Molly is so adorable and your videos are always so relaxing and beautiful. Each time, I am stunned (stunning?) by the so precise measurement you have for each things you put in your soaps. You are like a magician. Love from Québec
LOVE all your videos... such calming music and your hands give off the same calming energy. 2025 may be a year that I'll try to make my own soap! You have inspired me.. Thank you!
I tried your rosemary flax gel soap (I was 5g short of cocoa butter so I substituted 5g of beeswax from my hives) and it worked really well! And then I tried the same base recipe but without the rosemary infusion, flax gel or essential oils (I used the soapcalc to estimate how much water to replace the gel with) and it came out looking like a block of butter! Works well though and will be nice for people with scent issues, though I think if I do that again without the flax gel I will decrease the water just a bit as it took a while to solidify and it cracked a bit on the top. Today I'm planning to try an olive oil soap with 5% beeswax and some honey, and if I have time maybe a pure coconut oil soap with peppermint essential oil. Thanks so much for all your wonderful videos, they give me such fun ideas. My mom has a bay laurel tree and I'm definitely planning to try the bay laurel olive oil soap when she prunes it, though I think I may try it as a cold process instead of hot process, I feel like cold process makes prettier soaps. Eventually I'll get an idea of what I want to gel and what I don't and how I need to control temperatures to that effect, so far the only thing I think I need to do is mix things just a little bit warmer when working with beeswax as while cutting the loaf into bars I've found little bits of what I think might be beeswax that congealed before the rest of the oil it was in did. Which is weird, because it has never done that when I've combined it with olive or mineral oil before... I'm still using some lip balm I made from the two tablespoons of spare rosemary-infused olive oil and some beeswax, I need to do some experiments to see exactly how much beeswax I want when I make stuff like that. I have found that using my rice cooker with 2 servings-worth of water in the lliner and a pyrex bowl on top works really well, its keep warm setting is perfect for infusing oils overnight and its high setting is great for melting the solid oils. I just need to remember to bring a pair of oven mitts up to the room where I do my soapmaking! (t's a spare washroom with a big countertop, and the shower's right beside me if anything exciting happens with the lye). I'm having so much fun with soapmaking!
Glad to hear you're having fun experimenting and making different soaps🤗 Sounds like you got this! Amazing to have a laurel tree! And your soap making room sounds perfect🌸
@@tellervo. Well, I overheated one last night so I'll probably try again, I think 5% beeswax and a tablespoon of honey was a bit ambitious as it was starting to solidify as I was waiting for the lye to cool, and once it started reaching trace, it got thick really quickly so I need to figure out how to give myself a little more working time if I want to pour it into a mold where voids really matter. I was surprised when I did the 100% coconut one with peppermint oil how much working time I had, that one took a very long time to trace but once it did sollidify it went fast and I probably should have cut the loaf last night as it was a bit brittle this morning. I'm suspecting something about water amounts might have to do with working time, I have run some of your recipes thorugh soapcalc and you use significantly less water in some of your recipes than their default settings recommend so I guess that's my next experiment, try two batches identical except for water percentage and maybe essential oil composition. FOR SCIENCE!!!
What a beautiful video! I discovered your channel last week, and I’m already hooked, haha! ♥I have two questions, if you don’t mind: Why do you neutralize some of the NaOH with citric acid instead of using a lower concentration? And is there an alternative to using a blender? Once again, congratulations on your video and your channel-everything is so beautifully done!
I LOVE citrus essential oils! I recently bought lime, I could see why it's your favourite 😍 I find lemongrass so overpowering other essential oils.. whenever I mix it with anything it erase any other smell.. I still love it though 😚
Me too🤗 I agree with the lemongrass, for this blend I used a very small amount and I found it to not be overpowering and very complementing for the other essential oils☺️
Another beautiful soap!!! I do have a question: When measuring the lye, I usually have bits of lye stuck to bottom of container. I tried paper cup, plastic container, glass, but lye particles remain stuck. It's a bit annoying actually. What container have you found doesn't do that? Or is there a method to the madness that I haven't learned about yet?
