Mango Shea Soap

I have finished what I’m calling my “Ultimate” Mango coconut lavender Skincare soap. As I mentioned before, I planned on pooling my ideas and skills and coming up with that very top-of-the-line soap that does really cool things for your skin and helps you drop 10 lb. as well. The only justification for the latter is that maybe, if your skin is warm and glowing, you will feel like doing more stuff which could even include an increase of exercise and thus, 10 lb. left behind as well as all those chemicals from commercial soap. A stretch? Well, sure. But the soap will be great anyway. At least that’s the plan.

I’ve been mulling over this project, looking for another extra-special ingredient, something to set it apart from the rest. One of my main issue is whether it's worth it to put them through the difficult saponification process and whether in a soap they would be on the skin long enough to utilize their remarkable qualities, which included being extremely high in anti-oxidents among others.

I’m sure I will NOT have the definitive answer to that question, but in the end, I decided to add them anyway, in relatively small proportions, to a recipe full of other wonderful ingredients. It included mango butter, cocoa butter, aloe vera and lavender blossoms and other good stuff like lots of coconut cream.

I also consulted with my good soapmaker friend, Sharon who surely has the best soap company name in the world, Simple Pleasures. Thanks for the input Sharon.

And here they are, My lovely Mango coconut and lavender soap

So, bottom line, I did it and the soap smells wonderful. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s a happy, fresh, uplifting fragrance. I haven’t had a chance to get input from others yet, but I like it well enough that I’m not overly concerned. Right now I’m waiting to see how well the scent holds over time.

Stay tuned
Leigh




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Weird behaving batch- soap making disaster!

This was a weird behaving batch, I used lavender infused olive oil and used lavender water, I brought the soap to perfect trace, included my additives, placed the soap in the molds, and everything was perfect.

Then, disaster happened! I choose to remove it from the molds placed it on the fire and stirred away for more that 1 hour to get it to the gel stage, even had to do it on direct heat for about 20 mins. without any trace, it was not until I added some coconut milk it went into gel, then I added 2 tablespoons of clay with essential oil of lavender. I was praying all the scents of the oils and herbs I used would not go because of the long cooking but, some made it through, most did not.

When I unmolded the soap it turned out to be terribly soft, guess I will have to let it dry a bit more and hopefully it'll be a lovely soap. We'll see. Stay tuned!


THE SOAP KITCHEN
Caribbean Spa
Tel: 1 (868) 640.5119
Cell: 1 (868) 681.1536
Email: leigh@thesoapkitchentt.com
Website: www.thesoapkitchentt.com
Blog: http://thesoapkitchen.blogspot.com