Thanks for watching! You can read more about formulating cold process soap recipes on our website here: bberry.studio/FormulatingCP Video Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Saponification 02:23 - Choosing Oils: Firm vs. Soft 03:56 - Soft Oils 04:22 - Choosing Oils: Properties of Oils 07:12 - Soap Made with One Oil 10:16 - INS Numbers 11:36 - Soap Recipes to Start 12:53 - Tweaking Recipes 14:52 - Choosing Oils: Design Elements 16:26 - Bloopers If you have any questions, feel free to contact our customer service team at info@brambleberry.com or 877-627-7883 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday. You can also live chat with customer service on BrambleBerry.com from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday. Shop Bramble Berry: bberry.studio/_ShopBrambleBerry Recipes, Tips & Inspiration: bberry.studio/IntheStudio_Projects Facebook: facebook.com/BrambleBerry Instagram: instagram.com/brambleberry/ Twitter: twitter.com/brambleberry TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@brambleberry Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/brambleberry/
I've been ordering from Bramble Berry since 1998 when I started my business. So I've been making soap for over 20 years, and I always enjoy reviewing the basics. It all comes down to the fundamentals. You have wonderful raw materials and tutorials.
Thanks for this I am a person that likes a one stop shop . If it works y try try to fix it. I’m going to start my soap business and will be ordering everything from here.
This was a great video! It took me a year to perfect what I think is the perfect bar of soap, it has sunflower oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter. It is moisturizing, cleansing, great bubbles and rinses away quickly and cleanly. Thumbs up!
This is a great video for beginners who actually want to learn to make soap from scratch and formulate to their own likes. I hope to see more of this type of video from BB in the future
For those of you looking into this and worry about how fast your recipe sets up, it's also good to note that fragrances you add definitely can also affect the speed at which the soap sets up. Some can seize your batter, making it soap on a stick in literally seconds, other can actually slow down your trace and make it take longer to set up. If you're looking to do designs, keep this in mind when using the same recipe for different designs. The temperature of your oils and lye when making the soap can determine speed of set up as well!
Thank you really good information but especially the part on replacing palm oil which I do not want to use having seen what happens in parts of Asiatic countries. I am at the stage now of trying different oils so again thank you
It is the only video that I have found on this platform, easy to understand for a beginner. The clear, practical explanation, especially bluntly. I love it. Thank YOU! 🙋🏻♀️🇺🇲🇲🇽
I have watched so many video's on soap making, have made two batches and was thinking of trying next for some colour twirls etc. I've learned the basics but I needed to review a handful of various soap makers video's to gather some notes before I made my next batch but your video today was DAMN good!! You have given me all the info I needed to proceed!! Thank you SO SO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good video, thank you, I am just making soap for personal use. I've learned a lot here on your channel🙌. Now everyone I know wants to try the soap I make.💓
I started making cold process soap almost a year ago and I am finally getting the courage to formulate my own recipes rather than just copy recipes I find online, thanks for this video!
When i was looking for yhe properties if oil to use in my soap, vum! This video came up. Thanks very kindly Blam berry, im rich with these information. Youre the best.
This is just a perfect video to motivate! I'm motivated! I'm going to begin with the basics. I am going to dry up my goats, so I will freeze my goat milk in ice trays and wait for this goat milk project! Thank you Ann Marie 🥰
Thank you for making this video. I was very informative. I want to try to make the soaps in Lemon verbena, rose, lavender, eucalyptus and peppermint. I'll always be a baker first but I'm pretty excited to try this new craft. Thanks again for posting.
This was amazing!!! I have a couple books on soapmaking, including some from the Soap Queen herself! I am planning a recipe for some soap for a friend who is allergic to coconut oil , but he's not sure just how reactive he is to it in soap because a lot of commercial soap is made with tallow. As such, one of these recipes with 25% coconut oil sounds like it might hit the good spot for me!
