisco until it is all
melted. Add your lye to the water and stir until lye is dissolved and set
aside to cool. When both temps. are at 95 degrees, add the room temperature egg yolks to the fat and stir or blend until well mixed. Add the lye mixture to the fat mixture and hand stir to trace (traces quickly). Pour into molds, let sit 18 to 24 hours, unmold and cut. These begin a pukey green color with yellow edges and off smell. Will get more yellow every day and the smell is gone within a day. They end up nice and hard, yellow unscented and rich.

Rosemary Kelp

sweet almond 1.6oz (2%)
Castor 1.6 oz (2%)
Coconut Oil 16 oz. (20%)
jojoba 1.6oz (2%)
Olive Oil 48oz (60%)
palm Oil 11.2 (14%)
30oz. distilled water
Lye:
superfat 5%= 10.99
superfat 6%=10.87
superfat 7%= 10.76
superfat 8%=10.64 (Lye calculations done on MMS lye calculator)

I had a quart jar of olive oil into which I had infused 3 heaping soup
spoons of irish moss, 3 heaping spoons full of kelp and about 3/4 cup
rosemary. I used this adding more olive oil to make up the weight.
I reserved a few spoonfuls of the combined oils , mixed with
1heaping tablespoon irish moss
1heaping tablespoon ground rosemary
1/2 teaspoon gum benezoin powder
Add at trace along with Rosemary essential oil

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Handmade Honey Soap

Honey soap is a beautiful soap with a wonderful sweet smell. It comes out a great deepbrown color, and feels fabulous on your skin. Here's a tip for you, whenever you are
measuring honey or molasses or any other viscous liquid along those lines, if you spraythe measuring cup or spoon with a PAM type spray, the honey will pour
out more completely, and cleanup will be much easier.

12 oz veg shortening
4 oz coconut oil
1 oz beeswax
1 cup distilled water
2 oz lye
1/8 cup (1 fluid ounce) honey
Mix lye and water, allow to cool. Melt vegetable shortening. Over a double boiler, meltwax and coconut oil together 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 oilmixture 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 inthe honey and pour into molds. Unmold after 24-48 hours. Allow to age for 3 weeks

Coffee Soap Recipe

18oz. Olive oil
6 oz. Crisco
9 oz. coconut oil
4.5 oz lye
12.3 oz water-to this I added 4 T instant coffee, and I used 6T used coffee grounds at trace. Heat oils and place lye into water and stir with wooden spoon. When both are hot to touch on outside of pan mix lye into oils and stir till trace. Place in mold until firm. Will remove the smell of onion and garlic from your hands.

Shaving Soap

8 oz. coconut oil
10 oz. olive oil
10 oz. palm oil
2 oz. Avocado Oil
2 T bentonite Clay
4.4 oz. lye
2 cups dandelion tea
2T FO Bay Rum

Handmade Oatmeal Soaps

We have all seen the oatmeal soaps in the store that cost a fortune. Here's how to makeyour own. you can also add other dried material such as cornmeal or pumice for varying abrasive effects.

10oz palm
4oz coconut oil
2oz olive oil
1/4cup regular oatmeal, run through the blender
2oz lye
1 cup distilled water
optional scent

Mix lye and water and set aside to cool. Melt palm oil and coconut oil together and setaside to cool. In a blender or food processor, mix the olive oil and oatmeal. when the lye
reaches 100* and the fats are 120* pour lye into fats and stir until it traces. add theoatmeal mixture, and stir until well mixed. pour the soap into the molds. Allow to sit for
48 hours. Unmold and cut if needed. allow to age for 3 weeks.

Apple Orchard Cider Soap

6 lbs. vegetable shortening
12 oz. can lye
4 cups apple cider
3 teaspoons honey
2-3 teaspoons nutmeg
9 teaspoons MULLED CIDER fo (from Linda @ Sweet Cakes)
Make as usual only dissolve the lye in the cider as opposed to water. Heat the honey with the oils and then use a hand blender to emulsify the honey so it doesn't separate. I mixed the oil and lye at about 100degrees. At light trace I added the nutmeg and MULLED CIDER fo.

