Using scented cold process soap means enjoying the pleasant moments of daily washing. Its sensory qualities and fragrance explore emotional intimacy. To explore these beautiful stories further, renowned perfumers create unique fragrances for our cold process soaps. Why use scented cold process soap? How to make scented cold process soap?
Scented soap is primarily used to wash your skin to get rid of bacteria and give your body a pleasant scent of perfume.
Why use a scented soap?
The use of soap has always been accompanied by a ritual of purification. Not only physical, but also spiritual.
Every time you walk into the bathroom, you smell the subtle scent of scented soap waiting to come into contact with your skin.
It's true that soap is excellent for cleansing the body of impurities. But there's a surprising property of soap that not everyone knows about. Scented soaps can be used as perfumes.
Many brands, following the success of their fragrance, recreate it in a soap line. Scented soaps were once associated primarily with the glamour of grand hotels, where each guest was offered a bathroom set with exclusive soaps. Some guests took bars of soap home to scent their wardrobes.
By placing it on a shelf in your closet, you can give items a scent of travel memories. Like a small madeleine that you extend.
For a long time, such a luxury item remained the preserve of luxury vacations. But today, the game has changed. The industry is pushing its boundaries, and high-end scented soaps are now accessible to everyone.
You can buy soap for yourself and as a gift.
There are notable differences between hot-process and cold-process soap. At La Petite Madeleine, all of our soaps are cold-processed to preserve the best of our raw materials, to use a more environmentally friendly process, and to offer you a gentler product.
Steps to making scented soap
Some information on the history of soap making. Even before the foamy soap we're used to, sand was used to wash the entire body in ancient Greece.
The Egyptians, for their part, used beeswax, which was first dissolved in water. To this day, beeswax is a popular ingredient in cosmetic products.
There were also quite unusual cleaning methods. For example, in ancient times, there was a tool for cleaning the skin from dirt and sweat – a shearer.
This device was a sickle-shaped metal scraper. Before using the tool, the body was lubricated with oil, and then dirt and sweat were simply scraped off the skin.
Today, we'll show you how to make scented cold-process soaps. The raw materials for cold-process soaps are natural vegetable oils, vegetable butters, and a cleansing base.
Combining oils with lye causes "fat saponification," meaning natural fats break down into glycerol and fatty acid salts, from which soap is made.
There are two ways to make soap: cold process soap making and hot process soap making. We create our scented soap using the cold process. This involves mixing the fats at a lower temperature.
The variety of vegetable fats (oils) is very high, which allows for the production of products with the desired properties and hardness. Depending on the oil used, we can obtain soaps with medicinal, cleansing, foaming, and nourishing properties.
Two categories: oils, which are liquid at room temperature, and butters, which are solid at room temperature. We exclusively use vegetable oils and butters from organic farming.
The vegetable butters we use are coconut oil and shea butter. The oils used are olive oil and sunflower oil.
The stages of cold process soap production:
- Melt the butters into liquid form;
- Add the oils;
- Adding an alkaline solution to the oils;
- Addition of colorants or perfume; Please note that we do not use any colorants in our formulas
- Mix the soap mass until it thickens;
- Pour the soap into the mold;
- 48 hours later, the soap is cut into pieces;
- The soap then rests for at least 28 days to harden and be ready to use.
This is a brief description of the steps, which are divided into numerous sub-steps. Only professionals, using the highest quality ingredients, can create a unique and unforgettable soap.
Everyone has their own unique approach. Depending on your preferences, you can find the cold process soap that best suits your needs.
Scented cold-process soaps in Troyes
For centuries, the Champagne region has been renowned for its unique and high-quality products. Tradition and a responsible approach to production have been passed down from generation to generation.
La Petite Madeleine has established the production of scented cold-process soaps in collaboration with certified organic producers. Using the finest raw materials, we produce in our own workshop in Troyes.
No subcontracting or other, all stages from weighing to packaging are carried out in our workshop.
La Petite Madeleine's scented cold-process soaps
The scented cold process soap La Petite Madeleine is inspired by the memory created by Marcel Proust: “ And suddenly the memory appeared to me. This taste was that of the little piece of madeleine that Sunday morning in Combray… ” In the novel, the main character tastes Madeleine’s biscuits and is transported to his past, his childhood in Combray.
The feeling of inhaling the scent of something familiar and being transported back in time. Scents are the quickest way to revive a memory.
Wanting to recreate this effect in their product, the perfumers of La Petite Madeleine have developed unique and touching compositions.
This is why we offer a unique sensory experience to awaken olfactory memory: “La Petite Madeleine – Remembering beautiful things”.
The scents of our scented cold-process soaps
Our range of scented cold process soaps includes 5 fragrances:
- Under the silence of the rose by Philippine Courtière – A fragrant moment by Philippine Courtière, where the zesty greens of the prominent roses conceal a well-kept secret. It reveals itself under the breath of the Orient.
- Nude Iris by Marie Salamagne – A fragrant moment by Marie Salamagne, where wild iris is rocked and revealed in the sun’s breeze.
- Vetiver thrill by Nicolas Bonneville – An elegant, radiant and warm fragrance created by Nicolas Bonneville.
- Neroli of the Moons by Fabrice PELLEGRIN – A fragrant moment by Fabrice Pellegrin, where the sensual shadow of the moons transports us to the hour of dreams.
- Rain of Bergamot by Julien PLOS – A fragrant moment by Julien Plos revealing lemony skin in a nautical awakening.