hey guys today is a very special video
i'm going to be showing you my entire
process on how i make
my handmade soap and today it's going to
be
our super popular french lavender soap
i feel like so many people love lavender
it's such a classic soap scent it's
fresh
it's clean it's soothing ugh i know i
love it it's one of those scents that
you just gotta have on your line
so the first thing i do is mix my water
and lie together and put that aside
so i can have that cool down which for
me takes about two hours
i did that off camera and then the next
thing i do is i measure out my hard oils
so i can get
that to start melting down every so
maker has the ritual and for me
i always start with coconut oil i get my
coconut oil from new directions
aromatics but this ingredient is so
common you can actually get it from your
local grocery store
and for this recipe i use 495 grams
next up is shea butter i use 450 grams
in my recipe
this ingredient might be a little bit
trickier to find
but if you check out some soap suppliers
they're sure to have it i have my
supplier linked up in the description
below
so these two oils need to be melted
carefully and slowly
i place them in a water bath on my
stovetop with the heat set at medium
while those two melt down i continue to
measure out the rest of my oils
in my recipe i use olive oil organic
unrefined hemp seed oil
and castor oil i use
quite a bit of olive oil in my recipe
1013 grams
olive oil adds a really nice hardness to
soap which is why i love using it
and i get my olive oil from costco
anyone else love costco for their soap
making ingredients
i used to get my coconut oil from there
but then they discontinued the organic
three pound tubes which is so
sad and next up is castor oil
i use 113 grams in my recipe
castor oil is fantastic for increasing
bubbles in your soap
see how sticky it is because of that you
don't want to use too much in your
recipe and
you don't really need that much i
remember
reading about castor oil in books like
when kids would get sick
it's what parents gave them to feel
better
it's is that's a little thing
then we have our star ingredient organic
unrefined hemp seed oil
we are so lucky to have a hemp seed farm
nearby
so we actually buy our hemp seed oil
locally from them
link to their website is in the
description box below
bit of a story time here we were
requested
to add hemp seed oil to one of our soaps
by a local business that wanted us to
wholesale to them
about two years ago so we did that
and then once we felt the difference
between that soapy made for them
and our original soaps we rebranded
and changed our entire business to focus
on hemp seed oil
it was that amazing
we use long wooden molds to pour our
soaps into
and to use them we have to line them
with parchment paper
to line them with parchment paper takes
a bit of
origami like folding skills but
once you get the hang of it it gets way
easier
i learned how to do this from a video on
youtube
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i then secure the parchment down with
thumbtacks it works
super well this way
then i prepare my other ingredients like
my fragrance oils
colorants and soap embellishments since
it's a lavender soap i use my french
lavender fragrance oil
purple mica for the purple swirls and
lavender buds to sprinkle
on top i use a tiny bit
of titanium dioxide for a white swirl so
i need to disperse it in a light oil in
my case i use my hemp seed oil to
disperse it in
this titanium dioxide is oil soluble i
know that you can get a water-soluble
titanium dioxide but i've only ever used
the oil soluble one
and it's worked pretty well for me
so i have everything prepared and ready
to go for when my lye is fully cooled
i cool my solution down to below 110
degrees fahrenheit
at this point i usually have an hour and
a half before it's ready to go
so i use this time to do something else
i think for this time i went and wrapped
some bath bombs
so it's been two hours since i poured
the lye and it's cooled down
um so now all that's left to do is to
mix that
lye with the oils and then get that soap
into the mold so i'll show you guys how
that's done
at this point i add four teaspoons of
kaolin clay to my oils
cow and clay is awesome and so for
adding a bit of a slippery and silky
feel
it also helps anchor your fragrance into
the soap to make it last a lot longer
i forgot to mention that i'm actually
making a double batch of lavender soap
so i'm splitting my lye water solution
into two here
and now we add the lye to the oils
this is where the magic happens
i then take my stick blender and blend
the lye water solution and oils together
what the blender is doing is emulsifying
the ingredients so that they bind to one
another completely
this chemical reaction is called
saponification and
is actually how soap is made i stick
stickline until the mixture
which i'll now call soap batter is
emulsified
meaning i don't see any more oil streaks
in it
then i will pour about half of the soap
batter into another container
this soap batter will be the base color
of my lavender soap
i then pour about half of the measured
fragrance oil
into this container
then i stick blend some more i will
stick blend this soap batter until it
starts to leave an outline when i raise
the blender
out of the batter and this is actually
called trace
see how fluid this batter still is
i will need to stick blend quite a bit
to get to the level of trace that i
personally like
how fast a soap thickens or trace
