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Orange + Ginger makes a great soap, add orange peel, orange tea and wow!



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Monday, October 12, 2015

It's October and time for us to try another of Amy Warden's Soap Challenges.  This time the challenge is ingredients - we have to use alternative liquids to make this soap!  We have made soap with coffee, and we have made soap with wine, but we wanted to try something different for this challenge.

Alison and I put on our thinking caps and after much discussion, visits to the juice section at our local market, and more discussions, we decided to try orange juice. I grew up in Florida and had orange trees in my yard, and we both love orange juice, but it had never occurred to us to use it in soap!

We picked up about 10 oranges and juiced them for our liquid. Oranges contain about 88% vitamin C, and we knew it was good for us. One of the sites we researched, Style Craze, had an extensive article listing the benefits of Vitamin C for the whole body (we should all be drinking it every day!!).  We were primarily interested in the benefits to the skin which include:  moisturizing, anti-aging, improves skin texture, helps with dark spots and blemishes, rejuvenates dull skin, treats acne.  All these years we've heard an apple a day.....you can add an orange a day to that one!

We juiced a hand of fresh ginger and added the juice to the orange juice.  Once we finished juicing we stick blended the left over ginger pulp into the oils to beef up the benefits of this great spice. We researched the benefits of ginger and were amazed at its goodness.  The Health Site had a great article extolling the benefits of ginger on the skin, they include the following:  a natural moisturizer, known to improve circulation, facial and skin cleanser, anti-aging and helps with acne and blemishes.  Ginger by it's self is full of great properties and both of us decided to start eating ginger much more often. 

The color of the soap is natural orange from the juice and the 5x orange EO we used.  The only other "colorant" we added was Bentonite clay which we mixed using a small amount of Orange spice tea.  We hoped that the clay would give us a dramatic color difference - it didn't, well at least not a dramatic difference.  But our use of dried orange peel did give us a little definition.  We tried using a mortar and pestle to grind the peelings into a fine powder, didn't work.  Then we tried the trusty Cuisinart, didn't work.  What finally did give us a little powder was our coffee grinder.  We sifted the dried orange peel powder between the layers of the soap then did a quick hanger swirl, and that's what gave us our design (we think it looks like prehistoric cave artwork found in France).  We sprinkled the remaining coarser pieces of orange peel on the top of the soap.

We hope you enjoy our video as we put together our Alternative Liquid soap for this month's Challenge.  Once again we've tried something we probably never would have and found it to be interesting and fun.







Final photos of the soap:









12/29/2015
We've had a question regarding how well this soap lathered up 
so tonight I grabbed a bar and fired it up.
Great lather and bubbles and a very silky smooth feeling left on my skin after I rinsed the soap off!



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