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Ersilia's Amber & Azure Hearts
Ersilia's Amber Azure Hearts
Oils/Fats amount (grams)
cocoa butter 202
coconut oil 254
grapeseed oil 300
olive oil 2000
palm oil 509
Total weight 3265g
Lye: 433g (5-6%SF)
water: 658mls
Essential Oils: 50mls blend of mandarin, lavender, lemon myrtle & Spearmint.
Frankincense, Basil, Nag Champa, Grapefruit, Juniper, Black Pepper, Marjoram, Bay Laurel,
Geranium and Lemon.
Cosmetic Grade Pigments: 1 teaspoon of Glycerine mixed into each of ultramarine blue and
hydrated green in separate cups.
Cosmetic Grade Dyes & Melt and Pour: Blue Hearts using Blue No 5 dye & Spearmint
eo, Orange Hearts using Red No 5 dye & Yellow No 1 dye & Mandarin eo.
Mix lye into water, leave to cool to room temp.
Melt fats and mix into liquid oils.
Slowly pour lyewater into warm melted fats/oils.
Stick blend to trace. Stir in essential oils.
Add glycerine and ultramarine blue, stir/stickblend.
Add glycerine and hydrated green oxide, stir/stickblend.
Pour into divider moulds. Cure 48 hours with light cloth on top.
Remove from dividers and cut into bars, air dry another 24 hours.
Use heart cutter to cut out heart shapes, air dry another 24 hours.
Pour melted M&P (tinted and scented) into cut out heart shapes of CP bars.
Air dry till time to wrap soaps.
Its an affordable batch to make that uses my prime love of olive oil in a high
percentage.Also, I find that when grapeseed oil is used is gives a silky feel to the
lather and the cocoa butter is added for a creamy touch to the lather. The coconut and
palm are staple ingredients to add lending
hardness to the bar. I am also a big fan on colouring but like to go lightly with just a
touch of colour.
This is actually my first batch with using discounted water and it behaved beautifully.
I am pleased to see that the quantity of grapeseed oil and olive oil touched a little over
70% for the requirements of DW as per Marina's instructions on DW. Regarding essential
oils used, they are all my favourites with lemon myrtle especially at the top of the list
of favs and so I couldnt resist the long list of eo's i blended together.
The blend was made a week before the soap batch was made, to give it time to come together
and again I go like to go light on scent. I can still smell the olive oil amongst the eo
blend in the soap.
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Marina, bella - you had a big influence on this batch :-)))))!
Thank you !!
Ersilia Vitale Oct-03
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