Chocolate & Vanilla Layered Soap

After all, my favorite childhood summertime memories involve chasing down the ice cream man and his truck so I could buy a ice cream sandwich. I also remember going down the street to the pharmacy that also had a small grocery section for Oreos. During the school year I didn’t go often, but I tried to go as often as I could during the summer. Who wouldn’t if they could?

While this layered soap doesn’t look exactly like an ice cream sandwich or an Oreo cookie, it does bring back those memories of a chocolate covered face and fingers. I made three separate batches of soap so I could have layers without dividing the raw soap. Each batch was 11 ounces and I filled a mold that holds a 2 pound batch. Join me in the blog kitchen to make soap as we stroll down memory lane.

Since this is a layered soap, I made three batches each weighing 11.2 ounces. The fixed oils were the same for all three batches. The only difference is that I used Baking Chocolate to color Batches 1 & 2 and Titanium Dioxide and Vanilla Cream Fragrance in Batch 2.

Weigh fixed oils for all the batches batches on your scale. Gently warm the fixed oils, one batch at a time, on the stove or in the microwave. I melted the oils in the microwave. Add sodium hydroxide to the water for all batches. Mix well. Weigh the Vanilla Cream Fragrance Oil into a small beaker and the Titanium Dioxide and water into another beaker and set aside.

Batch 1:
Add the Baking Chocolate to the melted oils. Mix until the Baking Chocolate has been completely melted. Combine the fixed oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. For me, this took almost 90 seconds to reach the thin trace. I then poured the soap into the Guerrilla Mold. I allowed the soap to sit as I began mixing the second batch.

Batch 2:
Combine the fixed oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. Again, this took almost 90 seconds to reach the thin trace. After the soap reached this point I added the Vanilla Cream Fragrance Oil, the Titanium Dioxide solution and mixed well. Once the fragrance and color was completely mixed into the raw soap, I poured the soap onto a rubber scraper over the Guerrilla Mold to prevent divots in the chocolate layer. I allowed the soap to sit until was firm.

Batch 3:
I repeated the same process for this batch as I had done for Batch 1. Add the Baking Chocolate to the melted oils. Mix until the Baking Chocolate has been completely melted. Combine the fixed oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. For me, this took almost 90 seconds to reach the thin trace. I poured the soap onto a rubber scraper over the Guerrilla Mold to prevent divots in the vanilla layer. I allowed the soap to rest for 24 hours.

The next morning the soap was 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.

Notes:
This soap has an ammonia like odor for the first 24 hours after cutting. After this time has passed, the soap has a chocolate and vanilla odor that is perfectly reminiscent of ice cream sandwiches. The chocolate layers will leave a slight coloration on a white washcloth, but it does wash out of the washcloth easily.

Thanks for joining me on my latest soaping adventure. I finally think this soap was the one that helped cure my need for chocolate! I at least hope this soap has inspired you to make something different. I know it has inspired me to try a few new ideas.

The Chocolate & Vanilla Layered soap samples have been sent to the Shipping Department to send out in orders. I really want to hear your comments about this soap. I hope that anyone wanting a sample soap will request one and if we have any samples we will send them to you.

Enjoy!