I'm not an expert in soap making. But I have struggled a lot with this problem. And finally found a solution. First, caustic soda should be of a good quality. Second it should be preserved airtight. When weighing it, the container we use to weigh , the spoon used to take the soda out, all of them should be definitely dry without any moisture. Third, when adding caustic soda to the pre-weighed water or liquid, add little by little and stir continuously to avoid clumping. I follow these methods and there is no problem of undissolved lye. I don't even filter it. Good luck.
@lalithanagarajan1055 Let me clarify. I'm not experiencing undisolved lye. When measuring out the lye into a container, I have used paper cups, glass and plastic. As I pour the lye into water, some lye particles remain in cup. Sort of reminds me of static cling. Anyone using a container where all the lye pours out into water?
Thank you so much! I think plastic is definitely worst, paper cups have worked pretty well for me, now I use a stainless steel cup and there's usually nothing stuck there😊
How do you determine how much cornstarch to add? Is it 1/2 tsp to 10ml of fragrance? or something like that? How well does this work to preserve the scent? I've been searching for something like this! Thank you so much for this video!
I've just used half a tsp for this size batch, i usually use 3-5% essential oils☺️ I think it works pretty well, but it's not perfect, I think we just have to accept that essential oils don't have the same staying power as fragrance oils🌷
Which doe you prefer more, cutting with: knife, dough cutter, or a wire , and why?. I would like to know your opinion. I never tride the wire I tride a knife and and a dough cutter, I loved the second ☺
Brigitte, You can simply place a piece of cardboard on top to protect the top, then wrap it in a Throw - which is a small blanket or knee rug - , an old blanket, or towels, or place it - wrapped preferably- into a chilly bin. Even newspapers would insulate well. Personally, I preheat my oven to its lowest setting then pop the soap in with the oven switched off, and leave it overnight, undisturbed. But 2-3 hours should do the trick 😊. Some people use their oven light but we don’t have that setting on our ovens in NZ
Hello, i am new to soap making, i am working on a school fundraiser, i need to make 50 - 60 soaps, any tips to make it cheap and organic. Also we can not use essential oils due to school policy, any substitutes. BTW The videos are amazing and useful.
Hi Sarah, Please could you help me? I was binge watching all your videos and decided to finally dive in and make a shampoo bar, mainly because my friend gave me garden-fresh rosemary bunches and I didnt know what else to do with them. So I plunged into making a rosemary shampoo bar. But when I poured the lye mix into the oils, I discovered that quite a lot of the lye had solidified at the bottom of my container, probably because I didnt stir the lye into the water well enough. So now I have a very wet mixture, probably not enough lye to create a chemical reaction with my oils and take me to trace. I've been stick blending on and off for over 4 hours now, but while the mixture that is caked on the blender seems to have thickened slightly, the batter in the bowl is totally liquid. How can I rescue this? I thought about adding some more lye water but I'd have no clue how much now, as there's no way to tell how much lye got wasted. I also put my bowl on a double boiler to heat the oils in the hope that that would help them thicken, but that didnt work either. Please help! I dont want to throw such expensive and precious ingredients away (I wouldnt even know how to safely dispose of them!).
Hi, I'm so sorry you're having trouble! If the batter on the blender is thickening there is a chance all of it can thicken but it will probably take a very long time. It's difficult to help when there is no way to know how much lye was left in the container. One thing that you could try is to make a small batch of a 50% lye solution and add a very small amount, like a spoonful, to the soap batter and blend for a long time, see what happens, add another spoonful, blend and keep going until you reach trace. It's not the best, since you won't know how much lye you need and there is a risk of adding too much. If you'd get the soap to trace this way you'd need to be extra cautious with it and test the pH to make sure it isn't lye heavy. Better luck next time!😊
@@tellervo. Thanks so much for your quick response ❤️❤️❤️ in the end I ended up rebatching it in the slow cooker and it thickened up nicely. My silly mistake ended up teaching me how to make hot process soap! Mistakes do happen for a reason. Yesterday was a real learning day! Stay blessed 🌹
Hi! I am from India…..can you please let me know the volume of the mould that you are using and the water:lye ratio in this recipe? Btw your soaps are really beautiful and I am trying to learn from you. Love from 🇮🇳
Absolutely love your videos! Quick note: At ua-cam.com/video/Ayek8wujido/v-deo.html the lemon should be placed in the opposite direction... with the round side up and the cut side down. You'll have much better juicing power and a cleaner overall result.