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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.

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.

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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 Reese'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

Oils 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 oilwas just too expensive (if anyone has a good source or alternate they re willing to share, please let me know!). 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.

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.

Basic Goat Milk and Honey Soap #2

13 cups lard or rendered fat (6.5 pounds)
12oz. can red Devil lye
1/2 cup honey
4 cups goat milk
1 cup hot water
Into a large stainless steel or enamel container, dissolve the honey into the hot water. Add the 4 cups goat milk, stir to mix well and slowly add the lye to the milk/honey mixture. This will get very hot. Let it set until it cools down to 75 degrees. This could take an hour ormore. When the lye mixture reaches 75 degrees, warm the lard to 85
degrees and pour in a slow steady stream into the lye/milk mixture. Stir constantly until the mixture reaches the consistency of honey. This will take 20 or 30 minutes.
When thick as honey pour into prepared molds. Allow to set for 24 to 48 hours. Un-mold and cut into bars. Air-dry the soap for 4-5 weeks to cure it.

Basic soap

*This makes a small 2 pound batch of soap.
Castor oil 2 ounces
Cocoa butter 4 ounces
Coconut Oil 4 ounces
Olive oil 12 ounces
Palm oil 10 ounces
lye 4.3 ounces
water 12 ounces
Carefully measure out the water in a heatproof
container. Set it aside. In a separate container
measure 4.3 ounces of lye. Put on rubber gloves
and safety glasses. (The next step is best done
in a well-ventilated area.. outside is best).
Add the lye to the water very very slowly and
stir at the same time. Stir slowly until the lye
is dissolved. PLEASE be very careful with this
mixture because it gets very hot. Set it aside.
Weigh out all of the oils and empty them into a
stainless steal or enameled pan. Put the pan on
low heat until all of the oils melt. Let the oils
and lye/water mixture cool until they are around
98-100 degrees. Safety glasses and gloves need
to be on for this next step. When they are the
same temp (between 98-100) slowly start adding
while stirring with a wooden spoon) the lye/water
to the oils. Stir…Stir… Stir. Keep stirring for
about 10 minutes (vigorously) until you get it
thick enough that it traces. A trace is when the
soap mixture becomes thick enough that you can
design on the surface. At this point you can a
dd any scent, color, grains or dried herbs.
Mix well and pour into a plastic mold. Wrap the
mold in a blanket and unmold after 24 hours.
You soap will be ready to use after 3-4 weeks of
curing.

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Watermelon Shampoo Bar

12 oz. Coconut Oil
19 oz. Olive Oil
12 oz. Castor Oil
16 oz. water
6 oz. lye

Pour when both mixtures have reached 100 degrees. When you see a trace, add 1 oz. Watermelon FO. Pour into mold. This will take longer than normal to set up. Leave in the mold for 2 or 3 days. Cut when firm. Cure for about 6 weeks.

Shampoo Bar II

1 # 8 oz Castor Oil
1 # Coconut
2 # 6 oz Olive oil
8 oz Palm Kernel Flakes
Superfat at 5%..........11.85 oz (336 gm) of lye
1 # 12 oz water

This sets up faster than the old one and seems to be a harder bar
Editor's Note: # stands for pound(s)

Big Batch of Soap

40 oz coconut oil
40 oz olive oil
64 oz soybean oil (veggie shortning)
20 oz sodium hydroxide (lye)
5 1/2 cups water

I combine fats and lye at 90 degrees. Add 4 to 6 oz of fragrance
and 1/2 cup ground botanicals at trace. Usually traces within
20 minutes because of the size of the batch.

Mango Soap

10 oz coconut oil
4 oz shea butter
2 oz almond oil
6 fl oz water
2.44 oz lye
1/2 oz of Mango FO

Goat Milk Soap Recipe!

