Wine & Chocolate! Mmmmmm....

Hello.
I'm new here I just regestered so that I could share this recipe I "invented" tonight. It smells so wonderful! I keep sticking my face in my scraped-out crock pot

I made a 16oz batch, so all my measures are ppo. (this was my 3rd batch ever, I'm so proud)

Here we go....
I do hot process in a crock pot. This is the first time I used sugar, salt, & borax, and I really liked the pouring/glopping consistency.

Calculated for 6% superfat

Oil base:
Shortening
coconut oil
Olive oil
Canola oil
Castor oil
Beeswax

Lye mix:
Calc said 5.3oz water & 2.17oz lye(NaOH), I used 6.5 oz CA pino noir* partly frozen
-add lye SLOWLY. it smells horrible, but once you add it to your oils that'll change.

Trace mix: (stuff I mixed in at lite trace)
1.5 oz warm wine +
1/2T white sugar +
1/2t plain salt (no iodine, idk if it matters) +
1/2T borax +
2t cocoa powder (dutch processed)
-stir to dissolve completely, I stirred after each addition. The wine will turn black

Melt oils on LOW
Once I added the lye mix it traced almost immediately.
So I was quick to pour in my "trace mix" & blast with my stick blender.
I cooked on LOW 15minutes, then stirred.
Cooked on LOW 15minutes, stirred.
Cooked on WARM 30minutes, tested (no zap, but I cooked addtl 15min on WARM)

This soap was very easy to "glop" into my pringles can & toilet tissue roll.
But I'm sure this recipe would turn out devine even if the salt/sugar/borax was omitted.

I hope someone else can enjoy this recipe PLEASE share ideas/suggestions of how I can adapt this yummy wine&chocolate into lotions & liquid soap!

Happy Soaping

That does sound good! I just ordered chardonnay FO for soap! I'm going to think about doing that now!

Is that 2 tablespoons of cacao? And that's enough to scent the entire batch? Sounds wonderful!

I make hot process too... I have also added sugar, salt and borax to mine. I noticed you used bees wax too?? I have never used them altogether but I use bees wax a lot in hot process as it makes a very hard bar!!! Sounds wonderful your recipe. I may just have to try it. Thank you for sharing.

That sounds really nice, good for you!!

Why the borax?