Herbal soap with bamboo impression
Method: Cold process
Mold: Old drawer lined up with plastic sheet and silicone sheet with bamboo pattern
It’s been a while since I did not soap and so last Sunday I spent my afternoon soaping!
I realized that I have never made a herbal soap and at the same time I was dying to try my new impression mat with bamboo pattern!
As usually, I soaped from what I had at home and I had almost nothing, so I sent my hubby to buy olive oil and contented myself with the following simple recipe 🙂
Recipe
1600g Olive oil pomace
300g Palm oil
100g Castor oil
258g NaOH
760g Distilled water
At trace: 40g green clay
9.8g (10ml) EO ginger
4.29g (5ml) EO thyme
4.75g (5?ml – what was left in the bottle) EO sage
8.61g (10ml) – EO petitgrain
10g – EO lemon
Instructions
0. First, I prepared my mold, lined it with plastic sheet and then the bamboo silicone mat.The mat was larger than the mold, so I used the rest of it for covering soap from the other side.
1. I prepared my lye and let it cool to 50°C
2. I melted palm oil directly in its bottle by immersing it in warm water. Than I added it to the rest of the oils. OIls were at 26°C when I poured lye into them.
3. I stirred everything by hand first (no blender), because I know that castor oil is accelerating the trace and I needed to mix in well the green clay.
4. In very light trace I mixed the clay with small amount of soap.
5. Then I poured the clay into the rest of the soap and after thorough hand stirring I used blender
6. At thicker trace I added essential oils
7. I poured the soap into the mold and used the rest of the silicone mat to cover the soap – as you can see below, I did not really manage to cover it uniformly, although I tried.
8. 26 hours later, I unpacked and unmolded the soap – it did not pass the gel phase, but was already hard enough to cut.




9. Some of the soaps have two side impression! I love silicone impression mats, do you? 🙂
This entry was posted by evik on October 1, 2013 at 21:35, and is filed under soap recipes, soapmaking, soapmaking techniques. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.
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#2 written by evik 7 years ago
Hi Suzanne, the best place is the bakery or pastry supplier shops. Search for “fondant imprint mat” or “impression mat”. E.g. http://www.pastrychef.com/FONDANT-IMPRINT-MATS_p_1531.html or http://www.bakedeco.com/nav/search.asp?pagestart=1&ID=0&price=&namufacid=0&sortby=&keywords=impression%20mat&va=1#.Uk2i1T_2Xug – these are just quick searches I did now online.
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#3 written by evik 7 years ago
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This is the only place I’ve been able to find a tutorial for using a fondant mat with cp soap. I love it! I’m thinking about trying it over the top of my loaf mold. I think I should be able to smooth it out and press down on the mat. I’m not sure but my wheels are turning over this cool effect. Thank you!
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#5 written by evik 6 years ago
Hi Angie! I suggest to unroll the mat over the top of the soap to really keep the bubbles out. Try to maintain the pressure even. Otherwise you might finish the one I got when I rolled my mat over the top – see the third picture in the series. Let me know how it went, I would love to know if you succeed.
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#7 written by Hollie 5 years ago
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