Pour lye water into the melted tallow and whisk by hand or use an electric mixer until you reach a light-medium trace. Pour mixture into the soap mold and cover with a towel …
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This sensitive soap recipe is not only easy to make but will replenish the skin with every wash. Though it’s a soap recipe, it uses a natural pre-made soap base so handling lye isn’t required. It’s also boosted with skin-soothing chamomile essential oil that also gives it a sweet scent and helps to treat skin conditions.
Cold processed soap is, in simple terms, mixing oils with sodium hydroxide lye. This natural process causes a chemical reaction called saponification. Through the use of heat, fats and oils, as well as lipids, convert into soap.
The lye will have saponified the oils in the recipe, leaving you with oodles and oodles of natural, skin nourishing glycerin. Glycerin is a natural byproduct of any basic cold process soap recipe. Most commercially produced soaps remove glycerin and replace it with synthetic detergents and cleansers.
Extra Gentle Unscented Soap with Aloe 1 8.25 oz (234 g) aloe liquid (or distilled water) 2 3.78 oz (107 g) lye (sodium hydroxide) 3 14 oz (397 g) olive oil (50%) 4 5.04 oz (143 g) coconut oil (18%) 5 4.2 oz (119 g) sunflower or sweet almond oil (15%) 6 3.36 oz (95 g) shea, cocoa or kokum butter (12%) 7 1.4 oz (40 g) castor oil (5%) More ...