Making botanical soap with essential oils + a herbal infusion @tellervo.
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Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
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In this video I show you how I made this all natural, cold process soap with botanicals and essential oils. For the lye solution I made a herbal infusion with thyme. Thank you for watching!

All natural botanical / herbal soap recipe:

Total batch weight: 800 g

240 g olive oil (40%)
180 g coconut oil (30%)
90 g cocoa butter (15%)
90 g shea butter (15%)

127.4 g frozen thyme infusion
84.9 g lye

(40% lye concentration, 5% superfat)

essential oil blend:
1.8 g sage
3.6 g rosemary
5.4 g bergamot
7.2 g lavender

2 tsp green clay
dried thyme & heather flowers for decoration

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