hi this is Tina Munk with natural suds and more this is my liquid soap making video I'm going to try to break this
down and make it as easy for you as possible and especially for beginner
liquid soap makers and I get my potassium hydroxide which is what you
need for liquid soap I get it from brambleberry.com and I also use their
fly calculator for this and I want you to listen to the sound that the
potassium hydroxide makes as I'm mixing it in
it's very interesting this groaning swishing sound that the potassium
hydroxide makes and it's very normal and I do not mix my lye solution together
until my oils are at least 160 degrees and when you're making liquid soap you
need to pretty much clear your day it's going to be a 6 to 8 hour thing that
you're going to have to keep checking on and keep stirring and it's just it's
very time consuming but I want to break this down for you so that you can flee
if you've been struggling with this then I'm going to give you some good pointers
today so to help you out so you want to make sure your oils are 160 degrees or
slightly above before your hot line mix goes in this is the lye mix is right
after it clears and it's going in so everything is hot and the potassium
hydroxide solution tends to cool down a little bit quicker than the sodium
hydroxide does and there is a lot more water in liquid soap recipes because
it's in such a long cook and this recipe is 80% olive oil five point seven
percent castor and 14.3% coconut oil and depending on how much coconut oil you
use it really affects how your soap traces and how it cooks and how easy it
is to stir and I really only recommend if you're just trying to do liquid soap
to just use those three oils those will give you the best results for liquid
soap and you will get a clear soap and it also getting a clear soap also means
that you've cooked it long enough and if you use any oils that have unsub Hana
fireballs like shea butter or palm you're going to get a not clear soap
when you go to do the test and I'll talk about that later and also if you use any
unsub Hana fireballs over time within a few weeks of your soap sitting
there it's going to clear at the top and then all the aunts upon a viable x' will
sink to the bottom and you get this white layer and I'll show you that at
the end because I did that a a year ago I think I did the recipe just to see how
that would work but uh so I'll show you that at the end but if you don't use any
coconut oil your soap is going to separate out on you it's going to take a
lot longer to come to trace and it's going to be a little bit harder to just
you're just going to be a little bit more work to try to get it together but
eventually it will come together and then it'll trace and then you'll just
have to keep cooking it and this recipe is a lower amount of coconut oil a
little bit lower than I normally do so this actually took about 30 minutes to
really get a ding in it thick enough and if you only use coconut oil which I do
for my liquid laundry soap and that will get so thick so fast and it's going to
be so hard to stir it's like these hard clump mass that you have to keep trying
to break up and stir so it just really depends on what your recipe is and how
this works for you and you want to make sure you have enough room to work in
your pot so this recipe actually if fluffed up like crazy and it was at the
top after it came to trace and so it's just one of those things you have to
keep an eye on and you have to keep stirring on and off all the way
throughout the cook
and that you can see it starts to get a little bit foamy and that's normal too
but I you know I always recommend if people have never made soap before at
all that you start with lye safety and you start with cold process soap and
then when you feel confident try hot process soap and then if you feel more confident after that and you want to try
liquid soap go for that
you know because I didn't try liquid soap until I've been doing this for
quite a while
you just want to make sure that your soap batter is staying above 160 degrees
so if you need to adjust your crock-pot do if you need to up it or if it's
getting too hot you need to bring it down a little bit and you can see here
that it finally got thick took quite a while and also if you have made liquid
soap before and you have some paste you can actually add a couple tablespoons of
paste at that point and then you it'll help speed things up a little bit but
here is the mashed potato stage and depending on your recipe and you know temperatures and everything like that
the stage is going to the time frame for this is going to vary but you just want
to keep coming back to stir it you can put the lid on it and you can just don't
go too far so this doesn't boil out of the crock pot you're going to have a
mess on your hands so you just need to keep an eye on it
and this really fluffed up quite a bit in the crock pot so it's just one thing
to think about the coconut oil the higher the amount it won't do this it's
going to be so hard you're not even going to be able to stir it you're like
trying to beat it and then you know the lower the coconut the and if you don't
have any coconut then you know it's just it's just completely different how this
works
but just keep stirring and you know keep checking on it so it doesn't boil out of
the pot on you and eventually you're going to start seeing some gel phase
start happening along the edges like this
so you just need to keep coming back and keep stirring and it's you know it's
very time-consuming but you can get a natural soap that it doesn't have the
surfactants and you know all that stuff that you buy in the store that you don't
want so and at this point it's like it doesn't look like there's
much change happening throughout this batter but there is so this was a little
bit different the gel phase actually wasn't as noticeable in this until I let
it sit and I after I'd done the cook between 6 and 8 hours depending then you
after about you know if you want to start testing for the mug test at 5 6 hours and if you don't want to do the
mug test you can always test with phenolphthalein but if you do that just
make sure that whatever part of the soap that you test goes in the trash because
that is poison the phenolphthalein and in the phenolphthalein if it's neutral
it'll be clear on the soap and if it's not neutral yet it'll be really bright hot pink like a dark pink and then the
mug test all you do is take like in you know a couple tablespoons of paste or 1
tablespoon of paste and then you just add some hot water to it and if it
