Do you have delicate skin or skin that is beginning to show the marks of passing time? Rose Hip Soap may be the perfect bar of all-natural herbal soap to care for your skin!
Pour 2 cups of boiling water over the dried rose hips, cover it , and allow it to cool down to room temperature before straining out the rose hips with a fine mesh sieve lined with a coffee filter.
Freeze the Rose Hip Tea.
Rose Hip Soap
Measure out solid fats, tallow and coconut oil.
Create a makeshift double boiler with a small saucepan full of water. Set the bowl with the solid fats in it over the saucepan and melt the tallow and coconut oil.
Weigh the rose hip tea into the container you’ll be mixing the soap in.
Wearing eye protection, weigh the sodium hydroxide (lye) into a separate container.
Slowly sprinkle the lye into the tea with a slow constant stirring using a silicone spatula. Continue stirring until the lye has fully dissolved and set it aside.
Weigh out the liquid oils, sweet almond oil, castor oil, and rose hip oil into another bowl.
Measure out the essential oils into a container. Set aside.
Measure out 1 tablespoon french rose clay. Set aside.
Once the oils in the double boiler are melted, remove them from the heat. Stir in the combination of liquid oils and check the base temperature of the oils mixture and the lye mixture. The goal should be that they will average 95-105 degrees when combined.
Add the oil mixture to the lye mixture and, using an immersion blender, begin pulsing and stirring to thoroughly incorporate all of the ingredients together. When the temperature has risen 2 degrees from the starting temperature and it has thickened to a thin pudding-like consistency.
Once you’ve reached trace, add in the french rose clay and essential oils and blend it for another minutes or so to fully incorporate them.
Pour the soap into the mold and decorate if desired.
Cover with plastic wrap or waxed paper and set aside to harden for about 48 hours.
Remove the soap from the mold and cut into bars if you used a loaf mold. (If the soap seems soft or tacky, it may need to sit another day or so before removing from the mold.)
Allow the soap to cure in a dark place for at least 4 weeks, but preferably for 8 weeks.