Snowflake and Snowmen Soap

If you are thinking that orange is not a traditional Christmas color, you would be absolutely right! These soaps were supposed to be penguin theme soaps (and the orange was for their beak and feet). However, things did not go as planned and I ended up making a snowfake soap and some snowmen soap instead.

I have been trying to make a snowflake pull screen disc, but so far I had only gotten flower like soaps, and this was the one that came the closest to it. So I was very happy about that.

Here is the video and below the recipe and ingredient list:

https://youtu.be/vTAQbxMOOh4

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil	%	Ounces	Grams
Olive Oil	30	9.6	272.16
Tallow Beef	30	9.6	272.16
Coconut Oil, 76 deg	25	8	226.8
Castor Oil	8	2.56	72.57
Shea Butter	7	2.24	63.5
Total	100	32	907.18

Recipe Totals

Liquid Required	9.41 oz	266.89 g
NaOH Weight	4.29 oz	121.49 g
KOH Weight	0.35 oz	9.97 g at 90% Purity
Lye Weight	4.64 oz	131.45 g
Oil Weight	32 oz	907.18 g
Fragrance Oil Weight	1.28 oz	36.29 g
Superfat		5%
Total Batch Weight	47.58 oz	1348.98 g
Lye Concentration		33%
NaOH / KOH Ratio		95% / 5%
Liquid : Lye Ratio		2.03 :1
Saturated : Unsaturated		45:55

Custom Additives

Add with the Fats
Rosemary oleoresin	0.02 ounce
Add at trace
Tetrasodium EDTA	0.24 ounce

Fragrances

Comfort and Joy (aff link)

1.28 oz

Colorants (they were all dispersed in olive oil prior)

1 tsp of Black Onyx Mica from Elements Bath and Body	Added to 22 oz of soap batter
1 tsp of Titanium Dioxide	Added to 20 oz of soap batter
1/8 tsp of Orange Oxide pigment	Added to 2 oz of soap batter
Uncolored	Remaining soap

Tools

–Snowflake disc

Equipment

List of regular equipment

Molds

• 8″ Silicone loaf mold. 
• Round mold (Mine is a PVC pipe)

Embeds

This is how I made the embeds, except I did Santa hats instead, which were actually easier. I shaped the red soap dough into a cone, attached it to the head and pressed down on one side. Then covered with white soap dough around the edges and textured it with a pointy tool to make it look fuzzy.