How lovely is this Cold Processed Soap? Tanya C has shared her recipe with us, so why not make this luscious, feminine soap, designed to celebrate Mother's Day.

This soap has a creamy base colour with a pink and mauve swirl.

• 300g Coconut Oil (30%)
• 250g Olive Oil - Tanya used "light" - (25%)
• 250g Rice Bran Oil (25%)
• 150g Palm Oil, Sustainable (15%)
•   50g Organic Shea Butter (5%)

   

• 142g Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) - approx 5% superfat.
• 270g * Filtered water, plus 1/4 cup aloe vera juice (added to oils)
  
  (*Total liquid content is discounted by approx 5% from full amount - I found when soaping at a higher discount - about 15% - that the Fragrance accelerated trace somewhat)
  
  
• 20g/ml Bramble Berry's Sweet Pea Fragrance
  
  
• Tussah Silk Fibre (optional) - about a small cotton ball sized wad - a little goes a long way.

   

• Brites NG Pink and Brites NG Sky Blue
• 1/2 tsp Titanium Dioxide Powder

   

Method:

• Add silk fibre to water and sprinkle sodium hydroxide on top of silk carefully!  Follow all safety procedures for mixing lye solution.  Silk will dissolve as the lye dissolves; stir occasionally.  Allow to cool to 30°C

• Add Titanium Dioxide powder to either oils or aloe juice depending on whether it is liquid or oil dispersible.   Bring oils to 30°C.  I soaped a little cooler to help slow trace down a bit.  I add my aloe juice to my oils before mixing in the lye solution (just a personal preference, and may help keep the batter a lighter tone in the finished product)

• Follow instructions for an ITP swirl.  I used about 1 cupful of traced soap batter for each of my two colours - colouring one 15 drops Pink Brites for CP and the other with 15 drops Brites NG Hot Pink and 5 drops Brites NG Sky Blue

• I used a Nizzy 12 bar divider mould (we now stock Silicone 12 Bar Rectangle Moulds) and after pouring in the soap batter I waited until it had reached a thick trace then swirled top of soap with a chopstick to get the texture in the pic.  Then place dividers and cover for gel.

Note: Most florals do accelerate trace to some extent, so if you are inexperienced, use full water content.