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Tania's Soap Recipe

Tania's Blue Moon Rising

Everyone has a special place that they like to call their own, a place they can go to when they need to clear their head or just to enjoy their own company.

This special place to me is the Ocean, and my thing is to spend it surfing - enjoying the life force that sustains so many.

To celebrate that I tried to emulate a Blue Moon - as the moon is responsible for the tides - which have an influence upon the size of the swell and consequently the waves I enjoy so much.

The scent is blended with Essential oils, I was trying to develop a "mysterious" and alluring blend to portray surfing at dusk.

The soap itself was a two part process - I had to make the centre first - which I've dubbed Blue moon rounds. This is a little scratchy and I've found men like the scratchy soaps more so than women. But I wanted to keep something that reminded me of the rocks and coral you could be dumped on if you're not respectful of that water force.

The second part was to use the rounds in the middle of the other batch, with some organic Australian clay used for swirling in the dark moody clouds that surrounded the moon. Chosen to be a smooth, but mysterious mix of colours and texture to replicate the night sky.

Well enough of my babbling - here's my recipe - I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it for you.

Base Oils:

Olive Pomace Oil: 500 gr
Coconut: 250 gr
Palm: 250 gr
Castor BP: 40 gr
Shea Butter Unrefined: 50 gr

Additives:

EO Blend using Juniper, Patchouli & Geranium: 27 gr
Clay Black Organic Australian: 3 tsp
Clay Washed Blue Organic Aust.: 2.5 tsp

Blue Moon Rounds: 850 gr

Lye discount: 8%

Lye needed: 148.4 gr

Water discount: 50 %

Water needed:: 187.9 gr

Notes:

Infused EO's in Castor Oil overnight to blend scents. Melted hard oils except shea and added olive oil, added shea to it once oils almost melted. Mixed up lye and added to oils, mixed until very light trace then poured a quarter of mix into one jug and a quarter into another jug. Mixed clay In the jugs until even colour. Then added EO/Castor mix to each container and mixed in well. Poured uncoloured base into mould poured some colour of each into base and swirled. Put blue moon rounds in and poured more of three colours over top and swirled. Covered with glad wrap and put into fridge to prevent gel.

Special thanks to:
Shelley Bordeleau, ISS6 Central Co-ordinator [ www.bordeleausbubbles.com ]
Roger McPherson, Photographs [ M & M Soapworks ]

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