Non-Lye Saop recipes?

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Permalink Reply by bﯕڽćңẹẳאָڽ on March 30, 2009 at 2:31pm

Here's a link to an article from Associated Content, explaining a method using simple ingredients that can be readily obtained - no lye or lard:

How to Make Natural Homemade Soap

(The article also gives properties of some common essential oils.)

Permalink Reply by Camille Maxwell on March 31, 2009 at 1:00pm

Thank you

Permalink Reply by Ianna on August 10, 2010 at 4:41pm

Thanks for the link, I just put it under my favorites. Blessings, Ianna

Permalink Reply by Gaia Windwalker on February 5, 2010 at 4:58pm

The following recipes are not my own but are borrowed from many wonderful soapers. credit is given where lnown.


4.5 lb recipe from about.com
40 oz. olive oil
10 oz. coconut oil
16 oz. water
6.9 oz. lye
Between 1.5 and 2.2 oz of fragrance or essential oil, according to your preference

Weigh your cold water and set aside.
Weigh your lye and slowly add to the water. Stir to dissolve. Set aside to cool.

Heat your oils to about 110 degrees. I recommend adding a tablespoon of beeswax per pound of

soap this will help in removing the soap from the soap mold. Slowly add the lye solution and

remove from heat. Stir continuously until it reaches trace, for us this took an hour to an

hour and a half.

Add fragrance oil/essential oil and and herbs/resins/oatmeal or anything else you want to

add. Then pour into your soap molds. Let it sit covered and insulated with blankets for a

day, then pop the soap out of the molds and let it sit exposed to the air for 6-8 weeks to

finish curing.


Warnings
Never use aluminum pots/pans or utensils with the lye. It will react to form a horrible

black mess and hydrogen gas, which is extremely flammable.
Never use plastic measuring spoons to measure your essential oils, they will absorb the

smell.
Never add water to lye, it will explode all over your kitchen.
Do use glass or stainless steel containers.
When adding lye to water, use a container that can handle near boiling temperatures.
Do wear safety gear including googles, rubber gloves, long sleeves, long pants, shoes and

anything else you think might protect you from caustic soap.
The soap will be caustic for at least 6 weeks after making, when handling, wear gloves.
Tags: cold, coldprocess, making, process, soap


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Cold Process Recipes

Creamy Lavender Soap

4 oz. olive oil
2.5 oz. coconut oil
1.5 oz. palm oil
1.12 oz. lye
2.5 oz. lavender infused water
1 oz. half-n-half
1/4 fl. oz. lavender essential oil
1/4 tsp. freesia fragrance oil


Add the half-n-half to the lye water after it has disolved. Make as normal. The lavender

water should have the flowers removed before using. All ingredients are by weight unless

otherwise noted.

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Easy Crisco Soap

3 lbs. Crisco (1 can)
6 oz. lye
12 oz. water


Melt/heat the Crisco in a enamel pan and place on stove to melt and heat.
Place cold water in a glass bowl and slowly add lye while stirring with a wooden. Stir until

water is clear if you can.

When the Crisco and lye are warm to the touch, pour lye into Crisco while stirring. Keep

stirring until you get trace.

Trace is when it thickens to the point where you can drop some of the mix back in to itself

and it leaves a trail. At this point use any herbs, scent, or coloring and stir and pour

mold(s). This recipe fits nicely in an 8x8 inch container, but other containers, such as

pringles cans or specialty soap molds work just fine, too.

Put molds in a warm, insulated place, let set 24 hours and then cut. Place on to rack and

let cure for 2-3 weeks.


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Lard Soap II

16 oz olive oil
16 oz lard
16 oz coconut oil
1.5 oz beeswax
4 oz cocoa or shea butter
7.4 oz lye
20 oz water
3 tsp. sea salt (optional)


Make as normal. The results: a hard bar with a nice, fluffy lather.

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Lard Soap

44 oz tallow
28 oz lard
30 oz olive oil
13.3 oz lye
38 oz water


Make as normal - mix at around 100.

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Milky Oatmeal-Honey Soap

4 oz. Milk
12-14 oz. Water
48 oz. Shortening
6 oz Lye
6 Tbsp Oatmeal (powdered)
3 T. Honey


Make as normal. Add oatmeal and honey at trace.

