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Exfoliating Bar Shea Butter & Vanilla by Megan Pearl Cole - New Zealand Host 2005
The category I chose was "soaps that work". I decided to make an exfoliating soap because I've had the idea of making the shea butter and vanilla soap for a while, ever since I purchased the ground vanilla (very expensive). I wanted to make a soap that was only mildly exfoliating, suitable for use on even the tenderist of body parts! The idea was to make a bar that was exfoliating on one side and gentle on the other, so that you can alternate it if you don't want to exfoliate your whole body.
I didn't want to use vanilla fragrance oil, so I used various sweet scented essential oils to create a mild sweet fragrance, and hoped that some of the ground vanilla scent would come through.
This recipe was cold processed, with a batch size of 1300gm.
Base Ingredients
- 40% Olive oil (mixture of pure and pomace)
- 33% Palm oil
- 20% Coconut oil
- 5% Shea Butter
- 2% Castor Bean oil
- 28% Distilled water
- NaOH (5% superfat)
Additive & scent blend
- 10g ground vanilla (in one half of soap)
- 4 tsp Orange essential oil
- 1 tsp Lavender essential oil
- 1 tsp Palmarosa essential oil
- 1/2 tsp Geranium essential oil
- 1/8 tsp Ylang Ylang essential oil
Method
I made cold process soap as per usual, mixed oils/lye and then split the mixture into two parts. I mixed the first part to trace, added the ground vanilla and half of the essential oils, mixed to heavy trace and poured into the mould. I then waited 15 mins or so until the soap in the mould set slightly, before bringing the second mixture to trace, adding essential oils and pouring over top. The trick is to get the first mixture to a heavy enough trace so that it can support the next layer without them mixing together.
I am happy with the result, hope you enjoy it.
Meg
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