elliebelle

HELP!!! I desperately need to figure out a way to make shampoo bars using melt and pour soap base (I just don't have the means right now to buy equip and learn how to do colp process soaps). Here is the recipe I used

Originally Posted by cottoncandy

Here is the recipe that I used:

1 lb. opaque melt and pour base

1 tsp. almond oil

4 tsp. shea butter

1 1/2 tsp. castor oil

1 oz. beeswax

1 1/2 oz. cocoa butter

fragrance oil, colorant, if desired

Hi! My suggestion is that you cut down on the cocoa butter to 1 oz at first. In my mp, I use up to @1.5 added oz of butters/oils in total. You might want to cut your beeswax down to 1/2 oz also.

As for your lather, if the above doesn't work, I add a tsp or so of SLSA to my soaps for lather. I added 1/4 tsp of coconut oil.

I took the advice to cut down on the cocoa butter to 1 oz and the beeswax to 1/2 oz. I did add the SLSA. When I used the bar the day after I made it-it left my hair with a weird sticky film that I could not shampoo out of my hair! I do have hard water that is treated with softener salt. I have used it now for 4 days straight and it keeps getting worse! Where did I go wrong? Any advice is appreciated. I have several clients that are getting ready to depart on a mission trip and desperately want a shampoo bar to bring along.....

THANKS!!

I have a great shampoo bar recipe using melt and pour soap but calls for Castor Oil. I do not have any on hand and would like to know if anything can be substituted for the Castor Oil?

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

1 lb. opaque melt and pour soap base, any kind

1 tsp. almond oil

4 tsp. shea butter melted

1 1/2 tsp. castor oil

1 oz. beezwax

1 1/2 oz. cocoa butter fragrance oil color

any additional additives you want

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

when do you add honey to the melted m&p soap base so it won't separate out?

Thanks!

I guess I meant a shampoo bar recipe using melt and pour soap-I have never made cold process soap.......

Does anyone know any recipes on how to make a shampoo bar without using lye? I just don't have any lye on hand and I would really like to make one.....

Thanks!

can I use Wilton gel colorants for my m & p soaps and bath bombs? I saw a tutorial for making bath bombs and they used Wilton brand gel colorants........

I melt 4 oz of goatsmilk or shea butter melt and pour glycerin soap base (any melt and pour soap base will work. Add 2 tablespoons liquid soap base ( I use the goatsmilk with shea butter base from Brambleberry.com but any liquid soap base will work) and whip the mixture with my hand mixer until it achieves the consistency of "frosting" with soft peaks-then I put in a bag with a 1M decorating tip and frost each soap cupcake. Work fast as the frosting tends to stiffen up with a few minutes and is impossible to squeeze out of the decorating bag/tip. If it does harden just scrape frosting out of bag into bowl-reheat in 15 sec bursts-rewhip the frosting and then try to frost again (make sure you spray the top of the cupcake liberally with rubbing alcohol before applying the frosting or other wlse the frosting will not stick onto the soap cupcake). The frosting takes a few hours-overnight to harden up.

Here is my attempt at cupcake frosting!

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can I try your recipe out? What did you use and how did you do it?