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Our brand new book is in... Formulating Your Own Soap Recipes: The Definitive Guide and Reference for Creating Unique Formulations & Recipes - revised, expanded, in print, and in stock (at least at the moment).  Above are a few sample pages.  It’s 350 pages long and full color.  Very excited about it!  

New Recipe – Crème Brûlée Sugar Body Scrub

Try this new recipe incorporating cane sugar and vanilla specks. The scent is a lovely Crème Brûlée with a natural color specked with vanilla.

We offer a copy of this recipe in both US Customary and Metric System versions in PDF format for easy downloading, saving and/or printing.

Crème Brûlée Sugar Body Scrub – US Crème Brûlée Sugar Body Scrub – Metric

Yields: 2lbs or 4 (8oz) containers Difficulty: Easy Time: 15 mins

By weight unless otherwise stated 32 oz Cane sugar 6 oz Rice Bran oil 2 oz Shea butter 1 tsp Vanilla specks .5 oz Gluconolactone SB (natural preservative) or preservative of choice 3 mL Crème Brûlée fragrance oil, volume

4 – 8 oz plastic jars

Follow all proper safety guidelines for making cosmetics.

Melt shea butter in a small container in the microwave in 30 second intervals, then mix with rice bran oil. Allow to cool. In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and vanilla specks. Add the oil mixture, fragrance and preservative to the dry ingredients and mix well. Fill four plastic jars with the sugar scrub and label.

Try this new recipe incorporating berry seed oils and fresh strawberry puree. This soap is sure to please with a soft spring scent, delicate color, and moisturizing and exfoliating properties.

We offer a copy of this recipe in both US Customary and Metric System versions in PDF format for easy downloading, saving and/or printing.

Very Berry Strawberry Puree CP Soap – US Very Berry Strawberry Puree CP Soap – Metric

Yields: 5lbs Difficulty: Intermediate Time: 1 hour

By weight unless otherwise stated 10 oz Black Raspberry oil 10 oz Blueberry oil 10 oz Red Raspberry oil 12 oz Sunflower oil 8 oz Coconut oil 76° 5 oz Palm oil

17 oz Distilled water, by volume 3 oz Strawberry puree or juice 7.44 oz Sodium hydroxide (lye)

3 oz Strawberry fragrance 1.5 tsp Pink mica, by volume 2 tsp White pearl mica, by volume 1/4 cup Strawberry seeds, by volume

Follow all proper safety guidelines for making cold process soap.

Remove the tops of 1/2 cup fresh strawberries. Puree strawberries with a splash of distilled water in a blender or food processor.  NOTE:  There must be NO lumps of strawberry left.  Lumps of fruit in your soap will mold.  Measure 3 oz of puree and set aside.

Measure fragrance, white mica, and strawberry seeds and set each aside. Measure pink mica and blend with 2 tsp of one of the oils working out clumps with a mini-mixer.

Carefully add lye to water, stir until the lye is fully dissolved, and cool to 100ºF or cooler. Melt and blend the oils and cool to about 100ºF. Once the lye water and oils have cooled, add the lye water to the oils and stick blend to thin trace. Add fragrance, pink colorant, and seeds to soap mixture and blend.

Pour soap into mold. Add texture to soap top, if desired. Sprinkle white mica on soap surface. Allow to set at least 24 hours. Remove from mold and cure for 4-6 weeks.