Luxury Cold process Premix Blend 900g

This recipe will make 1300g of soap when mixed with lye and water and contains 5% superfat. It creates hard, conditioning bars of soap.

No Petro-chemicals, SLS or Sulphates.

Please note new sodium hydroxide and water ratios as updated.  The recipe is still exactly the same, but the is a 2g difference in the water/lye ratio.  Provided below is also the same recipe at 850g –  this is purely incase you can not get the exact 900g out of the bottle.  The bottle still contains the same amount of oil.

Ingredients:

Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Vitamin E.

HOW TO USE

You will need:

• 152g Basic Soapmaking Ready Mix
• 126g Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) (was 128g)
• 337g Distilled or De-ionised Water (was 273)

• Safety Gear: You need to wear these whenever you handle lye.
  • Gloves
  • Googles
  • Mask

  EQUIPMENT:

  • Digital Scale
  • Stick Blender
  • Thermometer
  • Spatula
  • Stainless Steel Pot
  • Plastic Bucket or jugs (heat proof)
  • Mold – silicone or wooden, or cardboard box etc.
  • Liner – if using a wooden or box mold.  You can use wax paper or plastic.
  • Mixing utensils, like spoons, wooden spoons

  INGREDIENTS:

  • Basic
  • Sodium Hydroxide
  • Distilled Water
  • Additives (essential or fragrance oils, colourants, teas, clays etc

  Following are your basic step-by-step cold process soapmaking instructions for how to make cold process soap from scratch.

  1.  Begin by preparing your soap mold so that it is ready when your soap is ready to be mixed and poured.  Cut out a piece of cardboard so you can use it as a cover for your mold
  2. Weigh out your distilled water and your sodium hydroxide into 2 separate  non aluminium containers (Plastic Jug or stainless steel)
  3. Make your lye solution.  Let it cool down to 35 degrees Celsius.
  4. Melt your Basic or Luxury soapmix in a pot of hot water before weighing 900g out into a stainless steel container. Heat to 35 degrees celcius.
  5. When the temperature of the both the lye solution and oils reaches 35 degrees Celsius or less, it is time to mix them.
  6. Gently pour the lye solution into your oils and mix.
  7. Mix with your  stick blender until you reach “trace”. Custard like consistency
  8. Add your additives and stickblend gently until medium trace.
  9. Pour your soap into the mould.  Cover, wrap with a towel and put away for 24 hours.
  10. After 24 – 48 hours the soap is ready to cut.  Unmold and cut it into bars with a sharp knife, the bigger the better.
  11. Let your soap cure for 4 weeks (minimum) before you can use it.  The curing period is essential.  Although soap is safe to use within the first week of being made, as there is no more lye remaining in the soap, it is not the best to use at that stage.  Curing it allows the soap to lose excess water and the longer it cures the gentler it becomes.  The pH drop and you end up with a beautifully mild and hard soap.
• Contains:  Shea Butter,  Coconut oil and Palm kernel oil