DIY Coconut Oil Soap [Easy 3 Ingredient Soap At Home]
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2024
- Make a natural coconut oil soap at home using only 3 ingredients! Coconut oil, water and lye! With all the chemical that’s in modern products, making your soap at home gives you so much control and customization opportunities. Full Recipe below: ALWAY double check soap formula on an online soap calculator.
Ingredients:
500g coconut oil
127 g distilled water
10 g citric acid
73 g lye
Melt the Coconut Oil: In a stainless steel pan, heat the coconut oil on very low heat until just liquefied. Coconut oil has a low melting point of only 76°F/ 24°C When fully melted, take off the heat and set aside.
Make the Lye Solution: Pour distilled water into a heat safe container. Add citric acid (optional) and stir to dissolve completelly. Pour the Lye into the water and stir with a stainless steel spoon. Do NOT breathe in the fumes. This will get very HOT. Stir well and leave someplace safe to cool.
Make Coconut Oil Soap: When the lye solution and oils are both around 100°F (38°C), pour the lye solution into the pan of oils. It's best to pour against a silicone spatula to reduce air bubbles. Blend the lye solution and oil together until it reaches trace. You will know you are close when the soap has thickened and is a light pudding consistency. Feel free to dip your stick blender in the pot and give it a few pulses to hurry this process.
Use silicone mold with cavities for best results. Leave the soap inside for 24-48 hours before popping it out. Cure for 10 weeks minimum.
A note on citric acid: The citric acid is completely optional, but recommended. When citric acid and lye (NaOH) mix, sodium citrate is made. Sodium citrate is a chelator in soap.
A chelator traps metal ions like calcium and magnesium that can be found in well or tap water.
These metal contaminants can cause rancidity and soap scum in handmade soap.
A chelator binds to these metals so that they can't bind to the soap molecules. This way the soap won't react with them. That being said, the soap's lather improves and shelf life increases!
Citric acid does not lower the pH of soap. Instead it consumes some of the lye and increases the superfat. Add 6 g extra lye for every 10 g of citric acid added to a soap recipe if you want to keep the superfat % at the same level.
How much citric acid should be added to soap? In bar soap you will want to use 1-2% of the oil weight.
How to use citric acid? Add citric acid to the distilled water and dissolve completely before adding the lye.
!!! This video is not intended to be a tutorial.
!!! This recipe is shared for fellow soap enjoyers. This recipe/video does not replace due diligence in learning and knowing how to properly handle lye and make handcrafted cold process soap. Follow all safety precautions.
!!! New England Homebody is not responsible for any outcome that results from prepping, making, and/or testing this recipe. Follow all safety precautions and heed all warnings for the production and use of cold process soap.
!!! A lye solution must only be made in a lye safe container. Lye and/or cold process soap should never come in contact with aluminum. Do not mix a lye solution in glass (like I did. But I will remember to be better next time) - Розваги
This is probably the easiest soap making tutorial I've seen yet. Question, could lemon juice or another method be used instead of citric acid because most citric acid is made from black mold, so I really wouldn't want to use that?
The citric acid is completely optional!! 😊 The soap will be amazing with or without it but I do include it in many of our soaps because when citric acid and sodium hydroxide lye (NaOH) are combined, sodium citrate is created. Sodium citrate works as a chelator in soap. A chelator traps metal ions such as calcium and magnesium that can be found in tap water. These metal contaminants can cause rancidity and soap scum in handmade soap. A chelator binds to these metals so that they can't bind to the soap molecules. This way the soap won't react with them and the soap's lather improves + shelf life increases. Thank you for the question!
@NewEnglandHomebody WOW, I did not know that. Thank you for your response and info. Have a Blessed day 🙏🏼🤗
@@NewEnglandHomebody Is there another alternative to the citric acid that you could recommend? I would like to include it, but knowing about the black mold just throws me off 😳
@@NewEnglandHomebodythank you for the info ❤️
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Thanks for this video, you made it loook so easy, will love to try it but don't have coconut oil can I use shea butter?
Yes you can! Make sure to adjust amount of water and lye for that specific fat. I love shea butter soap too! I am thinking about making a pure shea butter soap video! Thanks for watching!
Great video!! Where did you get the lye? Do you have a link?
Most hardware store will have it.
Thank you so much.your vedio is not complicated you make it easy for us the basic in soap making.👍
My pleasure 😊 Thank you for watching!
Are there any specific coconut oil we should use? Like coconut cooking oil?
I used virgin coconut oil. However you can use any grade coconut oil that you have. Keep in mind the lye/water amounts would change if its anything other than virgin. Use an online soap calculator like lyecalc.com to know how much lye you would need.
Cure the soap 3 or 4 months before using it? What does that mean. You can use the soap instantly?
Usually cold process soap needs to cure for about 4-6 weeks before you can use it. I cure this perticular soap for 10 weeks because coconut oil soap tends to be very cleansing. The soap needs this 'cure' time to turn all of the lye into soap. You cure soap to make sure no lye remains in the soap, plus the lather improves over time!
Lye is a critical ingredient in the soap-making process; It reacts with oils during the saponification process to create soap and glycerin, changing the liquid oils into a solid soap bar. In the recipe I added extra coconut oil, in a process called 'superfatting' to make sure no lye remains in the final product.
do we need to use the fridge when leaving it in 24-48 hrs?
No need for a fridge. I just have it on my countertop at room temperature.
Does it use for faces?
It is very cleansing. I use it on my body and hand mostly. I have a pine tar soap video, this is the one I use on my face! Link: ua-cam.com/video/jTv9kZjmesI/v-deo.html
How many soaps can you make with this amount of ingredients?
I made 6. You can use an online soap calculator to increase the amount of oils, water and lye to make larger batches.
do you sell them? i wanna buy them😅
We are working on an online store soon but for now I just make them for myself! Thanks for watching!
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Resipy plese
You can find the recipe in the description
20% super fat and 25% water?
I was originally going for 20% superfat, but I put in 10g of citric acid. This increased the superfat a bit because 10g of citric acid neutralizes about 6g of lye. This made the superset a bit higher than 20% but not quite 25%