To make cold process soap you need a fat and an alkali. The fats are generally carrier oils and body butters but may also include other ingredients with a fat content, such as …
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The main ingredient in this beginner cold process soap recipe is palm oil. There is some controversy within the soapmaking community regarding the use of palm oil. Primarily in Southeast Asia they tear down the rain forest to create palm plantations.
If you strip soap down to the basics, a homemade batch of soap requires just three main ingredients: lye + distilled water + oils/fats. If you want to get creative with your soap once you’ve made a basic cold process soap recipe first, you can add essential oils, colorants, and other additives such as dried botanicals.
Fragrance oil used at 1 oz. per pound. Typically fragrance oils should not be used at more than 6% of a cold process soap recipe however this can vary depending on the manufacturer. For this particular recipe I used Nature’s Garden Candles Fig Lychee fragrance oil.
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.