Gypsy Rainbow Soap (CP)

  

Gypsy Rainbow Soap

Cold Process


30 bars

70 oz. flat mold


Ingredients:

  • 500 g Coconut Oil
  • 300 g Olive Oil
  • 200 g Castor Oil
  • 380 g Distilled Water
  • 150.04 g Lye
  • 30 g EO


Step 1: Prepare Mold

  1. Line mold with butcher paper. 
  2. Prop up corner of mold with a chopstick or wooden spoon.
  3. Set out another chopstick for striping.

Step 2: Prepare Color 

  1. Add 1 tsp of the following colored clays and 1 Tbsp distilled water into 6 pouring containers:
  • Red: Australian Reef Clay
  • Pink: French Rose Clay (Pink Brazilian)
  • Orange: Moroccan Red Clay + French Red Clay (Brazilian Red)
  • Yellow: Brazilian Gold Clay
  • Pale Green: French Green Clay
  • Purple: Brazilian Purple Clay
  1. Stir well with chopstick.

Step 3:  Fats Mixture
  1. Measure fats in 64 oz glass container.
  2. Melt down the solid fats to 120-130 degrees.

Step 4: Essential Oils Mixture

  1. Measure EO's in separate bowls.

Step 5: Lye Solution

  1. Measure water in 32 oz glass container.  
  2. Measure lye in separate glass container.
  3. Take water & lye outside with wooden spoon.
  4. Pour lye slowly into water and mix well.  
  5. Maintain temp at 120-130 degrees.

Step 6: Blend 

  1. Transport lye solution into large plastic pitcher.
  2. Pour fats into lye water and emulsify VERY LIGHTLY. DO NOT OVERMIX.
  3. Add essential oils and lightly stir with wooden spoon.
  4. Divide soap batter into 6 pouring containers containing clay mixtures.
  5. Emulsify JUST SLIGHTLY in order from yellow to purple; rinse emulsifier then blend green last.

Step 7: Pour & Stripe

  1. Pour the soap batter into the mold 1/2 cup of color at a time into propped pouring corner in 4-6 cycles. 
  2. Make radial swipes from pouring corner using thin end of chopstick 1" apart starting down one edge of mold and ending down perpendicular edge.
  3. Make concentric circles with chopstick about 2" apart in the larger spriped sections and end by swiping around 4 mold edges.
  4. Bang mold on counter to release air bubbles.


Step 8: Unmold & Cure

  1. Within 24 hours, cut into bars.
  2. Unmold and cure on a drying rack for 6 weeks.
  3. The soap will be slightly sticky. It will harden as it cures.

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