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Soap Part Deux

9/8/2013

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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” -  Aristotle
After making my previous black and gray soap, I put soap making in the back of my mind, bummed at the outcomes of the last batch.  Soap making is a hobby that I can either get "really right" or disastrously wrong.  It is an art fueled with passion for me but I've never taken any formal classes.  

Today I made the following recipe I made up:

6 oz olive oil
4 oz cocoa butter
3 oz mango butter
2 oz coconut oil
1 oz apricot oil
.5 oz castor oil
7.3 oz water and 2.9 oz lye 

The soap cooked pretty well although it took a long time to "trace".  This is normal with olive oil soap.  I added some yellow ochre colorant to the entire batch (no fancy swirls, just trying to use the correct amount) and then added some new scent.  In the past, I have only used natural essential oils (oils derived exclusively from plants).  Today, I used a fragrance oil that is supposed to be for men but I love it!  It consists of vanilla, tobacco, clove and cinnamon.  Yummy!  
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