Used same recipe as before except used coconut milk instead of cow's milk. Recipe again:
5.6 oz olive oil
2 oz coconut oil
0.4 oz crisco
1.1 oz lye
1 oz water
at light trace added:
0.4 oz lemongrass essential oil
mixed well then added:
2.1 oz coconut milk
I'm curious about how the coconut milk will affect the lather, reports from other sites suggest that it should give a very rich creamy lather. We will see. Meanwhile, the lemongrass oil smells disturbingly of mosquito repellent. I really hope it mellows to something more palatable, the last thing I want to think about in the shower are mosquitoes.
Update 2/24/11: I just cut the soap and to my amazement the center is a pale green color! The outside is a light yellow; not sure if that green will remain after curing but it's a nice look. The mosquito smell has faded a bit but it now actually smells like ginger candy. Very odd.
Update 2/24/11: I just cut the soap and to my amazement the center is a pale green color! The outside is a light yellow; not sure if that green will remain after curing but it's a nice look. The mosquito smell has faded a bit but it now actually smells like ginger candy. Very odd.
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