**This soap will be available in the store on 9/6/19 if you want to grab a bar**
When making this soap, I came to the realization this might be my last time putting fruit in soap.
There is nothing wrong with it if you do, and nothing negative has occurred from me putting purées in soap. I have just realized I like fruit too much to put it in soap! I prefer to eat it myself!
I am grateful to my upbringing for this. My mom always made sure we had fruit to eat as kids, and at school, fresh mango, jicama and watermelon were sold as snacks along chips and candy.
The fruit sellers would season the fruit with salt, lime, alguashte (ground pumpkin seed), hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. (You could customize it). So when cutting this apple for the soap, all I thought was how good it would be with some lime and salt. I have been in America long enough to know this is not the norm!
Now to the soap, it is a collaboration soap and I chose to be in the group that would use Apple 🍎 and the color red in the soap. I immediately decided to use Apple cinnamon from Bulk Apothecary. If you have used them, tell me, is it just my luck or do most of their fragrances accelerate?
I knew it would accelerate before hand though, so I kept the design very simple and used embeds I had made a long time ago, for a Snow White themed soap.
I had put the Snow White soap on hold because I was not sure how to convey the theme in a way that related to the original story and not to Disney. At first I thought about making seven hats to represent the dwarves, but there would not be enough room. In the end, I found a silhouette image, which I used to draw my own and make a vinyl stencil to decorate the front of the soap.
Recipe:
To change the amounts, you can do that in a lye calculator, as this one.
Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes
| Oil | % | Ounces | Grams |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tallow Beef | 26 | 8.97 | 254.3 |
| Coconut Oil, 76 deg | 22 | 7.59 | 215.17 |
| Olive Oil | 17 | 5.87 | 166.27 |
| Rice Bran Oil, refined | 15 | 5.18 | 146.71 |
| Shea Butter | 11 | 3.8 | 107.59 |
| Castor Oil | 9 | 3.11 | 88.03 |
| Total | 100 | 34.5 | 978.06 |
Recipe Totals
| Liquid Required | 8.88 oz | 251.86 g |
| NaOH Weight | 4.78 oz | 135.62 g |
| Oil Weight | 34.5 oz | 978.06 g |
| Fragrance Oil Weight | 1.38 oz | 39.12 g |
| Superfat | 5% | |
| Total Batch Weight | 49.55 oz | 1404.66 g |
| Lye Concentration | 35% | |
| Liquid : Lye Ratio | 1.86 :1 | |
| Saturated : Unsaturated | 44:56 |
Mold/Mould:
10″ Silicone loaf mold (Brambleberry)
Embeds
Apple, crown and mirror embeds
– I made these myself with both Melt and pour and soap dough. I sell soap embedsbur I have not listed these yet, if you are interested, contact me and I can give you pricing.
Additives:
- 2 tablespoons apple purée (or apple sauce). I made my own from 2 small apples following these instructions (I passed them through a colander after). I use the stick blender to purée them once soft.
- 1/2 teaspoon of titanium dioxide (the first picture above is what they look like after 4 weeks, btw)
Fragrance:
Apple Cinnamon from Bulk Apothecary or any other of your choice
Equipment:
- Equipment and Supplies I use
- Hand whisk
- if you have it, a silhouette or Cricut machine to cut the stencil (optional) with vynil.
Process:
- You need to wear your safety gear. Lye burns! Plan to prepare the lye solution several hours ahead to allow it to come to room temperature, or freeze your distilled water into cubes.
- In a well ventilated area (outside or by a window), add gradually the lye to the distilled water and stir it with a metal spoon. I use a drink stirrer spoon, it has a long handle. Do not breathe the fumes (I use a respirator because I am sensitive to the fumes). You can freeze your water ahead to avoid fumes, and weigh the ice cubes (they weigh the same as if the water was in liquid form).
- The water/lye solution should go from cloudy to clear once it is dissolved. If you do not have a dedicated soap area/room and other people might come into contact with this, make sure you cover it, label it, tell everyone and keep it isolated, where it cannot be spilled or touched by accident.
- Wait for lye water to come to room temperature. Your lye water should be no hotter than 80°F or 26.667°C. While you wait for the lye water to cool down, you can weigh and melt your oils.
- Measure, blend and melt your oils and let them cool down a bit, ideally to room temperature as the fragrance accelerates. You want to work at room temperature if your fragrance accelerates. Your oils should not be hotter than 100°F or 37.77°C
- Add the titanium dioxide to the oils and disperse with the stick blender.
- Once your oils and lye water have come to above temperatures, add your lye solution to the oils slowly, to avoid splatters pour it on the blender shaft.
- Stir with the blender on Off position initially, then blend for 15 second periods, alternating with stirring, until it is at light trace. This should only take 1 minute, 2 at the most.
- Have your mold ready. Add the fragrance and stir with the whisk quickly, then Pour the batter into the mold.
- If your fragrance accelerates like mine, you should be able to add your embeds right away, otherwise wait until the soap is solid enough that they do not sink.
Stenciling:
if you have a Silhouette machine, I can send you the file to cut it, just contact me and I can email it to you. I made the stenciling with soap dough and a vinyl stencil I cut. More details on the stenciling technique can be found here.
