Whipped Soap

Another soap I’ve had on my list to try for a while is whipped soap, the soap that floats! I’ve admired Emily’s, and Marika’s, and Elizabeth’s @ Otion and many others too!

I love how fluffy and airy whipped soap looks. For my first attempt, I decided to go back to the tutorial I had first seen years ago, from Nizzy.

The main points are:

1. You need a higher ratio of hard oils to soft oils.

2. Your lye must be cool.

3. No stickblender! You need an electric mixer for this soap.

4. You need to make your colors darker than you want them to be, because they turn lighter/pastel.

5. Do not gel this soap.
6. Interestingly, whipped soap does not seem to get ash...bonus!

This was a really fun soap to make, I could definitely see myself making more of this. Here is a quick Vine video of the making of the soap (it’s amazing how much you can squeeze into 6 seconds of video!):

And here it is step by step!

Whip the solid oils together first. There is no need to melt the oils or butters, unless you are using a hard butter such as cocoa butter, which you would want to melt first and then add to your hard oils, popping them into the freezer until they start to solidify again and then whip:

Then whip in your liquid oils:

Slowly and carefully mix in your lye solution until it is all incorporated:

Final stir with the spatula:

Stir in color and fragrance, this pink layer is Strawberry:

The camera didn't pick up the color very well, but this layer is actually yellow and  fragranced with banana:

Then layer the colors (forgot to take pics of that part, but you can see it in the video) and finish the top:

It looked so fluffy, I just wanted to lick it! (but I didn’t) ;)

Strawberry Banana Cream Smoothie:

This soap smells soooo good, I just want to put it in a dish and eat it up! (but I won’t) ;)

And here is an interesting comparison of whipped soap beside regular soap, both recipes made with the same amount of oils, you can see how much extra volume whipping in the air adds:

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all have a great week!