life’s a beach soap

The Life’s a Beach soap at the store was probably the 3rd best seller. After the Egyptian Musk and
the Blackberry Orange. We also sold a lotion, perfume oil, and bath salts all with this scent that we
created from scratch. The image below shows a very tropical looking soap! This is done with
layering, and placement of a previously make orange tube of soap, and an elongated white sliver of
soap.

lots of work went into this bar!

Life’s a Beach soap recipe, a very tropical scent:

 Basic #2 Recipe: (other recipes here)

51.2 oz Olive oil or Olive/Canola oil blend
6.2 oz Coconut Oil
6.2 oz Palm Oil
23.4 water
8.6 oz lye crystals
for this scented bar, add:

 5 T of the Life’s a Beach fragrance oil blend (recipe below)

colorants:
wide variety of choices here, I like the beachy blue, sea foam, sand colors – can’t go wrong
with any of those by itself or with layers

 other:

 calendula petals to represent sand and/or beach dried plant material

NOTE: you can cut this recipe in halves or quarters to make smaller batches. You don’t have to use
any Canola Oil, but if you use all Canola Oil your soap will develop spots. A Canola and Olive oil blend
will help cut the costs.
This bar below is how I had made my Life’s a Beach tropical soap. With the 2 colors representing the
mango and papaya scents:

Below is another option for this tropical bar. Because of the 4 scents, 4 colors work perfectly, and
adds a cheerfulness too:

Another version to represent the tropical beach theme of this soap. Nice muted yet colorful layers of

colors used to show ocean waters and sand and foam:

the Life’s a Beach fragrance oil recipe:

  make any amount, just keep the ratios the same

 2 T mango papaya fragrance oil

 1 T toasted coconut fragrance oil

 1 T jasmine fragrance oil

The soap image below shows a great example of how one beachy-sea-foam type color can look great
all by itself (this is a glycerin bar):

Here’s a link to a page for a mango papaya soap where they are lying! First they lie, then they put
the real ingredients on the page. Duh.