The lost beautiful soapmaking video on YT❤!
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Molly is so adorable and your videos are always so relaxing and beautiful. Each time, I am stunned (stunning?) by the so precise measurement you have for each things you put in your soaps. You are like a magician. Love from Québec
Thank you so much, you're so so kind🤗🤗
LOVE all your videos... such calming music and your hands give off the same calming energy. 2025 may be a year that I'll try to make my own soap! You have inspired me.. Thank you!
Liked before i watched because I know it's gonna be a good video.
Aw that's so sweet of you🤗
Molly is such a darling, and very wise❣️💗
Beautiful soap, as ever. 😊The batter looked glorious
Thank you so much Brigid, she is🌸💞
Perfect color saturation through gel phase. Thank you for keeping us up on Molly!
Thank you Patrick🤗
Mon Dieu, quelle couleur, magnifique savon , j'adore ,en plus des vertus du jus de citron et du zeste, chapeau.
Thank you so much🤗🤗
I tried your rosemary flax gel soap (I was 5g short of cocoa butter so I substituted 5g of beeswax from my hives) and it worked really well! And then I tried the same base recipe but without the rosemary infusion, flax gel or essential oils (I used the soapcalc to estimate how much water to replace the gel with) and it came out looking like a block of butter! Works well though and will be nice for people with scent issues, though I think if I do that again without the flax gel I will decrease the water just a bit as it took a while to solidify and it cracked a bit on the top. Today I'm planning to try an olive oil soap with 5% beeswax and some honey, and if I have time maybe a pure coconut oil soap with peppermint essential oil.
Thanks so much for all your wonderful videos, they give me such fun ideas. My mom has a bay laurel tree and I'm definitely planning to try the bay laurel olive oil soap when she prunes it, though I think I may try it as a cold process instead of hot process, I feel like cold process makes prettier soaps. Eventually I'll get an idea of what I want to gel and what I don't and how I need to control temperatures to that effect, so far the only thing I think I need to do is mix things just a little bit warmer when working with beeswax as while cutting the loaf into bars I've found little bits of what I think might be beeswax that congealed before the rest of the oil it was in did. Which is weird, because it has never done that when I've combined it with olive or mineral oil before...
I'm still using some lip balm I made from the two tablespoons of spare rosemary-infused olive oil and some beeswax, I need to do some experiments to see exactly how much beeswax I want when I make stuff like that.
I have found that using my rice cooker with 2 servings-worth of water in the lliner and a pyrex bowl on top works really well, its keep warm setting is perfect for infusing oils overnight and its high setting is great for melting the solid oils. I just need to remember to bring a pair of oven mitts up to the room where I do my soapmaking! (t's a spare washroom with a big countertop, and the shower's right beside me if anything exciting happens with the lye).
I'm having so much fun with soapmaking!
Glad to hear you're having fun experimenting and making different soaps🤗 Sounds like you got this! Amazing to have a laurel tree! And your soap making room sounds perfect🌸
@@tellervo. Well, I overheated one last night so I'll probably try again, I think 5% beeswax and a tablespoon of honey was a bit ambitious as it was starting to solidify as I was waiting for the lye to cool, and once it started reaching trace, it got thick really quickly so I need to figure out how to give myself a little more working time if I want to pour it into a mold where voids really matter. I was surprised when I did the 100% coconut one with peppermint oil how much working time I had, that one took a very long time to trace but once it did sollidify it went fast and I probably should have cut the loaf last night as it was a bit brittle this morning. I'm suspecting something about water amounts might have to do with working time, I have run some of your recipes thorugh soapcalc and you use significantly less water in some of your recipes than their default settings recommend so I guess that's my next experiment, try two batches identical except for water percentage and maybe essential oil composition. FOR SCIENCE!!!
