Soap Course Module 4

This time I got to play with some other things that can be added to soap.

The soap base is made of olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, cocoa butter and sweet almond oil. I think that this is my favourite soap recipe to date. Not too hard, lathers easily making a fair number of big bubbles as well as a lovely creamy lather which leaves your hands lovely and soft but also clean.

I used a combination of five essential oils to fragrance this soap - rose, benzoin, palmarosa, mandarin and lavender. I love the sweet, floral smell and am impressed how this has remained over a couple of months.

The finished soap. Need to make sure I get the consistencies right when I'm doing layers next time so the bottom one doesn't splurge up the side of the top one :) 

The dark specks in the white part of the soap are strawberry seeds which were added as an exfoliator. I will definitely be using these again as I really like how they exfoliated beautifully without being too rough. I've done some reading about using fresh fruit in soaps so maybe a strawberry soap will be on the horizon....

The other part of the soap is contains French red clay. This is commonly found in face masks due to its reported deep cleansing and detoxifying properties. Whether it does this or not, I love the super smooth texture it gives the soap. I have already bought more to play with as well as the pink and green versions so watch this space :)