Luxury Handmade Soap Recipe

This handmade soap recipe is great as you do not have to moisturise after using it. It leaves your skin feeling soft and you feeling revived.

This homemade luxury soap has a lovely feminine and exotic aroma, and with the help of frankincense, may chang and the uplifting citrus oils you'll have all you need to fight off the sighs of ageing, relive tension and start the day with a smile.

 

 

Ingredients For Luxury Handmade Soap Recipe

• 7 fl oz (200ml) pomace or olive oil
• 4 fl oz (100ml) sweet almond oil
• 3 fl oz (75ml) sunflower oil
• 2 1/2 oz (65g) coconut oil
• 2 1/2 oz (60g) palm oil
• 1 fl oz (25ml) calendula oil
• 1 1/2 oz (40g) beeswax
• 2 1/2 oz (65g) lye (caustic soda)
• 8 fl oz (230ml) mineral water
• 1 teaspoon (7ml) lime essential oil
• 1 teaspoon (5ml) sweet orange essential oil
• 1 teaspoon (5ml) may chang essential oil
• 1/2 teaspoon (2ml) frankincense essential oil
• Petals from 20 dried calendula flowers

Homemade Luxury Soap Method

Before you begin making this homemade shampoo, take a moment to read the Make Homemade Soap Process. In this overview you will see photos and obtain a good feel for the basic soap making procedure (cold process).

The page importantly describes how to quicken the trace stage (thickening stage) using a stick blender.

Method

1. Make sure the room that you are making this homemade luxury soap in is well ventilated.



2. Oil a plastic mould and then line it with greaseproof paper.



3. In a large stainless steel pan, melt the pomace, sweet almond, sunflower, coconut, palm and calendula oils with the beeswax over a low heat.



4. Put on protective eyewear, mask, apron and long rubber gloves. Pour the mineral water into a plastic bucket. Slowly, add the lye, using a plastic spatula to stir until its dissolved.



5. Use two jam thermometers, one for the lye mix and one for the oil mix. Make sure you are wearing the protective clothing.



6. When both mixtures equalise at 131 F (55 C) immediately pour the lye mix into the oils and stir continuously for about 15 mins.



7. Continue to stir until it has thickened enough, when a bit of the soap is drizzled over the top it leaves a line/ trace.



8. Pour in the lime, sweet orange, may chang and frankincense essential oils and sir thoroughly. Add the calendula petals and stir until they are spread out evenly.



9. Pour the mixture into the mould that you prepared before. You can now make a pattern on the soap by dragging a fork across the surface to make a ripple, or you can create your own.



10. Leave it covered with cardboard, in a warm, dry place for 24 hrs in order for it to set.



11. Line a wooden board with greaseproof paper, put some protective gloves on and turn the soap out onto the board.



12. Use a carving knife to cut the handmade soap into bars about 4 oz (100g). Put them into a tray lined with greaseproof paper and leave for four weeks in a warm dry place.



13. Turn them occasionally.

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