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Ginger Lime Coconut Milk Soap by Leanna Hutchinson

Leanna's Ginger Lime Coconut Milk Soap Recipe

Melt together: -

Base Ingredients

16 oz Bear Tallow infused with fresh lime peel and strained
16 oz Lard infused with fresh ginger and strained
10 oz Cocoa butter
8 oz Olive oil infused with chamomile flowers and strained
7 oz Palm Kernel oil
5 oz Castor oil
4 oz Sunflower seed oil
3 oz Grapeseed oil (for 4.5% superfatting)

Lye mixture as follows:

14.4 oz Canned Coconut milk combined with
7.6 oz distilled water (partially frozen into a slurry)
9.1 oz NaOH

Scented with

5 oz Ginger Lime FO

Additives

1/2 tspn Chromium green oxide
2 tspns Pink Kaolin Clay

Method

Cold process method. Melt together all of the base ingredients. Make up the lye mixture. Proceed as per usual to bring soap to trace. At light trace, add the fragrance oil. Split the batch 1/4 to 3/4 and add the green oxide to the 1/4 mixture and the pink Kaolin Clay to the 3/4 mixture. Swirl gently into your mold. Makes a 5 pound batch. Enjoy !

Leanna

Herbal MmmPressions, British Columbia, Canada

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