will depend largely on the fragrance oil
that you use
for this particular fragrance oil it
thickens the soap
slowly so i have a lot of time
i have actually worked with fragrance
oils that thickened up instantly
and believe me nobody wants that
it's a mess
and this is the level of trace that i
like you can just barely see the outline
of the blender when i raise it
and now it's time to pour i pour the
base color
right into my mold and this is the
batter that i will be pouring my
other colors into in just a moment
so i don't know if you noticed but i
added no colorants to this base color it
ends up being a
soft off-white color that works
beautifully in my lavender soap
i make sure to scrape as much of the
soap out as i can
the less soap you have in the container
the less soap you got to clean up am i
right
and now finally it's time for the
exciting bit adding some colored swirls
and this is honestly the best part if
you've stuck around this long
i commend you you'll now be rewarded
with some really satisfying soap pours
i'll pour the rest of this fragrance oil
into the remaining batter
and after giving it a quick stir i pour
this soap into my vessels
today we will be using a light purple a
sophisticated
grayish purple and a white
look how nicely this fragrance oil is
behaving
trust me i'm usually not this calm at
this stage
i'm usually running around chaotically
like a chicken with its head cut off
trying to pour soap into the mold before
it solidifies on me
oh yes that's happened and it's not fun
and then i add a bit of mica to the
light purple container
some purple ultramarines to the grayish
purple container
and my diluted titanium dioxide to the
last container
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and like the base color i stick blend
these colors until the soap batter has
thickened to the trace i like
when i pour the colors i simply go from
one end of the mold to the other
just a few lines nothing crazy nothing
too complicated
i literally just go back and forth i use
about half of each color for this first
layer of swirls
then i take my skewer and starting from
one end of the mold working my way to
the other end
i will make i guess you can call them
heart shapes this creates an interesting
swirl when it's cut
then i pour the second layer of swirls
i will pour the remainder of the
containers for this layer
and do another go around with my
skewer and i just realized it's actually
more like a figure eight motion
rather than a heart when i make the
swirl
you can see it's really starting to
thicken up here
it's still super manageable and i'm not
panicked at all
i actually really like the rate at which
this fragrance oil thickens my batter
at this stage i'm hoping for the
consistency to be more like a thick
cream and you'll see why in a minute
and this last layer is what i call the
scrapes
because it's literally just me getting
every last bit
of soap batter into this mold i do not
like waste and i hate cleaning up soap
even more
so the more i clean out these containers
the less i have to clean off of them
and the more soap my customers get
win-win
now i add some fun texture to my soaps
by using a spoon to make these cool
ridges
i just go up and down both sides of the
soap until it's
all ridged up
so i saved the last bit of white soap
batter to form my company's
signature ice cream textured tops
by this point it's getting super solid
and i'm actually able to spoon the soap
out like it's
legit thick cream i then use my skewer
to carve out
swirls i use quick motions to swirl the
white soap with the purple
and it makes these fun swirlies that
look so
much like ice cream and it's what my
company is known for
i actually do this twice to get as much
of a textured
swirled peak as possible like last time
i will make ridges with a spoon on both
sides
and then scoop out blobs of the white
soap along the top
so
so
i'll now add a sprinkling of lavender
buds for decoration
notice how little i actually use
i'm not a big fan of using a lot of
botanicals on a soap as
i own a home and i don't like a lot of
unmeltable stuff going down my drain
so i figure my customers are the same
and you don't need a whole lot to get
that impact
look how pretty this looks i'm a huge
fan of the soap
how it looks how it smells how well the
fragrance oil behaves
making this soap this lavender soap is
always a 10 out of 10 experience for me
and our house
always smells amazing afterwards hello
so it's now the next day and we are
going to be cutting
the loaves of french lavender soap that
i made yesterday
as you can see the soap has solidified
or should i say saponified beautifully
and it's now ready to be cut
i use my single bar cutter to cut all of
my soaps
i could get a multi bar cutter but i
like this guy because
i still like looking at every individual
bar
for its unique design and also i like to
customize the size of the bar every now
and then
so this single bar cutter serves me well
for now
anyone else think their soap loaves look
like delicious edible pastries
i love how beautiful they look
i just line up the soap and cut off a
sliver from the end piece then i get
right to cutting
so
you can see here how well the swirls
turned out using that figure
eight motion of my skewer the different
shades of purple looks so
beautiful and soothing this is the
perfect design for lavender soap i think
and that's it that's my entire process
from beginning to end
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video
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