Bar Soaps Soap Therapy

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Bar SoapsSoap Therapy

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Introduction
It has been a while since I have made soap. So I
decided to grab my soap bucket and make
something. I really like the Tropical Rose soap
recipe, so I wanted to start from there. This is
really just a variation on that recipe.
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Ingredients
454 g Coconut Oil534 g Palm Oil709 g Palm
Kernel Oil113 g Mango Butter269 g Sodium
Hydroxide680 Spring Water0.15 cc Purple
Raspberry Color30 cc Stress Free Fragrance Oil
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Instructions

1. Mix lye into water and let cool.
2. Add colorant to 28 g of water and set aside.
3. Combine all oils and melt.
4. Stir lye mixture into oils.
5. Add colored water until desired color is reached.
   
6. Stir until mixture reaches a light trace.
7. Add fragrance oil.
8. Pour soap into mold and let cure.
9. Cut into bars and let air dry.

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Notes Comments
We start by measuring the oils and making sure
that all ingredients are on hand. Here is
another shot of the oils in my bucket, ready to
melt. Here is my mold, cleaned and ready to
prepare. Here is my mold with the surface
covered with Saran Wrap and ready to assemble.
Here is my mold as I am putting it together.
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Notes Comments
Here you can see the mold all assembled and ready
for soap. The lye has been mixed and the oils
are melted. All other additives such as
colorant and fragrance are ready. The lye
solution has just been added to the oils. The lye
was 54C and the oils were 60C. We begin
mixing with the immersion blender.
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Notes Comments
Here we have added the color and continue to mix.
Fragrance was added once the soap reached a thin
trace. Now we pour the raw soap into the mold.
It took about 10 minutes from the time we added
the lye solution to the oils to pouring into the
mold. The soap is now in the mold and we are
ready to clean up. After about 20 to 25 minutes
in the mold, we can see the soap heating up and
going through a gel phase. During the gel phase
the soap gets hot. Here you can see that the
internal temperature of the soap is at 88C.
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Notes Comments
After a few hours the saponification process is
starting to wind down and the batch is starting
to cool. Sixteen hours later the soap is
unmolded and then cut into bars. My yield on
this batch is 18 1"x2"x3" bars, 6 thin 2"x3" bars
and four soap balls.