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How to make Avocado & Lemongrass Soap

October 20, 2023 6 Comments

Handmade Avocado and Lemongrass Soap recipe.  Made with unrefined Avocado oil and Avocado Butter.

Avocado and Lemongrass cold-process soap, made with essential oils

This is our first 'coloured' soap recipe. There are a number of ways you can colour your soaps, including  clays, plants, root powders, micas,  fresh fruit or vegetable puree or pulp and more.  Plants can be brewed into tea or infused into oils.  Clays and powders are often added directly to the soap batter, either dispersed dry into oils or after trace.  

The oils and ingredients you choose to make soap also has a huge impact on the colour of your soap. Both carrier oils and essential oils impact the final colour.  Lighter oils, like coconut oil will give light and more whitish soap and essential oils, particularly of the citrus family will give a somewhat light yellowish hue to your soap.

Unrefined avocado oil is not only amazing for skincare, but gives soap this beautiful fresh green colour. 

 

In this recipe I use unrefined Avocado oil to colour the soap. Oils are great as colorants because they are part of your base recipe and you do not need to add extra additives to colour the soap. 

This recipe contains more than 60% unrefined Avocado oil. It is scented with Lavender, Lemongrass and Peppermint essential oil. Avocado oil and butter are the stars of this recipe, making  it silky, creamy, and moisturizing. No more dry skin with this bar. 

This batch makes approximately 1000g of soap. 

 

Avocado Face Bar Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 70g Avocado Butter 
  • 490g Avocado Oil (unrefined) 
  • 105g Coconut Oil 
  • 35g Castor Oil 
  • 218g Distilled Water 
  • 93.4g Sodium Hydroxide 
  • 18g Lavender Essential Oil 
  • 4g Lemongrass Essential Oil 
  • 2g Peppermint Essential Oil 

Instructions 

Click on the link below for a step-by-step guide! 

Soap Making Instructions

 

 

Soap Making ingredients used to make cold process handmade soap

Happy Soaping;



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6 Responses

Fatimah
Fatimah

February 27, 2025

Hi
I’m interested in purchase a kit with the essentials as well as an instruction or recipe book with various techniques if available. I’m from Durban so I would greatly appreciate any assistance you could offer regarding starting off with the basic requirements and purchases off your site.
Much appreciated
Fatimah

Matthew Welsh
Matthew Welsh

October 20, 2023

Good day,
I love your store. The stuff looks amazing. We are looking at adding a self-care range to our store. Do you also sell castor oil, sodium hyrdroxide and other stuff needed to make the soap?

Kind Regards
Matthew Welsh

Poelo
Poelo

February 27, 2025

Beautiful. Can this be used for the whole body or just face?

Shannon Dickson
Shannon Dickson

October 20, 2023

I would really love to get going with making homemade, organic soaps. Is it cost effective.have no idea where to start ? Help!

Mmathapelo
Mmathapelo

October 20, 2023

Kindly looking for quote for the chemicals I need to b able to make homemade soap.
Regards Mmathapelo

Marian gray
Marian gray

October 20, 2023

Loved your very interesting soap recipe,was wondering as I am not living in Cape Town at the moment is it possible to gethe an order sent by courier to Spain. THANK YOU.

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