Cold Process Soap Recipes

DIY Sweet Pea and Pink Salt Soap Bar

I love this recipe!  It provides a gorgeous pink color and the end result is amazing.  The soap is mild, silky soft and sudsy.  A winner in my book!!

Yields 3.50 pounds

Ingredients:

  1. Make your lye solution, weigh out your melted oils and combine both when temperatures are at around 100 degrees F.  Add the Sweet Pea Bouquet fragrance oil to the entire batch at a light trace.
  2. Then separate half into a second dish and stir in the pink kaolin clay mixture, leaving the other half uncolored.
  3. Pour your pink colored soap into the white soap in a circular pattern.  Try not to stir the two colors together too much or you will have a solid color.  You want a two toned, swirled pattern.
  4. By pouring the soap, gravity and the actual pour creates the swirl patten for you.  No stirring is necessary.
  5. Top off the bars by sprinkling the pink himalayan sea salt on the top while the soap is still wet.  Gentle tap the salt so it sticks to the soap.
  6. Let the soap sit for 24 hours, pop it out of mold and slice into desired bars.  Set the finished bars on a drying rack to cure for 4 to 6 weeks.

The information contained herein is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate.  All solutions, advice, instructions, and formulas are purely recommendations and should be further investigated by the customer.  Nu-Scents are a supplier of candle, soap, bath, and body making supplies, not a manufacturer.  Therefore, it is the sole responsibility of the customer to thoroughly research all of the products purchased from Nu-Scents and adequately test the finished products to ensure compatibility and safety.  The customer is solely responsible for the research, testing, and quality control for all of their finished products.

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DIY Geranium Rose and Cranberry Luxury Bars

Yields 2.75 pounds

Ingredients:

  1. Make your lye solution, weigh out your melted oils and combine both when temperatures are at around 100 degrees F.  Add the Geranium Rose essential oil to the entire batch.
  2. Separate about half of the batch into a smaller container for the bottom layer.  Add cranberry seeds at this point.  Pour this layer at a very thick trace.
  3. In another small container, separate out 1/4 of the rest of the batch.  Add burgundy pigment.  Pour this layer at a medium to thick trace.
  4. Pour the rest of the uncolored soap on last.  As the top layer sets up, use a whisk to sculpt peaks (if desired).  The cut bars are beautiful, mild and luxurious as is or you can stamp the face of each bar for an added touch.

The information contained herein is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate.  All solutions, advice, instructions, and formulas are purely recommendations and should be further investigated by the customer.  Nu-Scents are a supplier of candle, soap, bath, and body making supplies, not a manufacturer.  Therefore, it is the sole responsibility of the customer to thoroughly research all of the products purchased from Nu-Scents and adequately test the finished products to ensure compatibility and safety.  The customer is solely responsible for the research, testing, and quality control for all of their finished products.

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Pumpkin Souffle Cold Processed Soap

Pumpkin Souffle fragrance oil and canned pumpkin make this soap a natural for fall.  Yields 6.25 pounds

Ingredients:

 

  1. Dissolve lye in water and set aside to cool (be sure to stir well- it’s a dense solution).
  2. Warm the coconut, olive and palm oils and shea butter until melted.
  3. When both liquids have cooled to about 100 degrees carefully combine together.
  4. Add T-50 and stir to light trace.
  5. Add the canned pumpkin and fragrance oil.
  6. Pour into a mold and allow to cure for 6 weeks.

Due to the addition of extra moisture it traces really fast.  The final soap is closer in color to Butternut Squash than Pumpkin.  As it cures it will turn dark brown in color. The shea  butter makes it a very creamy soap.                                                

The information contained herein is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate.  All solutions, advice, instructions, and formulas are purely recommendations and should be further investigated by the customer.  Nu-Scents are a supplier of candle, soap, bath, and body making supplies, not a manufacturer.  Therefore, it is the sole responsibility of the customer to thoroughly research all of the products purchased from Nu-Scents and adequately test the finished products to ensure compatibility and safety.  The customer is solely responsible for the research, testing, and quality control for all of their finished products.

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