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 that's great 😍, can you give me your Instagram or Facebook pleas?
inspiring & educational video,thank you so much Sarah!
Thank you so much🤗
Always wonderful🍋Best there is
You're so sweet, thank you🤗
great video, Molly is the cutest 🩵
Thank you🐶💖
I can feel the smell all the way to Sweden 🥰🇸🇪🧼
Tried this today and I love how it turned out!
That's great🤗!
The annato seeds give such a rich but translucent color.
I agree, it's beautiful🤗
Love your videos! Tip...flip your lemons when using the squeezer, the cut side should face down.
Thank you, I will next time🤗
Beautiful
Love it, I have you ebook and those soaps have come out amazing.
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So happy to hear🤗💝
Very nice 👍
A relaxing video :) Always learning well ❣️
Thank you, glad to hear💝
Beautiful!!!
Thank you Diane🤗
Very nice information
I really love it
But pl tell me what about the shelf life?
What a beautiful video! I discovered your channel last week, and I’m already hooked, haha! ♥I have two questions, if you don’t mind: Why do you neutralize some of the NaOH with citric acid instead of using a lower concentration? And is there an alternative to using a blender? Once again, congratulations on your video and your channel-everything is so beautifully done!
Perfektno !❤❤❤❤❤
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I LOVE citrus essential oils! I recently bought lime, I could see why it's your favourite 😍
I find lemongrass so overpowering other essential oils.. whenever I mix it with anything it erase any other smell.. I still love it though 😚
Me too🤗 I agree with the lemongrass, for this blend I used a very small amount and I found it to not be overpowering and very complementing for the other essential oils☺️
Very nice I will try
Awesome🤗
So inspiring 💛
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❤ your recipe n your method super I am from Pakistan thanks I learn much for the video thanks ❤
Thank you so much, that's great❤️
I love your videos ❤❤❤❤
It,s amazing ❤❤❤
it's amazing
@NairaAtef-t2n yes specially a musique
You're all so kind, thank you so much🌸💖
The video is very beautiful and I want to get many more videos, your videos are really beautiful
Thank you so much🤗
عمل رائع ❤
Thank you💝
I don't know if I can afford to make a soap from so many lemons (kinda expensive) but I will try the cornstarch in EO trick for sure
Hi, Sara. Nice soap as always ❤ btw, If the essential oils substituted with fragrance, does it need to added corn starch too?
Thank you so much❤️ You can skip it with fragrance oils since they tend to not fade in the same way☺️
@@tellervo. One more question. How to avoid the ricing effect after giving fragrance to the soap batter? Thanks
Hi what is the pH of your soap?
Another beautiful soap!!! I do have a question: When measuring the lye, I usually have bits of lye stuck to bottom of container. I tried paper cup, plastic container, glass, but lye particles remain stuck. It's a bit annoying actually. What container have you found doesn't do that? Or is there a method to the madness that I haven't learned about yet?
I'm not an expert in soap making. But I have struggled a lot with this problem. And finally found a solution.
First, caustic soda should be of a good quality.
Second it should be preserved airtight. When weighing it, the container we use to weigh , the spoon used to take the soda out, all of them should be definitely dry without any moisture.
Third, when adding caustic soda to the pre-weighed water or liquid, add little by little and stir continuously to avoid clumping.
I follow these methods and there is no problem of undissolved lye. I don't even filter it.
Good luck.
@lalithanagarajan1055
Let me clarify. I'm not experiencing undisolved lye. When measuring out the lye into a container, I have used paper cups, glass and plastic. As I pour the lye into water, some lye particles remain in cup. Sort of reminds me of static cling. Anyone using a container where all the lye pours out into water?
