Do Cranberries Change Color In Melt And Pour Soap

I bought a pocketbook of bright red cranberry seeds terminal year, and found them in the back of my closet merely in time to brand a Cranberry Sauce soap equally my second Christmas soap for 2014. These pretty ruddy confined are brilliant and spicy, and characteristic a sprinkling of pretty cranberry seeds on summit.

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These bars get their blood-red hue from a blend of cherry iron oxide and Australian Pink Clay. Yous can really use any carmine clay you've got, though, or merely apply more blood-red iron oxide, to go a red hue you're happy with. I don't recommend trying any botanical extracts, though, as they're notorious for shifting to brownish or black during saponification.

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For essential oils I've called orange and cinnamon, the two predominant flavours and scents in my bootleg cranberry sauce every Christmas. They blend to create a brilliant, warm and spicy citrus odor that's wonderfully reminiscent of the holidays.

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A sprinkle of cranberry seeds tops the bars and wraps things up. I elected non to mix the seeds into the bars as they are rather viscous looking, and I thought they'd be a bit too scratchy to be pleasant. The resulting bars are a nice, soft shade of red, lather wonderfully, and smell divine. A perfect Christmas gift, if I do say so myself.

Cranberry Sauce Soap

25% olive oil (pomace)
25% refined coconut oil (U.s. / Canada)
30% beef tallow
xv% unrefined shea butter (USA / Canada)
five% brush oil (U.s.a. / Canada)

Per 500g (ane.1lbs) of oils:

1 tbsp white kaolin clay (U.s.a. / Canada)

ane tsp titanium dioxide

½ tsp red iron oxide

1 ½ tsp Australian Pink Clay or 1 tsp Australian red reef clay or just use 1½ tsp ruby iron oxide full

15g orange essential oil

15g cinnamon bark essential oil

Cranberry seeds, for sprinkling (optional)

2020 update: Given the irritation potential for cinnamon essential oil, I'd recommend using a cinnamon-y fragrance oil rather than the essential oil. Please refer to supplier documentation for maximum usage rates for the item fragrance oil y'all're using when used in lather/rinse-off products.

Use SoapCalc to calculate your final amounts of oils, lye, and water based on the size of batch you desire to make.

Follow my standard soap making instructions. Once you lot reach a medium trace (like pudding), blend in the clay, titanium dioxide, red iron oxide, Australian clay, and essential oils. Bring the concoction dorsum to a medium trace.

Pour the concoction into your prepared mould, borer it on the counter to knock out any air bubbles. Sprinkle the meridian with cranberry seeds, if using. Lightly insulate your mould and permit saponify for 24 hours before slicing.

Permit age for 3–4 weeks before using or gifting.