Sweet Potatoe & Cranberry Soap

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

Twas the night before thanksgiving, the orange leaves fly trough the sky, families coming over for some sweet potato soap pie!! Hey fam are you all cooking away preparing for Thanksgiving? If so save some of those sweet potato's and brown sugar for a lavish and bubbly sweet potato soap. Sweet potato's are awesome in soap, just as good as carrots and pumpkin. Packed with beta carotene and a lush amount of vitamins in minerals all for soft and moisturized skin. Also I have great client testimonials from my famous cranberry soap from last holiday. I used dried cranberries from trader joes mixed in the soap after cooking and topped off on top like a pie! So you can make cranberry soap with a basic recipe using red clay and cranberries. I will cook mine tomorrow how about you!? Recipes to follow below post your pictures if you in for some holiday soap cooking!!

Enjoy!!

 

 

 

This took twice as long in the crock pot as any other soap I've made. But it came out so rich and creamy and yummy smelling. The lather is light tan.  I put real spice lines of ginger, and just a touch of cinnamon and cardamon. Spices alone are not usually strong enough to give a good scent when the soap is done, so I added some essential oils. The result is a heavenly smelling, decadent bar that just makes you feel good to use. Love it.

2 oz beeswax

2.5 oz castor oil

4 oz cocoa butter

8 oz coconut oil

2 oz grapeseed oil

17 oz olive oil

1 oz shea butter

1.6 oz crisco

2 oz sunflower seed oil

3 oz canned pumpkin or cooked sweet potato puree

1 oz warmed honey

1tbs. brown sugar (add sugar to the water before adding the lye)

1tbs. kaolin clay

2 oz essential oil (ex: blend of clove, vanilla, cinnamon)

5.2 oz lye  ( 6% superfatted using Bramble Berry's lye Calc ) Always use gloves and glasses when working with lye (sodium hydroxide). 

10 oz  goats milk ice cubes or cold coconut milk

3.2 oz  rain water

I did not discount the water for the pumpkin or (sweet potato puree)  in this recipe.  If you make this the liquid amount recommended is 13.2 oz,  I just split mine between the milk and rain water.

Always run a soap recipe through a lye calculator before making it yourself.   Be safe.

Check out this video for: Cranberry Soap