Chocolate Cold Process Soap
| I’m well known to be a Coffee Butter junkie, but I haven’t shared my other major junkie affliction. Yes, I am a chocoholic. Doesn’t that sound like an anonymous group of sorts? “Hello. My name is Andee and I’m a chocoholic.” Whoops! I think I got off topic! Anyway, I love to curl up with a book, a cup of coffee and some type of chocolate, whether it is a brownie, chocolate bar, Andes Mints, or chocolate cookies. Today, I thought it would be fun to make a cold process soap that could find its way into any chocoholics heart and the best thing about this soap is that it is calorie free! (Mostly because soap wouldn’t taste good to eat and who would want to eat soap anyway?)
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Weigh the baking chocolate, chop into small chunks and set aside. Measure oils on your scale. Warm on the stove or in the microwave. Once the oils are melted, add the baking chocolate and stir until completely melted. Bring temperature to near 120 °F. Exact temperature is not critical. Add sodium hydroxide to the water. Mix well. Allow to cool to near 120 °F. Once again, exact temperature is not critical. Combine oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. Add fragrance if you desire. Stir well. Pour soap into molds. Allow to sit until soap is firm. Cut into bars. Stack to allow good air circulation. Allow to cure for several days before using. Longer curing will result in a harder bar. This soap smells like Devil’s Food Cake and allows any chocoholic to enjoy their addiction even while bathing! Notes: We only recommend 1/8 to 1/4 to ounce of baking chocolate per pound of fats in a batch. We are primarily using the baking chocolate for scent and color, so a little will go a long way! Don’t forget to submit your blog or video posts to win the MMS Perfumer’s Kit. Remember, this kit is worth $280! Submissions are due by March 1st for posts during February. Did you know that you can become a fan of Majestic Mountain Sage on Facebook? Receive the latest updates, blog post notifications and more!
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 Oils ready for the microwave.  Adding lye to the water.  Mixing the lye solution.  Melted oils.  Adding baking chocolate to the melted oils. |
 Baking chocolate mixed with the melted oils.  Mixing the batch together.  The batch is almost at trace. |
 Adding the lye solution to the batch.  Continuing to mix the batch.  Soaps sitting in the molds. |
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*drools* This looks delicious! (Well, you know what I mean!) We’ve been looking for a good chocolate soap recipe, and this looks incredible! How strong is the chocolate scent when the soap is finished? You mentioned Devil’s Food Cake, but would you describe it as a light/medium/strong scent? We’ve made a cocoa butter batch before, but the chocolate scent is barely noticeable, and we wanted something with more of a chocolate kick.
Also, is there any way to do this with only cocoa powder, or would you recommend still making the baking chocolate first?
Thanks!
-Cheyenne
mmmm……. to bad this doesn’t taste like it looks! How the lather with this recipe? I made a chocolate soap last year that I threw away because it didn’t lather at all. Smelled great though.
Yum….could this recipe use Goats milk?
Most certainly!
I made chocolate soap once. I added almond milk and gave it a bit of spice with cinnamon, clove and an extra spoonful of cocoa powder. It went through the process wonderfully. I unmolded it just fine and it dried smelling heavenly the whole way through. Then much to my nightmare when I went to cut it 2-3 days later the very center turned to my a clear liquidy toxic smelling goo. It went everywhere! It was like a trojan horse! LOL. Do you happen to know what went wrong? Cause most of it looked and smelled great but the very center. That was the only time something like that had ever happened to me.
I like the baking chocolate first concept. Sometimes a powder doesn’t mix well with an oil and it needs a bit of time to saturate fully and become “one” with the oil.
If you want to use cocoa powder, try 1 teaspoon per lb of fats. Do not pack the teaspoon. Make it light and fluffy.
You never need to throw away soap. You can grate it, make a new batch, and include the shavings to make a confetti look. The lather will be just fine. Thanks to the coconut oil!
This is a problem with adding cinnamon and cloves, which accelerate the saponification reaction in a temperamental soap. All milk soaps are temperamental. We should always watch to make sure the heat doesn’t take off like wild horses. Milk soaps we start with lower temperatures, pour shallowly, and don’t add accelerants. This batch had just too much heat and you have the gelatinous goo in the center. This can be rebatched and used just fine. In the future use the chocolate, the milk and cocoa powder. Use the cinnamon and cloves in a water batch of soap.
Darn! Why didn’t I think of the confetti soap thing?! It would have been great to put chocolate chunks in a creamy vanilla soap. Maybe I’ll try that with a small batch of this chocolate soap.
So this is a little off subject but I needed to ask you a question and I can’t find anywhere else to do it- what I was wondering is if you could provide a recipe for children’s bath crayons (soap). I’ve found recipes online, but they all just call for ivory shavings and I have bought pretty much all the different soap ingredients from you guys and would like to make them from scratch and pour them into the animal faces molds. Any suggestions?
You could do this with melt and pour soap and lots of colorant. My concern with doing this is the color can be a pain to remove.
If you use a dye, expect that the grout could be colored and extreme cases of red color may leave the skin colored.
If you use a pigment, expect that the grout could be colored and wash cloths may not give up the color when laundered.
The dyes can’t color a wash cloth permanently because they are not able to attach to the fiber (cellulose). Pigments are like dirt and can be “ground” in and the fibers can hold on to the particles but they aren’t actually making the fiber a different color. Most of us have seen pigment colored
clothing. It also tends to be uneven and more matte colored.
So, while I think these can be done, and I think there is a lot of marketing behind them, and I think the “cool” factor is high, the practical side of me knows the work I must go to when I need to remove the color from my grout or laundry or that my kids go overboard on the red the day of their school pictures. So, as you can see, I am not a great fan of the concept for reasons which have me labeled “an old fart”.
Good luck, and may the force be with you.
Tina