Northern Lights Soap Recipe

Yield – Quantity 12, 8 oz bars

Procedure – First Day

1. Place cutting board on the utility cart.  Place digital scale on cutting board.  Place a pouring pitcher on the scale and tare the weight.  Cut oatmeal soap in chunks and add to the pitcher.  Add 14.1 oz (as close as you can get on the scale) of oatmeal soap to the pitcher.  Store remaining oatmeal soap in plastic bag for future use.  

2. Measure the following oils and add to a condiment squeeze bottle and gently shake to combine uniformity:

• 3 tsp tea tree essential oil
• 7 tsp frankincense essential oil
• 3 tsp lilac fragrance oil
• 5 tsp bergamot essential oil
• 2 tsp rose fragrance oil
• 4 tsp cedar and cardamom fragrance oil
• 4 tsp driftwood amber fragrance oil

Set the condiment squeeze bottle with the oil aside for later steps.

3. Place round embed, star embed, and tree embed in canisters to keep them level.

4. Place the pitcher, with oatmeal soap, in the microwave.  Melt the soap in 20 second bursts until the soap has melted.  Check the temperature too with the temperature gun.  Do not let the soap get hotter than 140 deg F.  Scorched soap is not good.

5. Add 3.625 tsp of the oils to the pitcher of the melted soap.  Stir gently to completely incorporate the oil into the soap.

6. Spray 91% isopropyl alcohol onto the soap to disperse and air bubbles.

7. Spritz the tree embed, round embed, and star embed molds with 91% isopropyl alcohol too to help disperse air bubbles when pouring the soap.  

8. Slowly pour the oatmeal soap into the tree embed, round embed, and the star embed molds evenly.  

9. Spritz again with alcohol and let it start to cure.

Procedure – Second Day

1. Unmold the tree, round, and star molds.  Clean and smooth edges with a pumpkin carving tool.  Cut each soap loaf into 1” pieces and place in a plastic bag.  Each soap loaf will yield 12 pieces of soap.

2. Place the cutting board on the utility cart.  Place digital scale on cutting board.  Place a pouring pitcher on the scale and tare the weight.  Cut oatmeal soap in chunks and add to the pitcher.  Add 8.22 oz (as close as you can get on the scale) of oatmeal soap to the pitcher.  Store remaining oatmeal soap in plastic bag for future use.  

3. Place the star embed and tree embed in canisters to keep them level.

4. Place the pitcher, with oatmeal soap, in the microwave.  Melt the soap in 20 second bursts until the soap has melted.  Check the temperature too with the temperature gun.  Do not let the soap get hotter than 140 deg F.  Scorched soap is not good.

5. Once the soap is completely melted, add 2.125 tsp oil to the oatmeal soap.  Using a spatula, gently stir the soap until all soap and oil are incorporated.  

6. Spray 91% isopropyl alcohol onto the soap to disperse and air bubbles.

7. Spritz the star and tree embed molds with 91% isopropyl alcohol too to help disperse air bubbles when pouring the soap.  

8. Slowly pour the oatmeal soap into the star and tree embed molds evenly.  

9. Spritz again with alcohol and let it start to cure.

Procedure – Third Day

1. Unmold the tree and star molds.  Clean and smooth edges with a pumpkin carving tool.  Cut soap loaf into 1” pieces and place in the plastic bag with the other cut embeds.  Each soap loaf will yield 12 pieces of soap.

2. Place the cutting board on the utility cart.  Place digital scale on cutting board.  Place a pouring pitcher on the scale and tare the weight.  Cut oatmeal soap in chunks and add to the pitcher.  Add 3.75 oz (as close as you can get on the scale) of oatmeal soap to the pitcher.  Store remaining oatmeal soap in plastic bag for future use.  

3. Place the star embed in a canister to keep it level.

4. Place the pitcher, with oatmeal soap, in the microwave.  Melt the soap in 20 second bursts until the soap has melted.  Check the temperature too with the temperature gun.  Do not let the soap get hotter than 140 deg F.  Scorched soap is not good.

5. Once the soap is completely melted, add 1 tsp oil to the oatmeal soap.  Using a spatula, gently stir the soap until all soap and oil are incorporated.  

6. Spray 91% isopropyl alcohol onto the soap to disperse and air bubbles.

7. Spritz the star embed mold with 91% isopropyl alcohol too to help disperse air bubbles when pouring the soap.  

8. Slowly pour the oatmeal soap into the star embed mold evenly.  

9. Spritz again with alcohol and let it start to cure.

Procedure – Fourth Day

1.  Unmold the star mold.  Clean and smooth edges with a pumpkin carving tool.  Cut soap loaf into 1” pieces and place in the plastic bag with the other cut embeds.  Each soap loaf will yield 12 pieces of soap.

2. Grab the square mold.  Place in it one round embed, two tree embeds, and three star embed soaps.  Spritz mold and soap generously with alcohol.

3. Cut 2.4 oz olive oil soap and add to a pitcher.  Repeat this step two more times.

4. Add 1/8 tsp orange mica, green mica, and purple mica to the pitchers.

5. Melt the soap in 20 second bursts until the soap has melted.  Check the temperature too with the temperature gun.  Do not let the soap get hotter than 140 deg F.  Scorched soap is not good.

6. Add 1.75 tsps of oil, divided evenly, between the three pitchers.  Stir gently to combine oil and soap.  Spritz with alcohol to disperse air bubbles.

7. Alternating between the three olive oil soap colors, gently pour soap into the square mold to create swirl effect.  Spritz with alcohol and set aside.

Procedure – Fifth Day

1.  Unmold soap.
2. Place soap in shrink wrap and using a heat sealer, crimp the edges as close as possible to the soap.
3. Trim excess shrink wrap with scissors.
4. Using an industrial heat gun and the lowest setting, apply heat to activate the shrink wrap.  In the event, there is still air in the shrink wrap, poke a slight hole in the wrap so air can escape and then continue to gently heat to shrink the wrap.
5. Label soap.  Place sticker over the hole in the shrinkwrap.

Procedure – Remaining Days

1.  Repeat olive oil soap portion of the procedure (step 4) until all embedS are used in bars of soap.  
2. This recipe will yield 12 bars of soap.