Thank you so much! I think plastic is definitely worst, paper cups have worked pretty well for me, now I use a stainless steel cup and there's usually nothing stuck there😊
@tellervo. Thank you. I'll try a stainless steel container when measuring out the lye next time I make soap!
How do you determine how much cornstarch to add? Is it 1/2 tsp to 10ml of fragrance? or something like that? How well does this work to preserve the scent? I've been searching for something like this! Thank you so much for this video!
I've just used half a tsp for this size batch, i usually use 3-5% essential oils☺️ I think it works pretty well, but it's not perfect, I think we just have to accept that essential oils don't have the same staying power as fragrance oils🌷
super 🤩🌺👏👏👏
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Sara darling I am Geetha from India.your videos very very nice.your all videos mind relaxing.
Thank you so much Geetha🤗
Which doe you prefer more, cutting with: knife, dough cutter, or a wire , and why?.
I would like to know your opinion.
I never tride the wire
I tride a knife and and a dough cutter, I loved the second ☺
I love the wire cutter, it's easy to use and makes a clean cut☺️
Hi, how do you keep your soap warm for the gel phase?
Brigitte, You can simply place a piece of cardboard on top to protect the top, then wrap it in a Throw - which is a small blanket or knee rug - , an old blanket, or towels, or place it - wrapped preferably- into a chilly bin. Even newspapers would insulate well.
Personally, I preheat my oven to its lowest setting then pop the soap in with the oven switched off, and leave it overnight, undisturbed. But 2-3 hours should do the trick 😊. Some people use their oven light but we don’t have that setting on our ovens in NZ
@brigidlaffey7343 Thank you!
I am indian woman.so Please upload skin whitening and moisturizer soap.
Magnifique
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Hello am new soap maker
Hi, please make a kefir and oatmeal soap 🙏🏾
That sounds very appealing🤗
Mam I am from India ❤
Hi! Are you guys planning on selling soap cutters! I really need one that will give me precise cuts:)
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I want to, Nico is still on the fence but I will try to convince him😊
@@tellervo. pleased do😊
Or, you can sell the digital plans to make the wooden cutter. :)
How long does this frangrance lasts in the soap?
If stored correctly it can last for months, it's not the most balanced blend since I only used top notes so it's not the most long lasting☺️
What is the ratio of saturated and unsaturated oils in cold soap making?
And how to calculate the use of sodium hydroxide?
To learn soap formulation I recommend The soap formulator’s workbook☺️
@tellervo. But I am in Iran and I cannot buy this book due to sanctions
If possible, teach me the soap formula🙏❤
Would you be willing to do another hot process soap video please?
Yes I would at some point🤗
Annato seeds, grape seed oil and mango butter is not available in Pakistan. What are their alternatives? Love to make this soap.
You can use oils with similar fatty acid compositions and another colorant that you like☺️
Hello, i am new to soap making, i am working on a school fundraiser, i need to make 50 - 60 soaps, any tips to make it cheap and organic. Also we can not use essential oils due to school policy, any substitutes. BTW The videos are amazing and useful.
Thank you! Unfortunately the raw materials aren't cheap, you just have to compare prices. You can scent your soaps with fragrance oils as well☺️
Hi Tellervo, If I wanted to add clays in powder or liquid vitamins how do I account for all of this extra
You can just add them to the recipe😊
@tellervo. awesome 👌 thanks so much!!!
Did you for this soap recipe superfat or not 😊
Yes I did😊
Hi Sarah, Please could you help me? I was binge watching all your videos and decided to finally dive in and make a shampoo bar, mainly because my friend gave me garden-fresh rosemary bunches and I didnt know what else to do with them. So I plunged into making a rosemary shampoo bar. But when I poured the lye mix into the oils, I discovered that quite a lot of the lye had solidified at the bottom of my container, probably because I didnt stir the lye into the water well enough. So now I have a very wet mixture, probably not enough lye to create a chemical reaction with my oils and take me to trace. I've been stick blending on and off for over 4 hours now, but while the mixture that is caked on the blender seems to have thickened slightly, the batter in the bowl is totally liquid. How can I rescue this? I thought about adding some more lye water but I'd have no clue how much now, as there's no way to tell how much lye got wasted. I also put my bowl on a double boiler to heat the oils in the hope that that would help them thicken, but that didnt work either. Please help! I dont want to throw such expensive and precious ingredients away (I wouldnt even know how to safely dispose of them!).
