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How To Make Lavender Soap

The trick for this lavender melt and pour soap recipe is to get alkanet root powder which will give a beautiful lavender purple-blue color to your soap.

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 8 cups melt and pour organic soap base with goat milk
  • a double boiler or an aluminum bowl placed into a pan of water
  • 2  tablespoons organic jojoba  or organic almond oil
  • 2 tablespoons organic cocoa butter or shea butter
  • 1 tablespoon of alkanet root powder here
  • 30 drops lavender essential oil cedarwood essential oil, bergamot essential oil.
  • Silicon mold
  • 100 g organic dried lavender buds

Method
 

  1. Cut the melt and pour soap base into small cubes so they melt faster
  2. Add them to your double boiler (basically an aluminum bowl in a pan half filled with warm water) on low to medium heat
  3. Your water should be simmering but not boiling.
  4. Continue steering until the soap base is melted
  5. Once melted, add the jojoba or almond oil, cocoa butter, mix well. You could also substitute with any carrier oil or butter of your choice.
  6. Once everything is melted, take the bowl off the heat, wait a few minutes until is slightly cools off then add essential oils if desired, mix well. If you add the essential oils when the base is too warm, they will evaporate and you can say goodbye to the amazing scents….
  7. Pour in the silicone mold but keep 1/4 of a cup so you can add the alcanet root separately.
  8. In the remainder ¼ of base, add the alkanet root and mix well.
  9. Add the alkanet melt and pour to your silicon mold and create swirls with a wooden stick going from one side to another.
  10. Alternatively you can also add the alkanet root to the entire melt and pour base and have purple soaps, that’s up to you!
  11. Spray pure alcohol on top of the soap to get rid of the bubbles if any
  12. Add the dried lavender flowers on top of the soap while it is still liquid