42 oz olive oil
28 oz coconut oil
18 oz palm oil
12.7 oz Red Devil Lye
33 oz goat milk (or buttermilk can be used too )
1 cup ground oatmeal
4 Tbsp. raw honey
fats and oil temp: 92 degrees
lye/milk temp: 92 degrees
cure for 4-6 weeks

Even with no FO added, this soap still smells like honey and oatmeal 4 weeks later. Enjoy

Kitchen Hands ( 4lbs of oils)

28oz olive oil
16 of palm oil
16 oz coconut oil
4oz cocoa butter
26oz triple strength brewed coffee ( chilled )
9.1 oz lye
1oz vanilla FO

It smells awesome. But it smells a bit like my first attempt at kitchen soap and after curing the Vanilla scent really came out. But right nowit is chocolate and rich and such a pretty color too. I think the vanilla wontbe so strong this time because I added cocoa butter to this recipe and
the first time the recipe was 1/2 the size, but still had 1oz vanilla fo. Itis really nice and soft for the hands

Variations for Soap Recipes

- Replace water with your favorite beer, for BEER soap. (caution: make sure to use FLAT beer, add lye slowly)
- Replace water with pureed, cold, fresh cucumber for CUCUMBER soap
- Replace water with favorite herbal tea (make a very strong tea!)
- Calendula petals. . . Add half a loosely packed cup to the olive oil, and let it 'marinate for a week before using.

Seaweed Soap

6 oz Coconut oil
1 oz Grapeseed oil
34oz Olive oil
15oz less 2Tbl water
5.49oz Lye

Make Soap as usual...
Soaked 2 sheets nori (green Seaweed used to make sushi) in 2 tlb of the water added 1 Tlb Grapeseed oil to that...added this @ trace with 1oz combined
apple and cinnamon Fo...poured into 3" PCV pipe... 24 hours later unmolded and sliced...have the most beautiful green flecked soap... great lather...smells wonderful...was thinking it would be great with pear scent.

[krafteekaren]

Basic Vegetable Soap

5 c. 4 oz. Olive oil
2 c. 1 oz. Coconut oil
3 c. Vegetable shortening (Crisco)
10 3/4 oz. Lye
4 c. Water
TEMPS: 95-98
4 1/2 tsp. of essential oils at trace

OATMEAL COMPLEXION SOAP

24 ounces olive oil
24 ounces coconut oil
38 ounces vegetable shortening
12 ounces sodium hydroxide (lye)
32 ounces fresh water
8 ounces powdered oatmeal (whirl it in a blender)
temps between 95 and 100

Camille's Sure-Fire, No Way You Can Lose, Castile Soap Recipe!

(30:70 lye:water ratio) Camille Pratt 2000
48 ounces olive oil
6 ounces lye
14 ounces water(this is not a mistake, trust me)
***Observe all standard safety procedures***
*Add lye to water, stirring until all lye is dissolved,
set aside to cool to 90* to 100*
*Heat oils to 90* to 100*
*Slowly pour lye solution into oils, stirring the whole time.
*Stir to thin trace, either by hand or by stick blender or both!
*Once you have reached thin trace, add any FOs/EOs/Botanicals you wish
- or nothing!.
*At medium trace, pour into prepared mold cover with cardboard, and
toss a towel on top to provide insulation (if you don't use wood molds
- I do)
*Unmold when soap is no longer warm (18 to 24+ hours) and when pressed
with your finger, a slight indention remains.
*Cut Castile right away, as it will harden to a point where you cannot
cut it.
* Minimum 8 week cure time
Low lather, gentle soap - suitable for even sensitive skin. : )

Shea butter soap!

for this recipe and poured into individual molds.
2 oz Coconut Oil
2.5 oz Olive Oil
2.5 oz Palm Oil
1 oz Shea Butter
1.1 oz lye
4 oz Goat Milk

I mixed the lye with 1 oz of water, melted the oils let everything cool to about 90 degrees. Warmed the milk to 90 degrees. Added the lye waterto the oils, stirred to very light trace then added the warmed goat milk.

