Woodland Ice Soap 6

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Finished soap.

Last summer I was requested to make scent blend that was masculine, woodsy and clean smelling. After testing several scent blends I finally was able to make a blend that suited the recipient. The blend includes Siberian Fir Needle Essential Oil, Egyptian Musk Fragrance Oil and Lavender Fleur (type) Fragrance Oil. I placed the bottle of the blend in the vast collection of fragrances that we have in the blog kitchen and promptly forgot about it until just a few weeks ago.

Adding the lye solution the the melted oils.

I opened the bottle and gave it a sniff. I decided that I wanted to try making a soap with the blend. I collected my oils, buckets and immersion blender and decided to give it a whirl. (No pun intended.) 🙂

Beginning to blend the oils and lye solution.

After I made the soap I grabbed a bar and wandered around the warehouse asking for opinions about the scent. Responses varied from forest-like, piney, clean, earthy, yummy and even refreshing. This soap wasn’t adored by the fruity-bubble gum fan club, but even they did say that it was reminiscent of a hike by a woodland stream in cool weather. I think you will find the scent blend perfectly refreshing and easily a best seller!

Collect needed items:

Ingredients
Cocoa Butter, Deodorized
Coconut Oil
Golden Jojoba Oil
Palm Oil
Sesame Oil
Shea Butter
Sodium Hydroxide
Water
Siberian Fir Needle Essential Oil
Egyptian Musk Fragrance Oil
Lavender Fleur (type) Fragrance Oil
Moss Green
Black Onyx
Liquid Glycerin		 Equipment
Scale
Soap Spoon
Gloves
Mold of your choice (I will be using a 3 inch diameter PVC pipe with an end cap)
Immersion Blender
Time spent:
Weighing time: 8 minutes
Adding lye to water: 20 seconds, followed by 60 seconds of stirring
Heating of oils time: 2 minutes
Pouring lye solution into the fat mixture: 15 seconds
Using immersion blender to mix soap solution: 3 minutes
Pour into mold: 10 seconds
Allow soap to rest: 24 hours
Recipe in ounces:
2 ounces Cocoa Butter, Deodorized
8 ounces Coconut Oil
6 ounces Golden Jojoba Oil
4 ounces Palm Oil
8 ounces Sesame Oil
4 ounces Shea Butter 

4.06 ounces Sodium Hydroxide
12 ounces Water

0.14 ounces Siberian Fir Needle Essential Oil
0.26 ounces Egyptian Musk Fragrance Oil
0.4 ounces Lavender Fleur (type) Fragrance Oil
q.s. Moss Green*
q.s. Black Onyx*
q.s. Liquid Glycerin*

Mixing the raw soap.

* To make these soaps, I did need to do some work just to prepare the colors I would use. I mixed the Moss Green and Black Onyx colors with Liquid Glycerin and then mixed well. From now on, I will refer to this as Liquid Forest Green Color. I used the amount I desired to color my soap, but you can use more or less as you desire. This item has been marked as q.s. “Quantity Sufficient” for this purpose. In this particular batch, I mixed 1 Tablespoon of Liquid Glycerin with 1 teaspoon of Moss Green and 1/2 teaspoon of Black Onyx.

Adding the fragrance to the raw soap.

Weigh fixed oils on your scale. Warm the fixed oils on the stove or in the microwave. I melted the oils in the microwave. Add sodium hydroxide to the water. Mix well. Combine the scent blend in a beaker and set aside.

Mixing the raw soap with color.

Combine the fixed oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. For me, this took almost 2 minutes to reach the thin trace. After the soap reached this point I added the fragrance and Liquid Forest Green Color and mixed well. Once the fragrance was completely mixed into the raw soap, I poured the soap into the 3 inch diameter PVC pipe with an end cap. I allowed the soap to sit until was firm.

Pouring the raw soap into the mold.

The next morning the soap was 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.

Soap resting in the mold.

Notes:
Thanks for joining me on my latest scenting adventure. The Woodland Ice soap samples have been sent to the Shipping Department to send out in orders. I really want to hear your comments about this or any of the other recent soaps. I hope that anyone wanting a sample soap will request one and if we have any samples we will send them to you.

Enjoy!

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Woodland Ice Soap, 5.0 out of 5 based on 4 ratings

About Andee

Director of Happiness. I'm a thirty-something soap snob. I've grown up with handmade soaps, and I love them! I really like making lotions, soaps, and perfumes. I adore mixing scents to come up with something new. My favorite scent is either Wicked or Cotton Candy. I tend to hoard fragrances, I even have an Earl Grey Tea from the MMS catalog. I won't tell you how old it is, but it sure is good!

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6 thoughts on “Woodland Ice Soap”

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    Kinky Witch

    I just made my first PVC soap and cutting the little buggers proved to be a bit of a challenge. What worked ok, was putting the soap back in the PVC pipe, inserting the plunger behind it, measuring out 1″ rounds, then using the soap cutting tool to make the cuts. Unfortunately, a number of the rounds are slightly bowed, probably from the pressure of pushing down causing the soap to move back in the pipe a bit.

    Can you suggest a more effective way to cut round soap accurately? Yours looks near-perfect!

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    Vtxman

    Do you need to use a mold release for the inside of the PVC pipe? If so, what do you recommend?

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      Tina

      I use mineral oil. I know that sounds contradictory to what we are all about in making soap, but vegetable oils will saponify and that will have the soap stick inside the PVC pipe.

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