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homemade rosemary soap

Homemade Rosemary Soap

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: Easy
Weight: 500g (17,63 oz)
Lye Concentration: 30%
Superfat: 5%
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Method: French
Cosmetic: Drinks
Servings: 6 soap bars
Author: Sofia Matias
Cost: $8-$15 / 6,5€-12,5€

Equipment

Ingredients

Lye Water

Oils

After Trace Ingredients

Essential Oils Blend

Instructions

Get Ready!

  • Wear goggles and gloves! Look at “Safety Recommendations” in How to Make Soap From Scratch
  • Watch the video above or read the post How To Make Soap by Cold Process Step-by-Step for instructions on cold process. These are generic steps for all recipes.
    Pouring essential oils into soap batter
  • Prepare your infused oils using the liquid oils and your dried rosemary. See how to do it in How To Make Infused Oil
    2-jars-of-infused-oils
  • 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 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)
    Heating soaping oils in a microwave

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.
    lye-water-made-with-orange-juice

Make the Soap Batter

  • Strain the lye water to remove any bits of orange and avoid any lye crystals in your soap.
    Lye and oils in a bowl, unmixed
  • 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.
    measuring the temperature of soaping oils with a thermometer

Add After Trace Ingredients

  • Add essential oils blend and the extract to the soap batter. Mix well with a spoon or spatula
    small bottles of essential oils decorated with peppermint and rosemary plants

Molding and Curing

  • Pour the soap batter into soap molds. Sprinkle the top of the soaps with alcohol to avoid soda ash.
    rosemary-soap-batter
  • Let the soap bars set for 48 hours, then unmold. Let the bars cure for 4 to 6 weeks. See How To Cure Soap.
    Curing soap in a dry and well vented place

Video

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