This past weekend, one of my best friends came to visit. She and I have known each other since those uncomfortable junior high days of braces, over-sized glasses and zero sense of style. Fortunately, we survived the preteen years and have come out the other side with an awesome friendship and (hopefully) a little less adolescent awkwardness.
We spent this past weekend hanging out downtown, eating great food, reminiscing about old times and of course, crafting. I couldn’t wait to share my new love of soap-making. I’ll admit, after my last soaping mishap I was a bit nervous to create my own recipe. But when you’re crafting with friends, the mistakes are half as frustrating and the successes twice as fun, so why not give it another shot?
After researching soaping oils and shopping for ingredients (we found everything we needed at my local grocery store), we came up with a simple chocolate hazelnut recipe that’s perfect for holiday gifts and almost delicious enough to eat!
What kinds of fun DIY projects have you done with friends?
Chocolate Hazelnut Soap
Makes about sixteen 2.5 ounce bars of soap
For the full cold process soap making instructions, check out Tiffany’s beginner’s soap making tutorial.
Base Oils
11.2 oz. canola oil (35% of total oils)
1.6 oz. hazelnut oil (5% of total oils)
9.6 oz. coconut oil (30% of total oils)
9.6 oz. olive oil (30% of total oils)
Lye Solution
10 oz. water
4.5 oz. lye
Additives
Add 1/2 ounce of bakers chocolate and 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to your melted oils. Make sure chocolates are completely mixed into the oils, then combine with lye solution and complete the soap making process.
Remember to let your soaps cure for 4-6 weeks before using or gifting!
Yum! I’d love to know how the fragrance is once the have cured. You will be smelling wonderful!
I didn’t use any fragrance oil or essential oil, so you won’t get an extremely strong scent. But with the bakers chocolate and cocoa powder, you’ll definitely still get delicious notes of chocolate as you use the soap.
This looks amazing!
Thanks! I’m excited for it to finish curing! I can’t wait to use it!
can’t wait to try it!
Hope you like it!
wow. they really look like edible chocolate bars.
Thanks! They smell like real chocolate, but I wouldn’t suggest eating them!
Thank you for sharing this recipe. It looks great. I am fairly new to soap making and am at the stage to know enough to be occasionally dangerous in my blends. Most of my recipes have worked out but for a sadly failed buttermilk carrot soap that sounded lovely but boiled over in the mold! Been there!
I’ve definitely had my share of soaping mishaps – like getting distracted and having my entire soap batch harden in my mixing bowl before I could pour it in my mold! It’s all a part of learning, I guess!
Sounds delicious, can’t wait to try it. Just wondering how big your mold is. I am new to this soapmaking stuff and I am confused how to change the measurements to fit in my mold, or if thats even possible.
I used two of these rectangular bar soap molds for this recipe. https://www.thesage.com/catalog/products/Rectangle-Bar-Tray-Mold.html. You can definitely change the recipe to fit your mold. What size mold are you using?