Glycerine Soaps
Soaps easy enough for anyone to make! All you need to have is some purchased
melt and pour base, a double boiler, some additives such as fragrance oils,
essential oils, herbs, coloring and molds.
Step 1: Cut and weigh out your base and place into the top half of a
double boiler; Keep it covered as it's melting so as not lose moisture. Melt
over low heat, you don't want to let it get too hot, try not to let it get over
160 degrees or you will get cloudy bars. A good tip is to let half of the base
melt, then remove from the heat and leave it in the water until it melts the
rest of the way. Try not to stir it as it's melting, if you have to, just
gently nudge the soap around or you will create air bubbles which won't make
very appealing bars.
Step 2: Add your colorant. Many people use food coloring, but they can
fade and bleed. You can purchase color nuggets, micas or pigments to help
achieve a better color. Stir your coloring in gently.
Step 3: Add any additives such as herbs when your base has cooled and
started to thicken to help suspend them in the base. You can also add other
ingredients at this time such as aloe vera gel, vitamin E, beeswax, cocoa
butter, shea butter, etc. Melt your solids such as cocoa butter and beeswax
before adding to the base. You can use 1 Tablespoon per pound of base.
Step 4: Add fragrance. This is up to your own preferences, you may use
fragrance oils or essential oils, just make sure the fragrances are safe for
soapmaking and use on the skin. Fragrance is added at anywhere from 1 tsp. up
to 1 Tbs. per pound depending on how strong you want it to smell.
Step 5: Pour into molds.
Step 6: Unmold after hardened and enjoy. These soaps can be used right
away. Tips: if you have trouble unmolding your soap, stick it in the
refrigerator for a few minutes and try again. Keep your soaps wrapped in
plastic wrap, such as cling wrap or saran wrap to protect your bars from
moisture. When your cooling your base to suspend herbs, gently keep stirring,
preferably with a wooden spoon, or even a wooden chopstick, to keep skin from
forming.
M & P Recipes
Citrus & Calendula Glycerine Soap
M & P transparent soap base
1/4 cup calendula petals (dried)
15 drops of yellow food coloring
3/4 tsp. grapefruit essential oil
1/2 tsp. tangerine essential oil
1 tb melted shea butter ..melted separately
Melt the soap base... at the same time melt the shea butter in a custard
cup placed in a pan of boiling water or in the microwave. Add calendula petals
to the melted base, a few drops of yellow food coloring..... the essential oil
and then the melted shea butter..... try to have this the same temp as the melt
and pour.
Keep stirring the soap/ shea butter mixture.As it starts to set up spoon into
Pour into heart molds. ( By spooning you have more control how many of the
calendula leaves go into each mold) Let my molds set at room temp until them
are skimmed over fairly firm.... they I chill them in the freezer for about a
half hour before removing them from the mold..... and place them on a rack to
finish drying completely.
Note: By stirring the soap/ shea butter mixture as it cools..... the butter
will not float to the top and make little circles of butter... which might look
like mold to those that don't know.
Orange Julius Glycerine Soap
2 cups transparent M&P soap base, melted
2 tsps honey
1 tsp Almond Oil
1 tsp French white clay powder
1/4-1/2 tsp Orange frangrant oil or essential oil 1/4-1/2 Vanilla fragrant oil
While the M&P is melting, mix the French clay, the almond oil and the
honey together in a small bowl. When the M&P has fully melted, mix in the
clay/honey/oil mixture and scent. You shouldn't need to add any colourant.
Dog Glycerine Soap Bar
4 oz. melt and pour base
1 tablespoon herbal shampoo
400 IU vitamin E
1/4 teaspoon liquid glycerin
essential oils of tea tree, peppermint or lavender
Tea tree oil for it's antiseptic quality and peppermint since fleas don't like
the smell of it
Melt the base and then add the rest of the ingredients. This is better than
liquid soap for dogs because it is easier to use on them. Just rub the bar
around on the wet dog.
Natural Sunflower Seed Glycerine Soap
Sunflower Tea Mixture:
1 c sunflower petals in clean jar add 1cup of cool water, place in sunny place
for few hours, strain, discard petals
2 cups of soap base
4 tb Sunflower Tea
2 tb Sunflower Oil
2 tb sunflower seeds (unsalted, raw, hulled & pulverized)
1 tsp. heli-carrot oil
Melt the base and then add the rest of the ingredients. Pour into molds.
Oceania Glycerine Soap
1 pound melt & pour soap base
lilac and blue mica
1 tablespoon Oceania fragrance oil
1 teaspoon dried apple mint
1 teaspoon dried lemon or lime balm
2 vitamin E capsules
1 teaspoon castor oil
In a double boiler, heat soap base and colorants until about half of the
base is melted. Remove from heat and cover until base is fully melted. Stir in
FO, finely ground herbs, Vitamin E, and castor oil. Gently stir until colorants
are evenly distributed and base begins to cool and thicken. Pour into molds.Use
opaque base with this recipe. The white base and the ground herbs make this
look like an old-fashioned herbal soap, and the mica adds just a touch of
sparkle. The herbs also add a top note to the Oceania FO. If a tablespoon of FO
is used, this will be fairly heavily scented.
Earth Clay Glycerine Soap
1 lb. melt & pour soap base
2 tb Jojoba Oil
1 tb Earth Clay
1/4 cup distilled water colorant and scent
In a double boiler, heat soap base and colorants until about half of the
base is melted. Remove from heat and cover until base is fully melted. Stir in
other ingredients. Pour into molds.
Glycerin Facial Soap Bar
13 oz opaque melt & pour soap base
3 tsp lavender flower infused oil - olive, jojoba, or almond
1 tsp. Lavender essential oil
1 tsp. Vitamin E
1 tsp. honey
1/2 tsp. pink clay
1/2 tsp. finely ground lavender flowers
tint for colour
Gently melt m&p in double boiler. Add oil, vit e, honey until mixed,
then add eo, flowers, clay, and tint. Pour into molds.
Gent's Glycerine Soap Bar
3 1/2 lbs opaque melt & pour soap base
2 tsp. beeswax (melt wax alone and add to melted M&P)
2 tsp. cocoa butter
4 Vitamin E capsules pierced and contents squeezed into melted M&P
1 1/2 droppers of Canadian Balsam Fir essential oil
dried ground basil leaves
tint of choice (try woodsy greens or light browns)
Melt soap base and cocoa butter in double boiler (do not let base get any
hotter than 160). When base is completely melted, add melted beeswax, vitamin E
and coloring .
Take portion of double boiler containing base off and set to cool. When first
small traces of skin start forming, add essential oil. Gently stir to cool base
some more, then gently stir in basil Pour base into desired mold...the cooler
your base, the more suspended your basil will be.
