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Luxurious Rose Soap Recipe

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: Easy
Weight: 900g
Lye Concentration: 35%
Superfat: 5%
Prep Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Method: Cold Process
Cosmetic: Soap Bar
Servings: 12 soap bars
Author: Sofia Matias
Cost: $10 - $20 / 8€ - 16€

Ingredients

Lye Water

Essential Oils Blend

Instructions

Get Ready!

  • Wear goggles and gloves! Look at “Safety Precautions” in the video above or in Soap Making Safety Precautions
    safety equipment
  • 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.
    Pouring essential oils into soap batter
  • Assemble everything: ingredients, equipment, safety equipment. Prepare your workstations. Measure all the ingredients. Don’t start the recipe without having everything ready!
    soapmaking-workspace-preparation

Heat The Oils

  • Heat the oils until the solid oils are completely melted (it is not necessary to heat all the time).
    Heating soaping oils in a microwave

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.
    add-salt-to-lye-water

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.
    small bottles of essential oils decorated with peppermint and rosemary plants
  • If you use rose fragrance oil, be aware of soap acceleration. Fragrance oils usually can accelerate trace.
    Soap acceleration1

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.
    cure-soap2
  • Enjoy your beautiful romantic soaps!

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