Master the Art of Homemade Soap with Simple Steps

hello welcome back to my channel black hands here in this video I'll be making basic cold processed soap so first I start with live safety tools which includes my gloves and my long sleeve as well as my mask and I wear a shield but I couldn't find it this day these are the tools that I use is better to get all these tools out before you start so you're not reaching all over the place this is the lie that I use from Bramble Berry and it comes in an orange bag I keep it also in a Walmart bag because sometimes lye falls from the rim out and I don't want it falling on my soaping space so it's better that it fall in the Walmart bag that's my Hamilton Beach blender that I use and I use distilled water I like to have a swirling tool handy as well as long along with my fork for when I start to texture my soap towards the end this is at Hamilton Beach blender which I got from Walmart I think it was like forty dollars it is very strong it's very good it's stronger than the one that I bought from Amazon and so I'll leave a link below if you would like it these are the containers that I use you have to make sure that the container that you use has a five and a little triangle I know you probably can't see it here but when you pick them up I got both of these from Walmart but Dollar Tree has them as well as long as you look underneath it and make sure that inside the triangle that's a five that means that it's you can use it for your soap and for for life so here I am just checking the temperature on my oils ideally you want to soap below 120 degrees and it should be within 10 degrees of each other it's a hard rule for when you first start now because you can change those temperatures depending on the formula to use but when you're first starting it's best to make sure it's under 120. I don't I like the soap in between like 100 and 120 degrees Fahrenheit and like I said I try to make sure that they're within 10 degrees of each other but if it's not it's not a huge deal I also add sodium lactate at one teaspoon per pound of soap to my live solution because that makes hardening much faster and then I can unmold the soap usually within 24 hours or a little less [Music] when you put your blender in you want to hit the bottom of it a few times to get all the bubbles out and then I leave it at an angle so I can put my light solution in through a strainer and that way it kind of breaks the fall and eliminates some of the bubbles not all of them but it'll eliminate most of them [Music] this is how the container looks when it's just the oils on top and the lye on the bottom I thought it was cool so I took a video of it and now I'm going to use my thick blender to blend in 30 second bursts foreign [Music] ification but I'm going to blend a little bit more because I want it to be a more of a thicker trace and there's that Medium Trace [Music] when you see those soap lines on the top that sit on top and you know that you have met or you have reached at least medium Trace [Music] I wanted this to be a basic soap recipe that you can do at home so I forgot to mention the oils earlier but I used olive oil coconut oil and refined palm oil from Bramble Berry I will leave the recipe below I also use castor oil but I wanted to make it basic so it's something easy that you can do at home [Music] there are no colors or fragrance oil used in this this is just a really good bar of soap it's going to be hard it's going to clean you it's not going to be too rough on your skin it's a great recipe to use and it's going to give you a good lather and lots of bubbles so here I hit the soap mold on the counter and that's really to get rid of any extra bubbles that I can't see or I might have missed now I use a fork to texture my soap tops I really like to texture them but you really don't have to it's all personal preference [Music] good now if you want to avoid soda ash then I recommend that you spray the top with at least 91 isopropyl alcohol I use 99 and soda ash isn't anything bad it's just not aesthetically pleasing it's just the reaction of the LIE meeting the carbon dioxide or oxygen the soap molds come with a lid but I just use the bottom of another soap mold because I texture my soaps and I want to protect it this is also a heating pad which you do not have to have but I use that I usually put that down and put the mold on top of it and I just run it on the the low setting for about 30 minutes and then I turn it off but I leave the mode the soap mold on top of it other soapers will actually turn the oven on to 170 degrees then turn it off and after they turn it off then they put the mold in there and they'll put it in there for a few hours but I just use the heating pad these are just some extra soap that I use to make soap and beds for another project [Music] foreign [Music] looks after it has sat in the mold for 24 hours it's like fresh bread to me but it's fresh soap and it just looks amazing I can't wait to cut into it here I am just trimming the edges it just makes it a nicer clean finish for it so there's not old pieces sticking up [Music] the bars came out really smooth and nice I love that color and they will be really smooth and nice on anyone's skin so definitely try this recipe out let me know how it went if you have any questions about it please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know or send me a message you can also go to my website where I'll be selling it you don't have to buy it but you can also contact me that way in the contact me form and you can ask me any questions that you may have also I'm thinking about doing a new series of kind of like an introduction to code process so with all the basics with all extra detailing on each video just to make the the process the learning process a little bit more enjoyable a little bit more detail so that all of your questions are answered so if you would be interested in that because I know a lot of soapers have those intro videos but if you'd be interested in me doing that please leave a comment below let me know any questions that you may have that I have not answered in past videos or in this video and I'll be sure to include that in another video and I really appreciate you guys I thank you for following me on this journey for subscribing to my channel for liking my videos for watching my videos I really really appreciate it because I know time is money and for you to invest your time into me I'm very appreciative of it so I really appreciate it thank you all so for now black hands are out bye bye guys

Channel: Artisan Soap by Black Hands

Views: 6,868

Keywords: soap making for beginners, soap making at home, soap making cold process, soap making basics, soap making and cutting, cold process soap, how to make soap, soap making tutorial, peaceful soap making, cold process soap making tutorial, cold process soap making, how to, soapmaking

Id: VM8XW9BzdO0

Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 07 2023