For any soapers who are looking for a soap frosting recipe, I'd like to share a tip on making soap frosting that worked very well for me. After many failed recipes, and many failed soap frosting methods, I tried the Brambleberry Lots of Lather Quick Mix, (Don't forget to use Brambleberry's lye calculator). I mixed my pre dispersed titanium dioxide directly into my melted oils and blended them up. My lye water and melted oils were around 80 to 90° which is much cooler than I normally soap with but this temperature worked. After adding my lye water to my oils, I stick blended to a very light trace, taking care not to overmix. I hand stirred in my fragrance oil and gave it a another quick mix with the stick blender again being careful not to over mix. My piping bag and tip was already prepared and ready to fill, now I just had to gently stir my soap to watch for it to thicken up to a light pudding consistency. Once I was able to spoon it into my piping bag, it was the perfect consistency to pipe my swirled frosting on my soap cupcakes. While the frosting was still wet, I dusted lightly with Brambleberry's eco-friendly glitter. This Lots of Lather Quick Mix will be my new go-to for soap frosting. I would like to also mention, I piped this frosting on about 10 to 12 bars of cold process soap that had been cut and curing for a couple of days as well as 6 cupcakes that were made with melt and pour a few days earlier. I used a small knife to cut some criss-cross cuts into the top and sprayed each bar with 99% alcohol before piping and I had no problem with any frosting coming off after it hardened. This method has been a lifesaver for me because not only did I get the perfect frosting, but now I don't have to make the soap and the frosting on the same day. I can have all my soaps that need to be piped prepared a few days in advance. If you try this method I hope you have as much success as I did. 😊🎉
These are all great tips for working with soap frosting! We really like the way we did the frosting for our moonchild cupcake recipe as well. www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/moon-child-soap-cupcakes-project/PS000256.html
This video answered so many of my questions. I loved the examples of the different types of lather and the explanations of how trace can help or hinder your designs, and how choosing your oils are an important factor in you design concept ❤ So far, I have been noting fragments of information from several different videos from several different soap makers too. It's nice to be able to find so much info in one video 😁 *I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good Katie's (from Royalty Soaps) explanations are in her videos too*
My very first soap was 100% coconut oil, and it's still one of my favorites. It lathers very well and lasts, does not dry my skin but is very cleansing, and is so hard the edges are sharp! Each bar lasts a very long time. I used oil from the grocery store, I don't know if that made a difference.
Thanks for this video. Very lucid. It makes one to be innovative in creating one's recipe of soap based on the intended characteristics of the soap. I love it. I am a beginner in soap making.
Great video for every soapmakers out there. We love Brambleberry products. Living in Washington state you are our to go place for most of our soaping supplies for our small business. Thank you for sharing!❤️
Thank you Anne-Marie for explaining the formulation of cold process soap. This makes so much sense. I was looking at all the oils offered here in Taiwan and wonder how I am supposed to substitute with oils we don't see here. Thank you again. But, I was hoping if you can go into details about how humidity and temperature can affect saponification.
Yet another great video. I have an issue with a 100% Castile soap recipe. Two weeks ago, I made 100% Castile soap based on this recipe: 35 oz. Pure Olive Oil, 4.5 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye 9.2 oz Distilled Water (20% water discount). The same soap I made about ten times before, with EO, without EO, with clay, mica... and it always turned out great. Thank you for the recipe, Anne-Marie. But, this time, the batter started to thicken almost immediately (no added EO and no mica colours). I thought the lye-water solution was too cold. So I made another batch. This time, the lye-water solution temperature and olive oil temperatures were around 120F, but it happened the same. The batter got hard, fast. The color is also darker compared to the first time. Can someone tell me where did I make a mistake?
That is strange! All of your numbers are right. It looks to me like you made 10 5oz bars. Are you sure it was olive and not olive pomace? The last batch I made I cured it for about 8-12 months. I colored it with the lavender color from bramble berry and bought lavender scent from a company in Australia. Wow, that scent is still just as strong today as it was then. Plan on buying more. It was a deep rich flavor that even men liked. Sold every one of them pretty fast. I do think that there are different kinds of olive oil and some of them behave differently. However, Years ago I made two batches on two separate nights from the same oil. The first batch it must have took an hour to blend with my stick blender even heating up. The second night took less than 5 minutes to blend????? Don't know the difference to this day. Maybe weather??????
