Infused olive oil

AmberTheHobbit · Dec 20, 2014

Hello! It's my very first post. I haven't made a batch yet. Still researching and dreaming nearly every night about soap!

So I was wondering if I could use lavender infused olive oil that I made myself to make Castile soap?

The Efficacious Gentleman · Dec 20, 2014

You can indeed! Couple of things to be aware of -

It's very unlikely that any scent will carry through from it. Some goodness might, but no scent.

Secondly, a Castile needs a looooooong cure before it's any good at all. 6 months is good, many people say 1 year! I would go for something more like-
20% coconut
50% lard or palm
30% olive

That'll be a soap good to go in a month

AmberTheHobbit · Dec 20, 2014

Thank you, sir!

JustBeachy · Dec 20, 2014

Welcome to the forum, little hobbit.

Seawolfe · Dec 20, 2014

While you can use an infusion like that, it gets you nothing in CP soap - but I have used infusions like that to good effect in body butter

The only infusions that I have found that give me something in CP are for color - so annatto seeds, madder root, alkanet etc...

The Efficacious Gentleman · Dec 20, 2014

JustBeachy said:
Welcome to the forum, little hobbit.

I could totally hear gandalf then!

AmberTheHobbit · Dec 20, 2014

Thank you all!!! I probably won't do a batch of CP until next week or so but I am going to try some body butter tomorrow. I'll let you know how this little hobbit does!

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