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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.Â
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.
| Recipe for one layer | (repeat twice) |
| Lye solution | |
| Distilled water | 172g |
| NaOH | 65g |
| Oils and fats | |
| Olive oil | 82g |
| Grapeseed oil | 73g |
| Coconut oil | 145g |
| Cocoa butter | 36g |
| Palm oil | 127g |
| Shea butter | 47g |
| At trace | |
| Bottom layer | |
| EO Ravensara + EO Limet | 5ml + 5ml |
| Wheatmeal | 2 teaspoons |
| Top layer | |
| EO Ravensara + EO Limet | 5ml + 5ml |
| Green mineral oxide | 1 teaspoons |
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
This recipe is made in two batches – first we prepare the bottom layer which is poured onto mungo beans and then, after 3 hours when this layer is solid enough, we can prepare the top soap layer and pour it on the bottom one. I prepared my lye solution for both batches at once using half of it for the bottom layer and the rest for the top layer.
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:
