By David Fisher. Candle & Soap Making Expert
An alert - when you consider using a real soap to shave with, you'll never make use of a commercial shaving cream again!
This recipe, which you'll tailor and modify to fit your own oil preferences, isn't a good deal diverse from a normal cold process soap recipe, although it's been adjusted to own characteristics required for a shaving soap. As Michael Pork recommends in the book "Leisureguy's Help guide to Gourmet Shaving ," a shaving soap ought to be:
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- abundant [in lather]
- aromatic
- lubricating
- protective
- lengthy lasting
- 30% Coconut oil - wealthy, bubbly lather
- 30% Palm oil - stable, creamy, hard bar (can substitute lard or tallow)
- 10% Using castor oil - for lather and creaminess
- 15% Sunflower oil - for conditioning and lather
- 10% Essential olive oil - for conditioning
- 5% Cacao butter - for conditioning
- 9.6 oz. Coconut oil
- 9.6 oz. Palm oil
- 3.2 oz. Using castor oil
- 4.8 oz. Sunflower oil
- 3.2 oz. Essential olive oil
- 1.6 oz. Cacao butter
- 4.6 oz. Lye (in regards to a 5% discount)
- 9.2 oz. water
- 2 Tbsp .. of Bentonite Clay
- 1-to-1.4 oz. of scent or acrylic
The clay helps provide the soap extra "slip" as well as activly works to purify the skin. (Consider a clay or dirt mask.) The additional castor helps provide a thick creamy lather. All that you should do is grab a shaving brush!
Note: If you wish to make use of a melt and pour base to create a shaving soap, you are able to, however your results will be different with respect to the soap base you use. Take a look at my Melt and Pour Shaving Soap recipe.
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To change your personal recipe, simply take your fundamental soap recipe and adjust your recipe in order that it has more lengthy lasting and lathering oils. and much less essential olive oil. Animal oils like lard and tallow work nicely in shaving soaps - because they have lengthy lasting, stable lathers. Use a mix of liquid oils like sunflower, canola, almost and/or oil. Using multiple oils plays a role in the complexness from the lather.
Add a couple of teaspoon. of Bentonite or any other clay for each pound of soap within the batch. I favor Bentonite clay, though you should use Kaolin, Rhassoul or Larger's Earth. (Click the link to purchase clays direct) or consider the links below to learn more about clays.) Give a scent or acrylic suitable for the individual shaving - but make sure that it's one appropriate for sensitive skin - remember, you're shaving through this soap.
Result in the soap as if you would every other Cold Process Soap recipe. You can include the clay virtually when you want within the recipe. Many people combine it with their lye water. Others just mix it in to the oils because they are melting. You may also have a half cup approximately of the melted oils, insert them in a calculating cup, a combination your clay in to the oils. Adding this pre-mixed clay/oil mixture towards the soap when you've arrived at trace. Any method works fine.
I love to pour the soap straight into coffee mugs or tins. An alternative choice would be to pour it into lengths of three" PVC pipe which has one finish plugged up. This gives a disc of soap that may be put into a mug or tin. Allow the soap cure normally, so when it's done, have a wonderfully old-fashioned, but terrific shaving soap!