http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/2009/10/pure-olive-oil-soap.html simplicity, creativity, self-sufficiency,...minivans Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/2009/10/pure-olive-oil-soap.html/comment-page-2#comment-14974 Marla Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:58:35 +0000 http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/?p=2175#comment-14974 I am fairly new to the cold process. I made melt-n-pour for years and finally got up the courage to battle the lye after watching hours and hours of videos. I found my Sodium Hydroxide at Ace Hardware (pipe cleaner), but had to buy my Potassium Hydroxide on Ebay. My first recipe of cold process soap is with olive oil, coconut oil, and palm kernal oil. I love it. It has never dried my skin out like store bought soaps. I even shave it down, melt, & dilute it with water when I want to make some shampoo. I have not used the potash yet for liquid soap. I want to get comfortable with the bars first. I made my second batch today and it is setting up in my storm building right now. Some are an awesome creme brulee', peppermint, and peppermint & tea tree oil. My daughter has some skin issues and I have read that olive oil soap with tea tree and mint is very good for her skin. So far it has worked great. I hand-stirred the 1st batch for 3 hours and 20 minutes and this time I used a stick blender for about 10-15 minutes! It is definitely the way to go. I gave my family bars for Christmas from my 1st batch, this time I think I will label and set some out for sale at my sister-in-laws beauty shop. I think the hardest thing for me is having to wait the 6 weeks for curing before using. God bless I am fairly new to the cold process. I made melt-n-pour for years and finally got up the courage to battle the lye after watching hours and hours of videos. I found my Sodium Hydroxide at Ace Hardware (pipe cleaner), but had to buy my Potassium Hydroxide on Ebay. My first recipe of cold process soap is with olive oil, coconut oil, and palm kernal oil. I love it. It has never dried my skin out like store bought soaps. I even shave it down, melt, & dilute it with water when I want to make some shampoo. I have not used the potash yet for liquid soap. I want to get comfortable with the bars first. I made my second batch today and it is setting up in my storm building right now. Some are an awesome creme brulee’, peppermint, and peppermint & tea tree oil. My daughter has some skin issues and I have read that olive oil soap with tea tree and mint is very good for her skin. So far it has worked great. I hand-stirred the 1st batch for 3 hours and 20 minutes and this time I used a stick blender for about 10-15 minutes! It is definitely the way to go. I gave my family bars for Christmas from my 1st batch, this time I think I will label and set some out for sale at my sister-in-laws beauty shop. I think the hardest thing for me is having to wait the 6 weeks for curing before using. God bless

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