Our friend Carla had been wanting us to have another soapmaking lesson at our house so we got together Saturday with our friend Teresa and a new friend Donna and made two soaps: Tea Tree Lemongrass Avocado and Peppermint Honey Oatmeal. Dave posted on his blog the recipe for the Peppermint Honey Oatmeal here.
You will notice in the above picture that we have the kitchen window open. We do that when we are adding the lye even when it’s cold outside.
Here is the recipe for this soap. I’ll post the other later.
Olive Oil – 30% – 270 grams Coconut Oil – 30% – 270 grams Palm Oil – 25% – 225 grams Avocado Oil – 5% – 45 grams Avocado Butter – 5% – 45 grams Castor Oil – 5% – 45 grams Frozen Goat’s Milk – 342 grams Lye – 128 grams The following were added at trace: This makes 2 lbs of soap or 10 bars. As with any recipe you get off of the Internet, please run this through one of the calculators. This one is our favorite. 
Please refer to the cold process instructions here.
After the soap was poured and put downstairs to wait 24 hours to cut, and cleaning up the kitchen (thank you Donna), we all sat down to Carla’s Coconut Cream pie. Yum! What a way to end a soapmaking afternoon!
It looks like great fun! Wish i could have been there!
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Quilter’s Day Out will be at Ferdinand community center on the 9th. I will be there vending. They have speakers come in for the day if you are interested in coming over for it.
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printed! thanks for sharing!
I bet those smell awesome!
Rinda
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I can’t wait to make soap in a few weeks! At the moment I have Audubon Bee School, bee books to read, equipment to gather and hives to paint, kids to visit. My time is eaten up with Fun!
On top of that I got rear-ended Wednesday-so a lot of time on the phone with insurance companies and repair shops–not Fun.
Soap making is high on my list and I feel confident I can do it!
Thanks to both of you. See you Saturday!
Kathy, Thanks for the heads up! I’ll check it out.
Denny, It smells great. This was one of Dave’s concoctions.
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Looks like a good time and good soap was had by all. I really need to make some soap too…I want to have some done by mid-April. Better get cracking…or soaping. 🙂
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Great post! Thanks for including the recipe. I’ve heard your soap is wonderful.
Thanks Lynda & Dave!! It was a lot of fun!! And yummy pie, Carla!
Donna, Thanks so much for all of your help and the yummy treat! Hope to see you again and hear about your soap!
Ronda, We missed you! Would have loved to have you join us.
Halle, It was so much fun. Yep, better get cracking!! We made some more yesterday. Can’t wait to use the new one – Chocolate Almond! Thanks for dropping by.
Carla, You are such a busy bee!! Sorry to hear about you getting rear-ended. Glad you weren’t hurt. Yes, you can do it but if you need me, just give me a call. See you soon.
Rinda, The basement where we keep the soap smells lovely!!
Denny, the basement smells wonderful. Let me know what you think of this soap.
That looks like so much fun and the finished soap is beautiful!!
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I have all the ingredients to make this soap except one. I don’t have Avocado butter, is there something else I can use? Now that’s it’s winter I totally understand when you would say “we make soap in the winter.”
Carla, Since it’s only 5%, go back to the soap calc and bump up the avocado oil to 10%. Be sure and run it through the calc to make sure you have the right amount of lye and water.