I recently realized that I hadn’t given you my Anti Aging Face Bar Recipe. I’ve been selling it in My Shop for months now and it’s been super popular. It’s a nourishing face bar. Meaning, it cleanses gently without over stripping. It is also full of essential oils that are great for aging skin. This soap first came together at the request of someone who wanted the same or similar oils in a face bar that I use in my Anti Aging Serum.
A good face bar cold process soap recipe is going to account for facial skin’s needs for a more gentle and moisturizing soap bar. I’ve had some soap makers tell me that soap is soap and you can’t make it moisturizing or provide more nutrients and it’s just not true.
You can definitely formulate a face bar with a higher superfat value (the amount of oils left over after saponification) so that your bar is not drying to the skin.
You can also formulate the recipe so that you are using oils with high vitamin A ad E values, etc. so that you naturally support the skin with the oils that are leftover. By using the phrase “Anti Aging Face Bar Recipe”, I am not saying I have invented a bar that will reverse aging, but I am saying that it will be more nourishing, gentle, and provide helpful nutrients for young to aging skin that needs extra bonuses from essential oils, vitamin A and vitamin E.
You can learn more about how to make cold process soap here on my blog: 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Soap for Beginners. Or, you can buy my book on Amazon: The Natural Soapmaking Book for Beginners.
Essential Oils Used:
These essential oils have been in numerous studies that have shown that they have many wonderful properties. I’ve listed a few of those properties here to give you a basic understanding of their benefits.
- Carrot Seed Essential Oil: revitalizing and toning
- Frankincense Essential Oil: anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiseptic, astringent.
- Geranium Essential Oil: balances oils, mildly works to reduce acne, eczema, scarring and dry skin
- Myrrh Essential Oil: reduces inflammation
- Lavender Essential Oil: gentle anti-viral and antibacterial
- Lemon Essential Oil: helps to cleanse and revitalize skin
Anti Aging Face Bar Recipe
This recipe has 15% superfat. It does not use any animals fats, but is still a wonderful face bar because of the nourishing butters and oils that are added.
This makes 12 -four ounce bars, or 3 pounds.
I called this an easy cold process soap recipe, and it is because it doesn’t have any special coloring or design. Just follow the directions and combine and mix. You can make this! If you want to purchase some first, then try it in my shop.
Anti Aging Face Bar Recipe
Equipment
- 1 scale
Ingredients
- 11 ounces Olive Oil
- 10 ounces Coconut Oil
- 5 ounces Castor Oil
- 4 ounces Sweet Almond Oil
- 4 ounces cocoa butter
- 1 ounces shea butter
- 13.3 ounces Water
- 4.4 ounces Lye
- 0.25 ounces Carrot Seed Essential Oil
- 0.25 ounces frankincense essential oil
- 0.25 ounces Geranium Essential Oil
- 0.15 ounces Myrrh Essential Oil
- 0.25 ounces Lavender Essential Oil
- 0.25 ounces Lemon Essential Oil
Instructions
- Combine olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil, sweet almond oil, cocoa butter, shea butter in a large pot and heat on low until melted. Cool to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.11 ounces Olive Oil, 10 ounces Coconut Oil, 5 ounces Castor Oil, 4 ounces Sweet Almond Oil, 4 ounces cocoa butter, 1 ounces shea butter
- Outside, using a mask, long sleeves, goggles and gloves, pour lye into water and stir until dissolved. Cool to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.13.3 ounces Water, 4.4 ounces Lye
- Prepare mold by lining if necessary.
- When both oils and lye water are around 90 degrees F, pour lye water into oils and mix with a stick blender or hand mixer, mixing on and off until light trace.
- Add essential oils and blend until combined.0.25 ounces Carrot Seed Essential Oil, 0.25 ounces frankincense essential oil, 0.25 ounces Geranium Essential Oil, 0.15 ounces Myrrh Essential Oil, 0.25 ounces Lavender Essential Oil, 0.25 ounces Lemon Essential Oil
- Pour into mold, cover, and insulate for 24 hours before removing and cutting into twelve 4 ounce bars.
We’re still celebrating the release of my book, The Natural Soapmaking Book for Beginners.
THANK YOU AGAIN for all your kind words and encouragement. This has been a great experience.
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