Thank you for this helpful video! I’ve been making my layer soaps and swirl soaps with the same recipe- which has been quite the challenge! This info will help me to change up those recipes.
I think you have the BEST videos on UA-cam! So thank you!!! I looked into ordering a soap kit, however, by the time I pay shipping to Canada and add the exchange on top of the kit cost, it is bit too rich for a young creative boy's 10th birthday gift. I will however keep your business in mind for future and if I EVER can use your services for gifts etc I will absolutely try Brambleberry FIRST! I was wondering, if I were to try the 34% Olive Oil and the 33% Coconut and 33% palm oil for the video you have recommended for beginners, you state it makes about three pounds of soap and thus would add 3 tsp of sodium lactate. How many grams are you using of each of the oils? I did look to order the 7lbs of palm oil and have it shipped to Canada as I wasn't sure what to order on the typical on line ordering platform that starts with an "A" and ends in "on". Lol. UPS was going to cost me $240 in USD to ship this. So sorry, that is ridiculous besides unaffordable.
Thank you so much! The Simple and Gentle Soap Project instructions are available here: www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/simple-and-gentle-soap-project/PS000211.html, it can be easily converted to grams for your recipe.
I'm in the UK and just starting out into soap making. I'm a level 3 beauty therapist, and one thing we had to be careful with was nut oils; for clients with nut allergies. What do you recommend for people with nut allergies, but are also concerned about the controversial use of palm oil?
Thank you for making such comprehensive videos ! I am just starting my soap making journey (literally just at the research phase) and videos like this help so much ! 2 quick questions: what are typical thoughts on using lard as an oil? Is it not used as much as nut and seed oils for ethical reasons? And on that note, are there any tried and true alternatives to the palm oil? I want to avoid it if I can for ethical reasons as well but love the descriptor of how it adds to a well balanced soap . Thank you , wish me luck on my new venture!! 😄✨️
We're so excited for you and your soap-making journey! A lot of folks use lard in their soaps, but it isn't something we sell so we haven't done much testing with it. Lard can easily be substituted for palm oil. A couple good substitutes for palm oil would be babassu oil or palm kernel flakes. We have a great article all about substitutions that can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/how-to/soap/art0074-how-to-substitute-oil-in-cold-process-recipes.html
Fantastic video!!! Thanks so much! I learned so much! The only question I had was ingredients like Shea butter or cocoa butter, I presume it has to be pure 100% Shea or 100% Cocoa butter, right? Where does one find this stuff?
In order to properly calculate the lye it would need to be 100% of that oil. We sell those butters at 100% purity on our website, www.brambleberry.com!
Learned a lot of great things here! Im thinking about doing the 30% for olive, coconut, palm and 10% sweet almond. What would you recommend for a superfat to account for the high percentage of coconut, as i know its very drying? 7 or 8%? Or more?
I love the smell of tobacco flower in soap. I am have a bottle of your tobacco and Bay leaf fragrance oil. But I wonder if I could use tobacco essential oil in cold process? I have very sensitive skin and I want something simple. thanks
will you plz explain more on what basis have you calculated your lye concentration according the technique you are after whether it is swirling or bar soap layers. in other words the fluidity you have got is it from less hydroxides, more water, or other oils than the main 3 (coconut, olive, palm) oils combination.
The lye amount will be based on your ingredients that you are using in the recipe. Fluidity is caused by the amount of water and the ratio of liquid oils. You may find this guide useful when picking oils for the design you are wanting to create: www.brambleberry.com/ingredient-information/oils-and-butters/art0006-beginners-guide-to-common-soapmaking-oils.html
Thanks for this awesome video! Quick question, out of the holy trinity olive, coconut, palm 34/33/33 but want to add 5% castor oil where or what numbers do i pull from? olive?
