Lavender Soap Recipe
Recipe Instructions
Step 1 – Create your lye solution and set aside to cool.
Step 2 – Weigh and melt the coconut oil and shea butter.
Step 3 – Add the liquid oils to the melted oils. This helps to cool the temperature of your base oils down.
Step 4 – Add your fragrance or essential oils to the base oils.
Step 5 – Once your lye solution and oil mixture are down to 90° F, emulsifiy the mixture. You don’t want to mix to trace or you might not have enough time to color your soap.
Step 6 – Divide your soap out and color. I use a mini-mixer (coffee frother) to mix each color. You can eyeball how much you want of each color.
Step 7 – I simply poured the base into each of the three molds.
Step 8 – The soap thickened up a bit so I just plopped each color into each mold. I rotated through them about three times.
Step 9 – I used the handle of a plastic spoon to swirl the inside of each soap.
After your soap has saponified for 24 hours, unmold and cut.
Cure your soap for four weeks!
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Soap Properties
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INS: 150.59 (ideal)
iodine: 61.8 (ideal)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
| Superfat % | 5% |
| Saturated | 37.56 Ounce(s) |
| Mono-Unsaturated | 40.35 Ounce(s) |
| Poly-Unsaturated | 10.58 Ounce(s) |
| Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 57.55:42.45 |
| Lye concentration | 100% |
| Weight Unit | Ounce(s) |
| Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
| Oleic | 38.28% |
| Linoleic | 10.80% |
| Linolenic | 0.22% |
| Ricinoleic | 3.75% |
| Lauric | 15.67% |
| Myristic | 6.35% |
| Palmitic | 10.64% |
| Stearic | 6.46% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
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For Advanced Soapmakers
| Sodium Lactate (60%)
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| Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 4.20 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Ascorbic Acid
| 0.96 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | NaOH: 0.19 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Lactic Acid
| 0.72 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | NaOH: 0.43 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Tetrasodium EDTA
| 0.68 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Sodium Citrate
| 1.25 - 3.74 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Potassium Citrate
| 1.54 - 4.61 Ounce(s) | ||||||
| Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0.04 - 0.05 Ounce(s) | ||||||
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Citric Acid Powder (anhydrous) |
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Extra Lye to Neutralize Citric Acid Powder for C.A. |
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