Soap Making Tutorial for Beginners - Full Demonstration & Cold Process Soap Beginner Recipe

some swirls and stuff, you can leave it for a few minutes and it'll get a little bit thicker and then you'll get a little bit of passion. I'll show you what I'm going to do, sometimes I put lavender buds on the top of this lavender

soap

, but I'm not going to do that today, no, I'm just going to make a basic swirl top with a toothpick, like this That's it, you have a batch of beautiful

cold

-

process

ed coconut and olive oil

soap

with lavender essential. oil and to finish it off, I'm just going to take my toothpick and make some little light swirl patterns that you probably won't be able to see very well.

What this does is if you have lumpy pieces on top, just giving it a twist with the toothpick just helps smooth it out, but this is quite runny so I don't really get any pattern there. You can make this kind of pattern to make all kinds of patterns, obviously this soap is still very liquid. Mars thickens up a little bit, you get a little more of a pattern, that kind of thing. I personally quite like the law. Circle these swirls like this. I'll make it very clear, okay, that's it, I'm back, I decided. I would put some lavender buds on top of my soap just to make it a little more lavender.

II would just sprinkle a few on top, you can mix them into your soap at the end too, but any botanical tends to turn brown in the soap during saponification and unfortunately lavender bugs tend to look like mouse droppings and the soap, like this which I think spraying them on top is a better option, better option, there you have it, that will do a little bit longer. Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, do whatever you want. Well, here we go, beautiful soap. I'll save this now. I have to tell you that wrapping your soap is very good, so I'm just going to put a piece of cardboard on top and then I'm going to wrap it. a towel and what it does or a small blanket and what it does is it helps the soak heat up, it will get hot as it saponifies and hardens and you want it to heat up evenly if you don't let it heat up evenly. uniform. you get kind of a middle part of the soap that's a different color than the outside and that's because it goes through a gel face, so the soap, if you take a look, you'll see that the soap goes through this fun phase of gelatin before becoming solid. again and you want to get a really nice, uniform gelation of your soap, so the way to do that is to isolate it by just wrapping it, so I'm going to do that and show you how I do it to wrap it. your soap to isolate.

I actually have this piece of flipped core that's just from an old election sign and that's really good or a piece of cardboard is good, depending on how

full

your soap is in the mold, this one is very

full

so I'll have You have to be a little careful with that, but I'm basically going to set it aside, so you just need an old towel and then put the soap in, it's already starting to thicken. I can see it's not as runny and then cover it. Just so the towel doesn't get into the soap and then you just wrap it around.

In winter you can use it. You know, you can use a wool blanket or something quite warm. In summer just use a towel or a cape because if it gets too much. Hot it may overheat and expand a bit which is not recommended so just wrap it seasonally but that will be enough for this soap and it's quite

cold

here it's June in Brisbane so oh it's my place in Brisbane , anyway there. See, so I'll come back 12 hours later and it'll be ready to cut and it should look great, here we are around 5:30 p.m. so it's about eight and a half hours after I made this soap in the

recipe

.

I say you can leave it on for about twelve hours before cutting it, but anywhere from eight to about 15 hours is fine if you leave this soap on for 24 hours. It may be a little difficult to cut and that is due to the strong lye concentrate. You have a pretty low amount of water in this

recipe

, so here's the soap. It has gone through its gel phase and is ready to cut. It feels pretty solid. so I'm going to move that towel out of the way. It seems like I actually have partial gelling from this soap. um I don't know if you can see that line shape there where the end of the sofas is a lighter color than then.

This part is a bit round in shape, which suggests to me that it didn't gel all the way to the tips, so I may have needed to wrap the soap around a bit more, but that's okay, it's really a purely cosmetic issue, so which doesn't affect at all the quality it was soaked in, you just get a slightly different color. It smells so good now, oh yeah. Wow, you can see that line that's a partial gel, so I didn't wrap this around enough so it didn't get hot enough to gel all the way to the ends, but that's okay, the soap will be a pretty uniform color anyway and like I said, it's purely cosmetic, it doesn't make any difference to the soap, so just remove it. the role, well this is the most satisfying part and then I took the bass.

Oh, to the side, you remove the bottom part as well and then I leave it on the paper, let me find my cutting board, I'm just going to Cut this with a knife, which is a very simple way to do it. You can use soap cutters of various types, but I think it's a good vegetable knife, as long as it cuts straight, that gets the job done. I'm going to cut them into about sort of hundred gram bars and I've made thousands of bars of soap so I know roughly what that is, try to keep them even and in perfect shape, it's a perfect consistency for cutting soap. sticking to the knife a little bit, okay, look, that's exactly what I mean by partial gel, so the soap is a different color on the inside, it didn't gel all the way to the tips, but that's okay.

I have my baking rack here that I'm going to put the soap on for now while I cut it. The reason I'm cutting this to the side is because if I cut it like this I would be pushing the lavender out. buds in the soap, which would ruin the surface, so if you have something sprinkled on top of the soap, just flip it over, oh that smells amazing. I have some friends and family who just can't get enough lavender soap, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to make some more. It is the most fabulous smell.

If you like lavender, that's fine. It might sound, just pause this now while I cut off the rest of the soap. There we have it, a beautiful lavender, olive and coconut oil soap. I hope you found the video useful. This soap is still warm. It emits the most amazing lavender aroma. Don't forget that if you just want to make some soap to start, don't do it. You don't need the essential oils or the colors or anything like that, you can just follow the basic olive oil and coconut oil recipe and make this soap, so what needs to happen now is you'll notice that I was, I'm just touching this soap. with my bare hands it's not completely saponified yet, so it's caustic but doesn't do any harm to my skin.

It will be fully saponified and technically safe to use in a day or two, but soap usually needs at least four weeks to cure. That's actually a drying time just to get it more hardened and dry and smooth and ready to use, so store the soap on a rack like this or some other type of rack and store it in a dry place if you like . What I usually do is while my soap is in the first few weeks of drying, I leave it in the laundry because the scent is quite strong and I'm sensitive so I don't want it even though it smells wonderful.

I don't want my whole house to smell like very strong soap and essential oils, so I put it in the laundry room, but then I put the soap in the drawers and I just want to show you this quick tip, especially if you live in a humid climate like I do. , I have a cabinet in my guest room where I keep all my soap and it's just an old cabinet with drawers and shelves, so I'll put my soap in there and stack them, you know? I eat those kinds of things in big rows and I put one of these things in each drawer and what a dehumidifier is, you can buy them at the supermarket or the hardware store and they are rechargeable and what they do is this, I think it's calcium carbonate attracts moisture, so you can put the soap in a storage container or some other type of closed container in your drawer or something with one of these and it will continue to draw moisture from the air so the soap continues to dry as it dries.

While it is covered and you can buy these large refills in containers of this material, there are several brands you can get. I like this brand it's easy to use so it's a great way to store it especially in very humid climates because soap is a salt it's hygroscopic meaning it attracts moisture so in a very humid climate it doesn't dry very well, it will take a long time and sometimes you know if it's raining outside and you have all the windows open and high humidity, you will actually feel a slimy moisture on the surface, so the drier you can store your soap, better.

I hope you enjoyed it and I really wish you all the best of luck with soap

making

. Please let me know if you want it. I have any questions, comments or anything you need to clarify. Thank you so much.