Homemade Apple Donut Soap Recipe for Natural Anti-Aging Skin Care
Learn how to make homemade apple donut soaps with real apple powder. This cold process donut soap recipe gently exfoliates and rejuvenates skin thanks to apple powder benefits. So it’s perfect for your anti-aging skin care regimen for natural beauty.
Apple Donut Soap
Donuts continue to be on trend. And while your waistline may not agree with this particular trend, you can enjoy my homemade apple donut soaps without worry. Naturally sugar free, this apple donut soap recipe is made with natural apple powder to gently exfoliate and rejuvenate skin. All without any calories for your waist to worry about.
In addition, this homemade soap recipe also contains moisture rich kokum butter and shea oil making these homemade apple donut soaps a must have staple for your morning skin care routine.
Because aging skin tends to be dry, I carefully formulated this donut soap recipe so that it won’t strip your skin of all its natural oils. As it’s a low cleansing and high conditioning soap, your skin won’t feel tight or dry after use.
Keep reading to discover the skin care benefits of the ingredients use to formulate this donut soap recipe. Plus learn how to make donut soaps that incorporate apple powder into a cold process soap recipe.
Apple Powder Skin Care Benefits
Apple powder, and apples in general, offer a number of skin care benefits. These natural beauty benefits are as follows:
- Apples are naturally rich in alpha-hydroxy acids. Specifically, apples contain malic acid. Used in skin care products to reduce the visible signs of aging, malic acid exfoliates skin to remove dead skin cells, promotes skin hydration and helps keep skin clear and acne free.
- Additionally, some studies suggest that using a skin care product containing both malic acid and vitamin C can help with hyperpigmentation that also comes with aging. (Source.)
French Green Clay Benefits
I also used French green clay in the recipe for my homemade apple donut soaps in addition to the apple powder. I used this clay both for its skin care benefits and to naturally color this donut soap recipe. Benefits of using French green clay to make cold process soap are as follows:
- French green clay not only gives this homemade soap its natural color, but it’s also rich in nutrients.
- It’s believed that this natural clay can also tone and detox skin.
- Clay also adds an extra creaminess to the lather.
If my homemade apple donut soap recipe sound like something your skin can benefit from, grab the cold process soap recipe to make them yourself below!
Apple Donut Soap Recipe
Donut Soap Ingredients:
You will need the following ingredients to make this apple donut soap recipe:
- Castor oil (5%)
- Refined coconut oil (20%)
- Kokum butter (10%)
- Pomace olive oil (40%)
- Safflower oil (10%)
- Shea nut oil (15%)
- Distilled water
- Lye/sodium hydroxide
- Apple powder
- French green clay
- Alpine green mica, optional
- Donut or apple fragrance oil or essential oil of choice
Tips for Making Cold Process Donut Soap:
Here are some tips for making cold process soap when you’re ready to make these apple donut soaps:
- You’ll need to take safety precautions when making my homemade apple donut soaps. This includes wearing proper eye protection, long sleeve clothing and gloves.
- Additionally, you should double check any containers you are using to be sure they are heat safe. And none of your containers or your utensils used for soapmaking should be aluminum. Stick to stainless steel, Type 5 polypropylene plastic and tempered glass to avoid a potential disaster. Also be sure to check your soapmaking equipment regularly for signs of wear and etching and replace as needed.
- My recipe for homemade apple donut soaps is made using the cold process soapmaking method. If you’ve never made cold process soap, please check out my tutorial on how to make cold process soap. If this recipe then seems a little daunting to you, then I strongly encourage you to start with a beginner’s cold process soap recipe.
How to Make Donut Soap with Apple Powder
Here are instructions on how to make an apple donut soap recipe using apple powder:
1. Begin by preparing the lye solution for your homemade apple soap donuts. To do this, measure out the distilled water in fluid ounces into a heat safe, non-aluminum container. Then, in a separate container, use a digital scale to weigh out the lye. Pour the lye into the container of water then mix until all of the lye has dissolved. Set aside.
