Gina's calendula soap
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Calendula Soap, Zen Down Under by Gina Roberts
This soap was one of those soaps that turned out nice through sheer good luck rather than good planning. It is one of my favourites now. It's the sort of soap that makes you want to run a deep hot bath and light a candle and have a long hot soak and let your problems fade away.
I hope that when people use it they can close their eyes and think of this soap being a little bit of spirituality (Zen) from (down under) New Zealand. The lemon juice I used was from my own garden and totally organic.
Base Ingredients
700 g Olive oil
250 g Palm oil
50 g Cocoa Butter
300ml Filtered Water [with 2 Tbsp lemon juice]
136 g NaOH [1% superfatted]
Additives
2 Tbsp infused calendula oil [extra superfat * added into soap at trace]
2 Tbsp ground calendula flowers
Scented with
13 ml Lavender essential oil
8 ml Clove essential oil
Notes/Method
*The addition of the infused calendula oil, brings the total superfat to 4%.
Calendula flowers are added to caustic when cooled down. They turn the water orange. The soap comes out a yellow colour with a lovely frosted look. Looks edible. Nice soap. I did not make this soap gel but just placed it in a nice warm and dry place for 24 hours.
This is a 1kg batch of base oils/fats. In order to produce enough quantities of soap for the swap, I made 2 seperate batches.
Gina
Calendula Soap, Zen Down Under by Gina Roberts
This soap was one of those soaps that turned out nice through sheer good luck rather than good planning. It is one of my favourites now. It's the sort of soap that makes you want to run a deep hot bath and light a candle and have a long hot soak and let your problems fade away.
I hope that when people use it they can close their eyes and think of this soap being a little bit of spirituality (Zen) from (down under) New Zealand. The lemon juice I used was from my own garden and totally organic.
Base Ingredients
700 g Olive oil
250 g Palm oil
50 g Cocoa Butter
300ml Filtered Water [with 2 Tbsp lemon juice]
136 g NaOH [1% superfatted]
Additives
2 Tbsp infused calendula oil [extra superfat * added into soap at trace]
2 Tbsp ground calendula flowers
Scented with
13 ml Lavender essential oil
8 ml Clove essential oil
Notes/Method
*The addition of the infused calendula oil, brings the total superfat to 4%.
Calendula flowers are added to caustic when cooled down. They turn the water orange. The soap comes out a yellow colour with a lovely frosted look. Looks edible. Nice soap. I did not make this soap gel but just placed it in a nice warm and dry place for 24 hours.
This is a 1kg batch of base oils/fats. In order to produce enough quantities of soap for the swap, I made 2 seperate batches.
Gina