In today’s recipe we will be making another cold process soap using milk. Click here to read more about the cp soapmaking. To make a cold process soap, a combination of an oil mix and lye flakes is needed. This creates a long lasting gentle soap.
Today’s recipe is for the rice milk & rosemary bits soap bar. Firstly, you will need an oil mix. The oil mix is a combination of coconut, olive, castor and palm oil which provide nourishment to the skin. Palm oil, which is rich with antioxidants, protects the skin, and provides an anti-aging effect to the skin.
Add lye flakes, distilled water, Pacific’s rice milk and rosemary to the oil mix and you will get a soap!. Pacific’s rice milk is a great moisturizer which helps even skin tone. This makes your skin glow. Rosemary is used a gentle exfoliator, which keeps the skin healthy.
Finally add rice petals and shea butters fragrance oil giving the soap a fresh and exciting smell.
Duration:
Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Total Time : 40 minutes
Ingredients: (makes 6 x 50g soap bars)
- 94.5g Coconut Oil
- 94.5g Olive Oil
- 31.5g Castor Oil
- 94.5g Palm Oil
- 46.5g SoapLab’s Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) Pastilles
- 46.5g Distilled Water
- 31.5g Pacific’s Rice Milk
- 22.5 Rice Petals & Shea Butter Fragrance Oil
- 5g Rosemary
- 10-20 sprays of Rubbing Alcohol
- 6 cavity silicon mold 50g
Equipments You Will Need:
- Heat Resistant Containers
- Spatula/ Stirrer (Can Also be kitchen Spoon)
- Weighing Scale (Digital)
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- Combine lye flakes with distilled water carefully. Wear gloves & long sleeves to avoid backsplash getting in contact with exposed skin.
- Slowly mix with a whisk until all the lye flakes have dissolved in the distilled water. Solution may become hot, do be cautious.
- To bring lye solution to room temperature, place container in a water bath.
- Measure out Pacific’s Rice Milk carefully to avoid any spillage and then set aside.
- Separately, pour your Oil Mix into a heat resistant mixing container. Combine room temperature Lye Water with the oil mix.
- Next, use a whisk and mix until it reaches thin trace. Timing of this may vary as the faster you mix, the faster solution will saponify and reaches thin trace.
- Once it reaches thin trace, add in the Rosemary.
- Next, add in Rice Petals & Shea Butter Fragrance Oil. For this, use a pipette for easy measuring & dispensing
- Add in Rice Milk into the container and mix everything using a whisk until milk, rosemary & oil are evenly dispersed throughout the soap mixture.
- Prepare your silicone mold. Spray with Rubbing Alcohol to sanitise mold. Next, pour in soap mixture into each cavity. Pour carefully, soap might still be warm.
- Sprinkle on some more rosemary on top of each soap. Then, leave soap for 24 to 48 hours to harden.
- Once hardened, carefully pull mold away from soap. This will help preserve those desired sharp & crispy edges of the soap.
- Whenever you feel ready, gently push soap out from the mold.
- Soap will be needing 2 - 4 weeks to fully cure before it is used. Keep soap aside till then.
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Caution!
- Always test the product on your skin for allergic test first. Click here to find out how to do so
- If you are selling this product, advice your consumers to do allergic test first
- Make sure all your utensils and work surface is clean and sterilise as dirty area and utensils can reduce shelf life of scrub
- Do not add in any Fresh ingredients that can spoil easily as this will reduce the shelf life of product unless specified in recipe. Click here to find out more
- If applying on face, avoid citrus based or sandalwood essential oil as Malaysian weather will cause your skin to be easily sun burnt. Wear sun protection if add these Essential oils.
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