Marmite Mia – Here We Go Again Soap!

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September 1, 2018

This weeks Pantry Soap Making show utilises a fun and very British ingredient – Marmite!
This natural yeast extract is packed with B vitamins and apparently even the mosquitoes hate it, so it may bring the added benefit of an insect repellent to your soap too 😉

I was initially nervous about making this soap. I worried that it might react in a strange way, but it actually behaved beautifully and gave a lovely mid tan colour to the soap. It had excellent hardness and lathered well. We did encounter a small amount of soda ash on the surface but that may have been our fault.

We hope you enjoy this weeks Pantry Soap Making Recipe and don’t forget to let us know if you love or loathe Marmite!

Lesley says:

January 6, 2019 at 10:07 am

Hi
Do you use sustainable palm oils in your ingredients in order to help save our orangutans from extinction.. There has been so much press about the destruction of forests for palm oil resulting in homeless Orangutans.
Regards
Lesley

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- Sarah Janes says:
  
  January 6, 2019 at 11:34 am
  
  Hi Lesley, we have been using responsibly sourced palm oil since it was introduced years ago and promote the use of RSPO to our students. We do now, however, promote the practice of stopping the use of palm oil. It produces 8 times as much oil as other crops which would simply mean moving the problem and deforestising even larger areas to cover the use fo oils within a variety of industries. Sadly the largest threat to rainforests is not palm plantations but beef cattle for South American areas like Brazil which decimate the land leaving it useless for any use at all within months.
  
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