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Helen B's Chocolate Addiction
550 gm olive oil400 gm grapeseed oil
350 gm palm oil
150 gm cocoa butter
60 gm shea butter
400 gm water
150 gm milk
192 gm lye
12.5 ml Peru Balsam eo
2.5 ml peppermint eo
Dessert spoon of cocoa powder
Method
1. I melted the oils together then left to cool.
2. In a pyrex jug I mixed together distilled water and milk, both straight from the fridge, then slowly added the lye to it. The milk kind of curdled and turned yellow, but did not burn (well there was no burnt smell).
3. When both mixtures had cooled to about 50ºC I added the lye to the oils and mixed with a stick blender until light trace was reached.
4. I added the essential oils and mixed in thoroughly.
5. Using a gravy jug I removed some of the soap mixture and blended in the cocoa powder.
6. I poured the remainder of the soap mixture into my log mould, then swirled the cocoa mixture through it.
This is a slight variation on my usual recipe, which does not contain grapeseed oil. Today, however, when I was preparing the ingredients I realised that I had nowhere near enough olive oil and I wasn't prepared to go to the supermarket just for that! As a result of the addition of the grapeseed oil I had to recalculate the amount of palm oil in an effort to make it harder. Let's hope it works.
Background
This soap is one of my favourite soaps because it hardens up really nicely and it feels so smooth when washing with it. I am also completely addicted to chocolate, the guys at work have learnt to steer clear when I am heard to say "I need chocolate"! I nearly added white crème de cacao to the mix to make it a triple choc blend, but was unsure of how the alcohol would react.
Cooking tip: my favourite way to use white crème de cacao is to add a dash to an all milk hot chocolate - it adds a bit of chocolate oomph!
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