Bastille Soap Recipe
Thanks for sharing this new soap recipe rhonda.
Bastille soap recipe. Many soap purists will say that to truly be castile soap it has to be made from 100 percent olive oil. Creamy shea butter bastille soap. Some will describe it as smooth and creamy but most will describe it as slimy try it at least once but just know that the lather is different than what. It lathers ok not as well.
Basic recipe for bastille soap. It s super charged with skin loving ingredients like chamomile infused olive oil shea butter and colloidal oatmeal to gently cleanse the skin without stripping it of it s natural barrier mantel. 12 8 ounces of organic olive oil 3 2 ounces of coconut oil 6 08 ounces of distilled water 2 06 ounces of sodium hydroxide lye follow the same directions for hot process soap as stated in the links above. Last day to enter the giveaway http bit ly 1000.
This is one of those bastille recipes. This gentle bastille baby soap recipe is great for delicate baby skin and for anyone that has sensitive skin. Bastille soap is beneficial in that it is gentle and conditioning so it is a good option for people with sensitive skin. And while you certainly can make soap from 100 percent olive oil you may not like the lather it makes.
I managed to get the mixture to achieve trace just fine poured it in a mold and then was covering it with plastic wrap when it suddenly started bubbling and foaming. We re changing up everything this week. However some people young and old have sensitive skin that can be irritated by the extra cleansing power of coconut and other oils so they will opt for a soap recipe that is more in line with pure castile soap with 100 percent olive oil or bastille soap that has a preponderance of olive oil but also includes other oils as well. I wish there was a way to attached an image.
Your soap making tutorials have inspired me to have a go myself. I have made this soap recipe before and plenty other cold process soap recipes too with success but my latest attempt with this recipe ended in a bubbling mixture. It contains mostly. It smells incredible too.
This is a great recipe to try as a beginner to soapmaking as it is simple to create and it makes. Technically they are right. I always have two soap making crock pots going at the same time so i made both of these soap recipes at once. This recipe for bastille and honey soap cooked a little more slowly than most of my other soap recipes but in the end it turned out beautifully.
Most soaps retain a bit of the scent of the saponifation process of the oils but this soap actually smelled really good and you really wouldn t have to use essential oils if you didn t want to.