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Kelly's Soap Recipe
Kelly's Arizona Desert Soap
Kelly May - smellykelly01 optusnet.com.au
For the Sixth Big Annual Soap Gifting, I chose to use Hannah's Eczema soap recipe with a tiny difference.
The inspiration for this soap creation is a Native American lady named Nina - my friend. She is a Mexican/Apache (maybe quite possibly Cheyenne - her dad was a bit nomadic.) I thought of her and this mixture is the result! I call it: Arizona Desert Soap. Nina smelled it and said it was a soap for bathing with - not showering cos it's very meditative. Maybe you might like to run the bath, light some candles, put some nice music on and enjoy using my soap gift :)
I made a batch using
- 3700g Olive oil
- 135g Cocoa butter
- 67g Shea butter
- 185g Castor oil
- 100g Wheatgerm oil added at trace
- 525g lye
- 1000g Aloe juice (it is after all, desert soap!)
- 255g Water
Now I took 2600g of my soap base ( I was makin' another batch with a different fragrance with the other half) I added ground mustard seeds, 6 cardomon pods and 1 Tbspn coriander seeds also ground up, a smidge of orris root powder, small spoon of coffee grounds, 1 Tbspn of ground mandarin/orange peel (dried) and 2 dried White Sage leaves, finely chopped. I forgot that I normally make this soap in a smaller batch so should've doubled the amount of seeds 'n' stuff.
I also added 1 Tbspn Australian Active Clay and 1 and 1/2 Tbspns Red Clay. About 100g of strong blended coffee (made with very hot water and 3 dessert spoons of coffee.)
I had allsorts of trouble with this soap! So I ended up HPing it and had to add 94g of beeswax to rescue it cos it separates. Next time I will add this at the beginning when I melt my Cocoa and SheaButters. When it was finally cooked *rolls her eyes heavenward cos it was a very tryyyyying day that day* I added 20ml frankincense, 16ml cardamon, 4ml patchouli, 16ml juniper, 2ml coriander, 34 drops amber and 40 drops may chang.
I then moulded it and cut it up very unevenly so it looked like rough-hewn, handcrafted soap.
Special thanks to:
Shelley Bordeleau, ISS6 Central Co-ordinator
[ www.bordeleausbubbles.com ]
Roger McPherson, Photographs [ M & M Soapworks ]
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