Hi! am trying to create a recipe using, 20% Avocado oil, 20% Shea butter, 30% coconut oil, 15% Sweet Almond oil and 15% Grapeseed oil. Will this be a good soap recipe? Or any suggestions on something I should change? I would appreciate the help, thanks!
Clear soaps are going to be melt and pour bases, cold process recipes are not ever going to appear clear. If you are making melt and pour, the clear soaps and white soaps will perform the same, your end colors will just be different.
Anne-Marie hi. After cutting the big bar, some slices have that circle of gel phase. Is there a solution? Because after several days, it looks almost the same size. What could I do to have even appearance? Thanks a lot!
Hi! We don't have a way to reverse gel phase but we have an awesome article all about gel phase that can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/tips-and-tricks/soap/art0024-all-about-gel-phase.html
We have an awesome article about How to Blend Essential Oils Safely, it can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/how-to/bath-and-body/art0018-blend-essential-oils.html
Hi Ann Marie, I am new to your channel. I have been wanting to d as tart making soap and selling it now for over a year! I am so happy I have found you on UA-cam. I heard Jerika mention your name and I am hooked! You are s as n excellent teach and I am going to start purchasing what I need from your company. I want to I get beginners kit. I’m also interested in knowing from you what recipes would you recommend? I start with in order to start a niche in Wellness bars of soap, which would include one for stress one for energy one for sleep. Let me know what recipes or if you have a few that you could recommend me to one of your books to start with? thank you so much for all you do for people that have a passion for soap making.
Thanks for watching! You can read more about formulating cold process soap recipes on our website here: bberry.studio/FormulatingCP
Video Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Saponification
02:23 - Choosing Oils: Firm vs. Soft
03:56 - Soft Oils
04:22 - Choosing Oils: Properties of Oils
07:12 - Soap Made with One Oil
10:16 - INS Numbers
11:36 - Soap Recipes to Start
12:53 - Tweaking Recipes
14:52 - Choosing Oils: Design Elements
16:26 - Bloopers
If you have any questions, feel free to contact our customer service team at info@brambleberry.com or 877-627-7883 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday. You can also live chat with customer service on BrambleBerry.com from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday.
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This is literally my favorite company. Top tier and very Elite.
I've been ordering from Bramble Berry since 1998 when I started my business. So I've been making soap for over 20 years, and I always enjoy reviewing the basics. It all comes down to the fundamentals. You have wonderful raw materials and tutorials.
Thanks for this I am a person that likes a one stop shop . If it works y try try to fix it. I’m going to start my soap business and will be ordering everything from here.
Hello dear plz can u please guide me about measurements of lye solution and sodium hydroxide and distilled water?
I can’t believe you have these classes for free! ❤
This was a great video! It took me a year to perfect what I think is the perfect bar of soap, it has sunflower oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter. It is moisturizing, cleansing, great bubbles and rinses away quickly and cleanly. Thumbs up!
Do you share your recipe?
This is the best starter video, I remember when I started researching how to make my own soap! Anne-Marie always comes through!
This is a great video for beginners who actually want to learn to make soap from scratch and formulate to their own likes. I hope to see more of this type of video from BB in the future
For those of you looking into this and worry about how fast your recipe sets up, it's also good to note that fragrances you add definitely can also affect the speed at which the soap sets up. Some can seize your batter, making it soap on a stick in literally seconds, other can actually slow down your trace and make it take longer to set up. If you're looking to do designs, keep this in mind when using the same recipe for different designs. The temperature of your oils and lye when making the soap can determine speed of set up as well!
This has been one of the best tutorial videos I have watched. Thank you. Love your channel.
Thank you Ann Marie. I especially love how your yellow lye mixes with blue oils to make green saponified soap. Brilliant teaching method!
