Silk Soap Recipe



You'll enjoy making this silk soap recipe with it's luxuriously creamy, palm-free lather.

Coconut oil, Shea Butter, Olive oil and castor oil make up the base ingredients of this natural soap along with Kaolin Clay for added slip and of course silk peptide to give the lather it's wonderful texture.

I've used mica's and oxides to colour the handmade soap and normally this would give the soap a matt like finish.

The addition of silk, however, gives the soap a slightly glossier appearance.

You will also notice when holding a soap with silk in one hand and one without in the other, that you can really feel the difference.

The silk soap recipe has a much smoother feeling finish.

Silk Soap Recipe by Soap Making Essentials

Silk Soap Recipe Ingredients

Coconut Oil  -  225 gr.  |  7.9 oz.  |  25%

Shea Butter  -  225 gr.  |  7.9 oz.  |  25%

Olive Oil  -  360 gr.  |  12.7 oz.  |  40%

Castor Oil  -  90 gr.  |  3.18 oz.  |  10%

Distilled Water  -  342gr.  |  12.06 oz.  

Lye  -  123.75 gr.  |  4.37 oz.  

Silk Peptide  -  18 gr.  


Water as % of Oils = 38%

Super Fat/Discount = 5%


Optional Additives

Olive Oil  -  4 Tbsp.

Kaolin Clay (Cosmetic White) -   2 tsp.

White mica  -  1/2 tsp.

Orange soap colour (Oxide/Mica mix) -   1/2 tsp.

Yellow soap colour (Oxide/Mica mix)  -  1/2 tsp.

Dark pink soap colour (Ruby mica)  -  1/2 tsp.

Essential/Fragrance oil  -  18 gr - 45 gr

Silk Soap Recipe Instructions

Begin by preparing your colourants. Divide the 4 tablespoons of olive oil into four containers. To each container, add 1/2 teaspoon of Kaolin Clay and 1/2 teaspoon of each colourant.

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Be sure to mix the colours really well. Use the back of a spoon to break up clumps and blend until you have a smooth paste. Put aside.

Next, weigh out all of your ingredients. Place the hard oils into your soaping bowl/pot and add the lye to the water.

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Hard oils in the pot

Mix the silk peptide powder into the hot lye water until it is completely dissolved. This can take a few minutes.

Don't worry that the water goes a golden colour. This is normal and doesn't seem to change the colour of the soap base.

Silk and lye water solution
Lye water melting hard oils in the Room Temperature Method

As soon as the silk has dissolved, you can add the lye water to the hard oils. Stir gently until all of the hard oils have melted. 

Add soft oils to soap base
Stir soap until a light trace is reached

Add the soft oils to the soap base and mix with your stick blender and/or whisk until a light trace is reached.

If you are adding scent, now is the time to do it. Once again, a slower moving fragrance or essential oil would be best since you will be working with the soap for awhile.

Divide soap lightly traced soap up and stir in colour.
Put coloured soap into squeeze bottles

Divide the soap between the containers of colour you prepared earlier and mix until incorporated. Pour the coloured soap into squeeze bottles. Alternatively, pour directly from the cups. Just be sure to pour nice thin streams of soap into the soap mould. This can get hard to do as the soap thickens up in the cups. 

Pour soap into mould until it is all used up
Marble the soap

Squeeze (or pour) the coloured soap into the soap mould until all of the soap has been used up. Be sure to alternate between colours frequently. Marble the soap however you like. I used my spatula and did a (messy) figure eight pattern. Regardless, this silk soap recipe turned out quite pretty.



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