How to make natural cold process soap with activated charcoal powder and a hot pink mica top
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- As far as soap making goes, this is actually a really quick and easy design, but it just looks so darn impressive! Activated Charcoal powder is often used in cosmetics for it's ability to bind with toxins and draw impurities away from the skin. We are using it today both for those benefits, but also just for how very pretty it looks!
We are creating a simple, loaf of soap which will be coloured dark black using the charcoal powder and scented using Lavender and Rose Geranium essential oils - because, you know, they give it kind of a "spa" feel! We are topping the soap with an incredibly striking, hot pink mica coating - don't worry, it's just for aesthetics, most of it will wash off the first time you use the soap!
Our soaps are all palm oil free and this one is vegan friendly too.
The ingredients we used for this soap are as follows:
Water 220g
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) 109g
Olive Oil 340g
Coconut Oil 184g
Shea Butter 75g
Cocoa Butter 36g
Castor Oil 57g
Sweet Almond Oil 99g
Lavender Essential Oil 15g
Rose Geranium Essential Oil 15g
Activated Charcoal Powder 1 tbsp
Hot Pink Mica dispersed with rubbing alcohol on a 1:2 ratio
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Lovely! Really Lovely!
Thank you very much for sharing!
A big “Ciao” from Italy!
I’m so glad you talked about how dangerous ingested charcoal can be for people who take certain medications! It’s refreshing to find someone who uses natural ingredients responsibly.
I agree, although no one will (hopefully) eat the soap, I thought it was important to just mention about charcoal tablets not being recommended for people on certain medications. So many people think the word "natural" automatically means safe but it really doesn't. Arsenic and Lead are both natural elements, but you certainly wouldn't want to ingest them!
Hi Im new to cold process soaping and I have been messing around with the oils and the recipe and my soaps were not setting and they were sweating and they were soft and slimy and wet and disgusting. I have been searching for a recipe but everybody were only interested in showing their designs and nobody would share their recipe. You are the first soaper I found to have actually explained it so well and even shared your recipe. Thank you so much ❤
Hi Tiki and thank you for your comment on our video. I am so glad to hear that our videos have been helpful to you, as though we do them for fun, we do want them to be able to help and inspire new soap makers too. This recipe is quite easy for beginners, but if you want to make it easier, you can always omit the charcoal powder and the pink on top. Good luck with your soap making and if you need any other help or advice don't hesitate to ask! :-)
Awesome....Love the colors!!!
Both of your humor makes the video entertaining to watch!!!
Thank you Kathy! Great to hear you enjoy our humour - we weren't sure at first about putting our humour in the videos, but then figured it is most definitely a part of who we both are, so why not!
I love it, that pink really does set it off. I wonder what charcoal with hot pink swirl would be like?
Those are beautiful!
Thank you Brook
What a beauty! I have to try that as well! I like your tips of the day as well
Thank you Sonja :-) Glad you like the tips too!
I love the art. so beautiful. At what temperature did you add lye water to the oils?
Thank you Kinyuy :-) We added the lye water when oils and lye solution were both at approximately 110 degrees fahrenheit. This is a bit warmer than other soap makers seem to go, but it works for us!
Very nice 👍🏻 simplicity is the best n looks elegant 😍
Thank you very much Rosita, we are glad you like it :-)
I laughed when you said oh my lordy Lord that was so jokey, but I love your soap and I love your designs
Haha, thank you! There is a TV chef in the UK who uses that phrase a lot - I think I must have been watching him too much the day I made that soap and stolen his phrase! :-)
That's a great soap ... and a great movie! Do you know if rubbing alcohol is accepted as a variation on a CPSR (here in the UK), if it is just used to mix with mica for a finishhing touch on cp soap? Thank you.
may you have best of both in the world
Lovely. Thanks for sharing. And you are a crazy end of video singer lol. You make me laugh. -Momo
You are welcome Mary! Yes, as you can tell, I am a much better soap maker than singer! Haha!
Good job
Could you tell me please the size of your mold ?
Thankyou ❤
Yes of course. The inner cavity of this mold is is 8" long by 3.5" wide by 2.5" deep.
And I’ll have the grease soundtrack in my head all day! 😂
Haha, after reading your comment, I had it going round in my head too!
Lovely soap!! If you don't mind, what is the size of the mold used here?
Hello Jola and thank you for your comment :-) The mold that we use is from "Two Wild Hares" and measures is 8" long by 3.5" wide by 2.5" deep.
How hard is this bar? I've tried one with only Olive Oil, Castor Oil and Coconut oil and according to the soap calculator it's quite a soft bar, which seized the second I added the FO (Rose Musk).
After curing for 6 weeks it produces quite a nice firm bar. The seizing is most likely caused by the fragrance oil - I know rose ones can be a bit of a pain for seizing!
If I'm white person it ll be very exciting to try this out as white people have naturally glow skin
Hi. What temperature do you soap at? 😊
Hi, we normally soap anywhere from 105 fahrenheit to 115 fahrenheit, it all depend on what ingredients we are using. For example, we tend to soap at the higher end of the temperature scale when we are using beeswax and we soap much lower (even below our normal 105 degrees) when using Goats' Milk.
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@@lovereigns4017 You are very welcome :-) So glad to hear that you are enjoying our videos and thank you for subscribing :-)
Do you mix mica and alcohol 2:1 alcohol: mica or mica: alcohol?