Hi, I'm so sorry you're having trouble! If the batter on the blender is thickening there is a chance all of it can thicken but it will probably take a very long time. It's difficult to help when there is no way to know how much lye was left in the container. One thing that you could try is to make a small batch of a 50% lye solution and add a very small amount, like a spoonful, to the soap batter and blend for a long time, see what happens, add another spoonful, blend and keep going until you reach trace. It's not the best, since you won't know how much lye you need and there is a risk of adding too much. If you'd get the soap to trace this way you'd need to be extra cautious with it and test the pH to make sure it isn't lye heavy. Better luck next time!😊
@@tellervo. Thanks so much for your quick response ❤️❤️❤️ in the end I ended up rebatching it in the slow cooker and it thickened up nicely. My silly mistake ended up teaching me how to make hot process soap! Mistakes do happen for a reason. Yesterday was a real learning day! Stay blessed 🌹
Hello. What do you add to the soap to make it hard?
I don't use any hardening ingredients I just formulate the recipe to get the kind of result I'm after☺️
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Try to put sugar next time and see the deferent ❤
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Hi! I am from India…..can you please let me know the volume of the mould that you are using and the water:lye ratio in this recipe? Btw your soaps are really beautiful and I am trying to learn from you. Love from 🇮🇳
Think it is 600 g
@ That’s the total weight of the oils but what would be the volume of the whole mould?
My mold fits about 900 g soap batter, I think I used a 37% lye concentration for this recipe☺️ Thank you so much🤗
@ Thank you so much….and do you keep 5% superfat and water discount in your soaps?
Also do you use extra virgin olive oil?
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١٤٠جرام عصير ليمون عليهم ٧جرام سيتريك اسيد
١٥جرام بشر ليمون ونقعتهم فى ٢٤٠جرام زيت زيتون ٦ ساعات مثلا وصفتهم👍🏻
وزنت منهم ١٩٨جرام من منقوع الليمون+٣٠جرام زيت بذور عنب +١٦٨زيت جوز هند+٩٠زبده مانجو
+١١٤زبده شيا وزوبتهم ف حمام مائى
اضافت٩٠جرام من هيدروكسيد الصوديوم الى عصير الليمون المجمد👍🏻
وزنت الزيوت العطريه ٣٠جرام وعليهم ملعقه صغيره نشا
اضافت محلول هيدروكسيد الصوديوم للزيوت وخلطت
بعدين اضافت الزيوت العطريه👍🏻
@@NairaAtef-t2n gracias ❤❤❤
Sorry dear, can you add active ingredients such as glutathione, kojic acid? My area in Indonesia is hot, dear? 😅
Sure😊
راءعً❤️
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Beautiful video but you use the Lime press not the right way, lemon must put in the opposit side 😊 makes it much easier ❤
Thank you Susanne❤️ I felt like it could be more efficient😄
@@tellervo.Great reply
Absolutely love your videos! Quick note: At ua-cam.com/video/Ayek8wujido/v-deo.html the lemon should be placed in the opposite direction... with the round side up and the cut side down. You'll have much better juicing power and a cleaner overall result.
Thank you so much🤗 I tried it now and it definitely works much better that way hehe😇
@@tellervo. You're welcome! Thanks for all you do!
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finland
Get all the tools and ingredients are easy to make the soap.
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Which soap making method do you like the best? Cold or hot?
I prefer cold process🤗
I love wooden utensils 😢
Just curious, do you love cooking? 😂
Haha, sure☺️
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