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Shea Loves Me

4.8 oz. olive oil
3.2 oz. shea butter (or mango butter)
4.8 oz. coconut oil
3.2 oz. palm oil
6 oz water
2.2 oz. lye
.7 oz. essential oil


Make as normal. The shea butter in this soap makes it very moisturizing.

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Simple Olive Oil Soap

16 oz. pure olive oil
2 oz. lye
6 oz. water


Heat oil to 150° and add the lye to the water slowly while stirring with a wooden spoon.Mix

lye solution and oils when the oil is at 120-130° and the lye between 90-100°. Mix them

together until it comes to a trace. Pour it into a mold and let set 72 hours before

unmolding. You can add scents, colors, herbs, etc. at trace.

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Small Recipe

4 oz. coconut oil
8 oz. olive oil
4 oz. palm oil
6 oz. distilled water
2.25 oz. lye
.5 oz. essential oil or fragrance oil


Combine oils and lye 110-120° temperatures. Add fragrance at light traceand then pour into a

mold at medium to heavy trace. Insulate and let it remain in the mold 18-24 hours. Unmold

and cut into bars - let cure 2-3 weeks.

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Camille's Garden Soap

24 oz. coconut oil
40 oz. olive oil
16 oz. palm oil
11.3 oz. lye
30 oz. water
2 oz. Spring Rain fragrance oil (or other refreshing scent)
1/2 cup cornmeal


Mixed lye solution and oils at 110°. Added fragrance oil at light trace, added cornmeal at

heavy trace. Pour into mold, cover, and let set 24 hours. Unmold, cut into bars. Cure 4-6

weeks.

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Sugared Plum Soap


Your own Cold Pour soap recipe
Spicy Plum Fragrance Oil
Melt & Pour base
Purple Colorant/Dye


1. Make enough of your usual CP recipe to fill your mold halfway or more depending on the

affect you want. Scent it with Spicy Plum fragrance oil and color it if you like. You can

leave it white or make it fancier by swirling in some purple soap. Cover you mold and

insulate as usual.
2. The next step is to fill the remainder of your mold with M & P base. Start melting the M

& P base after step #1 has been completed. The amount of base you will melt depends on how

much is needed to fill your mold. For example, if you usually make #10 pounds of CP soap in

your mold, but you only filled in halfway for this recipe, then you will need to prepare #5

of M & P base now.

Melt your base, add purple colorants, and scent with Spicy Plum fragrance oil. Uncover your

CP soap and pour your M & P right on top of it. Your CP soap should be reasonably firm to

the touch before you do this. One or two hours between pours works for me. Cover and

insulate your mold again.

OPTIONAL: You can give a fancier look by sprinkling the top of the M & P with something that

suggests "sprinkled sugar". If you work quickly, before there is a "skin" on you M & P, you

can sprinkle sugar on the top of your poured soap. You have a little more time if you add a

thin sprinkling of silver mica. If your mica doesn't land evenly, it can be dusted across

the surface with a feather then rubbed evenly across the surface the next day.

3. Uncover your mold 24 hours later and cut as usual. Your CP soap will be topped with a

layer of transparent, purple M & P that will dress it up for a festive holiday look. Yes,

your layers will be stuck together.


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Three Cold Pour Recipe Variations


20 oz coconut oil
20 oz olive oil
30 oz Crisco
9.9 oz lye
27.2 oz water 20 oz coconut oil
18 oz olive oil
27 oz Crisco
3 oz palm kernel oil
2 oz beeswax
9.9 oz lye
24 oz water
2 oz beeswax
2 oz cocoa butter
20.4 oz coconut oil
14.4 oz palm oil
30 oz olive oil
9.7 oz lye
26 oz water


Each makes approximately a 4-4 1/3 lb. batch.


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Country Meadow
© Terri Hiaumet
40 oz palm oil
32 oz olive oil
28 oz coconut oil
3 oz almond oil
14.50 oz lye
39 oz water
1 3/4 cup wheat germ
2 tablespoons honey
8 teaspoons chamomile essential oil
3 teaspoons turmeric
2 teaspoons benzoin powder


Melt oils and mix lye with water. Mix lye and oils at about 110 degrees. Wait for good trace

and add wheat germ, honey, chamomile, turmeric and benzoin. I blend these last four

ingredients into about 2 or 3 tablespoons of almond oil and then stir in. Make sure honey is

fully incorporated. Insulate for 1 day. Makes a wonderful hard soap that lathers well.

