Refreshing lemon balm and lemon soap
Mariane
A soft, nourishing and refreshing soap, sound good? Here's our soap recipe with lemon balm, lemon and field mint. You'll love it!
This recipe is intended for people familiar with cold-process soapmaking. The steps are not provided for that reason. Would you like to learn to make your own soaps? Sign up for our online workshop!
Level
Advanced
Preparation
1 hr 30
Contains
1 kg (10 soaps of 100 g)
Conservation
indefinite
Ingredients
- 239 g of organic sunflower oil (high oleic, like the one we offer!) (The sunflower oil used must be high oleic, as indicated in the calculator. The soap's hardness and rancidity index depend on it!)
- 226 g of organic coconut oil
- 150 g of oil maceration of organic lemon balm in olive oil
- 31 g of organic castor oil
- 18 g of sunflower wax
- 15 g of organic lemon essential oil (Citrus limonum)
- 5 g of organic field mint essential oil (Mentha arvensis)
- 5 g of green clay (For the color!)
- 92 g of sodium hydroxide
- 223 g of water
- Prerequisite: Online workshop - introduction to artisanal soapmaking
CALCULATOR (see the Steps section of this recipe):
If you use the calculator, note that
1) the sunflower wax is entered as beeswax. We adjusted the saponification value accordingly;
2) the olive oil represents the lemon balm maceration in olive oil.
Preparation steps
Link to the calculator here.
This recipe is intended for people familiar with cold-process soapmaking. The steps aren't provided for that reason. Would you like to learn to make your own soaps? Sign up for our online workshop!