Sorry Anne Marie, not Ann Marie. 🙈
Thank you really good information but especially the part on replacing palm oil which I do not want to use having seen what happens in parts of Asiatic countries. I am at the stage now of trying different oils so again thank you
Finally a well explained video about the differences of soft and hard oils. The most important part of soap making. 🇸🇦
I can see myself referring to this over and over thankyou
It is the only video that I have found on this platform, easy to understand for a beginner. The clear, practical explanation, especially bluntly. I love it. Thank YOU! 🙋🏻♀️🇺🇲🇲🇽
10 years and going strong....taught me everything I needed to know. Thank you from AnnasOliveTrees in Southern Italy!!!
I love your channel and bramble berry is the best in the world .
Continue with more and new soap and cosmetic recipes .
Thank you so much ❤
I have watched so many video's on soap making, have made two batches and was thinking of trying next for some colour twirls etc. I've learned the basics but I needed to review a handful of various soap makers video's to gather some notes before I made my next batch but your video today was DAMN good!! You have given me all the info I needed to proceed!! Thank you SO SO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 years since I have seen you-what growth!!!! I loved the instructions ❤
Thank you so much 💜
One of the best videos I have ever seen to explain the process. Thanks ox
Good video, thank you, I am just making soap for personal use. I've learned a lot here on your channel🙌. Now everyone I know wants to try the soap I make.💓
I started making cold process soap almost a year ago and I am finally getting the courage to formulate my own recipes rather than just copy recipes I find online, thanks for this video!
Love it! I learned to soap from Anne-Marie and her soap queen videos years ago so this updated version is so great to see! Thanks BB!
I've wanted to begin making soap for so long, but have always been so intimidated. I've read alot but love this video. Thanks so much! ✌🙋♀️👍😊
When i was looking for yhe properties if oil to use in my soap, vum! This video came up. Thanks very kindly Blam berry, im rich with these information. Youre the best.
This is just a perfect video to motivate! I'm motivated! I'm going to begin with the basics. I am going to dry up my goats, so I will freeze my goat milk in ice trays and wait for this goat milk project!
Thank you Ann Marie 🥰
Thank you for making this video. I was very informative. I want to try to make the soaps in Lemon verbena, rose, lavender, eucalyptus and peppermint. I'll always be a baker first but I'm pretty excited to try this new craft. Thanks again for posting.
This was amazing!!! I have a couple books on soapmaking, including some from the Soap Queen herself! I am planning a recipe for some soap for a friend who is allergic to coconut oil , but he's not sure just how reactive he is to it in soap because a lot of commercial soap is made with tallow. As such, one of these recipes with 25% coconut oil sounds like it might hit the good spot for me!
For any soapers who are looking for a soap frosting recipe, I'd like to share a tip on making soap frosting that worked very well for me.
After many failed recipes, and many failed soap frosting methods, I tried the Brambleberry Lots of Lather Quick Mix, (Don't forget to use Brambleberry's lye calculator). I mixed my pre dispersed titanium dioxide directly into my melted oils and blended them up.
My lye water and melted oils were around 80 to 90° which is much cooler than I normally soap with but this temperature worked. After adding my lye water to my oils, I stick blended to a very light trace, taking care not to overmix. I hand stirred in my fragrance oil and gave it a another quick mix with the stick blender again being careful not to over mix.
My piping bag and tip was already prepared and ready to fill, now I just had to gently stir my soap to watch for it to thicken up to a light pudding consistency. Once I was able to spoon it into my piping bag, it was the perfect consistency to pipe my swirled frosting on my soap cupcakes. While the frosting was still wet, I dusted lightly with Brambleberry's eco-friendly glitter. This Lots of Lather Quick Mix will be my new go-to for soap frosting.
I would like to also mention, I piped this frosting on about 10 to 12 bars of cold process soap that had been cut and curing for a couple of days as well as 6 cupcakes that were made with melt and pour a few days earlier. I used a small knife to cut some criss-cross cuts into the top and sprayed each bar with 99% alcohol before piping and I had no problem with any frosting coming off after it hardened.
This method has been a lifesaver for me because not only did I get the perfect frosting, but now I don't have to make the soap and the frosting on the same day. I can have all my soaps that need to be piped prepared a few days in advance.
