Rose Hip Soap Recipe

Do you have delicate skin or skin that is beginning to show the marks of
passing time? Rose Hip Soap may be the perfect bar of all-natural herbal
soap to care for your skin!

Prep Time 1 hour

Cook Time 1 hour
Curing Time 30 days
Total Time 30 days 2 hours

Servings 10 bars
Author Colleen @ Grow Forage Cook Ferment
Cost $30

Equipment
• Small Saucepan
• Ice Cube Trays
• Double Boiler
• 2- Large Glass or Stainless Steel Bowl
• Small Glass Measuring Cup
• Safety Glasses
• Small measuring cups or ramekins to weigh out colorants, herbs, and essential oils
• Rubber Gloves
• Silicone Spatula
• Immersion Blender
• Soap Mold

Ingredients
Rose Hip Herbal Infusion
• 2 Tablespoons dried rose hips
• 500 g water

Rose Hip Soap

• 425.24 g purified tallow
• 226.8 g coconut oil
• 141.75 g sweet almond oil
• 56.7 g rose hip seed oil
• 56.7 g castor oil
• 344.73 g rose hip herbal infusion
• 129.80 g sodium hydroxide (lye)
• 1 Tablespoon french rose clay
 • .15 mL rose essential oil absolute
• 10 drops geranium essential oil

Instructions
Rose Hip Herbal Infusion
1. Pour 2 cups of boiling water over the dried rose hips, cover it , and allow it to cool down to
room temperature before straining out the rose hips with a fine mesh sieve lined with a coffee
filter.
2. Freeze the Rose Hip Tea.

Rose Hip Soap

1. Measure out solid fats, tallow and coconut oil.
2. Create a makeshift double boiler with a small saucepan full of water. Set the bowl with the
solid fats in it over the saucepan and melt the tallow and coconut oil.
3. Weigh the rose hip tea into the container you’ll be mixing the soap in. 
4. Wearing eye protection, weigh the sodium hydroxide (lye) into a separate container. 
5. Slowly sprinkle the lye into the tea with a slow constant stirring using a silicone spatula.
Continue stirring until the lye has fully dissolved and set it aside. 
6. Weigh out the liquid oils, sweet almond oil, castor oil, and rose hip oil into another bowl.
7. Measure out the essential oils into a container. Set aside.
8. Measure out 1 tablespoon french rose clay. Set aside.
9. Once the oils in the double boiler are melted, remove them from the heat. Stir in the
combination of liquid oils and check the base temperature of the oils mixture and the lye
mixture. The goal should be that they will average 95-105 degrees when combined. 
10. Add the oil mixture to the lye mixture and, using an immersion blender, begin pulsing and
stirring to thoroughly incorporate all of the ingredients together. When the temperature has
risen 2 degrees from the starting temperature and it has thickened to a thin pudding-like
consistency.
11. Once you’ve reached trace, add in the french rose clay and essential oils and blend it for
another minutes or so to fully incorporate them. 
12. Pour the soap into the mold and decorate if desired.
13. Cover with plastic wrap or waxed paper and set aside to harden for about 48 hours.
14. Remove the soap from the mold and cut into bars if you used a loaf mold. (If the soap seems
soft or tacky, it may need to sit another day or so before removing from the mold.)
15. Allow the soap to cure in a dark place for at least 4 weeks, but preferably for 8 weeks.

Notes
Tallow-Free Rose Hip Soap Version
• 14 ounces coconut oil 
• 8 ounces sweet almond oil
• 4 ounces shea butter
• 4 ounces rose hip seed oil
• 2 ounces castor oil 
• 12.16 ounces rose hip tea
• 4.73 ounces sodium hydroxide (lye)

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