Homemade Soap Recipe - "Shea Butter Coconut Milk"

Sensitive skin rejoice...this homemade soap recipe produces a luxuriously rich, creamy and conditioning bar.

I've lowered the amount of coconut oil and palm oil and added nutrient rich ingredients like shea butter, coconut milk, olive oil, castor oil and calendula petals to make this a wonderful skin loving bar of soap.

Base Ingredients	Grams	Ounces	Percentage
Shea Butter	135 gr.	4.8 oz.	15%
Coconut Oil	180 gr.	6.35 oz.	20%
Olive Oil	360 gr.	12.7 oz.	40%
Castor Oil	90 gr.	3.175 oz.	10%
Palm Oil**	135 gr.	4.8 oz.	15%
Distilled Water	200 gr.	7.05 oz.
Coconut Milk	97 gr.	3.42 oz.
Lye	123.2 gr.	4.34 oz.

Water as % of Oils = 33
Super Fat/Discount = 5%

Optional Additives	Measurement
Calendula Flower Petals (ground finely)	1 tsp. (5 ml)

1. Make the shea butter coconut milk homemade soap recipe following the instructions for your preferred soap making method on "The Process" page.
   
   
2. Do not mix the coconut milk in with the water and lye solution...hold it back until the soap batter reaches a thin trace.
   
   
3. Once the soap reaches a thin trace, you can add the slightly warmed coconut milk.
   
   
4. Continue to stick blend the soap batter until a medium trace is reached and pour 3/4 of the soap batter into your soap mold.
   
   
5. To the remaining soap, add the finely ground calendula flower petals and mix well. Pour over the soap base in the mold in a zig zag pattern. While pouring hold the soap bucket up high and down low...this helps send the coloured soap to different depths in the white soap base.
   
   
6. Using a spatula or other utensil, swirl the soap into a marble pattern.
   
   
7. Finish up as per the instructions for the method you are using.

**If you cannot find ethically sourced palm oil or would prefer to not use palm oil at all, it can be substituted with lard, tallow, shea butter, cocoa butter, mango butter, etc. Re-run the recipe through the lye calculator before making.

Many more Homemade Soap Recipes can be found on the main recipes page.