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Ruth Taylor's Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Soap Recipe
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Soap by Ruth Taylor
My inspiration for this soap came from my son's flat mate who said she has a passion for chocolate dipped strawberries "and wouldn't it be wicked if your ol lady could come up with a soap like that" And so here it is. The trial batch I made the chocolate part scented with chocolate FO but in keeping with the swap theme of not too much FO I have used vanilla oil to scent. My son said the soap has been hidden away in a locked cupboard so no-one but his flat mate can access it, so I guess she considers this "good enough to eat".
Ruth Taylor, Blue Moon Soaps
Ingredients [*]
Soap "Strawberries"
- 589gms coconut oil
- 131gms palm oil
- 523gms olive oil
- 65gms cocoa butter
- Measure out
- 436gms water and reserve 100gms
- 194gms NaOH
- 170gms fresh strawberries
- 35ml strawberry FO
Wash and hull the stawberries and place in a blender with the 100gms water from above and puree like crazy. Then add to the rest of the water and add the lye.Oils and lye to 45 C.I used red colour #5 and added enough to get the desired "ripeness" of strawberries, then added FO. Poured into slab mold, cut after 48 hours into shapes.
Chocolate soap
- 884gms coconut oil
- 196gms palm oil
- 784gms olive oil
- 100gms cocoa butter
- 291gms NaOH
- 654gms water
- 90gms melting chocolate
- 52ml vanilla oil
- 3 tblsp cocoa powder
Take 90gms olive oil from above and warm gently with the melting chocolate, then add cocoa powder and keep warm.
Oils and lye to 45 C at light trace mix in chocolate mixture and vanilla oil, then pour over your strawberry shapes.
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: Ruth Taylor
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