We made so much soap last year, especially in November and December. I’ve wanted to blog about some of these new soaps but there just hasn’t been enough time. However, I just had to tell you about this one.
This is my favorite soap so far. However, I tend to say that after almost every bar we make! I love the color, the smell is yummy and it makes such great suds. I took a bar with me on vacation and love, love, loved using it in Hawaii!
Coconut Cocoa Soap
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Olive Oil (30%) 270 grams
Palm Oil (30%) 270 grams
Coconut Oil (25%) 225 grams
Castor Oil (5%) 45 grams
Cocoa Butter (10%) 90 grams
goat milk – 342 grams (frozen)
lye – 125 grams
2 Tablespoons Coconut Milk Fragrance Oil
4 Tablespoons Avocado oil at trace
This makes 2 lbs of soap or 10 bars. As with any recipe you get off of the internet, please run this through one of the calculators. This one is my favorite.
Please refer to the cold process instructions here. The frozen goat milk is put in the lye container. We then added the lye little by little as it melted the goat milk. Fragrance and Avocado oil are added at trace.
Since we’ve been making soap for two years, we now are working on tweaking our formulas. We have several soaps that are our favorites, but we are now experimenting with different essential and fragrance oils. We’ve not worked much with color, so we’ll be looking to include color with natural ingredients. (No crayons on our bodies!!)
This month we will be presenting a soap making demo to a new group, Evansville Homesteading. They are mostly younger families who want to learn and share homemade and earth-friendly products, gardening, and more. For me, it’s so good to see so many young people getting into “living off the land.” It’s also so much fun to share what we do.
This looks great! I love the colour. As a soapmaker, it’s always fun to see the great works of other talented soap artisans. I look forward to giving this recipe a try in the near future. Thanks so much for sharing!
oh this soap looks lovely! and can i tell you how much I love that you brought your own soap to hawaii? that is so awesome! We are REALLY looking forward to the soaping event next week!
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Linda,
Who can come to your demonstration next week. I’m very interested in making soap.
~Carla
When and where are you doing this demo? I might want to come. Can anyone come?
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Great post! this a very interesting. And this would be a good business to start with. I hope you could share a video demo how you made this lovely soap . I’m looking for on your next post. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.
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Carla and Kathy,
This demo is for this Evansville Homesteading group and it’s full. In fact, they have a waiting list. We had to limit the number due to our space. If there is interest, I’m sure we could schedule another one especially for you two!
Mandy, ever since we started making our soap, we’ve taken it with us when we go out of town, even for an overnight because we just love our soap!! See you soon.
Ashley, I, too, love the color. Thanks for dropping by.
Divina, Thanks for dropping by. There are so many great videos on soap making. Check out David Fisher’s site at http://candleandsoap.about.com/ for some great videos and info on making soap. Thanks for dropping by and do come back. Lynda
Can you tell me how to contact the Homesteading group?
Carla, I’ll email you privately on their contact info. Thanks.
It looks lovely, like all your soaps! One question though: why do you add the avocado oil at trace instead of mixing it in with the rest of the oils?
Have fun with the demo
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Kristina, I learned this from the Soap Solution girls I interviewed for my newspaper column a couple years ago. It’s also spelled out in one of their favorite books “The Everything Soapmaking Book.” It’s also talked about in “Soap Naturally.” Adding some superfatting oil at trace is a way of creating a gentler soap. The idea is that since the oil’s good qualities will not go through the saponification reaction (since it’s added at trace), those qualities will remain intact in the finished soap. We have continued to do this our soaps and really like the feel. Even the basic bar we’ll be demonstrating Thursday night will have castor oil added at trace since it seems to really improve the lather.