Try this wonderful rosemary soap bar at home. With rosemary-infused oils and castor oil, this soap has the right ingredients for a good hair washing and lots of foam! A great soap for a travel/all-purpose soap. Natural colorant is orange juice!Difficulty: EasyWeight: 500g (17,63 oz)Lye Concentration: 30%Superfat: 5%
Prepare your infused oils using the liquid oils and your dried rosemary. See how to do it in How To Make Infused Oil
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 rosemary-infused oils and solid oils until the later are completely melted. Up to around 50ºC (if there is any remaining solid oils, let the heat melt them)
Make Lye Water
Make the lye solution according to How To Make Lye Water, using the orange juice as water. Add the lye to the orange juice and mix well until the vapors start to dissipate. The lye water will turn dark orange.
Make the Soap Batter
Strain the lye water to remove any bits of orange and avoid any lye crystals in your soap.
Use as a target temperature 38ºC for the oil-solution mixture. If necessary, you can reheat the oils, but not the lye solution. Reach light trace with the immersion blender, as this soap tend to harden very fast.
Add After Trace Ingredients
Add essential oils blend and the extract to the soap batter. Mix well with a spoon or spatula
Molding and Curing
Pour the soap batter into soap molds. Sprinkle the top of the soaps with alcohol to avoid soda ash.
Let the soap bars set for 48 hours, then unmold. Let the bars cure for 4 to 6 weeks. See How To Cure Soap.