Massage soap bar

You can make massage soap by simple adding mungo beans as a bottom layer of your soap.

Soap type: bar soap
Method: CPOP – cold process oven process

I was inspired by my favorite book Soapmaker’s Companion by Susan Miller Cavitch and as usually, I adjusted the ingredients according to what I had at home 🙂
This soap was inspired by the recipe Personal masseuse. 

The soap has three layers:

• the bottom layer is made of mungo beans, which are small and smooth and make an ideal candidate for massage
• the two soap layers are the same recipe, except the bottom one touching the mungo beans should be peeling.
• Susan recommends poppy seeds, which I didn’t have, so I used wheatmeal.

Mold: silicone
Mixing temperatures: lye solution 38°C for first layer, room temperature for second layer (not on purpose, I just prepared double the lye solution needed), oils 40°C

Instructions
1) First, I made a dense one-bean thick layer of mungo beans on the bottom of the mold.

2) Then I prepared the bottom soap layer – in thick trace I added wheatmeal and essential oils. I believe thick trace is important for two reasons: you want to have your wheatmeal or poppy seeds distributed evenly across the layer and also, you don’t want it to go under your mungo beans layer.

  

3) I covered the soap and put into preheated (90°C) oven and let saponify for 3 hours. I prepared the top layer and poured it on the solid bottom layer.

4) Again I preheated oven and let the soap overnight (again the oven was turned off). Soap has passed gel phase. Here is how it looked like next day in the morning: