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8th International Soap Swap
Sandy Sievers's Carrot Cake Soap Recipe
Carrot Cake Soap by Sandy Sievers
Why did I make this? Well, I hadn't used carrots yet and wanted to give them a go, then the theme for this swap came up and the idea just hit me. And I decided to try to make it as much like carrot cake as I could, hence the cinnamon and vanilla, and the orange peel and calendula give it some texture and color. The color actually came out like a dark spice cake or carrot cake. I used powdered sugar cause it's a combination of sugar (for lather) and cornstarch (for silkiness). I like it anyway. I'd like to experiment with the scent, but the overall soap I like.
Sandy Sievers, Tall Blondes Soaps
Ingredients [*]
- Apricot Kernel Oil: 5 oz (6.67%)
- Castor Oil: 3 oz (4%)
- Coconut Oil: 17 oz (22.67%)
- Corn Oil: 10 oz (13.33%)
- Macadamia Nut Oil: 5 oz (6.67%)
- Olive Oil: 25 oz (33.33%)
- Sunflower Oil: 10 oz (13.33%)
- Water: 20 oz
- Carrot Puree: 8 oz
(I boiled carrots, then put the carrots plus a little bit of the water I boiled them with in a blender to puree. Then the rest of the carrot water I used for the lye preparation)
- Lye: 10.3 oz (approx. 6% superfat)
The olive oil was about 10 oz orange infused oo, 8 oz vanilla (tea)
infused oo, 7 oz calendula infused oo.
At light trace I added 3 oz honey, 0.1 oz cinnamon, 0.4 oz powdered
vanilla, 0.5 oz powdered sugar, 1.0 oz powdered milk, 0.3 oz ground,
dried orange peel, 0.1 ground, dried calendula. For fragrance, I
don't have much, I used 0.3 oz tangerine eo and 0.7 oz ginger eo.
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: Sandy Sievers
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