If you try this method I hope you have as much success as I did. 😊🎉
These are all great tips for working with soap frosting! We really like the way we did the frosting for our moonchild cupcake recipe as well. www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/moon-child-soap-cupcakes-project/PS000256.html
Thank you! This was helpful. I'm brand new to soap making. I didn't understand INS. I wasn't sure about the types of oils to use either. Great video!
This video answered so many of my questions.
I loved the examples of the different types of lather and the explanations of how trace can help or hinder your designs, and how choosing your oils are an important factor in you design concept ❤
So far, I have been noting fragments of information from several different videos from several different soap makers too. It's nice to be able to find so much info in one video 😁
*I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good Katie's (from Royalty Soaps) explanations are in her videos too*
My very first soap was 100% coconut oil, and it's still one of my favorites. It lathers very well and lasts, does not dry my skin but is very cleansing, and is so hard the edges are sharp! Each bar lasts a very long time.
I used oil from the grocery store, I don't know if that made a difference.
Try it on white fabric 🥰🥰
I used fully coconut oil soap was good but my skin tone totally changed......now am looks too black what ah do???
Excellent information thank you so much
Omggg this is the best video I’ve found so far , clear, information, and easy to understand . Thank you ! 🙏
Thanks for this video. Very lucid. It makes one to be innovative in creating one's recipe of soap based on the intended characteristics of the soap. I love it. I am a beginner in soap making.
I JUST LEARNED A LOT LOVE THIS THANKS A MILION
This was a very educational video. Thank you so much. I am a novice with soap making, just doing research right now.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a really great & helpful, easy to follow video 😊
Your soap recipes are wonderful and this video and your articles have been SO helpful in tweaking recipes. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of soap making.
Loved the outtakes at the end. 😂🤣😉
Nice! I always recommend Brambleberry on my soap making or lotion making videos to new soapers who need quality ingredients:)
This is the exact video I have been looking for! Thank you so much!
Great video for every soapmakers out there. We love Brambleberry products. Living in Washington state you are our to go place for most of our soaping supplies for our small business. Thank you for sharing!❤️
THANK YOU. I am just starting to do layered and swirling soaps so this was very helpful. I love usung your pre made bags too. Thanks again.
Love your videos so easy to follow and understand. And love your personality ❤
Excellent video! I'm just starting and this video is priceless
Thank you Anne-Marie for explaining the formulation of cold process soap. This makes so much sense. I was looking at all the oils offered here in Taiwan and wonder how I am supposed to substitute with oils we don't see here. Thank you again. But, I was hoping if you can go into details about how humidity and temperature can affect saponification.
This was SO HELPFUL! Thank you for the specifics!
The bloopers 😅
I love pumpkin seed oil in my oil and i use soy wax 415 for some of the hard oil part i only use 15% and the bar comes out really good.
Yet another great video. I have an issue with a 100% Castile soap recipe. Two weeks ago, I made 100% Castile soap based on this recipe: 35 oz. Pure Olive Oil, 4.5 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye
9.2 oz Distilled Water (20% water discount). The same soap I made about ten times before, with EO, without EO, with clay, mica... and it always turned out great. Thank you for the recipe, Anne-Marie.
But, this time, the batter started to thicken almost immediately (no added EO and no mica colours). I thought the lye-water solution was too cold. So I made another batch. This time, the lye-water solution temperature and olive oil temperatures were around 120F, but it happened the same. The batter got hard, fast. The color is also darker compared to the first time. Can someone tell me where did I make a mistake?
That is strange! All of your numbers are right. It looks to me like you made 10 5oz bars. Are you sure it was olive and not olive pomace?
The last batch I made I cured it for about 8-12 months. I colored it with the lavender color from bramble berry and bought lavender scent from a company in Australia. Wow, that scent is still just as strong today as it was then. Plan on buying more. It was a deep rich flavor that even men liked. Sold every one of them pretty fast.
I do think that there are different kinds of olive oil and some of them behave differently. However, Years ago I made two batches on two separate nights from the same oil. The first batch it must have took an hour to blend with my stick blender even heating up. The second night took less than 5 minutes to blend????? Don't know the difference to this day. Maybe weather??????