Mildly abrasive but very gentle and soothing to the skin.

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Creamy Cocoa Butter Soap

8 oz. cocoa butter
10 oz coconut oil
4.5 oz. grapeseed oil
13 oz. olive oil
4.5 oz. vegetable shortening
13 oz. water
5.5 oz. lye
3/4 oz. peppermint EO
2 T. green French clay


Make as usual. Add the peppermint EO and clay at trace. This recipe makes a nice minty green

soap with a chocolate mint fragrance that drives chocoholics wild. And the cocoa butter

makes the soap creamy. i just love the way my skin feels after a bath with this soap! (Note

that French clay is better for normal to oily skin).

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"Slice of Summer" (Cucumber Soap)

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 (this is a reduced amount, but the pureed cucumbers make of the rest of

the liquid). 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.


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Tropical Madness

8 oz sweet almond oil
9.6 oz coconut oil
8 oz macadamia nut oil
6.4 oz palm oil
1 oz mango butter
12 oz coconut milk
4.6 oz lye
.7 oz pina colada FO or tropical fragrance of choice


use the coconut milk in place of the water.
Follow basic instructions for soap, and REMEMBER...SAFETY FIRST!


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Thai Chai

40 oz Olive Oil
25 oz Coconut Oil
16 oz Palm Oil
1 oz Lanolin
2 oz Mango Butter
10 oz Coconut Milk
20 oz Water
12 oz Lye
1/4 Cup Pulverized Almonds
**Herbal Infusion**
2 T Lavender Flowers
2 T Calendula Petals
2 T Marsh Mallow


Infuse herbs into 2 cups of Olive Oil. (I submerge the herbs into the oil by placing whole

herbs into a herbal tea ball. Heat the olive oil in a small pan on low-med. Heat for 1-hour

and cool. Important - Do not heat this on high or it will burn the herbs - no more than 130

degrees.) Should oils evaporate during the herbal infusion, make sure the infused olive oil

= to 2 cups or 16 ounces after infusion.
Temps: 90/100 Degrees.
Melt infused olive oil with base oils, add butters, lanolin and melt.

Trace:
2T-4T Mustard Powder - For color
1/4 cup of pulverized almonds, coconut milk & juice of 1 sweet lemon
1 oz lemongrass essential oil
1 oz Coconut Fragrance Oil
.5 oz Lemon Mereign Pie
OR add - 2 oz Lemongrass/Coconut Fragrance Oil & .5 oz Lemon Mereign Pie


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Fruta Latina

25 oz Palm Oil
25 oz Coconut Oil
1 oz Bees Wax
2 oz Canola Oil
7.78 oz Lye
20.17 oz Water
1 T. Of Each Mango & Pineapple FO


Mix at 120-140 degrees.

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Four Oil Soap

33 oz. olive oil
18 oz. palm oil
12 oz. coconut oil
18 oz. soybean oil
1 oz. beeswax
31 oz. water
11 oz. lye


Heat both to 120 Deg.
Stir together, I use a hand blender, at trace I added 2,000 IU's of Vit. E and some

Sweetcakes Coconut Lemongrass fragrance.

Pour into molds. After two or more days unmold. This is a creamy soap, very soothing. No

need to mill this one. You can add oatmeal,castor oil, glycerine or whatever you want at

trace.

This was made at about 6-7% excess fat.

I always let my soaps age 3-4 months at least, the longer the creamier and mild.



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Cappucino Bar

31 oz. Coconut Oil
20 oz. Grapeseed Oil
21 oz. Olive Oil
8 oz. Palm Oil
40 oz. Safflower Oil
7 oz. Stearic Acid
32 oz. Water
18 oz. Lye
1/4 c. Cocoa Powder (non dutch process)
1/4 c Oat Flour/Ground Oatmeal
4 oz. Castor Oil
1-2 oz. Vitamin E
1/4 c Aloe Vera Juice
1 oz. Cappucino Fragrance


Mix Finishing Solution and let marinate overnight, so as to let the Castor Oil leach Cocoa

Butter out of the Cocoa Powder, which also serves for coloration. Cappucino Brulee Fragrance

works admirably, but other Coffee and Chocolate fragrance also work. Increase Cocoa Powder

for darker color, decrease for lighter color.
When ready, pour lye into water & stir. Set aside.

