Several weeks ago I was asked by the Peanut Institute to make a soap for them based on my Peanut Butter Soap I sell on Etsy on my LeafLoveSoaps page. The story all began when my son Colby who is now 14 asked me to make a peanut butter soap. This was around 2014 I explained there was no essential oil smelling like peanut butter but he wanted anyway. So I set to work and created a recipe using as many peanut related ingredients as I could. Resulting in a nice soap bar and great oils for the skin.
This is from my Etsy page
Hello I have made peanut butter soap from fresh peanuts, no extra additives, no added fragrances, the bar has a slight smell of peanut butter not strong at all. I would almost say unscented. I have used canola oil, organic coconut oil, Sustainable palm oil, Peanut Oil, and organic Shea butter. The soap has no fragrances or essential oils.
The canola oil contains Vitamin E, an anti-oxidant that will help protect the skin from free radicals, The omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids can help against premature aging and soothe dry, irritated skin.
The Sustainable Palm oil helps to make the bar hard and last longer.
All my soaps come from non-smoking handmade in a clean environment in a craft kitchen specifically designed for soap making. All soaps are made in small batches to ensure quality.
All the soaps come in a cardboard box made with recycled cardboard. Properly labeled.
The Ingredients of this soap are:
Organic coconut oil, Canola Oil, Peanut Oil, Shea butter,
Lye, distilled water, organic peanuts.
However the peanut institute wanted me to add essential oils, oatmeal, brown sugar, and peanut hulls. Which all these are optional in the recipe.
The back of my label
The box being packaged
Bruce went in to mail the boxes to Georgia
I am not going to go into the making of the soap but if you are new to it please watch YouTube videos and look up famous soap makers like Brambleberry and others who have extensive videos and recipes...etc....
I have been making soap since 2003 and started off when you could hardly get books, supplies etc. some of my first books were for the 70's and they were way outdated but the concept was there. Great help when nothing else was available.
NOTE: ALL MY RECIPES ARE MADE TO SUIT MY MOLD SIZES this 62ounces will work in a five pound mold with what use for the wee bit extra we have silicon molds like an owl or hearts or whatever silicone mold you may have we even have 1 pound wood molds.
So adjust to you needs
PEANUT BUTTER SOAP RECIPE
Canola oil 20 ounces (we use the Healthy Harvest Brand)
Coconut Oil 14 ounces (we buy from Bulk Apothecary)
Sustainable Palm oil 20 ounces (look for the Green Palm) (CSPKO)
Peanut Oil 6 ounces (we use the spectrum brand)
Shea Butter 2 ounces (we always buy the organic however I am always having to buy from different sources)
20 ounces of distilled water (however we catch rain water)
8.76 lye
{ depending on your rate we use a 3% or 5% }
ADDITIVES
of course CREAMY PEANUT BUTTER 3/4 cup we use the organic peanut butter from Whole Foods with the least ingredients.
2 TBSP. of peanut hulls (optional) ground with a coffee grinder
if using essential oil I used per request of the Peanut Institute a Peppermint and a lavender essential oil which we get from Bulk Apothecary. We use the Bulgarian Lavender.
I used 3 ounce of lavender essential oil (optional) if you would like lavender soap. If you would like a peppermint soap I used 2 1/2 ounces of spearmint essential oil and 1 ounce of peppermint essential oil.
Then per request sprinkle with brown sugar and gluten-free oatmeal from Bob's Red Mill (you want to use the gluten-free oatmeal to be sure that it is gluten-free)
The video on the soap making in my soap kitchen
At the last show at Indian River High School
Some of my body products and salves and jewelry
Some of the beeswax candles I make which I have videos and a blog post on rendering down the beeswax from our bees. I bought all my molds from Mann-Lake Bee
The video I made for rendering down the beeswax
I also made a video on how we spent St. Patrick's Day
This bread bowl my dear friend Aylene sent over and I made these for the boys with our homemade sauerkraut
The Irish Soda bread I shared the recipe in the video above
Of course we use the cast iron pans for everything....this bread is one of the boys favorite
This was Saturday at the Indian River High School show I just keep telling Bruce we got to see the Easter Bunny.......just tickles me
Tomorrow is another show for two days then Great Bridge on Saturday
Tomorrow we will be at Va. Beach General Hospital for the spring show
Then Saturday at Great Bridge High School
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the dentist for yet another dry socket on my right side.....more to come on this.
HAPPY SPRING
Today is the first day of spring and yet I am sitting here typing this freezing.... I know I am always cold but the day was a high of 50 I had both heaters on in the greenhouse and it was cloudy and has sprinkled off and on all day....so looking forward to SPRING!!
Hope you are having a wonderful day and getting to be artsy or cooking up a great meal.
Sending cyber hugs,
Dawn
