Oatmeal Honey Soap Recipe

This Oatmeal Honey Soap Recipe makes an excellent bar of soap that exfoliates and moisturizes quite well.   It will help to cleanse your skin by gently removing a layer of dead skin cells while nourishing the skin with natural honey.

Colloidal Oatmeal is derived from whole oats that are pulverized and ground-up into a fine powder. The benefits of colloidal oatmeal are in it's ability to soften, sooth and heal dry, irritated skin.  Whole oats also contain the amino acids lysine and threonine.  Lysine is good for healing chapped lips and dry skin.  Threonine is excellent for hydrating the skin.  Whole oats are a very beneficial additive to use in your soaps.

Honey is a moisturizing agent.  It is a humectant which means that it will draw moisture unto itself. Honey will enhance skin texture because of the antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that it contains. 

The major antioxidants are flavonoids and phenolic acid which help minimize oxidation and oxidative stress.  Honey contains some of the beneficial B vitamins such as niacin (B-3) and riboflavin (B-2).  Trace minerals include potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc and copper to name a few.  Honey improves the quality of the soap by  a noticeable increase in bubbly and sudsy lather. 

Add the ground oats at trace along with the honey and mix them well.  Palm oil tends to trace quickly so be ready!  When this soap cures it will have a nice mild aroma.

The oil amount numbers in ounces are variable from batch to batch so we have left those amounts as "X".

The Recipe Amounts

a. OILS.  To make this soap we used a combination 5 oils & fats for their beneficial soap properties. Here is the list of the oils. Included are the valuable percentage amounts.

1. Lard - - - - - - -  40%…………...X.X oz.

2. Olive Oil - - - -  30%…………...X.X oz.

3. Coconut Oil - - 20%…...………X.X oz.

4. Palm Oil - - - - - 05%…………..X.X oz.

5. Castor Oil- - - - 05%…………..X.X oz.

           Oils: 5 Total = 100% = XX.X oz.

b. LYE Amount = X.XX oz.

c. H20 Amount = X.XX oz.

d. ADDITIVES:

1. Whole Oats (use .05% of total oils). Added Amount = X.X oz. Add the ground oats at trace, mix well.

2. Honey. (.025% of total oils) Added Amount = X.X oz.  Add the honey at trace, mix well.

Oatmeal Honey Soap Recipe by the numbers

This Oatmeal Honey Soap recipe uses 5 oils and fats. They are: Lard, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil and Castor Oil. Using this combination of oils and fats we come up with our 7 soap attributes (from the Soap-Calc) for this Oatmeal Honey Soap recipe.

1. Hardness of.....................................( 40 ).

2. Cleansing Capabilities....................( 14 ).

3. Conditioning Qualities are.............( 55 ).

4. Bubbly number is............................( 18 ).

5. Creamy number is..........................,( 31 ).

6. Iodine is at........................................( 57 ).

7. The INS number is.........................( 151 ).

So what do all these numbers mean? Well, with these numbers we can compare our soap recipe numbers with the 7 optimal number ranges from the Soap-Calc. So here’s the numbers.

Check your range numbers with the Soap-Calc. 

1 Hardness. Best range is between (29 – 54). The higher the number the harder the soap bar will be. Our hardness number is ( 40 ) which is right in the middle of the hardness scale. This soap bar will be a little softer than 40 because of the added honey.

2. Cleansing. Best range is between (12 – 22). The lower the number the more mild the soap. Our cleansing number is ( 14 ). This will be a mild soap.

3. Conditioning. Best range is between (44 – 69). The higher the number the more soothing and softening to your skin. We have a number of ( 55 ) which is right in the middle of the range. This will be a soothing and skin softening soap.

4. Bubbly. Best range is between (14 – 46). Higher numbers in this category equate to more bubbly lather. Our Bubbly number is ( 18 ). It’s within the range, this soap will have some bubbly lather.

5. Creamy. The best range is between (16 – 48). The higher the number the more lather you will have. Our Creamy number is ( 31 ). This number is right smack in the middle. It’s going to have a real nice lather.

6. Iodine. The range here is anything (under 70). If your number is under 70 the soap will not go rancid. Our number is ( 57 ). Not a chance this soap will go rancid, it’s well below 70.

7. INS. The best range here is between (136 – 165). The lower the number the more moisturizing the soap will be to your skin. We have the number ( 151 ).  This is the middle of the range. This soap will be moisturizing to use.