The Making of a Soap Recipe

This next recipe I want to talk about is my Avocado Oil Soap recipe. I also use Green Tea Extract and Aloe Vera Gel for a nice rich bar.   I love Avocado oil it has so many wonderful qualities.  It's softening and conditioning for the skin.  It has Vitamins A, D and E.  It is good for sunburned and wind chapped skin.  It's also a really good oil for massage as it has good slip to it.  If you want to learn more check out this blog post by SwiftCraftyMonkey. (I love her blog  :)) http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.ca/2009/11/avocado-oil.html  So because of all those wonderful qualities I thought that it would make a really nice bar of soap.

 At first I tried using Unrefined Avocado oil.  It made the bar a beautiful color but it faded out over time.  It also for some reason was a very very dry bar of soap.  I used 30% coconut oil so it was dry anyway but this one was extra dry.  I decided that it was because of the naturally occurring alpha hydroxy acids in the unrefined brand.  That's just my assumption not scientific fact.  So what I did then was decrease the amount of Coconut oil and use a refined Avocado oil and BINGO I love it.  It is a very nice bar that doesn't dry out my skin.

Other reasons I love this recipe include that it's a slow moving recipe.  If I want to make a few or heck even five or six color bar.  I'm sure I could do it easily with this recipe.  So it's a keeper.

Check out this video of me using the Avocado Oil Soap recipe.

Making Green Tea and Aloe Vera Soap



Just as an aside I wouldn't use Aloe Vera Gel in a Soap ever again.  It tried to volcano on me.  I will use Aloe Vera extract instead.  That will be reflected in the recipe I post here.

Angela's Aloe Vera and Green Tea Soap Recipe

Refined Avocado Oil 20%

Castor Oil 8%

Coconut Oil 20%

Olive Oil 37%

Palm Oil 15%

Additives

1 tsp/lb Vitamin E

1oz/lb Liquid Aloe Vera Extract

Note: Aloe Vera gel will volcano.  I haven't tried to use the aloe juice yet

fragrance 1oz/lb

Color: I used 1 tsp each chromium green oxide and titanium oxide mixed in with a bit of olive oil separately