Thank you for this helpful video! I’ve been making my layer soaps and swirl soaps with the same recipe- which has been quite the challenge! This info will help me to change up those recipes.
I really enjoyed this video! So rich with information!
Great. So much details. Thank you.
I think you have the BEST videos on UA-cam! So thank you!!! I looked into ordering a soap kit, however, by the time I pay shipping to Canada and add the exchange on top of the kit cost, it is bit too rich for a young creative boy's 10th birthday gift. I will however keep your business in mind for future and if I EVER can use your services for gifts etc I will absolutely try Brambleberry FIRST!
I was wondering, if I were to try the 34% Olive Oil and the 33% Coconut and 33% palm oil for the video you have recommended for beginners, you state it makes about three pounds of soap and thus would add 3 tsp of sodium lactate. How many grams are you using of each of the oils?
I did look to order the 7lbs of palm oil and have it shipped to Canada as I wasn't sure what to order on the typical on line ordering platform that starts with an "A" and ends in "on". Lol. UPS was going to cost me $240 in USD to ship this. So sorry, that is ridiculous besides unaffordable.
Thank you so much! The Simple and Gentle Soap Project instructions are available here: www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/simple-and-gentle-soap-project/PS000211.html, it can be easily converted to grams for your recipe.
My Name is Naomi. I am Ghana and i like your tutorials 👍
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge, it's really detailed and helpful
Watching this to relax at 2am
Love this video!!! Hopefully more videos like this (for beginners) are coming. We need onboarding tutorials…lol
I'm in the UK and just starting out into soap making. I'm a level 3 beauty therapist, and one thing we had to be careful with was nut oils; for clients with nut allergies. What do you recommend for people with nut allergies, but are also concerned about the controversial use of palm oil?
We recommend sticking with fruit based oils such as Mango Butter and Olive Oils to get a moisturizing but still hard bar of soap!
Thank you so much for this video. I learned so much from it. Super helpful.
Thanks a lot for all those helpful information. Wish you lots of success.
Phenomenal video Ann Marie- thanks sooo much. 🥰👌💯
Thank you so much for the visual instructions/showcase ❤
Thank you for making such comprehensive videos ! I am just starting my soap making journey (literally just at the research phase) and videos like this help so much !
2 quick questions: what are typical thoughts on using lard as an oil? Is it not used as much as nut and seed oils for ethical reasons? And on that note, are there any tried and true alternatives to the palm oil? I want to avoid it if I can for ethical reasons as well but love the descriptor of how it adds to a well balanced soap .
Thank you , wish me luck on my new venture!! 😄✨️
We're so excited for you and your soap-making journey! A lot of folks use lard in their soaps, but it isn't something we sell so we haven't done much testing with it. Lard can easily be substituted for palm oil. A couple good substitutes for palm oil would be babassu oil or palm kernel flakes. We have a great article all about substitutions that can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/how-to/soap/art0074-how-to-substitute-oil-in-cold-process-recipes.html
Thank you so much for your reply! I'll definitely look into that ☺️✨️
I love seeing Ann Marie again :))
Fantastic video!!! Thanks so much! I learned so much! The only question I had was ingredients like Shea butter or cocoa butter, I presume it has to be pure 100% Shea or 100% Cocoa butter, right? Where does one find this stuff?
In order to properly calculate the lye it would need to be 100% of that oil. We sell those butters at 100% purity on our website, www.brambleberry.com!
This was so very helpful! Love Brambleberry products and all of your help!
I really enjoyed this video. You are truly wonderful, informative and very entertaining!
Learned a lot of great things here! Im thinking about doing the 30% for olive, coconut, palm and 10% sweet almond. What would you recommend for a superfat to account for the high percentage of coconut, as i know its very drying? 7 or 8%? Or more?
Thank you so much you you are so considerate and kind
Thank you. This was super useful.
This was a very good video, I can always learn something I don't know already and I did.
