4 oz M&P soap
2 tsp cold cream
10 drops fragrance oil
1 drop coloring (optional)
Melt soap, then add cold cream and stir until melted. Remove from heat; add
fragrance and color, and then mold.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Cold Cream Soap
Citronella Soap
1 cup grated Castile soap
1/2 cup water
10 drops citronella essential oil
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 T. dried, crushed pennyroyal leaves
Mix the ingredients into the melted soap/water mixture. With an electric
mixer, whip the soap until it has doubled in volume. Spoon the soap into the
prepared molds, pushing it into the molds as best you can (the beating
action cools the mix, so work quickly).
If the mixture has cooled off and thickened so much you can’t put it into the molds, hand mold the soap into large balls.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Cherry Cheesecake Soap
(Makes Two 4-1/2 inch cakes - 4 slices each)
1-1/2 lbs. White M & P Base
1/2 lb Clear M & P Base
2-1/2 tsp. Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Fragrance
1 tsp. Blending Vanilla
1 Tbs. Cherry (not Maraschino) Fragrance
Dash of Lemon Fragrance
Red Colorant
Green Colorant
Yellow Colorant
1-2 Tbs. Finely Ground Oatmeal
Life of the Party Mold - AO52
4-1/2 inch springform pans
Melt 1/2 lbs white base. Add sufficient coloring to make as dark red as
possible, add 2 tsp of Cherry fragrance. Pour at least 30 "cherries" in the
mold (it looks like it makes two halves of a 1 inch christmas ball). Allow
to cool, unmold and set aside.
Melt 4 oz of clear base. Add 2 drops of green and 2 drops of red colorant.
Will turn brown. Add 3/4 tsp of Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Fragrance. Mix in
oatmeal. Pour evenly into two of the springform pans.
Melt 1 lb of white base. Add a few drops (only) of yellow colorant. Add
1-3/4 tsp of OM&H Fragrance, 1 tsp of blending vanilla (will add amber glow)
and a small dash of lemon fragrance.
Mist brown base with alcohol and pour creamy base evenly into pans - be sure
to leave about 1/4 to 1/2 inch head room. Allow to cool about 20 minutes
until surface is fairly solid.
Spray top of "cake" and bottom of "cherries with alcohol.
Arrange about 15 cherries on each cheesecake.
Melt 4 oz of clear base. Add red colorant to make deep red, add 1 tsp of Cherry Fragrance.
Spoon over cherries, covering them and allowing excess to flow around them.
Allow cakes to cool about 30 minutes. Pop springform pan and enjoy.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Cucumber Loofah Soap
3 oz. opaque soap
2 tsp. powdered loofah
15 drops cucumber fragrance oil
1 T. Aloe Vera gel
green coloring
mold
Shred the soap in a food processor and set aside. Boil 1/2 cup of water over
low heat and stir in the shredded soap. Continue stirring until the mixture
becomes a sticky mass, approximately four minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in the aloe vera gel, the fragrance oil and the coloring until well blended.
Spoon the mixture into a mold and let set for six hours or until hardened.
Wrap finished soaps in cellophane.
Creamsicle Soap
You will need:
8 oz. MP base (divided into 4 oz. quantities)
10 drops orange oil
1 drop orange food coloring
3 TB. Heavy whipping cream
10 drops vanilla fragrance oil
Melt soap and remove from heat. Add the orange oil and food coloring,
stirring until well mixed. Pour half of the mixture into each soap mold and
let it set for on hour. When the orange soap has set, melt the second half
of MP base. Remove from heat and stir in the whipping cream and the vanilla
fragrance oil.
Pour the melted soap into the molds on top of the orange soap. Let it set for three hours. Your finished bars should come out half orange and half white. Enough for 2 bars.
Citrus & Calendula Soap
You will need:
1 # M & P transparent soap base
A handful of calendula petals (dried) , about 1/4 cup
15 drops of yellow food coloring
3/4 tsp. grapefruit EO
1/2 tsp. tangerine EO
1 TBSP melted shea butter ..melted separately
Melt the soap base and at the same time melt the shea butter in a custard
cup placed in a pan of boiling water or in the microwave. Add calendula
petals to the melted base, a few drops of yellow food coloring, the EO and
then the melted shea butter. Try to have this the same temp as the melt
and pour.
Keep stirring the soap/shea butter mixture. As it starts to set up
spoon into heart molds. ( By spooning you have more control how many of the
calendula leaves go into each mold.) I like to let my molds set at room temp
until them are skimmed over fairly firm then I chill them in the freezer for
about a half hour before removing them from the mold and place them on a
rack to finish drying completely.
This is a very pretty soap. Makes 8 heart soaps. Enjoy!!!!
Cinnamon Soap
You will need:
4 oz. MP base
10 drops cinnamon oil
1 drop red food coloring (optional)
Melt MP base. Remove from heat and stir in the cinnamon oil and coloring
until well mixed. Pour the soap into a mold and let set for three hours.