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Soap
Making Recipes
"This page contains soap
making recipes. If any visitors would like to
contribute soap recipes
they have tried, we'd be happy to consider them for inclusion here."
Soap making is EASY!
The recipes that follow result in soaps with very little excess fat. This soap
leaves the skin perfectly clean and smooth feeling. Sometimes excess fat is
preferred in soap recipes. This is called "superfatting", and to superfat soap,
I recommend between two and four tablespoons of additional fat, such as castor
oil. Castor oil is emollient and helps the soap to achieve a nice lather.
To superfat with other fats, you can subtract about .2 oz lye (note: that's
point two ounces, or two tenth's of an ounce) from each one pound batch of
soap which allows excess fat to remain.
Recipe 1 - Pure Household Soap
This is the only recipe I know of that remains scent free without adding any
fragrance to the recipe. This is quite a harsh soap and is ideal for household
or domestic cleaning, laundry, washing dishes, delicate laundry etc. It lathers
well and has no smell.
16 oz coconut oil
2.8 oz lye
8 fl oz water
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 1½ hours
Time in moulds: 48 hours
Curing time: 3 weeks
Recipe 2 - Soap Shampoo
16 oz coconut oil
4 tablespoons Castor oil
2.9 oz lye
8 fl oz water
Oil at room temperature. Mix and use lye when the water turns clear. Put all
ingredients in the blender. Process until the mixture is smooth (no oil streaks)
but don't let the mixture trace. Pour it into moulds.
Leave in moulds for three days
Freeze soap for three hours to release it from the moulds.
Curing time: 3 weeks
Recipe 3
6 oz coconut oil
6 oz olive oil
5 oz vegetable shortening
2.6 oz lye
8 fl oz water
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 1½ hours
Time in moulds: 48 hours
Curing time: 4 weeks
Recipe 4
9 oz vegetable shortening
4 oz coconut oil
3 oz lard
2.4 oz lye
6 fl oz water
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 1½ hours
Time in moulds: 24 hours
Curing time: 3 weeks
Recipe 5 - Creamy Bath Soap
A traditional and blender soap combination. The addition of milk allows for
about 12 bars against only 6 bars of the same recipe without the milk.
8 oz cocoa butter
5 oz palm oil
3 oz castor oil
2.2 oz lye
8 fl oz water
8 fl oz cold milk
1 tablespoon essential oil Fat temperature about 100 degrees F
Lye/water/milk temperature about 125 degrees F
Dissolve the lye in the water. Add all ingredients to the blender. Process about
30 seconds, or until the mixture looks a smooth and uniform colour. It won't
trace, (nor will it separate) pour into the moulds.
Recipe 6
16 oz lard or beef tallow (rendered beef fat)
2.2 oz lye
6 fl oz water
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 45 minutes
Time in moulds: 24 hours
Curing time: 3 weeks
Recipe 7
16 oz olive oil
1 oz beeswax
1 oz palm oil
2.1 oz lye
8 fl oz water
Melt the beeswax with the fats
Fat and lye/water temperature about 150 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 12 minutes (don't use blender - it will trace too fast)
Time in moulds: 48 hours
Curing time: 6 - 8 weeks for the bars to harden
Recipe 8 - Sweet Carrot and Honey
Soap
7.5 oz coconut oil
8 oz castor oil
8 oz olive oil
16 oz sunflower oil
16 oz Crisco
2 oz beeswax
8 oz carrot juice
7.58 oz lye
14 fl oz water
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 45 minutes to 1½ hours
Time in moulds: 36 hours
Curing time: 3 weeks
At trace you can add some honey which has been caramelised in the microwave. You
can also add aloe vera. The soap has a luxurious sweet (but not sickly) scent
and is a nice translucent orange colour.
Recipe 9 - Shaving Soap
4 oz coconut oil
5 oz olive oil
6 oz palm oil
1 oz avocado oil
1 tablespoon white Bentonite
2.2 oz lye
8 fl oz chamomile herbal tea
Fat and lye/water temperature about 120 degrees F
Estimated tracing time: 45 minutes to hours
Time in moulds: 36 hours
Curing time: 3 weeks
This soap will be a good little earner if you can get hold of some ceramic
shaving mugs. Pour the soap directly into the mugs at trace.
Recipe 10 - Hunter Camo Soap
8 oz hydrogenated soybean oil
4 oz coconut oil
4 oz olive oil
2.2 oz lye
6 fl oz water
Add anise oil to the soap to mask the human smell. It's ideal for hunters to get
closer to their quarry.
Anise is black liquorice. Use 1 dram in a 1 lb fat batch.
Use yellow coconut oil for the soap and when tracing occurs stir the anise oil
into the batch. Then scoop out about 20% of the traced soap mixture and add
cocoa powder until you get a brown mixture. Pour the yellow mixture out and then
add the brown, swirling the two together to get a camo pattern soap. Be careful
not to over mix.
Recipe 11 - Deer Tallow Soap
This is the last recipe for the moment, so I'll tell you how I came about it.
I was on my way up to Loch Maree on the west coast of Scotland for a bit of
fishing, when I came across a car parked in the middle of the road in a small
forest. As I drove carefully around the car (for it was a narrow country road) I
noticed a large stag with its antlers buried in the radiator of the car. The
stag had obviously been protecting his harem and had charged the car, breaking
his neck in the process. I guessed the driver had gone for help as the stag was
still warm.
Never one to waste an opportunity, I got my machete from my VW Camper and
separated the stag's body from his head (The antlers were stuck fast). I loaded
him into the back of the van on a tarp and carried on up north.
I did a deal with the hotel manager and got free food and drink in exchange for
the deer - and the chef rendered over three pounds of deer tallow for me from
the animal.
On my way back home I called into a pub near where I got the deer, and they were
all talking about the phantom deer that disappeared leaving just its head
behind. I had a quick pint and decided not to dispel their myth.
Things like that turn into good ghost stories!!
25 oz deer tallow
7.5 oz coconut oil
12 fl oz water
4.5 oz lye
I added 1 teaspoon of ylang-ylang and 1 teaspoon of lavender essential oils at
trace and the soap came out smelling lovely with a creamy texture.
As time permits we'll
include recipes for skin moisturiser, liquid soaps, petroleum jelly
and other useful stuff that will sell very well at farmer's markets.
If anyone wants to contribute their own recipes for inclusion here,
they would be most welcome. The more the better, and if they can be
made from easy to find basic ingredients, so much the better.
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Email:
info@bushcraft-educational-society.co.uk
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