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Incognito Adventure Soap by Lorene Sinclair
For Sneaking, Bird Watching and Other Outdoor Activities Requiring Stealth and Olfactory Camouflage.....
This deep forest soap (as close to a Zen experience as I’m likely to have) is a variation of my Shoo Fly insect repellent soap for adventures outdoors, where masking human smells would be an advantage. The soap may come in handy for hunting, camping, birding, gardening, boating, canoeing, orienteering, playing Spy or even Hide and Seek in the Woods for serious Hiders, you understand!
The spring water infusion features ingredients used by First Nations hunters as a wash before heading out to get the big one. White Oak, White Birch and White Cedar were known to mask human smells and allow the hunter to sneak up surreptitiously on unsuspecting game. The insect repellent essential oil should make the whole experience more comfortable when faced with suffocating clouds of black flies and mosquitoes.
The swirl is.......Just Because. So go on........go out and have a forest adventure!
This soap was made with the regular CP process......
Base Ingredients
- 1500 g Olive oil
- 200 g Castor oil
- 200 g Sunflower oil
- 19 drops R.O.E. mixed with oils
- 600 g Spring Water infusion of white oak bark, white birch bark
and white cedar needle fans. - 249 g NaOH [3% superfat]
At thin trace.......add.......
- 56 g "Woods" Natural fragrance oil
- 14 g Basil essential oil
- 14 g Eucalyptus essential oil
- 14 g Cedarwood essential oil
Additives & Method
Swirled with 15 ml (1 tablespoon) each of red, pink, green and grey clay mixed into 1 oz extra water each and then about 125 ml (1/2 cup) thin traced soap....dropped into the 4 corners of pot then poured back and forth into the slab mold, stirred once each way, covered and left for 48 hours.
The soap was unmolded and left in a slab for 1 week as it was soft and gel-like in centre.
Then it was cut into bars while still soft in centre and cured. It dried quickly when cut into small bars.
Don’t rush it. You may want to reduce the water amount a bit.
Rene
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