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Roger's Soap Recipe
Roger's Lavender Peppermint Soap
- 40 oz Olive oil
- 20 oz Palm Kernel oil
- 20 oz Pam oil
- 20 oz Coconut oil
- 5 oz Jojoba oil (added at trace)
- 4 oz Lavender EO (added at trace)
- 2 oz Peppermint EO (added at trace)
- 6 oz Alcanet diffused in 8 oz olive oil (added at trace)
- 34 oz filtered water
- 14.5 oz lye
Combined oils and lye at 100 degrees F. Mixed with stick blender. Poured into loaf mold and covered with plastic wrap. Wrapped in blankets for 24 hrs and then cut.
Inspiration for Lavender Peppermint Soap
from Drunken Matron Soaps.
OK, although I am the one who has joined this group, y'all have to know that I am a member of a soap making team, comprised of Faye, a very good friend of ours and my wife, Valicia. Faye taught us how to make soap about five years ago and we have never looked back since. This soap is what inspired Faye to start soaping. And here is her story -
"I've always been a bath lover. It's the best way to make the world go away. All my friends know this, so, one birthday about 8 years ago, my friend Nancy gave me a basket of soaps and bubble baths as a gift. One soap was a funky looking, uneven handmade bar of very strong smelling peppermint soap. It was amazing! I put it in the shower, and everyone loved it. So invigorating! So refreshing! It made your skin tingle, and the whole house smelled great, too! After we had used it all up, I asked Nancy where she had purchased this marvelous bar of soap, and almost immediately went to the store to get more. Alas, the soap cost about $7.00 a bar! I was horrified, and sadly left the store sans peppermint soap, my middle class soul being unable to part with that many dollars for soap. Two days later, I opened my mailbox to find my latest issue of Herb Companion magazine. The cover article was 'How to make your own soap' !! It was fate, no doubt about it. I sat down, read the article, sent away for the supplies, and soon made my first disastrous batch of soap. It separated badly, but smelled very wonderful. I called my sister in law, a chemist, and asked her advice. She said to melt it down and stir it up and try again. I did; it worked; and I have not bought a bar of soap since (except other hand crafted ones, just for the sake of research)."
Special thanks to:
Shelley Bordeleau, ISS6 Central Co-ordinator
[ www.bordeleausbubbles.com ]
Roger McPherson, Photographs [ M & M Soapworks ]
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