100% OLIVE OIL SOAP UNSCENTED

Most popular oil to make soaps

This soap is made with only Olive
oil and lye and water, and my very first Handmade Soap!
As many soap making website say, making Olive oil soap (often refer as Castile Soap) takes long time to get trace and cure. Some people do not recommend to make olive oil soap as your first batch but I cannot resist making it! Because it is all natural (this is why I want to make my own soap) and I just need to buy olive oil and lye and distill water. So simple and no need to spend to buy more raw materials. At that time I only had a little bit of tea tree oil at home (far not enough to add fragrance) so I decided to go without it.

My first soap making tool!

  

Olive oil and lye water

 
Mix olive oil and lye solution at 40℃ (not accurate though). I did not use stick blender this time just mix with whisk. It took more than over night to get trace. First couple hours, I mixed every 30 mins, and left over night and pour into mold in the morning.

Gel phase? No, oil layer on the top..

 After a half day, I saw oil was separated in the mold. Since I did not know what to do, I just left like that for next 1 week.














 

Wipe oil and remove soaps from the mold

After 1 week, I just wiped off oil on the top of the soaps and remove from the mold. They were still soft but I could not wait to see my first soaps! They look nice and smooth on the surface but smelled really oily. I did not like it at all! I tried to look up internet how olive oil should smell but I could not fined any articles. I thought it is fail, should have added some fragrance so I did "rebatch" afterwards.

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