Avocado Soap Recipe with Real Avocado & Greek Yogurt (2024)

• Soapmaking

May 26, 2015

This natural yogurt & avocado soap recipe may seem both challenging and perhaps a bit expensive to craft at first glance. However, because of the food ingredients added to this natural avocado soap recipe, you’re actually able to create a luxe bar of homemade soap with fewer, less expensive ingredients! The result is an incredible natural soap that hydrates and soothes skin so it looks and feels healthy.

Don’t have a lot of money to invest in soapmaking ingredients but still want your homemade soaps to feel expensive? Adding ripe fruit and/or yogurt to your homemade soap recipes will give your homemade soaps a luxurious, silky feel as well as extra skin conditioning properties! This natural yogurt and avocado soap recipe does just that and is made using a small, ripe avocado and real Greek yogurt!

Yogurt & Avocado Soap Recipe

© Rebecca D. Dillon

Ingredients:

These are the ingredients you will need to make this avocado soap recipe with Greek yogurt:

• 19.8 oz. sustainable palm oil
• 9 oz. rice bran oil
• 7.2 oz. 76°F melt point refined coconut oil
• 7.3 oz. distilled water
• 4.9 oz. lye/sodium hydroxide
• 3. oz. avocado puree from a small ripe avocado
• 2 oz. plain organic Greek yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon spirulina powder, optional for natural green color

Notes on this Cold Process Soap Recipe:

Here are the notes for this cold process soap recipe if you’d like to make changes or resize the batch:

• Water as % of oils=33% then discounted by amount of avocado (8.3% of oil weight) and yogurt (5.5% of oil weight) added.
• Superfat=8%
• If a fragrance is desired you can add up to 1.1 oz. of essential oil for a natural scent or up to 2.25 oz. of your favorite fragrance oil.
• If you don’t wish to use palm oil, you can substitute the palm oil for lard, but you’ll want to run the recipe back through a lye calculator.
• This natural yogurt & avocado homemade soap recipe will fit inside my DIY wooden loaf soap mold.

How to Make Avocado Soap:

Here is how to make yogurt avocado soap:

1. To make this yogurt & avocado soap recipe, you’ll need to follow your basic cold process soapmaking method instructions.Be sure to take all proper safety precautions when working with lye including goggles and gloves.
2. Begin by measuring out the distilled water in fluid ounces. Pour into a heat safe pitcher. Next, using a digital scale weigh out the lye. Slowly pour the lye into the water in a well ventilated area and stir until all the lye has dissolved. Set aside to cool.
3. Now weigh out the soapmaking oilsusing a digital scaleand combine in a stainless steel pot. Heat until melted,then remove from heat and set aside. Then weigh out Greek yogurt and the avocado. Puree the avocado. Set both of these ingredients aside.
4. When the lye-water and soapmaking oils havecooled to around 90°-95°F you’re ready to make this avocado homemade soap recipe.
5. Begin by adding the Greek yogurt and pureed avocadoto the melted oils along with a Tablespoon of spirulina powder.Mix with a stick blender until the additional ingredients are evenly distributed.
6. Now slowly pour the lye-water into the soapmaking oils. Mix with a stick blenderuntil you reach a light trace. Add the essential oil oil or fragrance oil if you are scenting your soap and mix again to fully incorporate the fragrance.Bring the soap to a medium to full trace.
7. Pour the soap into your prepared soap mold and lightly cover. Check part of the way through to make sure the soap isn’t getting too hot and cracking on top. If this happens, simply uncover for the rest of the saponification process. Set aside for 24 hours.
8. After 24 hours you can unmold your homemade soap loaf and cut it into bars. Allow bars to cure 4-6 weeks before use, then wrap and label as desired.

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