This palm free soap recipe is creamy and luxurious.
Ingredients:
- Coconut oil 300gm
- Macadamia nut oil 300gm
- Olive oil 250gm
- Shea butter 100gm
- Castor oil 50gm
- Coconut milk 300gm
- Lye 141gm
- Sodium lactate 30gm
- Sweetcakes coconut fo 30gm
- Desiccated coconut to garnish
Directions:
Always wear protective goggles, gloves and other safety clothing when handling caustic materials.
- Freeze coconut milk to a slushy firmness.
- Add lye slowly to the coconut milk, stirring thoroughly to ensure all lye is dissolved. Keep lye mix as cool as possible to keep browning and smell to a minimum. Allow to cool to 40ºc. Add sodium lactate.
- Melt oils in saucepan. Allow to cool to 40ºc.
- Pour lye mix carefully into oils and stir well. Stick blend until light trace.
- Add colour (if desired) and fragrance oil and stir well.
- Pour into prepared mould/s.
- Unmould after 24hours
- Allow to cure for 4 weeks minimum.
For more information on palm oil effects on orangutan populations please visit www.orangutan.org.au/palmoil
by Kerry Pearson
Heirloom Body Care
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2 comments
Hi Jo,
The lye does need to be added very slowly to the frozen milk to keep the colour and smell down as the sugars burn if the temperature gets too high. The smell will fade over time.
Hi, I made this soap exactly according to the recipe, the lye mixture turned brown, and the unmoulded soap has a strong unpleasant smell. Did I do something wrong? And will the smell fade? I wasn’t going to add any fragrance at all, but because the smell wasn’t pleasant as I was mixing, I did add a small amount of lemongrass essential oil – which doesn’t cover up the unpleasant smell. Any advice? Many thanks, Jo