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Merinda Air's Spiced Apple Soap Recipe
Spiced Apple Soap by Merinda Air
This soap takes ages to dry and is not good to do when the weather is inclement! Supplied below are also the instructions for making Apple Butter.
Merinda Air
Ingredients [*]
Spiced Apple Butter
- 14 Granny Smith Apples; quartered, leave skin on
- 500mls Apple Cider vinegar
- 2 c Sugar; to taste
- 1 drop clove bud essential oil
- 2 drops Cinnamon essential oil
- 2 drops Nutmeg essential oil
- Lemon juice; optional-use if apples are too sweet
I use my large Crockpot, or an electric wok, for this recipe.
Combine all ingredients and cook in high stirring occasionally for the first hour or so; covered. Then remove cover and turn down to low and stir occasionally. This is a slow process since you have NOT precooked the apples. Will take 24 to 36 hours.
But you have NEVER tasted anything so good. I think it is much better this way then precooking the apples. I usually stir in the skin every hour or so but this is not critical.
If the skin on your apples refuses to break down, use a hand held blender and zap it a few times.
NOTE: The skin is the substance that makes it thick along with the evaporation of the water. Please try it with the lid of the Crockpot off.
Spiced Apple Soap
- 2 kilos Olive Oil
- 257 grams Caustic Soda
- 3 drops clove bud essential oil
- 6 drops Cinnamon essential oil
- 6 drops Nutmeg essential oil
Before you cook too much of the liquid away from the apple butter take some out as you water for the soap
Add the caustic soda to the liquid and beat until it has dissolved, then make up the difference to about 600 mls with water.
Pour the lye mixture into the olive oil and beat to light trace, add the oils and beat in.
Finally add as much apple butter as you'd like - about 1 cup or so (this is where the extra water comes from). Beat until custard consistency and quickly pour into your moulds.
More recipes can be found in the Soap Naturally book and in other soap recipe pages on this Website.
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Special thanks to Roger McPherson [Diamond M Small Business Support and M & M Soapworks], Leanne Chevallier [Aroma Nature (France)], and Anna Posth.
Contributor: Merinda Air
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