Mix and Heat Oils to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. [Proportions were determined to get an optimal

mix determined by Linear Programming Techniques. The mix results in the following:
Fluffy Lather Agents- 15.5%
Lauric Acid - 11.0%
Myristic Acid - 4.5%
Stable Lather Agents- 17.1%
Palmic Acid - 9.6%
Stearic Acid - 7.5%
Conditioning Agents- 59.4%
Oleic Acid - 23.4%
Linoleic Acid - 36.9%
Ricinic Acid (all properties)- 2.7%
Superfatting = 6-7%
]

Put Oil mixture into mixing container. Pour lye water in and stir vigorously to prevent

siezing. Tracing will be immediate. When thick enough, add finishing solution. Pour into

mold. This soap hardens faster than most. Cover. Cut after 2 Days. Cure for about a month.

This soap has a nice feel about it, and is hard to put down.


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Reggae Carrot Soap

8 oz. Avocado
4 oz. Castor Oil
18 oz. Coconut Oil
3 oz. Cocoa Butter
20 oz. (less 1 tsp) Olive Oil
12 oz. Palm Kernel Oil
3 oz. Beeswax
2 oz. Honey
9.5 oz. lye
22 oz. liquid (water)
FO's: Vanilla and Bayrum


Lye/ fats 100-120
Soak 1 tsp of cinnamon and nutmeg overnight in 2 tbsp of Olive oil.

Melt fats as normal. Be aware of all precautions when handling lye. Mix lye and liquid

solution using 14 ounces of water. Set aside and cool.
At light trace add in spices and honey. At meduim trace add in 8 ounces of carrot juice and

scent. Pour when reach a full trace (pudding like). Pour into mold. Unmold after 2 days. Cut

and cure on a rack in well ventilated area for 2 months.
May use half and half or coconut milk for variation on the liquid.(when using milk and honey

combination do not insulate. Make a nice bar and lathers creamy.



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Rice Bran Oil Soap

400 g rice bran oil
300 g coconut oil
300 g palm oil
143 g sodium hydroxide
350 g water
10 g rice bran (optional)
10 to 30 g EO or FO of choice (optional)


Easy Oatmeal Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2 oz. Lye + 6 oz. Water + 7.5 oz. Olive Oil + 7.5 oz. Canola Oil. Add in 1 tablespoon of

finely ground oatmeal with a whisk right before pouring in molds (at light trace). If you

add the oatmeal too soon, it will sink to the bottom. If you don't chop it finely enough,

the soap may be coarse and scratchy.

Easy Oil Blend Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.3 oz. Lye + 8.1 oz. Water + 5.3 oz. Canola Oil + 5.3 oz. Coconut Oil + 5.3 oz. Palm Oil.

Fancy Oil Mix Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.1 oz. Lye + 4.8 oz. Water + 0.4 oz. (or about 3/8 oz.) Sweet Almond Oil + 1.2 oz. Avocado

Oil + 0.4 oz. (or about 3/8 oz.) Castor Oil + 1 oz. Cocoa Butter + 3 oz. Coconut Oil + 6 oz.

Olive Oil + 1.8 oz. Palm Oil + 0.8 oz. (or about 7/8 oz.) Palm Kernel Oil + 1.4 oz. Shea

Butter.

Fancy Oil Mix Soap #2 - Yield: 1 pound
2.2 oz. Lye + 4.8 oz. Water + 1 oz. Sweet Almond Oil + 0.6 oz. (or about 5/8 oz.) Castor Oil

+ 3.2 oz. Coconut Oil + 5.6 oz. Olive Oil + 1.6 oz. Palm Oil + 0.8 oz. (or between 3/4 and

7/8 oz.) Palm Kernel Oil + 1.6 oz. Shea Butter + 1 oz. Pistachio Oil + 0.6 oz. (or about 5/8

oz.) Emu Oil.

Hemp Oil Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.1 oz. Lye + 6 oz. Water + 16 oz. Hemp Oil. Use 0.7 oz. (rather than 0.5oz.) of essential

or fragrance oil for this recipe.

