If you have been making soaps for a long time, making cold process soaps is a natural next step. Today’s recipe will be for the Green Tea Supreme; our second ‘tea’ inspired soap.
Cold process soaps are incredibly moisturizing and healthy for the skin. We added almond oil and distilled water to an oil mix consisting of castor, palm, olive and coconut oil. The oil mix has many benefits. For instance it keeps your skin moisturized and hydrated. This in turn makes your skin soft and smooth with a radiant glow. Almond oil is rich with Vitamin A which is great as anti aging. It also helps retain moisture in the skin which reduces dried and chapped skin.
For a pleasant and relaxing aroma, we added Baby Clean and Goodnight Baby fragrance oils.
For coloring, we used, chromium green and titanium dioxide mica.
Duration:
Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Total Time : 60 minutes
Ingredients: (makes 350g soap)
- 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
- 7g Baby Clean Fragrance Oil
- 10g Goodnight Baby Fragrance Oil
- 5g Chromium Green Mica
- 5g Titanium Dioxide Mica
- 20g Almond Oil
How to Make
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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.
- Separately, pour your Oil Mix into a heat resistant mixing container.
- Add in room temperature Lye Water.
- 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.
- Add in Baby Clean Fragrance Oil into the mixing container.
- Next, add in Goodnight Baby Fragrance Oil. Mix to combine the 2 oils into the mixture.
- Split soap into 2 equal parts.
- In one of the container, Add in Titanium Dioxide that has been diluted with 10g of Almond Oil and mix.
- Next, add in some tea leaves. Using a spatula, mix to combine.
- In the other container, add in Chromium Green Mica that also has been diluted with Almond Oil. Mix with a whisk.
- Spray a silicon mold with rubbing alcohol. Pour in half of the white soap mixture into the mold. Gently tap to even out
- Next, add in the green soap mixture. Gently tap again.
- With the remaining white soap mixture, fill the mold to the brim.
- Dollop on some remaining green soap mixture on top.
- Using the end of a spoon, swirl both colours together to create soft peaks. Leave soap to harden for 24 hours.
- Once ready, remove soap from the mold carefully.
- Using a soap cutter or a normal kitchen knife, cut soap according to your desired size.
- Soap needs 4 weeks to cure. After 4 weeks, soap will be ready to use (:
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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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Can i use green tea powder if i do not have green mica
ReplyDeleteHi Vicky as long as its doesnt have any additives and its pure; shouldnt be a problem:-)
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