The Rose from the Little Prince

For Valentine’s this year, my husband got me this rose (among other things):

I love it because it looks just like the rose from the Little Prince (he knows how much I like this book). This soap was inspired by it. I made it for the January monthly challenge of the soapmakingforum. The challenge itself was about making a galaxy soap.

It is said that the character of the rose (initially it was “a flower”, in the book) was based on the author’s wife, Consuelo, who interestingly enough, is salvadoran like me. The volcanos in the Little Prince planet are reportedly inspired in the volcanos from El Salvador as well (we do have many there).

This is my second soap inspired in the Little Prince, the first one can be found here. I will have another one (based on the fox) next week.

Recipe Totals

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

Liquid Required	4.71 oz	133.44 g
NaOH Weight	2.14 oz	60.74 g
KOH Weight	0.18 oz	4.98 g at 90% Purity
Lye Weight	2.32 oz	65.73 g
Oil Weight	16 oz	453.59 g
Fragrance Oil Weight	0.96 oz	27.22 g
Superfat		5%
Total Batch Weight	24.23 oz	687.01 g
Lye Concentration		33%
NaOH / KOH Ratio		95% / 5%

Note: I am using a lye blend that includes Koh (Potassium hydroxide), mainly because I bought some for a project, did the project, now I have a lot leftover and want to use it up. Also because I have read that it helps increase bubbles, and my husband loves a bubbly soap. You can enter the ingredients in a lye calculator and modify the recipe, to get the correct amount for just Naoh.

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil	%	Ounces	Grams
Olive Oil	30	4.8	136.08
Tallow Beef	30	4.8	136.08
Coconut Oil, 76 deg	25	4	113.4
Castor Oil	8	1.28	36.29
Shea Butter	7	1.12	31.75
Total	100	16	453.59

Custom Additives

Add with the Fats
Rosemary oleoresin	0.01 ounce
Add at trace
Tetrasodium EDTA	0.24 ounce

For more information on these additives you can click in the links below, please note above links are affiliate ones.

• Rosemary oleresin (My oils already had this added when I masterbatched the oils)

• Tetrasodium EDTA

Additives:

0.50 oz of DIY vanilla color stabilizer. Made with:

• Sodium Thiosulfate from Makeyourown, also available here
• Sodium Metabisulfite from makeyourown, also available here

Fragrance

I made a blend with the below notes

Patchouli 0.30 oz

Rose 0.25 oz

Yuzu 0.45 oz

Equipment

• List of regular equipment
• Sculpting Tools
• Stars made with Clay extruder and star disc similar to the one in this set.
• Circle cutter

Mold

6″ square mold

Colorants

• tsp of Green Mica added to 1/3 of soap batter for planet (6 oz approx)
• Azure blue mica for the space

Embeds

Materials used for the embeds:

• Red Soap dough
• Green Soap dough
• Yellow soap dough

and

Here is how I made the roses (except that I made them a lot smaller, and with stems and leaves):