Maddiesiler
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Meet the “fat soap”.
The soap I almost scrapped because I hated how it looked and felt. But the soap that my mom is in LOVE with and desperately wants me to figure out how to recreate!
It has a very rough texture, but the spots fall off when you rub them. It’s like a natural exfoliant.
Here’s the basics of the Pumpkin Pie inspired “fat soap”:
Superfat: 5%
Lye concentration: 34%
Fats:
- 90% tallow
- 7% castor
- 3% coconut oil
Essential oils:
60% Orange
25% ginger
10% cinnamon
5% clove
Others:
Honey (2tsp/ppo)
Kaolin clay (1tsp/ppo)
Sodium gluconate (0.8% of batch weight)
Pumpkin purée subbed 1:1 for water. Lye was mixed with a small amount of water (about 25% of total liquid) Purée (remaining 75% of total liquid) was added at the trace.
Soaped with both temperatures in low 80°. Added honey/clay/essential oils/purée at trace
Put straight into the fridge!
This soap set up normally and cut clean at 24hrs. But within the first week after cutting they started to develop these lumps! It also took longer to cure than normal. I’ve made variations of this recipe a bunch of times, and they are all fully cured at about 5 weeks. This one took probably 8 - 12 weeks before it no longer ran white water.
Thank you all!
The soap I almost scrapped because I hated how it looked and felt. But the soap that my mom is in LOVE with and desperately wants me to figure out how to recreate!
It has a very rough texture, but the spots fall off when you rub them. It’s like a natural exfoliant.
Here’s the basics of the Pumpkin Pie inspired “fat soap”:
Superfat: 5%
Lye concentration: 34%
Fats:
- 90% tallow
- 7% castor
- 3% coconut oil
Essential oils:
60% Orange
25% ginger
10% cinnamon
5% clove
Others:
Honey (2tsp/ppo)
Kaolin clay (1tsp/ppo)
Sodium gluconate (0.8% of batch weight)
Pumpkin purée subbed 1:1 for water. Lye was mixed with a small amount of water (about 25% of total liquid) Purée (remaining 75% of total liquid) was added at the trace.
Soaped with both temperatures in low 80°. Added honey/clay/essential oils/purée at trace
Put straight into the fridge!
This soap set up normally and cut clean at 24hrs. But within the first week after cutting they started to develop these lumps! It also took longer to cure than normal. I’ve made variations of this recipe a bunch of times, and they are all fully cured at about 5 weeks. This one took probably 8 - 12 weeks before it no longer ran white water.
Thank you all!
