Hot Process Shave Soap Recipe
I did a small batch 8 oz.
Hot process shave soap recipe. 23 lemon bergamot 13 rosemary. Weigh out the glycerin and castor oil into a crock pot. This makes the lather of this soap thicker more stable and creamier.
For this recipe we need 206 grams of dry lye. This hot process soap recipe produces about 30 oz of soap. Additionally you can use this soap making method to create another one of our lovely soap recipes.
Your shave soap may be used immediately after creation or you can wait until it softens. Allow the stearic acid to fully melt before moving on to making your shaving soap. Once your superfat is mixed in you can turn your crock pot off and leave the soap to cool down a little before adding the fragrance.
The heat is internally generated during saponification and the soap may or may not go into gel phase. A simple hot process soap recipe suitable for beginners. Then follow the measurements given for water and lye.
You can substitute an equal weight of any essential oil or your favorite fragrance oil. This soap has 40 stearic acid in it from shea butter cocoa butter palm oil and pure stearic acid. Soft shave soaps made with potassium hydroxide and glycerin with solidify and harden after saponification into a solid bar and will soften over a period of time.
35 coconut oil would be quite high for bath soap but this is quite normal for shaving soap. You dont want it too cool however otherwise it will thicken up and make molding harder. The final soap bars are a natural creamy to tan color depending on the type of olive oil used and have a creamy yet.