Cinnamon Orange Soap

36 oz. wt. coconut oil
54 oz. wt. pure olive oil
54 oz. wt. soybean oil (Crisco)
20 oz. wt. lye
54 liq. oz. water
added at trace:
1 tablespoon chamomile plus
2 tablespoons grated orange peel
-both of which had soaked in
3 oz. of castor oil
3 oz. cinnamon fo
2.75 oz. orange eo

The cinnamon seems stronger now, while the soap is curing, and I would probably increase the orange eo next time.
The soap is a warm orange color with darker flecks from the peel.

Ginger Soap

This is a lovely and useful soap. I have a lot of friends who have diabetes who use thisfor feet and hands to help the circulation.

10 ounces Palm Oil
4 ounces Coconut Oil
2 ounces Olive Oil
2 ounces lye
4 ounces water
4 ounces ginger juice and water

Take a hand of ginger and run it through a juicer. Add the pulp back to the juice andenough water to equal 4 ounces. Mix lye and water. Set aside to cool.
Melt oils together, set aside to cool. When oils are at 110* and lye water is at 100*, gently pour lye into oils.
Add juice to mixture, stirring constantly. Mix until soap traces, pour into prepared molds,allow to stand covered and out of drafts for 48 hours. Remove form moulds, cut as
needed, and allow to age open to air, 2-3 weeks.

[krafteekaren]

Handmade Honey Soap

Honey soap is a beautiful soap with a wonderful sweet smell. It comes out a great deepbrown color, and feels fabulous on your skin. Here's a tip for you, whenever you are
measuring honey or molasses or any other viscous liquid along those lines, if you spraythe measuring cup or spoon with a PAM type spray, the honey will pour
out more completely, and cleanup will be much easier.

12 oz veg shortening
4 oz coconut oil
1 oz beeswax
1 cup distilled water
2 oz lye
1/8 cup (1 fluid ounce) honey

Mix lye and water, allow to cool. Melt vegetable shortening. Over a double boiler, meltwax and coconut oil together 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 oilmixture 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 inthe honey and pour into molds. Unmold after 24-48 hours. Allow to age for 3 weeks

Soapnuts Newbie Beginner Soapmaking
Best recipe you can make is castille.
it has all pourable items and the soap is actually
really good for your skin..

Castile

40 oz olive oil
5 oz. lye
14 oz water.

mix at 100 degrees, hand stir for the first 15
minutes, then start zapping with your stick blender.
this soap can take a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time to trace, so
be patient and watch the changes before your eyes.
if you want to add goodies, do it at trace, having
reserved some of the 40 oz in a lil dish to soak them
in before adding to the soap.

"Slice of Summer" (Cucumber Soap)/©Camille Pratt

15 ounces Canola Oil
30 ounces Coconut Oil
27 ounces Olive Oil
21 ounces Palm Oil
5 ounces Shea Butter
13.75 ounces of lye
20 ounces of rain water
16 ounces of pureed cucumber (peels 'n all!)

Mix lye and water. Cool to 90°.
Pureed cukes (this will be approx. 2-3 large cukes).
Heat oils to 90°.
Mix lye solution and oils, blend well, add pureed cukes.
Bring to light trace, add fragrance of your choice (I used Sweetcakes
Econocuke - at a 1% usage rate).
Bring to heavy trace.
Pour in mold.
Leave it alone.
Notes: Even in very hard water it has lots of lather, very creamy and is very
soothing to skin. Uncolored, it is a very lovely pale ivory, slightly
translucent. No GSE (Grapefruit Seed Extract) needed. If you chose to modify
this recipe by subbing other oils or butters, it will not be remotely the same
unbelievably wonderful soap.

"Spoil You Stupid"

Copyright 2001 Camille Pratt
4 oz Avocado Oil (8.33%)
14 oz Coconut Oil (29.17)
12 oz Palm Oil (25.00)
2 oz Shea Butter (4.17)
10 oz Soybean Oil (20.83)
6 oz Sunflower Oil (12.50)
6.75 oz lye (7%)
18 oz water

Observe all the usual safety precautions
Mix lye and water. Cool to 90 to 100* (don't make yourself crazy, just get close!)
Heat oils to 90 to 100*.
Mix lye solution and oils, blend well.
Bring to light trace, add fragrance of your choice (I used Poozart Sandalwood Vanilla FO at a 1% usage rate). Bring to medium trace.
Pour in mold. Leave it alone. : )

[krafteekaren]

BLACK CHERRY BATH SALTS

1 Cup Rock Salt
1 Teaspoon Liquid Glycerine
1/2 Teaspoon Cherry Fragrance Oil
Red Food Color

Stir rock slat and glycerine together. Add fragrance oil and
coloring.