Honey Oil/Fat Mix Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.1 oz. Lye + 5.3 oz. Water + 7 oz. Olive Oil + 3.5 oz. Palm Oil + 5.3 oz. Tallow. Before

pouring into the mold (at light trace), add 3/8 oz. chilled honey. DO NOT WRAP THE MOLDS IN

TOWELS, OR THE HONEY WILL CAUSE IT TO OVERHEAT.

Olive Oil Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2 oz. Lye + 6 oz. Water + 16 oz. Olive Oil.

Oil Blend Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.4 oz. Lye + 5.3 oz. water + 1 oz. Canola Oil + 1 oz. Castor Oil + 6.9 oz. Coconut Oil +

6.9 oz. Palm Oil.

Shea Butter Oil Mix Soap - Yield: 1 pound
2.2 oz. Lye + 5.3 oz. Water + 3.6 oz. Coconut Oil + 4.1 oz. Olive Oil + 3.6 oz. Palm Oil +

0.9 oz. (or about 7/8 oz.) Shea Butter + 3.6 oz. Tallow.

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Flax oil soap recipe

Flax Oil Soap Recipe via From Nature With Love
This this cold process recipe for an ultra creamy bath bar with skin pampering flax oil.

Ingredients:
19.2 ounces Coconut oil
9.6 ounces Flax Seed oil
22.4 ounces Olive Oil
12.8 ounces Palm Oil
9.6 ounces Sodium Hydroxide
23 ounces water
10 tsp essential oil

Instructions:
Dissolve Sodium Hydroxide in water and allow to cool in safe place. Warm oils in large

non-reactive pot,until solids are melted. When both mixtures have cooled to 95'carefully

combine in large pot. Stir to trace. Stir in essential oil. Pour in large mold. I use a 13?

square wooden wine box with a lid. Allow to sit undisturbed in warm area for 24 hours. Cut

into bars place in cool, dry area for at least 3 weeks, turn bars over every few days for

even drying. This recipe makes 4lbs of soap. Cut it into 24 bars.

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Zesty Calendula cold process soap
From Miller’s Homemade Soaps

32 ounces soybean oil
32 ounces vegetable shortening (Crisco)
14 ounces olive oil
10 ounces coconut oil
1 ounce of stearic acid (optional)
28 ounces cold water
12 ounces lye crystals

Temperatures were around 110 degrees.

Add at trace:
3/4 oz. Citronella EO
1/2 oz. Bergamot EO
1/4 oz. Rosewood EO
1 1/2 tsp. ground Ginger (dry spice)
2 T. freshly ground Coriander Seeds
1 cup Calendula Petals (pulverize a bit in the blender after measuring)
About an ounce of Vit. E. Oil (If you can get it to pour fast enough!)



Sweet Grass and Clary Sage Soap (Kathy Miller) from Miller Soap

24 ounces coconut oil
24 ounces canola oil (can use peanut, corn or sweet almond oil)
36 ounces soybean oil
24 ounces cold water
12 ounces lye crystals

Temperatures: 110-120 degrees

Added at light trace:
1 ounce Sweet Grass FO from Sweet Cakes
1 ounce Clary Sage Essential Oil

This needed a little bottom heat like the Cocanolive batch so I raised the temperatures

here. After adding the fragrance and essential oils, I stirred a bit longer and then poured

most of the soap. To the remainder, I added a few shavings of teal green candle color that

had been melted with a little bit of coconut oil. This was mixed in quickly and the green

soap poured on top of the uncolored. I had intended to swirl it, but the soap got too thick

on me and try as I might, this was as much swirl as I could get! It’s actually kind of

interesting the way it turned out. If you want to recreate this look, you just have to let

the soap get to the soft pudding stage before adding the second color and it will refuse to

drop down and swirl with the rest of the soap in the pan! This is a little heavier on Clary

smell at this point than Sweet Grass. You could probably up the Sweet Grass by another half

an ounce, or drop the Clary to 1/2 an ounce. They seem fairly strong and I wouldn’t add more

than that for my nose…but you might like POWERFUL smelling soap or need it to last for a

long time in storage.

[Ed. - Instructions and notes are from the author, Kathy Miller.]

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Prickly pear soap recipe

Here’s an interesting and unique cold process soap recipe from Pure and Natural Soaps!

