Tomato Soap Recipes

I don’t have time to make soap. Let me Buy Tomato Soap Now, please.

Tomato soap recipes will be the focus of our attention today. We’re just as new to this as you are, if not newer (we’ve been into tomato soap for almost 2 hours as of this writing), so this will be a shared learning experience.

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The first recipe we’ll look at was promoted with an emphasis on “using fresh tomatoes”. I feel like nobody is going to know the difference if I use a can of Hunt’s Chopped Tomatoes….just saying.

Natural Homemade Tomato Soap Recipe with Basil

Ingredients:

These are the ingredients you will need to make this tomato soap recipe with basil essential oil and natural basil powder:

• 1.8 oz. cocoa butter

• 2.6 oz. shea butter

• 9 oz. sustainable palm oil

• 7.2 oz. 76 degree melt point coconut oil

• 11.8 oz. pomace olive oil

• 3.6 oz. castor oil

• 4.9 oz. lye/sodium hydroxide

• 6 fluid oz. distilled water

• 1 Tablespoon basil powder

• .75 oz. basil essential oil

• 8.5 oz. pureed ripe tomatoes

• 1 Tablespoon walnut shell powder

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Guess I’ll be going to Wal-Mart. Maybe Plum Market for the…basil powder? Whaa? Maybe just some dried basil will work here. I’m going to need a serious food processor to grind walnut shells…

…this is going to get expensive. Let’s see what the process is…

Here is how to make tomato soap using the cold process soapmaking method:

1. Start by measuring out the distilled water, then weigh out the lye using a digital kitchen scale and stir into the distilled water. Set aside to cool in a well ventilated area.

2. Now weigh out all of the soapmaking oils – cocoa butter, shea butter, palm oil, coconut oil, olive oil and castor oil – and place in large non-aluminum pot. Heat over medium heat on the stove until all of the oils have melted, then remove from heat and set aside to cool.

3. While the soapmaking oils and lye-water are cooling, line your soap mold and prepare the other ingredients. Weight out the ripe tomatoes and remove stems and leaves, then mash with a fork or similar utensil. If your tomatoes are super ripe you won’t need to use anything else. Set aside. Using separate containers for each ingredient, weigh out the basil essential oil, and measure out the basil and walnut shell powders. Set aside.

4. Once your ingredients have cooled to between 95 and 110 degrees, pour the pureed tomatoes into the soapmaking oils and mix well with an immersion/stick hand blender. Then slowly pour the lye-water into the soap oils and tomato puree and mix until you reach trace.

5. Now pour 1/3 of the soap into your mold and tap to level. Evenly sprinkle the walnut shell powder across the poured soap.

6. Now add the basil powder and basil essential oil to the remaining soap in the pot and mix well with the blender. Once thoroughly combined, slowly pour the remaining soap on top of the first layer of soap and the walnut shell powder. Level the soap as much as possible so the final size of your bars will be consistent. I generally level out the top of my soap using a butter knife. I run a butter knife back and forth along the width of the mold to evenly distribute the soap, then run it back and forth along the length.

7. Now cover and insulate your mold for twenty-four hours. After the insulation period your soap is ready to unmold. Remove your soap from the mold and cut into bars. You can use soap cutter as a guide for evenly sized bars. Set the cut bar onto a wax or parchment paper covered surface – or a cooling rack – and allow to cure for at least three weeks before use.

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Tomato Basil Soap

Oh hey. You didn’t read it all, either. There’s another section about packaging soap….we can go back and look that up during the 3 week curing process. What other tomato soap recipes do we got?

Tomato Leaf Soap with Fresh Tomatoes And Natural Clay

Makes one 3 pound loaf of soap, about 10 bars.

• 6.4 oz. Palm oil, melted and cooled to room temperature (80-100F)

• 8 oz. Coconut oil, melted and cooled to room temperature

• 12.8 oz. Olive oil

• 4.8 oz. Castor oil

• 5 oz. Fresh tomato puree, chilled (They want you to use fresh tomatoes for some reason).

