Bein' Green Swirled Soap, Music Inspired Series

I wanted to make a swirled soap that was was green in color and I decided that a little bit of white would be a good addition to make the green feel dimensional. Now that I had made my color decision, I had to choose a fragrance that made me think green. I didn’t have Cucumber or Green Clover & Aloe, otherwise those would have been my first choices. After looking through my fragrance selection, I chose Esme as my fragrance. Esme smells fresh, green and calm which I think would describe a cologne Kermit might wear.

Let’s go have fun while making soap!

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Recipe:

*q.s. = Quantity Sufficient. This is an ingredient that needs to have the amount calculated to match the size of batch that you are making.

Making Soap:
Measure fixed oils on your scale. Warm the fixed oils on the stove or in the microwave. I melted the oils in a microwave. Add sodium hydroxide to the water. Mix well. At this point, I added the fragrance to the oils because I didn’t want to forget to add it.

Once the oils and lye solution temperatures have dropped to a lower temperature (my temperatures were around 120 degrees Fahrenheit), combine oils and lye solution. Mix until thin trace. Divide the soap into two parts. I learned a lesson from my Born To Be Wild soap, so I weighed the soap as I was dividing it. I used 7 ounces or 200 grams of raw soap for my white color and 24.5 ounces or 700 grams for my green color. Add one color to each batch of raw soap and mix well starting from lightest to darkest to not have to clean the blender between colors.

Alternate pouring the two colors of soap into the mold and use a drinking allow create a swirling pattern. I used the straw too much and had started to mix the colors together, so the swirl was not as defined as I wanted it to be. Allow to sit until soap is firm. The next morning cut into bars. Stack to allow good air circulation. Allow to cure for several days before using. Longer curing will result in a harder bar.

Soap Notes: This soap had a light scent that was significantly stronger after the soap was wet. The lather was a combination of creamy lather and big bubbles. I like the feeling the soap left on my skin after washing my hands.

Kermit Unpigged Notes: This album was released in 1994. While the album reached #20 on Billboard’s Top Kid Audio chart, sales for the album were low. This was the last album produced by Jim Henson Records. Kermit Unpigged is an out-of-print album and sells for varying prices depending on the current market demands. At this time, there is not a digital version available for sale.

What do you think? Would you try this soap?