Making Easy DIY homemade Cold Process Soap w/ Recipe & Lather test | Ellen Ruth Soap

Let's go shopping for everything you need to make your first soap! Super simple homemade soap recipes included, and I'm using recycled milk cartons for soap molds. Plus a lather test at the end of the video! #soapmaking #homemadesoap #coldprocesssoap

To get right into the soap making, skip to 10:55 😉

PLEASE follow all proper safety precautions for making cold process soap!

Recipe #1 (the one used in this video)
48 oz All Veg Shortening (generic crisco)
18 oz Coconut oil
21 oz Olive oil
3 oz Castor oil
12.5 oz Sodium Hydroxide (100% lye)
24 oz Distilled Water
This recipe has a 5% superfat.
Additives: 1T Cane Sugar & 1 T Table Salt, dissolved in water before adding lye. 1 tsp. Hibiscus Flower powder, 1 tsp. Turmeric powder, 2 T Buttermilk powder (added to melted oils before lye).

Recipe #1 in %
48% All Veg Shortening
25% Coconut oil
25% Olive oil
2% Castor oil

Recipe #2 (basic grocery store soap)
35% Coconut oil
25% Lard
40% Olive oil

My favorite soap calculators:
https://www.the-sage.com/lyecalc/
http://www.soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcwp.asp

Here's a link to Tree Marie Soapworks tutorial on how to use a soap calculator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRTWv50AY2g&t=209s&ab_channel=TreeMarieSoapworks

Here's a link to Kapia Mera Soap and her grocery store soap making:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_ONdws5SI&t=1s&ab_channel=Holly-KapiaMeraSoap

I love to create good for you, handcrafted soaps using the cold process method of soap making.
This video is intended for entertainment purposes. Any opinions or statements made are just my own, I'm not a health professional. I'm simply an artisan soap maker, inviting you to come along on my journey.

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