Cocoa butter is very good butter on the skin. It is used to help with stretch mark. Using unrefined cocoa butter in our coconut oil and cocoa butter soap is a way to incorporate its properties in the soap. The cocoa butter makes the soap hard and the coconut oil makes it sudsy. Our soap doesn’t contain any artificial additive, fragrance, or dye.
Ingredients:
72.80 oz. Organic Unrefined Cold Pressed Coconut Oil (65%)
39.20 oz. Unrefined Cocoa Butter (35%)
42.56 oz. distilled Water
17.82 oz. Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
Total oils is 112 oz.
Lye discount is 5%
Directions:
Weight the water and set aside.
Hear goggles and gloves. Weight the Sodium Hydroxide and take both the lye and the water outside or to a well ventilated area.
Carefully poor the lye in the water while stirring slowly with a wooden or silicone spoon.
Hold your breath and stir.
Step away to breath and return to stir the lye solution for few seconds.
Make sure pets and children steer clear from the lye solution.
Weight the cocoa butter and pour in the soap pan and heat to medium heat to melt.
Weigh the coconut oil and add to the cocoa butter and melt both oils together. Stir the oils with a long spatula.
Once the oils are almost melted, turn the stove off and let the warmed oils melt the remaining solid oils.
Once all the oils are melted, put the google and gloves on and gently poor the lye solution in the soap pot on top of the oils. There is no need to let both the oils and lye solution to cool down to the same temperature. They can be warm. Just make sure the stove is off under the soap pot. The soap is cold process.
Stir the mixture together for few seconds.
Wash the lye solution container and its spoon with gloves on.
Wash the container used to weigh the oils.
Back to the soap mixture, stir gently with gloves and goggles on.
Stir for 5 minutes before stepping away. If the time is available, stir constantly for 30 minutes otherwise, stir time to time.
Within one hour, the soap mixture would thicken up and ready to pour into the soap mold. If the mold can leak, wait for the soap mixture to be very thick before pouring.
The saponification process started it before I even pourred the soap: natural glycerin is formed.
Cover the soap mold. Let the soap undisturbed for 24 hours.
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After 24 hours, touch the soap. If it is hard, take the soap out of the mop and cut in pieces.
Lay the bars in a ventilated area to dry for at least 3 weeks.
After 3 weeks, store the soap bars in a box where they can breathe and continue to dry.
The soap is ready to be used when it is at least 3 weeks old. The older the soap, the milder it is and the longer it lasts.
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