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Kerry's Soap Recipe
Kerry's Calendula Frenzy Soap
Created by Kezza's Kreations © 2004
The inspiration for my soap came from the love of gardening, which I have done over many years. I particularly love growing herbs, flowers and of course vegetables. Because my Calendulas were in full bloom I thought it would be lovely to use them in this soap swap recipe. Not to mention the wonderful healing properties of Calendula.
Grown without chemicals, and harvested (hand picked by me) when they were a fantastic bright golden orange.
They dried naturally in no time at all. I infused some into Olive Oil for 2-3 months and all this infusion was used in this soap blend including the petals. I did heat the solid oils first but keep it to a low heat which never went over 36 degrees. My liquid was made up from herbal tea bags of a floral kind. This turned the lye water orange. But because I wanted a yellow soap this was not a problem.
For a strong yellow appearance I used the liquid of 5 X 6mg capsules of Beta Carotene, which I mixed into my Avocado, Apricot and Wheat germ oil and added this combination at light trace so as not to lose the oils wonderful properties.
At full trace I added the EO's plus extra Calendula dried petals.
Lastly I poured my soap, covered and waited to cut up.
The petals in the photo are from the exact bush that the soap was made from.
Recipe
Fat & Oils (grams) Amount
- Apricot Kernel Oil 60 3.00
- Avocado Oil 50 2.50
- Cocoa Butter 30 1.50
- Coconut Oil 200 10.00
- Grape seed Oil 50 2.50
- Macadamia Nut Oil 50 2.50
- Mango Butter 40 2.00
- Olive Oil 1300 65.00
- Palm Oil 100 5.00
- Shea Butter 60 3.00
- Stearic Acid 20 1.00
- Wheat Germ Oil 40 2.00
Total Weight 2000g
Liquids
- 500mls floral herbal tea
I used 5% superfat which was 266.88g of caustic soda
Notes
Use 120g of calendula infused olive oil included in total amount of olive oil. This has been infused for 2-3 mths.
Plus also 1 full cup of Calendula dried petals
Fragrance:
- 19g Petitgrain EO
- 9g Palmarosa EO
- 5g Patchouli EO
- 5g Benzoin Tinture
- Beta caratone tablets x 5 for yellow colour
Use gloves as the yellow may stain your hands.
Add the Avocado, Apricot & Wheat-germ oils at light trace to savour their propertities.
Lastly add EO's plus Beta Caratene oil and dried petals at full trace.
Remember to run any recipe through a lye calculator to be sure of your correct measures.
I hope you like enjoying using this soap.
Hugs,
Kerry,
Special thanks to:
Shelley Bordeleau, ISS6 Central Co-ordinator
[ www.bordeleausbubbles.com ]
Roger McPherson, Photographs [ M & M Soapworks ]
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