Fantastic information. Thank you for making this video.
Great vid with morning coffee! We’ll put together:))
I love the smell of tobacco flower in soap. I am have a bottle of your tobacco and Bay leaf fragrance oil. But I wonder if I could use tobacco essential oil in cold process? I have very sensitive skin and I want something simple. thanks
Thank you! I hope to make my 1st batch of cold press soap next week.
Thank you so much! A wealth of information !
will you plz explain more on what basis have you calculated your lye concentration according the technique you are after whether it is swirling or bar soap layers. in other words the fluidity you have got is it from less hydroxides, more water, or other oils than the main 3 (coconut, olive, palm) oils combination.
The lye amount will be based on your ingredients that you are using in the recipe. Fluidity is caused by the amount of water and the ratio of liquid oils. You may find this guide useful when picking oils for the design you are wanting to create: www.brambleberry.com/ingredient-information/oils-and-butters/art0006-beginners-guide-to-common-soapmaking-oils.html
Awesome informational video! The bloopers at the end of the video are so cute! lol Love, D 🛀
Great and simple explanation.
Hi I am trying to follow your recipe but we dont get palm oil here and can I use palmolein oil instead of palm oil
Thank you so much, I was just wondering what I use in place of palm oil as I ran out and gotta get going so it can cure in time for Christmas :)
Thank you very much, God bless you
Very nice video for beginners.
So informative! Such a great teacher!
Excellent video. Thanks.
Woooow I just learned a lot. How much do I owe you?!?! Thanks so much!
Thanks for this awesome video! Quick question, out of the holy trinity olive, coconut, palm 34/33/33 but want to add 5% castor oil where or what numbers do i pull from? olive?
Thanks! You're welcome to swap 5% castor oil with 5% of any of those oils.
just was i need it. Thank you
Excellent presentation!
Hi! am trying to create a recipe using, 20% Avocado oil, 20% Shea butter, 30% coconut oil, 15% Sweet Almond oil and 15% Grapeseed oil. Will this be a good soap recipe? Or any suggestions on something I should change? I would appreciate the help, thanks!
I've been your fan from your blog. I'm so happy i found your video. Thanks for the great info. I will watch your other videos.💖
I have a question, when you are making the soap what is the difference when making the clear and the white soap?
Clear soaps are going to be melt and pour bases, cold process recipes are not ever going to appear clear. If you are making melt and pour, the clear soaps and white soaps will perform the same, your end colors will just be different.
Anne-Marie hi. After cutting the big bar, some slices have that circle of gel phase. Is there a solution? Because after several days, it looks almost the same size. What could I do to have even appearance? Thanks a lot!
Hi! We don't have a way to reverse gel phase but we have an awesome article all about gel phase that can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/tips-and-tricks/soap/art0024-all-about-gel-phase.html
Thanks
Hello
With the fragrance calculator.. what if I want to add 3 essential oils … do I just put in each oil and go from there ?
We have an awesome article about How to Blend Essential Oils Safely, it can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/how-to/bath-and-body/art0018-blend-essential-oils.html
@@bramble-berry okay thank you
Great! This is what I needed! Thank you!
Tank for your help, We are happy to learn from you.
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Hi Ann Marie, I am new to your channel. I have been wanting to d as tart making soap and selling it now for over a year! I am so happy I have found you on UA-cam. I heard Jerika mention your name and I am hooked! You are s as n excellent teach and I am going to start purchasing what I need from your company. I want to I get beginners kit. I’m also interested in knowing from you what recipes would you recommend? I start with in order to start a niche in Wellness bars of soap, which would include one for stress one for energy one for sleep. Let me know what recipes or if you have a few that you could recommend me to one of your books to start with? thank you so much for all you do for people that have a passion for soap making.
Yes! You can make soap! Here's a link to all our how to articles to get you started.
www.brambleberry.com/how-to/soap
Hi😍 why seasame oil is not included in brambleberry calc?
Does superfat has a look? Is it small amount of oil left on top of your harden soap?
I can't wait to start, thank you!