clears and then your soap is done and I'll show you that in a little bit here but if your soap dilute and it's milky
or cloudy it's not done yet but also if you've used on saponify bowls you won't get a clear soap either you won't get a
clear test so then you'll have to use the phenolphthalein just to make sure
that it's done
you know and some people um they don't really care if the soap is clear but if
you've cooked it long enough and the oils are right you're going to get a clear soup so and also the dilutions
rates for the soap are different if you're using all coconut oil you're
going to dilute at a one-to-one one cup of pace to one cup of distilled water
and always always always dilute your liquid soap with distilled water only
hard water will make it go white it'll look milky and then you might get
some nasty things growing in there
that's the clear mug test this actually was that about seven hours of the cook
time here
but because this is a lower amount of coconut oil I recommend a dilution rate
of 3 2 1 3 cups of distilled water to 1 cup of paste and if you use a higher amount of coconut oil I would go with
the two-to-one and I don't I haven't had any problem going any more than 3 to 1
like if I haven't used any coconut oil at all but that's just something you're
going to have to play with because when you start diluting your just grab to
keep track of the temperatures and see how it goes for you and if you get a
skin that forms on top you have still have undiluted soap and you need to add
a little bit more water so and this is what happens I leave the pace sit
overnight and then I get this translucent gel look and paste I always
always always leave it sit overnight and then I deal with it the next day and
there's a huge change that happens in the paste when it sits overnight and then this I'm just doing a small little
bit of dilution here just for the video and then do make sure that any leftover
paste that you have goes into a airtight container I use Ziploc bags and then it
goes into the fridge liquid soap is not a friend to air like bar soap we need to
have it you know have contact with the air but liquid soap cannot it will go bad so make sure that you have it in
airtight container and I keep mine in the fridge in the Ziploc bags and I only
dilute what I need and because this does take so much time I make a really large
amount of paste at once and then I dilute as I need and it just saves me
more time down the road because I do have a full-time business as well so I
try to maximize my time as as much as I possibly can but never dilute with
anything other than distilled water don't use tea or milk or anything like
that your this you're asking for problems you can use
a preservative called set aside a which is formulated for higher ph's but you
don't have to but if you're going to be selling and you're worried about people
adding water in because a lot of people do that's something that you can think about to add if you're going to be
selling it if you know you're not going to be adding any anything else to it
then you know you don't need it but people will try to dilute it and add
different things to it and even though it's written on there do not add
anything but distilled water people can still do it so after it's all diluted
which it you know depending on the temperatures and everything else it can
take eight to ten hours but I usually leave it sit overnight and then if I
come back in if there's a skin I'll add a little bit more water or you know whatever you need to do is to make sure
it gets all diluted and like I I don't care if it gets really thick I actually
prefer the thinner soap I like doctor dr. Bronner's liquid soap his is really thin and what I'm adding here is a 20
percent salt solution and this can help thicken it a little bit naturally and
you're going to use the regular table salt with iodine but I still don't get a very thick soap with this but you can
use natural natural thickener like pro thick's um but there's several other
things I do talk about all this in my e-book as well and this will be
hyperlinked in there and I have a ton of information in my soap making handbook
volume one and there's a huge section on liquid silk making in my ebook which is
almost done so if you want the ebook it's going to be a total soap making
guide from beginner to expert in its go I go over in depth cold process soap and
liquid soap and I go over how to make your recipes and fatty acids and so much information
and I do have another video on my youtube channel of a preview of the
e-book of you're interested in that too and you can subscribe at my website natural suds and more calm and you will
be notified when the e-book is available and it will be very soon
but after the dilution rate and after its cooled and you've added your
thickener and your fragrance oils and whatever you want and keep in mind if
you do add some fragrance oils or essential oils they can cloud your soap
so you want to make sure you have a clear soap before you add those and you
want to do some test batches to see what will cloud it and and see how it works
with the soap but then you know after the bottling you just want to make sure that it's airtight
and you can see that it's clear and do keep in mind though even if you get a
clear soap and your liquid soap gets cold it will cloud up
so the biggest points are just throughout the cook just make sure the
temperature stays above 160 keep an eye on it keep coming back to stir and just
make sure you have a 0% super fat in your recipe so you don't have any excess
fat and then you make sure that you will be able to get a clear soap doing that
so hopefully this helps you out a lot too and then if you have any questions
please leave them in the comments and it's really hard to say everything in a
short video which is why I have the e-book as well too but after you get the bottling done you can label and I'm
going to show you here I made this about a year ago this liquid
soap and it had shea butter and palm oil in it the rest of the soap cleared and
then the unsub hanno files' left a white layer at the bottom and if you shake it
back together it will cloud the soap it will like incorporate and so that I just
don't particularly care for and I it's just not that appealing to me and I
don't think it you know wouldn't be as much to customers either if they pick up
the liquid soap and there's a layer at the bottom but if you use the oils that
I talked about it's going to help you get a clear soap and you won't have any
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