Handmade Ferocious & Fantastic Soap Recipe for Men

© Rebecca’s Soap Delicatessen

Ingredients:

10.8 oz. pomace olive oil7.2 oz. 76 degree F melt point coconut oil1.8 oz. sweet almond oil5.4 oz. sunflower oil3.6 oz. sustainable palm oil1.8 oz. shea butter1.8 oz. cocoa butter3.6 oz. castor oil

12 fl. oz. distilled water4.8 oz. lye/sodium hydroxide

2 oz. Ferocious Beast fragrance oil1 oz. kaolin (white cosmetic) clay1 Tablespoon rosehips powder1 Tablespoon powdered loofahpinch Chromium Oxide Green Pigment Powderpinch Earth Mist Mica

Instructions:

This recipe will fit one of my diywooden loaf soap molds. Alternatelyyou can use a silicone loaf mold ortwo 6-Cavity Silicone Mini LoafPans . If using a wooden mold, beginby lining your mold, then followyour basic cold process soapmakinginstructions.

Start by measuring out the distilledwater into a pitcher or a four cup orlarger glass Pyrex measuring cup.Then, using a digital kitchen scale ,weigh out the lye and pour into thewater. Stir into the lye dissolves andset aside in a safe location to cool.Now weigh out the soapmaking oilsand butters and place in a large non-

aluminum pot.Heat overmedium heat onthe stove untilfully melted,then removefrom heat andallow to cool.

While your lye-water and

soapmaking oils are cooling you canprepare the other ingredients inseparate containers and set aside. Ifyou can't find loofah powder, youcan run a dried loofah through a foodprocessor to make your own.

Once the lye-water and oils havecooled to about 100 degrees F youare ready to make soap. Start byadding the kaolin clay and powderedloofah to the soapmaking oils. Thenmix with a stick/immersion handblender until the ingredients are fullyincorporated. Now, slowly pour thelye-water into the soapmaking oilsand mix until you reach a light trace.Add the fragrance oil and stir againuntil you reach a medium trace thenpour a third of the soap into yourprepared mold. Evenly dust thislayer of soap with the powdered rosehips.

Now pour about 1/3 of the remainingsoap into a measuring cup and setaside. With the soap left in the potadd a pinch of the green pigment andmix well with the stick blender untilit's thoroughly incorporated. Thenpour this soap into your soap moldon top of the first layer of soap withthe rosehips powder on top.

With the remaining soap you setaside, add a pinch of earthen mistmica and mix well with the stickblender then pour on top of the firsttwo layers of soap. Level the soap asmuch as possible so the final size ofyour bars will be consistent. Igenerally level out the top of mysoap using a butter knife. I run abutter knife back and forth along thewidth of the mold to evenlydistribute the soap, then run it backand forth along the length. However,

you can use whatever method worksbest for you. Now cover the soapand insulate for at least twenty-fourhours.

Once the soap has completed thesaponification process, you canunmold the soap and cut it into bars.{Learn how to make a soap cuttingguide here.} Allow soaps to cure for3-6 weeks, then wrap and label. I useprofessional plastic food wrap filmto wrap my homemade soaps as itworks GREAT and is MUCHcheaper than buying small containersof cling wrap. For my labels, I usedfull size white label sticker sheetsfrom WorldLabel.

This project was a collaborationbetween Rebecca D. Dillon of SoapDeli News blog and Rebecca's SoapDelicatessen and graphic designer /illustrator Anna Dance of HelloPants who designed the deerillustration. Recipe and designs arecopyrighted by their respectiveowners. Labels are free for personaluse only.

To print labels, simply print the pagethat has the labels of your choiceonto cardstock or sticker labelsheets. Use them for labeling soapsor as gift tags for your holiday gifts!