2. Next, weigh out the carrier oils and kokum butter. Combine in a separate heat safe container or stainless steel pot. Heat either in the microwave (for non-metal containers) at 50% power or over medium-low to medium heat on the stove top. Once melted remove the soapmaking oils from heat and set aside to cool.
3. While you are waiting for the lye-water and the soapmaking oils for your homemade apple donut soaps to cool, weigh out the (optional) fragrance or essential oil and set aside. You should also use a measuring spoon to measure out the apple powder, French green clay and (optional) green mica powder.
4. When both the lye-water and the soapmaking oils have cooled to around 90°-95°F, you’re ready to make soap.
5. Start by adding the apple powder, clay and mica to the soapmaking oils. Mix briefly with an immersion blender until the powders are evenly distributed throughout the oils.
6. Then carefully pour the lye-water into the soapmaking oils. Mix with with your immersion blender until the soap reaches a light trace. Then add the fragrance oil. Continue mixing until the fragrance oil is fully incorporated into the soap batter.
7. Once the soap has again reached a light to medium trace, pour the soap into a donut silicone mold.
8. Cover the mold with plastic cling wrap or parchment paper if desired, then set aside in a safe location where it won’t be disturbed. Your homemade apple donut soaps should be ready to unmold 24-48 hours later.
9. Once removed from the mold, allow your soaps to cure for four weeks. After your homemade donut apples soaps have cured, you can add the melt and pour soap “icing.”
How to Decorate Apple Donut Soaps with Soap Icing
Now that the apple donut soaps you made using my apple donut soap recipe have cured and the excess moisture has evaporated, you can add the decorative icing! For the icing I used a combination of both clear and white melt and pour soap bases. However, you can use one or the other as it suits you.
To achieve the look of my iced homemade apple donut soaps, you will need both a clear and white melt and pour soap base, sparkle pink mica and a mauvey gem or purple mica powder. You will also need a container of rainbow nonpareils candy sprinkles.
Here is how to make soap icing to decorate donut soaps:
1. Cut a large chunk of both the clear and melt and pour soap bases into smaller cubes. Then place the clear melt and pour soap base into a 2-cup glass measuring cup and the white melt and pour soap base into a 1-cup glass measuring cup. Heat each base separately in the microwave in 20-30 second increments until melted. Then remove from heat.
2. Stir the sparkle pink mica to suit into the clear melt and pour soap base. Then stir the purple mica to suit into the white melt and pour soap base (for a pastel accent.) Allow to cool. When the soap starts to form a skin on the top, restir.
3. Now turn each of the homemade apple donut soaps upside down and dip the tops into the pink melt and pour soap base one at a time. If the color of the icing isn’t dark enough, you can add a bit more mica and/or dip the soaps into the melted soap a second time until desired look is achieved.
4. Once all of the soaps have pink icing, you can add a drizzle of purple icing and candies to your soaps. Simply remix the purple melt and pour soap and drizzle over the top of each of your homemade apple donut soaps.
5. After drizzling purple soap onto each of your donut soaps, sprinkle the rainbow nonpareils candy sprinkles into the freshly poured soap before it cools completely.
6. Once the melt and pour soap has cooled completely your homemade apple donut soaps are complete! Simply wrap each of your homemade soaps tightly in foodservice film for personal use or gifting.
How to Use Donut Soap
You can use this apple donut soap for daily skin care as part of your everyday anti-aging beauty regimen without any extra steps. To use this artisan donut soap, simply bathe with this soap as you normally would bathe with any other homemade soap or bath and beauty bar to hydrate, nourish and cleanse skin.
If you have dry skin, you can add an extra layer of moisture to your skin after you shower if desired. For exceedingly dry skin I recommend applying my soothing moisture whip after bathing. (You can find the best body moisturizer recipes here.)
Apple Donut Soap Recipe
Learn how to make donut soap using natural ingredients. This donut soap recipe is handcrafted using anti-aging apple powder and French green clay for hydrating and skin nourishing soap bars.
