The addition of neem oil to this soap aids flea control while adding a natural look to the finished product.
Ingredients:
- 100g Coconut oil (30%)
- 100g Olive oil (30%)
- 100g Palm oil (30%)
- 30g Neem essential oil (10%)
- 6g Sodium lactate (2%) (approx)
- 112g Water
- Lye 48gr (6% superfat gives a nice shine to a dogs coat.)
- 1gm spearmint essential oil
- 1gm lemongrass essential oil
- 5gm lavender essential oil
Instructions:
This recipe will do 3-4 bars, or about 450gm soap
(An infusion of fresh pennyroyal in the water will add extra flea killing power to the recipe.)
Use standard soapmaking procedures to make this soap adding essential oils at trace.
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4 comments
Hi Kathleen,
The neem oil is used as flea deterrent and skin conditioner in the recipe. While you dont need to use it, you need to put the recipe through a lye calculator to find the new amount of caustic to use to saponify the remaining oils.
Hi just wondering if you have to add the neem oil to the dog soap thanks
Hi Sharon
You can do either, or neither depending on your soaping preferences.
Hi,
Do you need sodium lactate? Or can you just add fine sea slat to the lye mixture and strain before adding to oils?