Black Cocoa Butter Homemade Soap Recipe
Black Cocoa Butter Homemade Soap in a Bag
Mold this soap how ever you like, or just cook it in the crock-pot and plop it into a bag when it’s cooled to use for chunking into future soap batches for added colour.
Black Cocoa Butter Soap
- 16oz Black Cocoa Butter
- 8oz Coconut Oil
- 8oz Olive Oil
- 12oz Water
- 4.36oz Lye
Follow basic soap making directions. I cooked this in the crock pot because I wanted to chunk it for other soap recipes. (I will be adding ‘how to’ make crock pot soap soon. Stay tuned.)
It comes out a dark brown colour.
It is also nice cut into larger pieces and polished. Here is a chunk I cut but haven’t polished it. There is a bit of blur and glare, I hope to have a few better pictures up soon.
Black Cocoa Butter Homemade Soap Chunk
SANDALWOOD SOAP WITH COCOA BUTTER CHUNKS
I made these soaps with a Sandalwood Essential Oil blend (I’ll be posting that here too as well as having some for sale, I have a lot of good stuff coming up!) and chunked some of the black cocoa butter soap into it to give it some character.
Nice for a man or a sultry lady (even if it’s just for a few minutes in the shower), but the big surprise for me is that kids seemed to like it when I had it at the farmer’s market. Go figure!
Sandalwood Blend Homemade Soap
HALLOWEEN SOAPS A LA ORANGE BASE WITH CHUNKS
Spooktacular Halloween Soaps
INFORMATION ON BLACK COCOA BUTTER
Here is some more information on black cocoa butter.
You can grab the Saturday Surprise Special pricing at that link this week as well (starting Saturday October 16.2010 until the following Saturday).
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Oct 18, 2010
Fabulous recipe and I think I’ll love black cocoa butter. I love the soaps you’ve made with it. I’m passing on it right now as I’m such a newbie and need to get into the basic stuff first. Thanks for sharing though!!
Oct 19, 2010
Hi Pat, it does seem a little complicated but it’s not really too hard, especially if you make the black soap first – it is really easy. I am doing a fair number of ‘chunked’ soaps because it is quite easy to add colour and interest that way if you have some solid coloured soaps already made.
There is a little more to be concerned with in way of ingredients, just wanted to let you know that the only thing that is really much different from a basic soap is the soaking of the olive oil/annatto seeds and slicing the black cocoa butter soap in. (not trying to convince you, just wanted to let you know that it may be doable or a similar recipe in the future if you wanted to try it.)
Sometimes things that are quite simple can give amazing results! I am leaning towards simple in anything I can these days – including soap recipes. I am finding that they are just as good and much easier to make.
I also forgot to add how I finished up the soaps by painting them with the black Australian clay and gold mica. I will be putting a post up on that too. I wasn’t sure how it would work but it did turn out very nicely.
I’m glad that you liked them. Thanks!!
Nov 14, 2010
Greetings All,
Where can I buy black cocoa butter?
K
Nov 27, 2010
Where can I buy black cocoa butter? I’ve searched but so far no luck. Do you know who sells it?
Thanks!
Feb 03, 2011
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