Stir well until color and fragrance are evenlydistributed.
Spread salt on wax paper on a cookie sheet and allow to dry completely.
Overnight isn't too long. Package and store in a closed container. Use 1/4
cup salt per tub.

[crafterwannabe]

Bath Salt Recipes

Date Posted: 09:20:42 09/30/04 Thu
Author: Amelia
Subject: Bath Salts

I am looking for recipes for bath salts. My neice is getting married and I wanted to start on her bridal shower gifts and need some ideas and recipes on how to make the salts and how to create the completed project. Thank you in advance for helping me out.

Replies:
[> Re: Bath Salts -- JudeA, 09:33:44 09/30/04 Thu [1]

Basic Bath Salt Recipe
1 box Epsom Salts
scented oil
food coloring

Pour the salts into a bowl and pick out any discolored ones. Add 1-2
drops scented oil, and stir until mixed throughout. Add 1-2 drops
food color and mix well. Spreads on a tray to dry.


Bubbling Bath Salts
Use rose scented oil and red food coloring (just enough to make salts pink).
Add 1/3 cup powdered Mr. Bubble to each 1 cup salts. Stir gently.

[> Re: Bath Salts -- Kathy, 10:59:25 09/30/04 Thu [1]

I've seen a lot of recipes that call for fragrance oil but have never known where to buy. Can someone help me out? Where can I find some good smelling and quality oils that aren't expensive. I'd like to make the bath salts and candles.
Kathy

[> Re: Bath Salts -- Jan in Phoenix, 11:45:09 09/30/04 Thu [1]

Check out the dollar stores for the oils. Also Coomers in my town has some nice ones

[> Re: Bath Salts -- Jill_NC, 12:13:09 09/30/04 Thu [1]

http://www.geocities.com/kraftproject/c ... 01603.html

www.wholesalesuppliesplus.com -- fragrance oils (and other soap making products).

[> Re: Bath Salts -- Mary S, 12:29:37 09/30/04 Thu [1]

Peaches & Cream Bath Salts
Ingredients:
16 cups of Epsom Salts
6 cups sea salt
1/2 teaspoon glycerin, divided 15 drops peach essential oil
15 drops orange food color

Instructions:
Use 12 (12 ounce) canning jars

Pour 8 cups Epsom Salt in a large bowl.

Pour in three cups sea salt. Mix well.

Add 1/4 tsp. glycerin to every 7 drops of essential oil

Add food coloring. Blend well.

In another large bowl, pour in 8 cups of Epsom Salt.

Pour in the three cups of sea salt. Mix well.

Add 1/4 tsp. glycerin to every 7 drops of essential oil. Blend well.

Alternate colored mixture and white mixture while adding salts to jar

Seal and decorate jars, and attach recipe tags to jars

Candy Cane Bath Salts
Ingredients:
16 cups of Epsom Salts
6 cups of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon glycerin, divided 14 drops peppermint essential oil
14 drops red food color

Instructions:
Use 12 (12 ounce) canning jars

Pour 8 cups Epsom Salt in a large bowl.

Pour in three cups sea salt. Mix well.

Add 1/4 tsp. glycerin to every 7 drops of essential oil

Add food coloring. Blend well.

In another large bowl, pour in 8 cups of Epsom Salt.

Pour in the three cups of sea salt. Mix well.

Add 1/4 tsp. glycerin to every 7 drops of essential oil. Blend well.

Alternate colored mixture and white mixture while adding salts to jar

Seal and decorate jars, and attach recipe tags to jars

The first recipe is Peaches and Cream bath salts, the second is Candy Cane bath salts. Both are wonderful. Hope this helps.