Transcript Bar Soaps Soap Therapy Source: Introduction It has been a while since I have made soap.

Bar Soaps
Soap Therapy
Source:
Introduction
It has been a while since I have made soap. So I decided to grab my
soap bucket and make something.
I really like the Tropical Rose soap recipe, so I wanted to start from
there. This is really just a variation on that recipe.
Ingredients
454 g Coconut Oil
534 g Palm Oil
709 g Palm Kernel Oil
113 g Mango Butter
269 g Sodium Hydroxide
680 Spring Water
0.15 cc Purple Raspberry Color
30 cc Stress Free Fragrance Oil
Instructions
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Mix lye into water and let cool.
Add colorant to 28 g of water and set aside.
Combine all oils and melt.
Stir lye mixture into oils.
Add colored water until desired color is reached.
Stir until mixture reaches a light trace.
Add fragrance oil.
Pour soap into mold and let cure.
Cut into bars and let air dry.
Notes & Comments
We start by measuring the oils and making sure that all
ingredients are on hand.
Here is another shot of the oils in my bucket, ready to
melt.
Here is my mold, cleaned and ready to prepare.
Here is my mold with the surface covered with Saran
Wrap® and ready to assemble.
Here is my mold as I am putting it together.
Notes & Comments
Here you can see the mold all assembled and ready for
soap.
The lye has been mixed and the oils are melted.
All other additives such as colorant and fragrance are
ready.
The lye solution has just been added to the oils. The lye
was 54°C and the oils were 60°C.
We begin mixing with the immersion blender.
Notes & Comments
Here we have added the color and continue to mix.
Fragrance was added once the soap reached a thin
trace.
Now we pour the raw soap into the mold. It took about
10 minutes from the time we added the lye solution
to the oils to pouring into the mold.
The soap is now in the mold and we are ready to clean
up.
After about 20 to 25 minutes in the mold, we can see
the soap heating up and going through a gel phase.
During the gel phase the soap gets hot. Here you can
see that the internal temperature of the soap is at
88°C.
Notes & Comments
After a few hours the saponification process is starting
to wind down and the batch is starting to cool.
Sixteen hours later the soap is unmolded and then cut
into bars.
My yield on this batch is 18 1"x2"x3" bars, 6 thin 2"x3"
bars and four soap balls.