Garden Mint Soap 田園薄荷皂

Stamping the soaps after two weeks of curing.

1. Sodium lactate: 3.5g
2. Oat butter: 10g super fat
3. Essential oil: tea tree, cedarwood, pachouli

Honey Glycerin Soap (From Scratch)

1. Based on this recipe (adapted from Catherine Failor's book of Making Transparent Soap P.67), adjust the rations of the solvents.
2. 80% alcohol. 10~20% glycerin. /// 10% distill water. 5~10% honey. 20% alcohol.
3. Slow cooker hot process as making soaps. For this small amount, cook the batter for around an hour. Check every 15 mins, stir the batter. (check my previous article of a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSSbTdgwyP8)
4. Double boiler. Cover with 2+ layers of plastic wrap, sealed tightly. Cook for 20-30 mins until dissolved.
5. Add the rest solvents. Fragrant. Pour (sift) into mold.

Honey Soap 3

Looks nice

1. Alcohol 100%, glycerin 15%, sodium lactate 2g
2. Sugar 10%, distill water 10%, honey 10%

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Next Time:

• When dissolving the gelled soap, can try to blend the soap will glycerin and alcohol... in order to make the soap finer to dissolve. Try 50% alcohol at first. glycerin 15%.
• Try honey 15%, water 10%, and 20% alcohol at the end.

Honey Soap 1 and 2

Honey Soap 1

Honey Soap 1

1. 80% alcohol, 20% glycerin, 28g honey. Too much honey!
2. Too soft. wobbly inside.
3. Found it ideal to make liquid hand wash. 

Liquid hand wash

Honey Soap 2

1. Melting gelled soap with 80% alcohol, 20% glycerin.
2. Suger 15g, distill water 11g, honey 6g
3. Looks good

1. Hot process procedure. Slow cooker at low, cook for 1 hour, check and stir every 15 mins.
2. Change to double boiler method. Add glycerin (20%) and alcohol (80%) , completely covered, and cook till completely dissolve, around 30 mins.

Transparent Soap (Recipe 3)

1. NaOH: 15g
2. Alcohol: 45g
3. Glycerin: 30g
4. Sugar: 28g + Distill water: 25g 
5. The alcohol will evaporate during heating when dissolving the gelled soap. 
6. Added another 20g at the end when mixing in the sugar water. 
7. Should adjust the percentage of alcohol in the beginning.

Transparent Soap (Recipe 2)

This recipe is adapted from the book of "Making Transparent Soap the art of crafting, molding, scenting & coloring" by Catherine Failor. 

The original result of this recipe was not transparent. May be the evaporation
of alcohol. Melted twice and added alcohol and glycerin. So the final recipe
is unknown, should do it again.

1. Mix oil and lye solution and whisk to trace.
2. Hot process procedure.
3. Add alcohol (40% of total oil) and glycerin (20% of total oil), double boiler, dissolve completely.
4. Add sugar (25% of total oil) solution (75% of sugar)
5. Cool for 20 mins then to add fragrance if needed
6. Pour into mold

Black Soy Milk Soap 黑豆漿皂

1. Black soy milk ice cube + black soy milk total 105.5g
2. 3.5g sodium lactate
3. 14g lavender essential oil
4. 5g charcoal oil + soap batter 50g for black color 

洋甘菊護膚皂 Chamomile Soap

1. Chamomile Infused Sweet Almond Oil
2. Excess Chamomile Butter: 8g
3. Red Palm Oil
4. Chamomile Essential Oil: 8g

Yuzhu Soap 玉竹皂

Yuzhu tea is said to be good for whitening the skin.

1. Yuzhu tea ice cube + yuzhu tea: 109g (for lye solution)
2. Sodium lactate: 3.5g
3. Rose geranium essential oil: 11g
4. Red clay oil 10% of soap batter (100g soap batter + 10g red clay oil)
5. Fast trace, light trace should go into mold

Stamping The Cocoa & Coffee Butter Soap

1. 3.5g sodium lactate
2. Unscented
3. Unrefined cocoa butter
4. 1g cocoa powder

Stamping The Mild Soap

1. Rosehip powder 1g+100g soap batter
2. 3.5g sodium lactate
3. Lavender, geranium rose essential oils