Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Liquid Body/Hand Soap

Same recipe for both, depending on what type of soap base you start with.

Liquid Body Soap
Burt's Bees Honey and Hops Body Bar
1 c boiling water
1 t glycerine
1 t honey
additional water or herbal tea

Grate soap, add boiling water, and blend until smooth. Add glycerine, honey, and if desired essential oils. Blend. Add additional hot water/herbal tea until mixture equals approximately 6 cups, which can be misleading depending on how much foam the soap makes. Blend some more. This will thicken greatly upon standing, the 6 cups is a good starting point, but realistically it will be somewhere between 6-12cups. Blend a few more times as it cools, adding more cool water as needed. Let it sit check consistency, add more cool water as needed, blend again. Put this into an easily accessible container in case it thickens too much to pour. You will want to be able to blend it with more HOT water in that case.

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