Orange spice soap, also known as Christmas Spice soap, was one of the top ten bars at the store. The essential oils, especially the cinnamon and cloves essential oils, had a long-lasting scent. The other popular and traditional Christmas scents are nutmeg and ginger, yet the cinnamon and cloves along with the orange scent make for a nice scent blend.
Orange spice soap recipe, aka Christmas Spice
- Basic #2 recipe: (other base recipes here)
51.2 oz Olive/Canola blended oils
6.2 oz Coconut oil
6.2 oz Palm oil
23.4 oz water
8.6 oz lye crystals - for this scented bar, add:
- 3.5 T of orange essential oil
- 1/2 T of cinnamon leaf essential oil
- 1/2 T of clove essential oil
- for coloring:
- 1/2 tsp orange color for base
- 1/2 tsp cocoa powder for swirl
- Remember to mix the base color in one cup of the base, mix well, and add it back in
- put cocoa powder in one cup of the base, and mix well
- after soap is poured into the mold, drizzle and gently stir in.
Here is another great way to make your Orange Spice soap, a nice solid dark orange color. This darker color represents the orange with the darker spice colors: (the label is nice and simple too)
Another version of an Orange Spice soap is below. The tint is more like orange juice which is great, then with a small layer of brown to represent the dark spice scents:
If you want to get really awesome, here is a 3 tone, 3 layered version. This has the addition of oatmeal to the base, 3 differently tinted layers, a sprinkling of spices, and the placement of a dried orange slice. Nicely done!
Great article on the origins of spices of Christmas!
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