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Sea Salt Soap Recipe

Sea Salt Soap Recipe

Making your own sea salt soap is fun. It's also simple and good for your skin. This Sea Salt Soap Recipe creates gentle bars.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Soap
Cuisine Homemade
Servings 10

Equipment

  • Digital scale
  • Stainless steel pot
  • Stick blender
  • Soap mold
  • Silicone molds
  • Thermometer
  • Safety gloves and goggles
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Paper towels
  • Wooden Spoon

Ingredients
  

  • Coconut oil - 2 cups helps soap get hard
  • Olive oil - 1 cup makes soap gentle
  • Lye - 1/2 cup turns oils into soap
  • Distilled water - 3/4 cup mixes with lye
  • Fine sea salt - 1/2 cup adds minerals
  • Essential oils - 2 tablespoons adds nice smell

Instructions
 

  • Put on your gloves and goggles now.
  • Lye can burn your skin very badly.
  • Work in a well-ventilated room always.
  • Keep kids and pets away from workspace.
  • Open windows if you have them nearby.
  • Pour water into a heat-safe container.
  • Slowly add lye to the water carefully.
  • Never pour water into lye instead.
  • It will bubble and heat up fast.
  • Stir gently until lye dissolves completely.
  • Let this mixture cool down to 100°F.
  • This takes about 30 minutes usually.
  • Combine coconut oil and olive oil together.
  • Heat them in your stainless steel pot.
  • Warm until coconut oil melts fully.
  • Let oils cool to 100°F too.
  • Both mixtures should match in temperature.
  • Pour lye mixture into the melted oils.
  • Use your stick blender right away.
  • Blend for 30 seconds, then stir manually.
  • Repeat this process several more times.
  • The mixture will get thick like pudding.
  • This is called "trace" in soap making.
  • Quickly stir in your fine sea salt.
  • Add essential oils at this same time.
  • Mix everything together really well now.
  • Work fast because soap hardens quickly.
  • Pour soap mixture into your prepared molds.
  • Tap molds gently on the counter top.
  • This removes any trapped air bubbles inside.
  • Smooth the top with a spatula.
  • Leave soap in molds for 48 hours.
  • Don't touch or move them around.
  • The soap needs time to harden properly.
  • After two days, remove from the molds.
  • Cut soap into bars if needed now.
  • Place bars on a drying rack.
  • Let them cure for 4-6 weeks total.
  • This makes soap last much longer.
  • It also makes the soap gentler too.

Notes

  • Use fine sea salt, not coarse grains.
  • Coarse salt makes soap scratchy and rough.
  • Work quickly once you add the salt.
  • Sea salt speeds up the hardening process.
  • Don't use too much sea salt overall.
  • It can make soap crumbly and weak.
  • Test your essential oils on skin first.
  • Some people have allergic reactions to them.
  • Label your soaps with the making date.
  • This helps you track curing time easily.
  • Store extra soap in a cool place.
  • Heat can make soap sweat or melt.
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