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Chocolate Cinnamon by Deborah Seewald

In suiting the Zen theme, this soap makes me think of spanish or mexican hot cocoa. Chocolatey with a generous sprinkle of cinnamon. Yum!! A lovely drink on a cold winter day with my feet up and a good book in hand (a soaping book, of course). I must say that this soap started out with some lovely swirls, but the ingredients ended up morphing together and now it is just like a chocolate bar with very little variation in color.
Still, it tastes...ahem... smells good. Bon Appetit.

Base Ingredients

729 g Olive oil
319 g Unrefined Cocoa Butter
295 g Organic Virgin Coconut oil
98 g Palm oil
74 g Castor oil

514 g Distilled Water (0% discount)
205 g NaOH (7% discount)

Additive

1/4 cup cocoa powder mixed into 28g of olive oil

Scented with

50 g Vanilla fragrance oil
20 g Cinnamon leaf essential oil

Method

Pour lye into distilled water. Mix thoroughly and set aside. The 28g of olive oil used for the cocoa powder mix, is part of the whole amount of olive oil used in the base ingredients, not an extra. You will need to reserve this amt, and put aside. Warm the remaining oils and melt cocoa butter over low heat in an eight quart to 12 quart stainless steel pot (no aluminum). When cocoa butter is melted, pour in lye solution. Stir until trace with a stick blender. Cover and place in warm (150-170 °F) oven. Leave for 20 minutes. Check mixture. Stir once or twice. If oven has cooled down considerably, turn oven on and warm to desired temperature. Turn off again and check mixture again in twenty minutes. Continue as needed until soap is fully saponified. Take pot out of oven and remove 2 cups of the soap mixture. Mix olive oil/cocoa powder mixture into the 2 cups of soap mixture. Cover and set aside in a warm place. Add the scents (Use vanilla absolute or vanilla oleoresin if you have it. I was out of it.) and mix them throughout soap in the pot. Then add soap with cocoa powder in it. Mix enough to get a slight swirl. Pour into mold, bang on floor or counter to get rid of air bubbles, bang a little more just for good measure and set aside for 8 to 12 hours. Unmold, slice and air dry to cure.

Debbie

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