Cinco de Mayo Cold Process Soap Tutorial

• Baking & Spices

  • 10 5.5 oz. avocado oil

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 25 13.8 oz. coconut oil
  • 25 13.8 oz. olive oil
  • 25 13.8 oz. palm oil
  • 15 8.3 oz. canola oil
  • 1 1/3 oz Lime fragrance oil
  • 1 2/3 oz Tobacco & bay leaf fragrance oil

• Beer, Wine & Liquor

  • 1 Merlot sparkle mica

• Liquids

  • 18 1/4 oz Distilled water

• Other

  • Green Chrome Oxide Pigment
  • Electric Bubble Gum Colorant
  • 5 Pound Mold with Sliding Bottom
  • Multi-Pour Sectioning Tool
  • Silicone Liner for 5 lb Wood Mold (old version
  • 7.7 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye
  • Titanium Dioxide

Found on soapqueen.com

Description

Ingredients

• 5 Pound Mold with Sliding Bottom
• Silicone Liner for 5 lb Wood Mold (old version)
• Multi-Pour Sectioning Tool
• 5.5 oz. Avocado Oil (10%)
• 8.3 oz. Canola Oil (15%)
• 13.8 oz. Coconut Oil (25%)
• 13.8 oz. Olive Oil (25%)
• 13.8 oz. Palm Oil (25%)
• 7.7 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye
• 18.2 oz. Distilled Water
• Titanium Dioxide
• Merlot Sparkle Mica
• Electric Bubble Gum Colorant
• Green Chrome Oxide Pigment
• 1.4 oz. Lime Fragrance Oil
• 1.6 oz. Tobacco & Bay Leaf Fragrance Oil

Directions

• Slowly and carefully add the lye to the water and gently stir until the lye has fully dissolved and the liquid is clear. Set aside to cool.
• Melt and combine the coconut oil, canola oil, avocado oil, olive oil, palm oils (remember to fully melt then mix your entire container of palm oil before portioning). Once the lye water and the oils have cooled to 130 degrees or below (and are ideally within 10 degrees of each other), add the lye water to the oils and stick blend until a very thin trace. If you’d like a harder bar of soap that releases faster from the mold, you can add sodium lactate to the cooled lye water. Use 1 teaspoon of sodium lactate per pound of oils in the recipe. For this recipe, you’d add about 3.5 teaspoons sodium lactate.
• Once the batter has reached a thin trace, split the batch into three even containers.
• Add the dispersed colorants in the following amounts to each container. Use a whisk to thoroughly mix in the colorants.Container A (White): All the dispersed titanium dioxide.Container B (Red): 2 tsp. dispersed Merlot Sparkle Mica + 1 tsp. Electric Bubble Gum ColorantContainer C (Green): 1 tsp. dispersed Green Chrome Oxide.
• Add the fragrance oil blend to each container equally, it’s okay to eyeball it. Use a whisk to thoroughly mix the fragrance.
• f the soap is still very thin, give each container a few short bursts with the stick blender to thicken slightly. The mixture should be thin enough to pour and swirl, but having a little bit of thickness prevents the soap from seeping under the Multi Pour Sectioning Tool dividers. Begin pouring the various colors into the three sections. I like to pour a small amount of each color into each section, then move onto the next color to evenly fill up the sections. Be careful to not overfill any sections; you want each to have an equal amount of soap in each before you pull out the dividers to prevent on color from covering the color next to it.
• Once each section is full and level, remove the center piece up and out. Then, slowly and carefully pull the long center dividers up and out. Set aside. Finally, pull the small end liners straight out and set aside.
• Insert a dowel or chopstick into the very top of the soap between the red and white stripes. Use a small “S” shaped curve to swirl the colors together all the way down the length of the mold. Repeat this swirl between the white and green stripes of soap.
• Spritz the top of the soap with 99% isopropyl alcohol to help prevent soda ash. To help the colors in this soap pop, I recommend promoting gel phase. Since my soaping area was on the cool side, I covered the soap with a lid and placed the mold on a heating pad set to medium for about 30 minutes. Then, I turned off the heating pad and let the soap sit covered overnight. Allow the soap to stay in the mold for 3-4 days. Remove from the mold, and cut into bars. Allow the bars to cure for 4-6 weeks to allow them to fully cure. Enjoy!