After making the batch of castile soap (last post), I decided to use the same recipe and add in lavender essential oil and dried lavender into the soup. This is my first experiment with essential oil therefore I thought best to go with a small test batch:
- olive oil - 272.10g
- lye - 34.4g
- distilled water - 85.47g
- lavender 40/42 essential oil - 15ml
- dried lavender - did not record weight - judged by eye!
The method was exactly the same as in previous post, but when trace was reached, I poured and stirred in the essential oil and dried lavender with a spoon. Since this was a small batch, I used a homemade mould (cleaned out cocoa container!). The soap turned out white with lavender distributed nicely through it, and smelling of lavender (no real surprise there!). I am pretty pleased with the result!
One thing to note was that the dried lavender changed to a brown colour which was due to the heat of the soap during saponification.
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