Easy Pumpkin Spice Soap for Fall Soap Making

It’s time to give this beloved Pumpkin Spice Soap recipe a special highlight.

This recipe has been a family fovorite for years now. If you want to get started making a Fall soap, then this recipe is a great place to start. It’s a favorite in my shop as well.

I made this Pumpkin Spice Soap Recipe a few weeks ago and just LOVE the color and scent! It’s always imporatant to me to use natural scents and colors. No artifical fragrances or dyes…ever! And you totally don’t need anything else for this great soap.

These are great for scenting your kitchen or bathroom. They also make wonderful gifts!

How to Add Purees to Handmade Soap

I’ve had a number of people ask me how to add something like pumpkin puree into a soap recipe. Any time you add fruit or vegetables to a soap recipe, you must make adjetments to the original recipe.

This recipe already has those adjustments made, but it’s also good to know how to add purees to other recipes that you have as well.

If you are wondering when to add the puree and where, to the lye water or to the oils, at trace or after pouring, then let’s go over the details quickly.

When you add puree to a soap recipe, you must discount the same weight in water.

For example, if my recipe calls for 15 ounces of water, but I want to add 8 ounces of puree, then I will discount the water by the amount of puree added and only add 7 ounces of water instead of the full 15 ounces.

This can be done with pumpkin puree, tomato puree, or other fruit purees. Make sure they are truly pureed, because chunks of fruit will go bad in soap quickly.

I have had no problems with my pumpkin pureed soap going bad faster than any other soaps I make. They last just as long.

I like to add purees to the oils right before I add the lye water. This gets the puree in the soap batch with lots of tiem to be incorporated evenly with the stick blender.

You can add purees to the lye water. This will definitely create a darker color to your final product, which you may desire. But I like to have more control and consistency to the soap batch so I’ll add to the melted oils after the burner is turned off.

Pumpkin Spice Soap Recipe

This recipe makes 3 pounds (twelve, 4oz bars) with a superfat content of 5%.

I used to add paprika to give it an even brighter orange tint, but there are a lot of people who have allergies to paprika, plus paprika can leave a speckled appearance. Instead, I add a little bit of orange Moroccan clay. This is optional, as the pumpkin itself will add an orange color to the soap.

You can give these bars a try right now in my Shop.

Ingredients:

• 16 ounces Tallow (can sub. with lard)
• 10 ounces olive oil
• 8 ounces coconut oil
• 5 ounces pumpkin puree
• 6 ounces water
• 4.85 ounces lye
• 0.25 ounces cinnamon leaf essential oil
• 0.25 ounces clove essential oil
• 0.15 ounces allspice essential oil
• 0.15 ounces nutmeg essential oil

Directions:

1. Combine tallow, olive oil, and coconut oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat on medium until all oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh pumpkin and add to oils.
3. Prepare soap mold, line if necessary.
4. Weigh water in a plastic container. Wearing protective eyewear, gloves and mask, weigh lye into a zip close bag. Take both outside and add the lye to the water, being careful to to breathe teh steam that’s given off for the first few minutes. Let cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. When both oils and lye water are approx. 90 degrees Fahrenheit, pour the lye water into the oils and blend with a hand or stick blender on and off until it begins to thicken (trace).
6. At light trace, add essential oils and clay (optional) and blend well.
7. scrape the soap into your mold and cover lightly, insulating for 24 hours before removing and cutting.

I’ve put this recipe in a printable format for you below. This is a new and improved recipe, so if you have the recipe from about 10 years ago saved, you may want to reprint and check this recipe out. I made it a little more balanced, made the batch smaller, and simplified the puree process.

Options for adding Puree to this Pumpkin Spice Recipe

1. Instead of adding the pumpkin puree at trace, you can add it to your lye water. This will darken your soap and eliminate the need to add any other coloring aid.
2. Other scents: You can add orange and/or ginger essential oil as well.
3. If you’d like to add some spices you can add a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, or even add a teaspoon of pumpkin spice (which is a mixture of the essential oils in the recipe).

If you’ve made a pumpkin soap before, I’d love to hear how you did it and what you added! Let us know in the comments below.

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