Pink Clay Soap Recipe

This olive oil recipe uses french pink clay and a fabulous rose geranium essential oil, for a very classical and romantic rose soap. Try this recipe and enjoy your soap!

Dificulty: Easy

Weight: 450g (15,84 oz)

Superfat: 5%

Lye Concentration: 36%

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Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 1

Method: Cold Process

Cosmetic: Soap Bar

Servings: soap bars

Author: Sofia Matias

Cost: $5 - $20 / 4€ - 16€

Equipment

Ingredients

Lye Water

103 g distilled water
58 g lye (100% sodium hydroxide)
1 tsp sodium lactate or fine salt
1 tsp french pink clay optional
1 tsp red clay optional, only pink clay can be used

Instructions

Get Ready!

Wear goggles and gloves! Look at “Safety Precautions” in the video above or in Soap Making Safety Precautions
Watch the video above about "Cold Process Soap Making Tutorial" or read the post Learn To Make Cold Process Soap for instructions on cold process soap making before starting. These are generic but important steps for all recipes.
Assemble everything: ingredients, equipment, safety equipment. Prepare your workstations. Measure all the ingredients. Don’t start the recipe without having everything ready!

Heat the Oils

Heat the olive oil to approx. 45ºC

Make the Lye Water

Make the lye solution according to How To Make Lye Water. Add the french pink clay and the sodium lactate to the solution and stir well. Mix it until the vapors start to dissipate. The solution will take a dark pink/brick red color.

Make the Soap Batter

Use as a target temperature 38ºC for the oil-solution mixture. If necessary, you can reheat the oils, but not the lye solution. Strain the lye water to catch all clay lumps and lye crystals.
Reach trace with the immersion blender.
Add after trace ingredients: the extract and essential oil (s). Stir with just a spoon.

Molding and Curing

Pour the dough into the rectangular molds with a pitcher and sprinkle with alcohol or witch hazel. As the clays give a very soft color, the olive oil color will be predominant when the soap is still fresh, looking more cream than pink.
Let it set for 2 to 7 days, keeping an eye on the hardness of the soap.
Unmold and let the bars cure for 4 to 6 weeks. See How To Cure Soap. The pink color will come out with additional curing (around 2 months), when the olive oil looses its color.