Orange Zest Cold Process Soap

I hope you enjoy my orange zest cold process soap making video! Adding citrus zest and other botanical ingredients to your soap is a lovely, affordable way to add colour, a little bit of fragrance and interest to your handmade cold processed soaps.

Recipe details
780g total oil batch
42% lye concentration for the lye solution (it's a low water soap - if you're not sure what this means, please check out this video    • Calculating Water in Soap Recipes and...  )
2% superfat, calculated into the recipe (a lye discount)

Olive oil 85% - 663g
Coconut oil 10% - 78g
Castor oil 5% - 39g

Water 150g
Sodium hydroxide/caustic soda 108g

I made this soap with the oils at room temperature and the lye solution recently mixed, so very warm. You can make it with warm oils and cool lye solution too - either way is fine, it's a very forgiving recipe. Most of my soaps are made with an olive oil-based recipe, similar to this one.

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