Thread: In search of spicy soap

Currently using Ogallala bay rum shave soap looking for other good brands in the $30 range

What does "spicy" mean to you ?

Anyway, since you have been building your skills for months, and like they, in for a penny, in for a dime, why not trying to make it yourself ?
I mean, coconut oil and potash are easy enough to find, but I do wonder where you could find beef tallow

I butcher to beef a year have some in the freezer

I just put spicy instead of bay rum. My wife says I smell like spice cake when I use it

Originally Posted by Cattleman02

I butcher to beef a year have some in the freezer

That's, actually, what I hinted at.

Should I take the time to provide you with a recipe you could make in your kitchen with such a quality ingredient?
I mean, it would take more of my time engineering the recipe than it would take you to actually make it.

You have the tallow, the rest is easy to get, appart from the fragrances

Hence my question. Spicy is large enough, bayrum is close to allspice, which is more on the camphor base note. Juniper, hinoki and camphor are close enough

That's one note, more like a middle one. You can do something just along these lines, but you can also add a bass and a treble.

Anyhow, if you are game, I can help you make a one of a kind quality soap.

Originally Posted by Aggelos

That's, actually, what I hinted at.

Should I take the time to provide you with a recipe you could make in your kitchen with such a quality ingredient?
I mean, it would take more of my time engineering the recipe than it would take you to actually make it.

You have the tallow, the rest is easy to get, appart from the fragrances

Hence my question. Spicy is large enough, bayrum is close to allspice, which is more on the camphor base note. Juniper, hinoki and camphor are close enough

That's one note, more like a middle one. You can do something just along these lines, but you can also add a bass and a treble.

Anyhow, if you are game, I can help you make a one of a kind quality soap.

So... this recipe, would it work with any essential oils.?

Originally Posted by Aggelos

That's, actually, what I hinted at.

Should I take the time to provide you with a recipe you could make in your kitchen with such a quality ingredient?
I mean, it would take more of my time engineering the recipe than it would take you to actually make it.

You have the tallow, the rest is easy to get, appart from the fragrances

Hence my question. Spicy is large enough, bayrum is close to allspice, which is more on the camphor base note. Juniper, hinoki and camphor are close enough

That's one note, more like a middle one. You can do something just along these lines, but you can also add a bass and a treble.

Anyhow, if you are game, I can help you make a one of a kind quality soap.

I would probably be interested in that myself however I would be more inclined to making a lye soap with lard as the animal fat.

@outback to some great extent yes, most recipes are not EO-dependant and any EO should work.

I can't guarantee that a given EO won't have an effect of the final recipe, some EO are notoriously known to have effects on a soap, for example Vanilla can turn cold process soap ugly.

But
1) that won't ruin a shaving soap, they are "low tech" as soap come. It's hot process and doesn't need to be pretty (my Houhi-gassen with its two different colours in a yin-yang shape is kind of a joke on the topic, nobody has ever commented on that particularity, which was a point I was trying to prove). At worst it will make the soap behave a little differently, but that will still be in the ballpark of most shaving soaps. You know, like when two soaps of a same brand don't work the same.
2) you can use a fragrance oil instead (eg. Brambleberry's "a shave and a cut") as they are made not to interfere, it's just that much less freedom. It's the "no risk" approach.
But as Pierre Corneille says "he who wins without peril triumphs without glory"

To "compose" my fragrances I use paper strips (like the ones you find in cosmetics shops) and a box of samples I got for 40 bucks on AliExpress
If I need to make sure how the mix will smell in a soap, I'll take a bit of "melt and pour" soap, melt the bit, add a sample, and pour it in a silicon cupcake mold. The girls love having their little heart shaped soaps lol.

@PaulFLUS
I'd wager they're so close they're almost swappable. That's just a parameter in the calculator, so I can have a look if need be.