Castile Bar Soap Recipe

Take one ounce of the castile bar soap and grate it using a cheese or potato grater.

Castile bar soap recipe.

In a large metal pot boil as close to a gallon of water as you can manage. The little bit of coconut helps it to be more stable as well as gives the bar a some added lather. Castile soap recipe 86 olive oil 3lbs 12 4oz bars. To begin making your homemade liquid castile soap grate the bar castile soap with a cheese grater grating by hand can be really tiring for your hands so if you would rather use a small food processor that is perfectly fine too the smaller the grate or shred the easier your bar soap will be to melt down.

Olive oil is one of the few oils that can make a great bar of soap when used as 100 of the oils of the recipe. Coconut is great for bubbles. Throughout its history castile soap is ordinarily made with 100 olive oil which is one of the reasons it s so pure and mild on the skin however in recent years soapmakers have started making what has been coined bastile soap. Cut one of the castile soap bars you made into about one ounce pieces.

Why make a pure castile soap. For more detailed instructions on how to make soap go to the homemade soap 101 or go to the homemade soap menu in the navigation bar. Called aleppo soap these bars were introduced or re introduced to europe after the crusades laurel oil wasn t readily accessible so soap makers in the castile region of spain started making soap without it. Add the grated castile soap when the water reaches a rapid boil.

Castile soap v bastile soap. The finer the better.