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How to Make Herbal Soap: Echinacea Soap
Learn how to make herbal soap with disinfecting qualities with this echinacea soap recipe.
By Mar Gmez
October 2014
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Echinacea angustifolia is one of many
herbs you can use to customize your
soaps when you learn how to make
herbal soap.
Photo courtesy Robert Rose
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In The Best Natural Homemade Soaps (Robert Rose, 2014), Mar Gmez offers 40 recipes for
simple luxurious soaps based on three essential ingredients: water, olive oil and caustic soda.
Gmez adds a number of natural ingredients like beeswax, cocoa butter, essential oils and
herbal infusions to help you customize a soap thats perfect for you, and each soap recipe is
introduced with the history and therapeutic uses of the distinctive ingredient. The following
recipe is for echinacea soap.
Echinacea (Echinacea angustifolia) is an herb that grows wild in the
grasslands of North America, but it can also be grown in y our own
garden.
It is well known in herbal medicine because it helps the body s immune
sy stem quite effectiv ely . The roots and entire plant are taken in powder
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form, extracts or tinctures, and, to a lesser extent, in infusions or
decoctions. Externally , echinacea has a certain antibiotic effect. It acts
as a fungicide, bactericide and inhibitor of v iral growth.
Nativ e Americans placed echinacea on wounds to prev ent them from
getting infected and to accelerate the healing process. Settlers to North
America learned of the plants properties from the nativ es, but in time
attributed new qualities to echinacea that had not been demonstrated
prev iously . In fact, settlers used the plant to treat sy philis and
gonorrhea.
After some y ears, people stopped hav ing faith in echinacea. In the
second half of the 20th century , howev er, its true properties were
rediscov ered, including its action as a barrier plant against fungi,
v iruses and bacteria, both on the skin and in the immune sy stem.
Echinacea Soap Recipe
7 .5 oz mineral water
3 oz ly e (caustic soda)
1 .5 lbs extra v irgin oliv e oil
0.35 oz beeswax
A handful of echinacea flower petals (optional)
0.07 oz echinacea essential oil
1. Wearing glov es and goggles, pour mineral water into a large saucepan. Add ly e slowly , stirring gently until
it is dissolv ed.
2. Using a thermometer, monitor the temperature of the ly e mixture until it is between 1 20 degrees F and 1 40
degrees F.
3. Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan, heat oliv e oil to between 1 20 degrees F and 1 40 degrees F, stirring in
beeswax slowly .
4. Remov e oliv e oil mixture from heat. Add ly e mixture to oliv e oil mixture, stirring slowly and try ing not to
splash.
5. Stir occasionally , ev ery 1 5 minutes or so, until the mixture thickens and congeals. (It will hav e a texture
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similar to that of light may onnaise.)
6. Stir in echinacea petals (if using) and essential oil. Stir for 1 minute with a spoon (or with a whisk, taking
care not to create any foam).
7. Pour into a greased or paper-lined soap mold. Gently tap mold to remov e any air bubbles.
8. Cov er with a blanket or towel and let stand for 2 day s. Uncov er and let stand for an additional day if the
mold is v ery large.
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