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Christine Dalziel's Lemon Poppyseed Soap Recipe
Lemon Poppyseed Soap by Christine Dalziel
I invented this soap because I was playing with various lemon and tea tree scent combinations and loved the clean fresh smell. The verbena makes the smell longer lasting than plain citrus. The poppy seeds give just the right scrubby exfoliation and reminded me of lemon poppy seed shortbread (yum!)when it was cut into bars.
Christine Dalziel
Joybilee Farms, Handspun Yarns and Fiber Arts
Ingredients [*]
- 500 ml olive oil
- 500 ml coconut oil
- 4 kg hydrogenated canola oil
- 4 c. goats milk, frozen
- 2 c. H2O, hot (be very careful the lye increases the temp of the water to
- dissolve the silk)
- 640 g. Sodium Hydroxide
- 20 g. tussah silk fiber, cut into 1/2 inch lengths
Essential oil and additions to be added at trace:
- 30 ml lemon EO
- 30 ml lemon verbena EO
- 15 ml tea tree EO
- 1/2 c. (125ml) black poppy seeds
Melt the oils together and cool to 105 degrees F.
Put 2 cups of hot water into heat proof glass measuring cup. Add silk
fiber, Wearing safety gloves, goggles, etc, with good ventilation, pour in
measured lye. Keep back as lye may splash. Stir to dissolve both lye and
silk. Once lye and silk are fully dissolved place 4 cups of frozen goat
milk into cup and stir frequently to lower temperature to 100F. (Sometimes
I have to add an extra 1/2 to 1 cup of water to fully dissolve the silk.
The lye solution must be very hot for the silk to dissolve.)
Proceed as usual for CP soap. Makes approx. 7 kg. soap.
More recipes can be found in the Soap Naturally book and in other soap recipe pages on this Website.
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Special thanks to Roger McPherson [Diamond M Small Business Support and M & M Soapworks], Leanne Chevallier [Aroma Nature (France)], and Anna Posth.
Contributor: Christine Dalziel
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