Using a bottle of Cassel's Concord Wine, I decided to try making soap with wine. I spent a lot of time creating a recipe from scratch. I am just learning how to do this to get the kind of qualities I want in a soap. This combination should be really creamy and have great conditioning qualities. The astringent nature of grape seed oil is balanced by the moisturizing qualities of shea butter. The chemical reactions were amazing, most likely due to the sugar content in the wine. I saved a bit of the wine and boiled it down to a concentrate that I added after trace to hopefully get some of the color back. That didn't work. This soap is dark brown like a chocolate bar! We'll see what color it ends up being after curing. No fragrance was added. I had no idea what to combine with wine! I used the soap calculator to create a 3 pound batch which fit nicely into the 2" PVC pipe and the 3" PVC pipe to create full size bars and samples.
11.5 oz. Olive Oil
11.5 oz. Palm Oil
11.5 oz. Coconut Oil
4.8 oz. Castor Oil
3.4 oz. Safflower Oil
2.4 oz. Grape Seed Oil
1.4 oz. Beeswax
1.4 oz. Shea Butter
18.2 oz. Cassel's Concord Wine
6.7 oz. Sodium Hydroxide
About Me
- Lori Jo
- I have a wonderful family who supports my many hobbies including singing, soapmaking, wine tasting and rabbits. I recently retired from teaching English as a Second Language and love to travel. I started making soap in 1999 when we were showing goats in milk as a 4-H project. All of my soaps are made with pure oils and no animal fats. All fragrances are from essential oils. Store-bought "soap" is really a detergent. My soap will leave your skin clean and moisturized. Try some!
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