Getting Naked!

Stocks were low of all three of our Naked Soaps, so today we made batches of all three of them. Our Naked soaps are not scented, they just rely on the beauty of the oils and the simple ingredients we add to them to make them gentle and mild - and interesting too! So this morning we gently melted down our hard oils and weighed out three big buckets of oils. Our recipe contains a blend of six oils.

Here are a few pics of the batch of Goat's Milk and Honey. If we can get it, we use local honey, or if not, we choose a good quality runny honey and warm it up a little bit. Then we add some lovely fresh Goat's Milk, whisk it up and warm it through a little bit.

                           Here's the Goat's Milk and Honey soap mix in the pot nearly ready to be poured into the moulds. It smells a bit odd at this point, but it soon gets over that stage! Once it's hardened and out of the moulds the smell is more like a freshly baked batch of biscuits!

After lunch, we started on a batch of Hemp and Comfrey soap. Many of our customers who suffer from  eczema tell us that our Hemp and Comfrey soap has helped them. The Comfrey gives the soap a very smooth lather and helps to keep skin supple. First we made the infusion, by pouring boiling water onto the comfrey leaves and root and leaving it to infuse for half and hour or so. We strain that infusion and add it to the lye solution before adding it to the oils. We throw in a few comfrey leaves for good measure and mix, mix, mix.

And here it is poured into 3 six-kilo moulds.

Then is was Cocoa Buttered time. This is a good, hard soap leaving you feeling really clean and moisturised with loads of cocoa butter in the mix and extra cocoa butter added at the end for superfatting. The pic on the left is the extra lovely cocoa butter going in at trace and the creamy, custardy soap in the moulds. I'll add more pics when it's out of the moulds.