Standard Recipes

Using the following standard — or classic — recipes, you'll select scent and color additives to make two all-time soap favorites: oatmeal and lavender. These soap recipes use fragrance oils (FO) or essential oils (EO) or combinations of both. They have basic additives and simple coloring techniques. Use the suggested amounts of additives as a guide to making your own simple recipes.

Oatmeal

Ingredients

1-lb. Batch

2-lb. Batch

4-lb. Batch

8-lb. Batch

Additive

1 Tbl. finely ground oatmeal

2 Tbl. finely ground oatmeal

4 Tbl. finely ground oatmeal

8 Tbl. finely ground oatmeal

Scent material

1 tsp. Oatmeal, Oatmeal Milk, and Honey FO

2 tsp. Oatmeal, Oatmeal Milk, and Honey FO

1 Tbl. + 1Tsp Oatmeal Milk, and Honey FO

2Tbl. + 2 Tsp Oatmeal Milk, and Honey FO

Lavender

Ingredients

1-lb. Batch

2-lb. Batch

4-lb. Batch

8-lb. Batch

Colorant

½ tsp. ultramarine violet

1 tsp. ultramarine violet

2 tsp. ultramarine violet

1 Tbl. + 1 tsp. ultramarine violet

Scent material

1 Tbl. Lavender EO

2 Tbl. Lavender EO

4 Tbl. Lavender EO

8 Tbl. Lavender EO

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