How to make Ice Cream soap and a cheap Vanilla stabilizer

Last year I made a dreamsicle soap that I liked very much for its fragrance, however, it got very dark brown due to the vanillin content of the fragrance. I wanted to use the fragrance again and experiment using a vanilla stabilizer from scratch, one I had read about here. When I say “from scratch” I mean that I needed to dissolve the crystals in water instead of buying a premixed bottle.

For the ice cream cone design, I wanted to do something similar to the tornado in the Emerald City Soap. Using two dividers in the middle of the soap, opening them to pour “the cone” and then pulling them out at the same angle.

Below is a list of the supplies used an below that, the video of the making. To view the recipe properties you can go here.

Recipe Totals

Liquid Required	10.88 oz	308.32 g
NaOH Weight	5.36 oz	151.86 g
Oil Weight	38 oz	1077.28 g
Fragrance Oil Weight	2.28 oz	64.64 g
Superfat		5%
Total Batch Weight	56.52 oz	1602.41 g

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil	%	Ounces	Grams
Olive Oil	30	11.4	323.18
Tallow Beef	30	11.4	323.18
Coconut Oil, 76 deg	25	9.5	269.32
Castor Oil	8	3.04	86.18
Shea Butter	7	2.66	75.41
Total	100	38	1077.28

Colorants

• 1/4 tsp of Orange Neon pigment (for half of the top)
• 1/2 tsp of gold mica, I used 24k from Nature’s Garden but they no longer carry it, this one is similar: Maya Gold mica * for one third of the soap (13 oz)

Fragrance

2 oz Dreamsickle fragrance

0.50 Satsuma Orange fragrance for top (or leave unscented). I cannot smell this one in my soap, it faded rather quick so I will use it for hot process soap next time.

Additives

0.50 oz of Sodium Thiosulfate or you can get it from Amazon (for DIY vanilla stabilizer as per this post), dissolved into 1.50 oz of distilled water. (Makeyourown takes a while to ship, though)

Mold

10″ pink mold, square like

2 dividers the same length of the mold and about 1″ taller. I made them with corrugated plastic from an old yard sign.

Equipment

This is the standard equipment I use

Additionally I used these for piping:

• Ateco large star tip:
• Ateco 12″ bags (these might be too short for the large tip though):
• Ateco large coupler:

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Video of the Making

** If you have never made soap before, this is not the recipe to try for the first time. I would suggest this one instead.