Hot Processed Pagan Soap Recipe

How to make it

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• In a large crock pot, on high, melt lard.
• Heat the lard/oil until small bubbles begin to appear.
• Do NOT allow the lard/oil to boil.
• Turn the Lard /Oil down to low.
• ~ ~ ~While waiting for the Lard to Melt~ ~ ~
• In an old pitcher, or other heat proof (plastic/...) container, pour in the distilled water.
• Add the lye slowly to the distilled water.
• NEVER add water to the lye, ALWAYS add lye to the water.
• When the temperature of the lye-water mixture reaches 120-ish, add the sugar to this lye water mixture.
• ~ ~ ~When Both Lye Water and Lard are Ready~ ~ ~
• Slowly pour the Distilled Water and Lye mixture into the warm melted Lard/Oil!
• And I mean slowly, I poured in too much at once and it over flowed the crock pot.
• It did eventually go down and I added the rest, took me about 10 minutes.
• With a large heat resistance plastic, silicone, or wooden spoon, Mix Well.
• Stir for 5 to 6 minutes, just to be sure all of the oils have contacted the lye.
• If using a hand held blender, use it now.
• Stir in the Aloe Vera Juice after light trace and before medium trace.
• Bring to a medium trace. See Photo
• This is the point, if you are adding additives, like rose petals, oatmeal, whatever you desire, do that now.
• Stir them in well!
• Cover. (I am thinking maybe I should not have covered, we will see tomorrow!)
• Cook on low heat of the crock pot for around 40 minutes.
• It should fold back in on itself as it cooks.
• Do not stir, I know this will be hard to do.
• It will not stick, I promise you.
• Check on it every 10 minutes.
• 10 Minutes In: See Photo
• 15 Minutes In; See Photo
• 20 Minutes In: See Photo
• 30 Minutes In: See Photo
• Between this 30 and 40 minute points, it will go down a bit in the bowl.
• 40 Minutes in See Photo
• When it has folded back in on itself, and cooked for 40 minutes, turn off the crock pot, and unplug it for safely sake.
• Stir it well again.
• This may be hard to do as it may be pretty solid already.
• Just add a touch of water, up to a 1/2 cup of water if need be, only a little at a time.
• Or even oils, like Jojoba / Coconut / Shea Butter...the list goes on...
• Up to 3 ounces.
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• At this point I added:
• 1/4 cup African Shea Butter and
• 1/2 cup Coconut Oil
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• Add your essential oils for the person's/your favorite scent.
• Mixing in well.
• Pour into your prepared mold. And by pour I mean spoon or ladle. See Photo
• If you want to use a cake pan that you have lined with parchment, I am sure that would work as well.
• Allow to cool over night, or until set.
• This should only be 24 hour.
• Remove from mold.
• Slice into even slices. (In my case I used a huge square muffin pan, so I just need to get them out of that.)
• Place bars onto parchment lined cooking sheet.
• Allow to cure in a draft free area for 1 week!
• Yep, that's right, 1 week. With the extended cooking time where we did not stir it, we cooked all of the lye out and the soap is ready almost instantly!!!
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• Mine was not hard as I expected from the lady I followed to do this.
• It is lumpy like mashed potatoes. I had a hard time mixing it back together to look nice, actually I never did in the end. See Photo
• I just gave up and spooned it into the molds, pressing it into them firmly.
• We will see how this worked out in the morning.
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