Prickly Pear Soap Recipe – Cold Process

30oz off the shelf coconut oil,
35 oz traditionally made (almost virgin) coconut oil
10oz sunflower,
33 oz pomace olive,
2oz cocoa butter.

Add a mix of aloe vera (1, 12? leaf), Prickly pear cactus pad (1 med leaf) and gliricidia

sepium leaves (local leaf used to make baths to sooth nappy and heat rash) to the water

mixed with the lye and strain it off. Add at trace about the same “juiced” and 2 tbs honey

and eo’s of lavender, sweet orange and geranium. Lye had a 5% discount.

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Hemp Soap


Recipe makes 8 lbs. (Approximately 26/4 oz bars)

Ingredients:
32 ozs. Palm Oil
27 ozs. Coconut 76 or 92
16 ozs. Hemp Oil
15 ozs. Olive A Oil
10 drops of Vitamin E Oil or GSE
13 ozs. Lye (Sodium Hydroxide)
30 ozs. Distilled Water
4 ozs. Blend of essentials (Patchouli, Bergamot & Lime) or

any other essential oils
1-2 tsps. of Coral Mica Powder

Follow directions for basic "cold process" soap making.

Hemp has 3 unique nutritional factors. It has an ideal balance of Omega 3 and 6 for

sustainable human health, it has a full amino acid spectrum meaning it provides complete

protein, and it has a massive trace mineral content - truly one of nature's superfoods.

Other benefits of hemp seed oil include its effect on the skin and the hair, nourishing both

on a cellular level. Hemp oil is easily absorbed by the skin.

Benefits of hemp seed oil in skin care
The hemp seed oil that is used for cosmetics and skin care products contains a high amount

of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (linoleic and linolenic acids), which makes it an

important ingredient in anti-inflammatory skin care formulations.
For this reason it is beneficial, as it helps to heal skin lesions, balance dry skin and

fight skin inflammations.
It is a non-greasy, emollient and moisturizing compound with excellent anti-aging and

moisture balancing properties.



Almond joy soap recipe

This cold process soap recipe sounds so yummy! Please note the recipe is based on weight,

not volume, so you will need a reliable scale.

“Almond Joy” / Chocolate Almond Swirl (Kathy Miller)

16 oz. palm oil
14 oz. coconut oil
52 oz. olive oil
6 ounces cocoa butter
32 oz. cold water (4 cups)
12 oz. lye crystals
1 ounce Bitter Almond fragrance oil (Sweet Cakes)
2-3 T. cocoa powder blended into about 1/4 of the soap at trace (after pouring 3/4 of it

into mold)

Temperature: 95-100 degrees

Instructions as usual. Add the Bitter Almond oil at early trace and pour 3/4 of the soap

into the mold/s. Mix the cocoa powder quickly into the remaining soap (stick blender makes

this easy) and drizzle it over the top of the white soap in a back and forth fashion. Take a

butter knife and gently run it back and forth to gently swirl the two colors together (you

decide when it looks pretty enough to stop). A note on adding the cocoa. You could probably

blend the powder with a small amount of the soap before stirring it into the rest. When I

did it, I added some olive oil to the cocoa, but had some oil ooze out of the darker soap

after it set overnight, so think it was too much.

Permalink Reply by B on March 2, 2010 at 7:16am

All soap has lye you cannot make a bar of soap without it, melt and pour soap is just an extension of Cold Process soap which has sugar and alcohol added to it.

The only other alternative is soapwort and some nut like hulls that produce a detergent.

Permalink Reply by Amethyst starr on July 4, 2010 at 12:25pm

What I do is I go to the health food store, and pick up bars of vegetable glycerine soap. I shave it or cut into cubes as best as I can. Add all my powders/ingredients/oils all at once, with a little bit of water. I microwave it for a bit, but soap tends to foam when heated like that, so I let it foam for a bit, but not so much to clean the microwave, then squish it into a small metal ice cream bowl. I wait for it to harden, pop it out, and its pretty much ready to use from there. I do let it sit for about a day before using. Also, dont add so much sea salt or other dry ingredients that it doesnt stick together and falls apart.

Permalink Reply by calendulagirl on July 5, 2010 at 7:41pm

when you talk about non-lye soap are you talking about glycerin soap. glycerin you buy in a craft store melt it and put fragrance (melt and pour).