ORGANIC CHAMOMILE OLIVE SOAP

Organic Chamomile Olive Soap

Olive oil (Olea Europaea) is rich in vitamin A and E, minerals and natural fatty acids, an extremely moisturizing and soothing and healing to all skin types. Olive oil is also rich in antioxidants, it prevents skin aging such as wrinkles and fine lines. Olive oil is the most popular vegetable oil in soap making, it makes very hard bar and mild cleansing soap after cure.

Chamomile (Matricaria Recutita) is widely used in children and adults for a variety of health conditions such as sleeplessness, anxiety, and stomach problems. For skin, soothes skin rashes (including eczema), minor burns and sunburn and reduces skin inflammation.

ORGANIC CHAMOMILE OLIVE SOAP is made with Shea Butter for additional moisturizing and added small amount of Coconut Oil and Rice Bran Oil for extra creamy lather and harder soap bar. This soap is soothing, moisturizing and gentle for all skin types.
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=RECIPE=
Olive Oil, Shea Butter, Rice Bran Oil, Coconut Oil, Organic Chamomile powder, LYE, WATER

Soap Qualities (thanks to SoapCalc)
Hardness -27
Cleansing - 7
Conditioning -71
Bubbly - 7
Creamy -20


=COLD PROCESS SOAP MAKING=

1. Melt Shea Butter and Coconut Oil with double boiler. (I do not like micro wave!)
2. Make Lye Solution. Always use caution.
3. Cool Oil and Lye Solution. (60-70℃, It's okay if it is still hot)
4. Mix Oil and Lye slowly, do not make bubble in the Oil Mix.
5. Use stick blender until get light trace. Do not keep it on all way through!
6. Add Organic Chamomile powder to soap mix.
7. Pour into mold.
8. Cover with towel to keep warm.
9. Leave for half a day or until soap gets hard enough to take out of mold.
10. Cut soap and leave for a couple of  month to cure.

=TIPS=

Do not be bothered to check temperature of Oil and Lye Solution. The recipe includes more soft oil, you can add Lye Solution immediately after make it (when it is still quite hot). When I put more hard oil, Blend Oil is quite warm to melt all the oil so I just let Lye Solution get a bit cooler (about 60℃, when touch the container by hand, you feel a bit hot).

Use stick blender for few seconds and hand blend with stick blender, repeat this to avoid getting trace quickly which causes air hole in the soap!

Keep soap warm but not too hot. To go through saponification, soap needs to be warm but hot. Too hot soap will get crack on the surface.

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ORANGE CHAMOMILE SOAP

<INGREDIENTS>

Blended oil, herbs and essential oils

OIL
-Olive(70%)
-Palm
-Coconut
-Castor

HERBS
-Organic Chamomile
-Orange peel

ESSENTIAL OIL
-Lemon
-Lemongrass
-Orange sweet

Let the warm blended oil cool down

Palm oil is solid in room temperature, so warm up oil and dissolve all and leave it to cool down a bit.

Soap mix and herbs

Mix blended oil and lye solution. Use stick blender, this makes speed up soap making process. Pour little amount of soap mix into herbs and mix well. Add essential oil.

Handmade soap mold

 My mold is made by milk pack and baking sheet.

Let soap sleep over night... Good night

Pour soap mix into mold. Poured herbs first and leave couple of minuets and pour the rest slowly on the top. Use spatula to make patterns on the soap.   

Waiting for overnight to cut.

Very simple but look pretty!

Next day, remove from the mold and cut.
Cure for 6 weeks.

*moisturizing
*medium hard
*rich creamy lather

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