The Natural Soap Chef: Making Luxurious Delights from Cucumber Melon and Almond Cookie to Chai Tea and Espresso Forte
Heidi Corley Barto
Language: English
Pages: 77
ISBN: 2:00237859
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
TRANSFORM YOUR SKIN WITH HOMEMADE SOAPS
Pamper yourself with natural moisturizing lather. Indulge your senses with aromatic fragrances. Beautify your bath with stunning soap that you’ve created. This book shows how to take wonderful ingredients and turn them into amazing soaps like:
• Rosemary Olive Oil Soap
• Lemon Verbena Soap
• Pink Grapefruit Soap
• Chocolate Soufflé Soap
• Chai Tea Soap
• Baby Rose Soap
• Guinness Stout Soap
• Espresso Forte Soap
• Cut Grass Soap
• Head-to-Toe Shampoo Bar
• Cucumber Melon Soap
• Pumpkin Spice Soap
Including easy step-by-step directions and helpful instructive photos, The Natural Soap Chef is chockfull of inventive recipes and techniques that will teach you basic cold process soap making. Make your own luxurious bars and unique soaps right in your own kitchen that will please even the most sensitive skin.
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Fragrance, and exfoliants, and then pour it into a mold. Another way is “rebatching.” You shred existing soap, mix it with a liquid, and use that as your soap base. Both these methods are terrific ways to produce a quickly usable bar of soap, but they weren’t what I wanted. I wanted to be able to make my own soap base and have total control over every ingredient. I found what I was looking for with cold process soap making—the method Great Grandma used to made soap. She created soap from its.
Temperature down. 5. When both the oils and the lye mixture are at 110°F, pour the lye mixture into the plastic container with the oils. Blend with your stick blender until the mixture reaches a light trace stage, then add your fragrance–tea leaves mixture. Blend until the mixture reaches medium trace (see “Get your mixture to trace” in Chapter 2). 6. Pour into a chilled mold and refrigerate, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Remove from the refrigerator; spray the top with isopropyl alcohol,.
Heat-safe glass container; place the container in an ice water bath. Measure the lye crystals into a separate small glass container. Slowly add the lye crystals to the milk, stirring with your spatula as you do so. Insert a thermometer into the mixture. The goat’s milk will darken in color and start to melt; keep stirring. If you notice the temperature rising above 140°F, add more ice to the cold water bath. Do not inhale above this container! 4. Monitor the temperatures of the two containers.
And gloves on! 3. Measure the chilled carrot purée into a heat-safe glass container; place the container in an ice water bath. Measure the lye crystals into a separate small glass container. Slowly add the lye crystals to the carrot purée, stirring with your spatula as you do so and making sure all the crystals dissolve. Insert a thermometer into the mixture. The purée will darken in color and thicken; keep stirring. If you notice the temperature rising above 140°F, add more ice to your cold.
Plastic? It’s quieter than the clear type when you are using your stick blender! Measuring spoons Use these to measure add-ins such as exfoliants, honey, or tea leaves. Note: While plastic measuring spoons are fine for most add-ins, use metal ones to transfer fragrance—the fragrance will etch the plastic spoons. Spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol Alcohol is used to help prevent a white powdery substance from forming on your bars. Be sure to get isopropyl, not rubbing alcohol—the alcohol.