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This mint soap beginner recipe was the first soap recipe I made and it’s still one of my favourites! It’s suitable for beginners which means that it doesn’t require many ingredients.

This is a soap specially for sensitive skin due to the green clay. Consistent with this topic, we add hemp oil and mint fragrance. The soap can be used for body and face, even as a shampoo for normal hair or sensitive scalp. In short, it’s the perfect travelling soap!

If this is your first soap, you should become familiar with the soapmaking process, as well as carefully observe the safety guidelines.

Green Mint Soap – Beginner Recipe

Superfat: 7 %

Ingredients

250 g Coconut Oil
150 g Hemp Oil
600 g Olive Oil
137 g sodium hydroxide (NaOH)
320 g Water
30 g Green Clay (powder)
4 g essential mint oil

Instructions

1. Prepare your soap mould and put on an apron, gloves, breathing mask and safety goggles.
2. Weigh the oils. Slowly melt the coconut oil, then add the hemp and olive oil. Put a thermometer into the oil mixture and measure the temperature.
3. Weigh the water in a large enough, heat-proof container.
4. Weigh the essential oil and the green clay and put them aside for later use.
5. Weigh the sodium hydroxide. Put the water container into a sink and slowly pour the sodium hydroxide into the water (never the reverse!). Stir carefully and slowly with a spoon until the NaOH crystals have dissolved. Put a thermometer into the lye-water and measure the temperature.
6. When the temperature of the lye-water and the oils has reached fallen to 40 – 45 °C, carefully pour the lye into the oils (never the reverse!). Fully immerse the blender and start mixing both liquids until they are well combined. Make sure that the blender stays in the batter to prevent air bubbles. Mix the batter until a trace forms.
7. Add the green clay and the essential oil to the soap batter.
8. Pour the soap batter into the mould and either cover it with cling film or spray it with isopropyl alcohol. Cover the mould with towels to keep it warm. Leave the soap in the mould for 48 hours.
9. After 48 hours, carefully remove the soap from the mould and cut it into bars.
10. Let the soap bars cure at a cool and well-ventilated place for 4 – 6 weeks before use.

This makes for a great all-purpose soap for your face and body. It smells wonderfully fresh and has a slightly cooling effect due to the mint oil which makes it a fabulous soap for summer.