but they smell soooooo good. They're mostly lime, but I added the patchouli to hopefully help anchor the lime. So far, so good. At the very top of the pic you can see some charcoal salt bars too. They're sented with orange EO. As I said before, I use 100% coconut oil. My first couple of batches I used 90% coconut and 10% castor, but I think the 100% coconut bars lather so much better. I SF at 20% and most of the time I use 50% salt (50% of the weight of the oils). Somtimes I use 60%. The lime bars have 100% coconut milk for the liquid, the charcoal bars have half water/half buttermilk. I've also used beer for 100% of the liquid.
I forgot to add that I use a mix of coarse sea salt and fine table salt. I get both at Dollar General. I did make one batch of white salt bars with pink Himalayan salt. Very pretty, but expensive. I've also experimented with 70% salt and one batch of 100% salt before settling on 50 to 60%. Salt is very healing, but it will definitely sting if you use the salt bars on cuts or scrapes. Good luck with your experimenting.
Not recommended. Like Dead Sea Salts Epson has to many mineral. You soap will feel sticky, damp and not lather at all, even with 100% CO. I make Dead Sea Salt bars because my skin likes it, but I do not sell them.
