Liquid Sunshine Orange Soap With Dried Orange Slices
This orange soap recipe makes 2 lbs of soap. A beautiful swirled orange colour, add dried orange slices before gifting them to friends and family.
Cost $40
Equipment
- Safety gear (rubber gloves, face mask, apron, eye protection, etc.)
- Chopstick
Supplies
- 340 g olive oil infused with calendula
- 284 g coconut oil
- 142 g sunflower oil
- 142 g shea butter
- 114 g grapeseed oil
- 142 g lye
- 300 g distilled water
- 10 g tangerine essential oil
- 10 g grapefruit essential oil
- Dried orange slices
- Whole dried calendula flowers
- Gold mica
Instructions
- Use your kitchen scale to measure out all your ingredients.
- Melt your oils together in the double boiler until they reach 115°F.
- Meanwhile, combine your water and lye together in a Pyrex cup. Stir until fully dissolved and then cool in an ice bath until 115°F.
- Using the immersion blender, combine your lye water and oils until it reaches trace.
- Separate your soap batter into 3 bowls. One bowl should hold 2/3, another 1/3, and the third a scoop.
- Add the essential oils to 2/3 of the soap batter. Mix with the immersion blender. Pour into the soap mold.
- Top off with the 1/3 unscented soap.
- Mix your gold mica with the remaining scoop of soap. Pour over the top of the soap mold. Use a chopstick to pull through the soap and create swirls.
- Decorate one side of the soap with whole dried calendula flowers.
- Let the soap sit somewhere warm for 48 hours.
- Cut soap into equal sections. Let sit in a cool, dark place for 6 weeks in order to cure.
- Decorate by wrapping a dried orange slice around the bar of soap with garden twine. Add a gift tag with the variety of soap.