Materials
- .8 oz. castor oil (5%)
- 3.2 oz. refined coconut oil (20%)
- 1.6 oz. kokum butter (10%)
- 6.4 oz. pomace olive oil (40%)
- 1.6 oz. safflower oil (10%)
- 2.4 oz. shea nut oil (15%)
- 4.8 fl. oz. distilled water
- 2.15 oz. lye/sodium hydroxide
- 2 Tablespoons apple powder
- 1 Tablespoon French green clay
- 1 teaspoon alpine green mica, optional
- 1 oz. donut or apple fragrance oil (optional) or .5 oz. essential oil of choice
Tools
- digital scale
- immersion blender
- aluminum free heat safe containers
- aluminum free utensils
- stove, microwave or double boiler
- silicone donut soap mold
Instructions
- Prepare the lye solution for your homemade apple donut soaps first. Measure out the distilled water in fluid ounces into a heat safe, non-aluminum container. Then, in a separate container, use a digital scale to weigh out the lye. Pour the lye into the container of water then mix until all of the lye has dissolved. Set aside.
- Now weigh out the carrier oils and kokum butter. Combine in a separate heat safe container or stainless steel pot. Heat either in the microwave (for non-metal containers) at 50% power or over medium-low to medium heat on the stove top. Once melted remove the soapmaking oils from heat and set aside to cool.
- Weigh out the fragrance or essential oil while the soapmaking oils and lye-water cools. Set aside. Then use a measuring spoon to measure out the apple powder, French green clay and (optional) green mica powder.
- You are ready to make donut soap when the lye-water and the soapmaking oils have cooled to around 90°-95°F.
- Once the ingredients have cooled, add the apple powder, clay and mica to the soapmaking oils. Mix briefly with an immersion blender until the powders are evenly distributed throughout the oils.
- Now carefully pour the lye-water into the soapmaking oils. Mix with with your immersion blender until the soap reaches a light trace. Then add the fragrance oil. Continue mixing until the fragrance oil is fully incorporated into the soap batter.
- Once the soap has again reached a light to medium trace, pour the apple soap batter into a donut silicone mold.
- Cover the donut soap mold with plastic cling wrap or parchment paper if desired, then set aside in a safe location where it won’t be disturbed. Your homemade apple donut soaps should be ready to unmold 24-48 hours later.
- Once removed from the mold, allow your soaps to cure for four weeks. After your homemade donut apples soaps have cured, you can decorate the apple donut soaps the melt and pour soap icing
If you enjoyed my soapmaking tutorial for crafting your own homemade apple donut soaps, then you may also like my other skin care recipes for making my homemade green apple soaps with apricot kernel oil, my homemade donut soaps with watermelon powder and my solid salt scrub donuts.
Or check out this collection of 22 homemade soap recipes you can make and gift via Pinterest! (Don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest here.)
Where to Buy Donut Soaps & Bath Bombs
Not 100% certain about making my homemade apple donut soaps? No worries. There are a lot of wonderful artisan soapmakers you can purchase both homemade donut soaps and bath bombs from on Etsy. Following is a collection of my favorite donut bath and body products.
Here is where to buy donut soaps and donut bath bombs:
- Apple Donut Bath Bombs from Wick and Lather (pictured above)
- Chocolate Sprinkle Donut Soap from LoveLee Soaps
- Chocolate Mini Donut Soap Soap from AJ Sweet Soap
- Chocolate Cherry Donut Bath Bomb from The Little Soap Store
- Donut Lovers Soap Gift Set from Sassy Muggins
- Lavender Mint Bath Bomb Donut from Blue Violet Soaps
- Mermaid Bath Donut from Happy Hippie Soul (pictured above)
- Unicorn Donut Bath Bomb from L’apothicaire Plush Co.
- Donut Bath Bomb with Soap Frosting from Orange Door Gifts & More
- Donuts & Coffee Mineral Mud Soap Bar from Urban Whip
- Strawberry Vanilla Donut Bakery Soap from Heritage House Co.
- Sweet Treats Donut Bath Bomb from Wildwood Bath Co.
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