• 5 oz. water

• 4.25 oz. Sodium hydroxide

• 1.25 – 2 oz. Tomato Leaf fragrance oil, or other cold process soap fragrance, optional

• 1 Heaping Tbsp. Moroccan Red clay, hydrated with a little of the water

• 1 Heaping Tbsp. French Green clay, hydrated with a little of the water

• .65 oz. Sodium lactate, optional*

If using fresh tomatoes, make sure you get rid of all the seeds before blending.. Once blended, measure out 5 oz. of blended pulp and set aside. Make sure there are no large pieces of pulp in the tomato mixture.

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In a well-ventilated area, preferably with a fan, pour the lye into the water and stir gently until dissolved. Add the chilled tomato puree to the lye mixture, and allow it to rest until room temperature (between 80-100F). Meanwhile, weigh and combine your oils, and allow them to also reach room temperature. Add your fragrance or essential oils to the oil mixture, if you are using them.

Once ingredients are room temperature, pour the lye/tomato mixture into the oils and stir well with a whisk. In one to two minutes, and come back, and it will have thick slightly of its own accord. Once it has reached the emulsion state and has just begun to thicken, pour a portion of soap batter into the cups with the red clay and the green clay. Mix well.

To create an In The Pot Swirl, drizzle the red and green colored soap back into the soap pot in a random pattern. Save a small amount of colored soap for decorating the top, if desired.

I’m more than intrigued at this point, but also realizing that this is going to take a little more effort than baking cookies. Fortunately, it seems that much of the upfront cost comes in the form of soap ingredients that are common across many soap recipes.

Let’s try to find an easy recipe.

Other than that, all other ingredients are purely optional. -This is already my favorite recipe.

Equipment

• Immersion blender

• Soap mold

• Soap cutter

MATERIALS

The Oils

• 500 g olive oil (Can use regular or extra virgin)

• 100 g coconut oil (Regular coconut oil that melts around 76ºF)

For the lye solution

• 195 g water (Ideally fiiltered or distilled)

• 80 g lye NaOH (Sodium hydroxide)

Optional ingredients

• 10 g China Musk Fragrance Oil (Optional, for fragrance)

• exfoliants (Colloidal oatmeal, coffee grinds, poppy seeds, etc.) TLDR-3

• colorants (iron oxides, micas, soap colorants)

Making soap is really very easy. All you have to do is to mix a lye solution by mixing the lye with water. (Pour the lye into the water and not the other way around!) <—— Seems important

The lye mixture will get cloudy and warm, then it will clear up and start to cool.

Once the lye solution is ready, prepare the oils. Weigh out the oils and melt the coconut oil if it’s solid. Otherwise, there is no need to heat your oil.

After the lye mixture has cooled enough to easily handle the container, pour the warm lye solution into the oil mixture. Mix them together gently at first. Note: You don’t need to wait very long.

Once the lye solution has been incorporated into the oils, you can start to blend them with an immersion blender. Be careful not to spray the mixture all over! - Gently mix the lye and oil together decently to minimize the amount of time the immersion blender is needed (because heat).
When the mixture starts to thicken and look like a thin mayonnaise (after a few minutes), you are at the stage that is called "trace." That is what you want! TLDR-3

Now is the time to customize your soap and make it fun! You can add fragrances, colorants, exfoliants, etc.

Pour into soap molds. Silicone loaf pans work great as a soap mold. I also have successfully used plastic kitchen containers. Some people even recycle tetra bricks and other food packaging. (Avoid using metals as they may react with the lye in the soap.)

Seems like the silicone molds with bar-sized divisions would be a lot easier.

Set aside for at least 24 hours. It will probably get warm. If it will be in a cold environment, consider covering the soap with a towel.

After 24 hours, uncover and gently press on it to determine if you can easily unmold it

If you've used a loaf pan, cut the soap into bars.
Let the soap cure/set for around a month. Separate the soaps so that each one has air circulating around it. At first, turn the soap every couple of days. This helps the soap dry out and harden evenly.

So then why the box? If you wanted to design the bars, or do any sort of layering….idk, basically if you want to mod your soap and don’t want to do the same process 48 times.