Gingebread Man Soap

It´s about time to make some Christmas soap, well actually, now is THE TIME for doing it, we have only 4 weeks left and cold process soap needs to cure!
I have here for you one nice, milk, cinnamon scented recipe 😊

The recipe:

!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.

Preparation:

• At least one day before making this soap: make the gingerbread men- melt and pour method- which is faster or cold process soap. I did CP, with cocoa powder for nice chocolate colour

• Few hours before making this soap: freeze the sheep milk in ice cube tray

 Process:

• Weight all the ingredients

• Slowly add sodium hydroxide to water and frozen milk cubes and stir till it all dissolves 

• Melt coconut oil,lard and shea butter, add remaining oils and let cool to 35℃

• Pour the lye milk /35℃/ through sifter into oils and stick blend to thin trace

• Add essential oil, bit of cinnamon and stick blend to medium trace /with cinnamon the trace is quite fast/

• Pour the soap into moulds, push gently the small gingerbread man into the soap

• Cover with cardboard and blanket, let get through gel phase

• Unmould after 24 hours- if it´s still difficult to unmould, put it in freezer for one hour and then unmould easily 

• Let harden for 6-8 weeks before using

When I´m in my kitchen, I always go to my soapy corner and smell the soaps one by one. 
 The scent of this soap is amazing, very christmasy! Our whole place smells so good!

However you have to be careful with cinnamon essential oil, it´s not good for sensitive skin, you can use some other one if necessary, or use smaller amount 😊 


In the picture you can see two different colours of the soap. For the second batch I didn´t use milk, just water and added cocoa powder for darker color. You can definitely adjust this recipe, but don´t forget to get it through SoapCalc when changing the oils.

Happy Christmas soaping! 💗