Whipped Cream Soaps
Basic Instructions
You can use commercial soap flakes or grate your own-very fine. In the UK try www.soap-flakes.co.uk or in the US www.msodistributing for 1 lb/454 grams of Pure Soap Flakes.
Making Whipped Cream Soaps
 | 1 1/2 cups (110 grams) soap flakes
| 10 tablespoons (150ml) distilled water
| 1 tablespoon (15 ml) glycerin
| 1 tablespoon (15 ml) sunflower oil
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- Instructions
- Melt the soap in the water, glycerin, and oil over medium heat in a double
boiler. Stir with a chopstick or spoon handle.
- When mixture is a lumpy paste, remove from heat and add any additional ingredients from your recipe, such as essential oils. Whisk by hand or with an electric beater until creamy.
- Pour into molds and leave in a cool place to set.
- When mixture is a lumpy paste, remove from heat and add any additional ingredients from your recipe, such as essential oils. Whisk by hand or with an electric beater until creamy.
Delicate Rose Cream Soap
Dried pink rosebuds can be used for decoration. If soap is setting face up, stick a bud into the soap while still soft. If soap is setting face down in a mold, put the bud into the mold prior to pouring the soap.
Ingredients
| 30 drops rose essential or fragrance oil
| 1 1/2 tablespoons (22.5 ml) red base color
| 1 1/2 cups (110 grams soap flakes
| 10 tablespoons (150 ml) (substitute for distilled water) rosewater
| 1/2 tablespoon (7.5 ml) honey
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- Instructions
- Follow
Basic Whipped Cream Instructions
Sunflower Cream Soap
Ingredients
| 1 1/2 cups (110 grams) soap flakes
| 10 tablespoons (150 ml) rosewater
| 1 tablespoon (15 ml) sunflower oil
| 15 drops lemon essential oil
| 10 drops other citrus essential oil
| 4 drops basil essential oil
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The soap should be sufficiently hardened after about two hours (shorter if cooled in the refrigerator). Turn it out of the mold.
- Instructions
- Follow Basic Whipped Cream Instructions
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