This is my first Cold Process Oven Process (CPOP)soap which turned out really nice. The difference between CP (cold process) and CPOP is that you put the soap for 1-2 hours on low temperature in the oven to speed up the gel phase.
This recipe is easy and except the rose petals nothing special, but I have to tell you, I looove this combination of essential oils- sweet with little citrus tones.
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stick blender
container (for oils)
container (for lye water)
spoon, spatula
silicone mould
!Safety
Gloves, goggles, long sleeves, ventilated area. When splashing lye water or fresh soap on skin rinse the area with tapped water for 15 min.
Process:
- Weight all the ingredients
- Slowly add sodium hydroxide to the water and stir till it all dissolves. Let it cool to 30-35°C
- Melt the oils and butters and let also cool for the same temperature as the lye water is
- Slowly add the lye water in your oils and stick blend to thin trace
- Add essential oils, stick blend once again (if you want you can add half spoon/ spoon of titanium dioxide dispersed in bit of oil- for more white soap)
- Pour the soap into mould (! don´t use plastic moulds or wooden glued moulds), decorate the top with rose petals (optional- it´s only for deco), if the petals or big push them slightly into the soap
- Put the soap in your preheated oven 50℃, let it on for 2 hours and then turn it off and leave the soap inside till next day
- Unmould the next day and let cure for 4 weeks before using
I made 6 bars (90-100g) of soap from this amount. I decorated half of my soaps with the petals and stamp the other half right after unmoulding.
Will you try this soap? 😉
I will definitely try this with a slight change of adding powdered goat's milk. I always add it so I can let the soap saponify at room temp unwrapped. :)
OdpovedaťOdstrániťwith added milk it is probably better idea not to put it in to oven, but rather out and unwrapped :) do you prefer gel phase when using milk?
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