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Samantha Yip's Coconut and Red Bean Soap Soap Recipe
Coconut and Red Bean Soap Soap by Samantha Yip
I'm a relatively new soaper, so I thought I wouldn't play around with recipes too much this time because my experience is limited, and my trials so far haven't been that successful. This soap is based on my all-time favourite (so far) recipe from the Soap Naturally book - Rice and Shea Delish. This is inspired by a popular Chinese dessert (usually at Yum Cha) which is a coconut and red bean pudding (kind of like a jelly but opaque). I have substituted half the liquid with coconut milk and added ground red beans for exfoliation.
Hope you enjoy it!
Samantha Yip
Ingredients [*]
- 400g olive oil
- 250g coconut oil
- 300g rice bran oil
- 50g shea butter
- 139g caustic soda
- 150g coconut milk
- 150g water
- 1 tablespoon red beans (available from your local Asian grocer),
- ground in a coffee grinder
- 1/2 tablespoon whole red beans (more for decoration than anything else)
- 2 tsp water chestnut starch
This batch is unfragranced, although if you'd like to fragrance it, I
would suggest coconut FO.
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: Samantha Yip
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