OK, this recipe has only 1 dry ingredient and it is pre-ground:
Recipe #2:
34% - Cocoa Butter (Yellow Brick Road)– 384 g
34% - Shea Butter (Aroma Depot) – 384 g
32% - Almond Flour from the Food Coop – 361 g
I performed the same process as before, except that I made the mistake of pouring the molten mixture into a large rectangular soap mold and not individual molds. (DO NOT DO THIS!) I was regretting this the following day because the loaf was impossible to remove from the wooden box. It took me 20 minutes to cut, scoop, and bang the contents out of the soap loaf. Make sure to use individual molds for this recipe!! I scooped the contents of the loaf into a pyrex jar and started over.
2/9/24 – I decided to add essential oils to this recipe at 2% (approx. 1 oz) to keep bugs away
I decided that it was for the best that this loaf did not work out because: I want to add a bug/ant repellant to this recipe because that is what Lush uses in their Buffy Bars. I know this cocoa butter/shea butter/almond flour recipe is likely to attract bugs in the shower and I want to avoid that. Lush uses a blend of “Lavender Oil, Lemon Oil, *Citral, *Limonene, *Linalool.” The citral, limonene, and linalool are (according to them) derived from the scents: Grapefruit, lemon, lime, tangerine, rose, neroli, peppermint, lemongrass, sage, fennel, spearmint, cypress, sweet orange, bergamot, cinnamon, ylang ylang, ginger.
So, a good combination would be a fragrance with Grapefruit, Lemon, Lavender, Neroli, Peppermint, Listea Cubeba, Rose, and Tangerine.
Once the fragrances arrived, I put the scooped-out bar material (cocoa butter, shea butter, and almond flour) into a pyrex cup and heated in 200 F toaster oven, stirring repeatedly to make sure it didn’t overheat, but that everything was melted. Around 80 F, I added 28 g of “Citrus Splash” essential oils (Blood Orange, Sweet Orange, Bergamot and Tangerine from WFMed) and used my hands as well as a stick blender to make sure all almond flour and oil chunks were gone. This time I poured into INDIVIDUAL MOLDS and not a loaf mold and let it cool on the table.
These bars turned out nicely, but there was maybe a little too much exfoliant in the recipe.