Rose Facial Soap Recipe + Instructions
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This is a simple rose facial soap recipe made with a gentle soap base and natural ingredients. You’ll use madder root for color, essential oils for scent, and a pretty rose-shaped soap mold. You can also make and use this recipe on the same day.
I share many natural soap recipes, but they’re usually made using the cold-process method. It’s fairly involved and includes an aspect that beginners shy away from – handling lye. That’s why I’m excited to share this rose facial soap recipe from Jan Berry’s new book, Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps. It’s a modern guide to making beautiful soaps using natural ingredients, including soap bases, herbs, and essential oils. It will become a valued asset in your soap-making library, even if you’re a die-hard cold-process soap maker.
Melt-and-pour soap is a pre-made soap base to which you can add fragrance, color, and other ingredients. I like to use it for fun and simple projects because it’s so easy to work with, and the soaps are ready within hours. This rose facial soap recipe is quick and easy to make, too, and safe enough that you could even make it with your kids.
Rose Facial Soap Recipe
This creamy facial soap is infused with rose petals and enriched with nourishing rosehip seed oil, making it perfect for normal to dry skin. Madder root powder gives the soap a soft pink color, while a few drops of geranium and lavender essential oils add just a hint of floral scent. For sensitive facial skin, be sure to look for natural shea butter or goat’s milk soap bases with minimal ingredients that don’t contain detergents, such as sodium laureth sulfate.
Melt and Pour Soap Making Tutorial
Before making your first batch of melt-and-pour soap, prepare your workspace and consider these additional tips.
- Gather all the ingredients needed to make the recipe.
- Prepare your workspace with all of the needed equipment, including a cutting board and cutting utensil to cut the soap base, a Mason jar or heatproof container for melting it, a jar lid/heatproof saucer or plastic wrap to cover the jar/container, a fork or spatula for stirring, small glass containers for colorants and essential oils plus a small spray bottle filled with rubbing alcohol. Have the mold that you’re using clean and ready to fill. If using individual molds, consider placing them on a tray or cookie sheet to make it easy to move them.
- Cut the soap base into uniform cubes to help it melt evenly. Weigh out the amount needed for the recipe.
- Mix thoroughly but not vigorously to avoid excessive bubbles in your soap base. If you over-mix and create a lot of bubbles, spray a few spritzes of rubbing alcohol into the base at any time to eliminate them.
- Monitor the temperature, stirring occasionally. Pouring below 135°F (57°C) will keep ingredients more evenly suspended throughout the soap base. If you don’t have a thermometer, try pouring right after a thin skin forms over the cooling soap base.
- If the mold you’re using is very detailed, spray the inside with alcohol before filling it, to help the soap base flow into the details more easily. After filling the mold, spritz again with alcohol to remove any air bubbles from the surface.
More Melt-and-Pour Soap Recipes
This recipe is featured on page thirty-nine of Jan Berry’s new book, Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps. You can order it now to have this recipe and 49 other melt-and-pour soap recipes using all-natural ingredients. Here are more melt-and-pour soap recipes:
Rose Facial Soap Recipe
Materials
- 1 Tbsp dried rose petals 0.5 g
- ¼ tsp madder root powder
- 1 tsp water
- 10.5 oz shea butter soap base 298 g / cut into 1" (2.5-cm) cubes
- ½ tsp rosehip seed oil 2.5 ml
- ½ tsp sunflower oil (cold-pressed if possible) 2.5 ml / or your favorite (liquid) oil
- 1/16 tsp rose geranium essential oil 0.2 g
- 1/16 tsp lavender essential oil 0.2 g
- rubbing alcohol for spritzing
Instructions
- In a heatproof jar or container, combine the rose petals, madder root, water and soap base and cover it loosely with a canning lid or heatproof saucer. Place the jar in a saucepan containing a few inches (at least 5 cm) of water, forming a makeshift double boiler. Heat over medium-low heat until the soap is melted, 15 to 25 minutes, checking and stirring 2 or 3 times while the base slowly melts.
- Turn off the heat and remove the jar from the pan. Stir well. Strain the infused soap base through a fine-mesh strainer and into a clean second jar or container to help catch specks of undissolved madder root. Stir in the rosehip seed oil, sunflower oil and essential oils. Mix well. Allow the hot soap to cool to around 135°F (57°C), stirring occasionally.
- Carefully pour the melted soap base into the molds. Sometimes, you may notice a layer of speckled madder root powder accumulated in the bottom of the jar. Leave this behind in the jar, to minimize speckling in the final soap. Spray the top of the soap with alcohol to eliminate air bubbles.
- Keep the soap in the molds until they’re completely cooled and hardened, 2 to 3 hours, then unmold and wrap them tightly. Store them in a cool, dry place, out of direct sunlight.
- Optional: Wrap the bars tightly in shrink-wrap, plastic wrap or cellophane bags. You can also store them in airtight plastic storage containers. Melt-and-pour soap is best used within a year of making, though the soap won’t spoil or go bad after that time. The colors and scent will fade and the soap will eventually dry out, but it will still be usable.
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I’m confused, why are we adding water to glycerin soap base( melt&pour). I know the tea is for coloring, however, Saponification has already happened. Won’t I have an issue with dew?
There’s a tiny amount of water in the recipe and it’s nothing to worry about. It won’t cause the soaps to sweat :)
Hi,
thank you so much for the recipe. may you please give me a recipe to make soap out of Balanites aegyptiaca.
How can i get the saponin from it. and if i could, can i just boil the kernel and left over pressed/squeezed seeds to get what oil left in water and make soap out of it. please help me.
I just want to make natural products that are safe to use, gentle and I can give to family and friends.
Hi, I just tried making this soap, but the contents in the jar did not melt over the double broiler. It was the texture of mashed potatoes and I added more water, but it still was super thick. The base soap I used was soap I had made from tallow, olive oil and coconut oil. Not sure what went wrong, but I would love to know how to make this work.
Hi Christine, this recipe is one of Jan Berry’s from The Nerdy Farm Wife. It’s best to ask her directly as she won’t get notifications about your questions here.