Herbal Recipes for Soap Making

Herbal Soap Recipes

Expresso Coffee Soap

This is a wonderfully lightly scented Columbian Coffee Soap that just makes you want to soak in the tub as you sip a cup of your favorite java! Its an easy recipe, so give it a try!

 

Expresso Coffee Soap

Ingredients:
8 oz wt Canola Oil
8 oz wt Coconut Oil
8 oz wt Olive Oil
8 oz wt Hydrogenated Soybean Oil (Crisco)
12 fl oz Water
4.5 oz wt Lye (sodium hydroxide)

Instructions:
There are two ways to make this - here's the first:
Follow your normal procedure to make soap. Brew triple strength coffee, and use it in place of the water. Add 1 tablespoon of coffee grounds at trace. This soap is a dark brown color and the coffee scent does diminish over time.

2nd way to make this soap:
Follow normal procedure for soap. At trace stir in 1 to 1.5 oz of Columbia Coffee FO - preferably from Oregon Trails and 1 Tablespoon coffee grounds.

This soap is wonderful when it comes to removing various 'odors' from the kitchen - such as onion or garlic smells as well as those fishy odors!

Apple Spice Soap Recipe

Summary:
Oven Hot Process
Ingredients:
18 oz canola oil
8 oz coconut oil
18 oz olive oil
12oz distilled water
6oz lye

1Tbsp apple pie spice
1Tbsp Tumeric
2Tbsp Apple FO (
Instructions:
Make sure you know the safety precautions before making any soap. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Add lye to water and cool to 100 degrees. Melt oils. I melt my oils in the same pot that I later put in the oven. Cool to 100 degrees. Mix oils and lye water together using a stick blender. At light trace add spices then FO. Cover with a lid and put it in the oven for 1 1/2 hours. Scoop into the mold. After 24 hrs remove it from the mold and cut. Allow it several days to harden, then package. This recipe was modified from Kathy Miller's web site.

You can also change the 'flavor' to just about anything you come up with!