This was only the 6th soap batch I've made but it's my favorite so far.
Sage Leaf w. Tea Tree Oil Soap:
20% Almond Oil
50% Olive Oil
30% Coconut Oil
After gel add:
1.3% of base oil weight Tea Tree oil (This leaves for a nicely present smell,
although I'm thinking it may be overpowering the sage leaf smell so maybe
next time I'll cut down on it by .25% of 1.3% and add a little more sage at the same time).
0.1% powdered dry sage leaf (You can put it in a coffee grinder until it's
fine powder. I have an urge to do 0.15% to 0.2% next time to see what happens)
Mine was made in a crockpot. I even cut it only 12 hours after being in
a mold. At first it smelled strong but it has dried up and is harder than
my other favorite recipe involving 15% palm oil, 28% coconut oil, and 57%
olive oil.
Gel wasn't as clear as my palm/coco/olive oil batch. This time, gel
was much more like opaque/yellowish vaseline.
The bars are nice and green from the powdered sage, it's awesome.
On part of the batch I layered fresh sage leaves on the bottom which
look great, they're all grey-steel colored now. I used fresh ones,
which left dark/wet outlines around them because of the water from them
seeping into the soap. It came out well after they dried a little more.
Maybe it even helped stick them to the soap compared to what would have
happened if dried leaves were put on instead.
Next time I'll have to try not to get so many random soap scraps on the
sage leaves next time, they're hard to get off and it made the bars look
a little messy. The coolness of this recipe outweighs all of that though!
