Oats and Honey Soap!

Oats and Honey is a 5% superfat, cold process, solid soap. 

It’s made with: 

• Olive Oil 

• Tallow 

• Coconut Oil 

• Shea Butter 

• Castor Oil 

• Lye 

This soap has the highest percentage of olive oil yet, making it extra gentle and conditioning. And instead of the lye mixture being made with distilled water, this soap has creamy, raw, local milk in its place, and is infused with rich, raw, local honey throughout. This makes for a bar of soap that is gentle, creamy, and ever so slightly sweet smelling. 

The sugars in the milk and honey add to this soap’s large, fluffy bubbliness, and oats give the bar some light exfoliation. 

Soap Making Process

Though it’s unclear how many skin benefits come from using honey, milk, and oats within soap, these ingredients are healing, gentle, and nourishing for skin. 

This soap was made by first freezing the milk needed for the recipe. 

Then the oils (tallow, coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil, and castor oil) were measured into a large bowl and set into a double boiler to slowly melt and combine. 

While the oils were melting, I added the lye to the frozen milk. The lye dissolved into the melting milk as the oils finished liquifying. 

Once both mixtures were thoroughly melted and combined, I poured the lye-milk into the oils, where the lye started reacting with the oils to thicken the batter into soap. 

When the oils thicken into soap batter, the rough-cut oats and honey are added and incorporated. 

Once mixed, the batter is poured into a mold to set, and then to cure for 6 weeks. 

Use Of This Soap

This is a good bar for hand washing and keeping beside the kitchen and bathroom sinks. Since this bar is gentle and nourishing, it would make a good body wash/shower bar. Though be careful - this bar is not as hard as a soap with a higher tallow percentage, so don’t let it sit under running water for longer than a minute or two, or it’ll start to turn to mush!

What makes a good soap for face-washing is really just preference, but this soap might do the trick for you since its high olive oil percentage makes it extra gentle. 

Make sure to avoid this soap if you’re allergic to any of the ingredients listed in the first paragraph of the post. 

If you want a ‘stronger’ or more cleansing bar of soap, you can look for one with a tallow base, coconut oil, and maybe a smaller superfat percentage. 

This bar of soap should last for 1-6 months, depending on how much you use it. 

Hope you enjoy!