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Coconut Milk & Mango Puree Cold Process Soap

If this is your first time making cold process soap, please visit this blog post first: https://www.charmedhandmade.com/post/the-beginner-s-guide-to-making-cold-process-soap-with-recipe

Discounting Fruit & Vegetable Purees for Lye Solution

Since purees contain water, reduce the amount of liquid (distilled water and milk in this case) in your lye solution by the same amount of puree you’re adding. For instance, if you add 4 ounces of puree, reduce your liquid by 4 ounces.

Recipe

Mold Size - 65 oz Extra Skinny Soap Mold

Preparing Coconut Milk

In order to prepare your coconut milk for soap-making, you will need to pour it into ice trays and let it freeze. I used silicone ice trays for easy removal. Doing this step helps keep the coconut milk from scorching when the lye is added.

Preparing Mango Puree

In order to puree the mango, peel the mango and chop it into chunks then place the diced mango into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.

Ingredients

Lye Solution

Distiller Water - 4.21 oz
Frozen Coconut Milk - 4.21 oz
Lye - 6.12 oz

Oils

Olive Oil - 25.52 oz
Coconut Oil - 10.12 oz
Apricot Kernel Oil - 5.28 oz
Castor Oil - 3.08 oz

Additives

Fragrance Oil - 1.93 oz
Mango Puree - 4 oz
Orange Mica - 1/4 tsp
Titanium Dioxide - 1/8tsp

Directions

Gather your supplies. Put on your gloves, safety glasses, and long sleeves. Be sure to be in a well-ventilated area free of pets, children, or those that need supervision.
Measure out the required amount of lye into a lye safe container.
Into a different lye safe container, measure out the frozen coconut milk cubes and distilled water. The total amount of liquid should be 8.42 oz.
Slowly pour a small amount of lye into the liquid mixture and stir. Repeat this until your lye is fully dissolved in the water/coconut milk mixture. Set aside to cool. Always pour the lye into the liquid, never the other way around.
In a heat-resistant bowl, measure and melt coconut oil. After your coconut oil is liquified, pour olive oil, apricot kernel oil and castor oil into that same heat-resistant bowl. Also, measure out your fragrance oil in a separate container and set aside.
Once your oil mixture and your lye solution are both in the 75 - 85 degrees Fahrenheit range, slowly pour the lye solution into the oils and mix with a stick blender until it has formed an emulsion (can no longer be separated). This typically takes just a few seconds.
Add fragrance oil, and mango puree to the batter and mix by hand with a silicone spatula or other mixing utensil. After the mango puree and fragrance oil have been stirred in, mix again with the stick blender until thin trace is achieved.
Pour about 1/4th of the batter into a separate container.
To the main (larger) batter, add orange mica. To the smaller batter, add titanium dioxide. You will need disperse the titanium dioxide in small amount of distilled water first if water soluble or in oil if not.
Using separate mixing utensils, hand mix each batter. After the colorants are mixed in, stick blend white batter for a few seconds to be sure that the color is fully mixed then do the same with the orange soap batter.
Once both mixtures are at medium trace, in a circular motion, drizzle the white soap batter into the larger container of orange batter.
Pour the soap mixture into the mold going back and forth. After filling, be sure to scrape both containers clean and add to mold.
To add texture to the top of the soap, you can massage the soap batter with a chopstick creating wave-like peaks and divots. Be sure to remove any air pockets by tapping the mold gently on a hard surface.
Spray 99% isopropyl alcohol on top of the soap in order to help prevent soda ash. This step is optional.
Let your soap sit in the mold for 48 hours then unmold and cut into 1 inch bars. Allow your soap to cure for 4-6 weeks on a drying rack in a cool, well-ventilated area away from direct sunlight.

Notes

The liquid portion of your lye solution can be up to 100% coconut milk. Using half distilled water and half coconut milk is just my personal preference.
To easily disperse the mica into the soap batter, mix it with a small amount of carrier oil first.