A recipe about a romantic and luxurious heart shaped rose soap for a special occasion, like Valentine's day. With shea butter for extra hydration, a special blend of rose fragrances and coloured with pink clay.Difficulty: EasyWeight: 900gLye Concentration: 35%Superfat: 5%
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 oils until the solid oils are completely melted (it is not necessary to heat all the time).
Make the Lye Water
Make the lye solution according to How To Make Lye Water. Add the fine salt to the water. Mix well until the vapours start to dissipate.
Make the Soap Batter
Use as a target temperature 40 °C-38 °C for the oil-solution mixture. If necessary, you can reheat the oils, but not the lye solution.
Pour the lye water into the oils.
Use the immersion blender in the mixture. Add the oat flour and the pink colorant before reaching trace.
Reach medium trace with the immersion blender.
Add After Trace Ingredients
Melt the shea butter before adding it to the soap. Add after trace ingredients: essential oil(s), grapefruit extract and shea butter. Mix well the batter only with a spoon.
If you use rose fragrance oil, be aware of soap acceleration. Fragrance oils usually can accelerate trace.
Molding and Curing
Pour the batter into cute hearts molds, and sprinkle with alcohol or witch hazel, to avoid soda ash. Let it set for 48 hours, always keeping an eye on the hardness of the soap.
In alternative, you can also use a rose-shaped mold, and made these lovely soaps as well
Unmold when fully solid and let it cure for 4 to 6 weeks. See How To Cure Soap.