DIY Pure Coconut Oil Soap (For Cleansing and Laundry)
Needed Ingredients (approximately 44 oz. of soap):
33 oz. coconut oil (better choose the coconut oil has the melting point of 76 degrees)
Plastic spoon (or wooden spoon)
Step 1: Weight the ingredients and set the crock pot as low.
Step 2: Add in the water to glass bowl and then pour in the lye into the glass bowl slowly while mixing it gently. At the time of mixing it, the mixture will get very hot therefore should be carefully. Let the mixture transition from cloudy to clear, and then bring it inside. After that, let it cool for 5-10 minutes while turn to step 3.
(Attention: Not to breathe the vapors while add in the lye)
Step 3: Place the coconut oil in a saucepan and heat to 120-130F.
Step 4: Pour the coconut oil into the crock pot and set it at low and add the lye too while stir few times.
Step 5: Use the stick blender to mixing it toward trace. You can know that the trace is achieved when the mixture has the texture and thickness of a light pudding.
Step 6: Cover and lets it coo at low. During this process, the oil should rise up the sides like a wave, and then fold back into the mixture. Check it often.
Step 7: When the mixture is already become the soap, it should look like semi-translucent vaseline with no oil puddles in the middle. This is an important part because if all the lye is not converted, then the soap can burn!
(Test whether the soap is done: dip a PH test strip and wait for several minutes to lets it fully change the color. It should be show in between 7 to 10, if higher than that then it is not done.)
Step 8: Put the parchment paper cover the mold, then spoon the soap into the mold and put it into the fridge.
Step 9: Coconut oil makes a very hard bar and that will be very difficult to cut if you lets it dry too long. Cut it as soon as it’s cool and firm.
Step 10: In the place that has better air flow, then places the bars on the tray with about an inch of space between there to lets soap dry out for few day. Finally, the pure coconut oil soap has been done!