Excellent and very informative video. Being a CP soap maker for well over 15 years, I’ve recently ventured into the soap world of formulating my own MP base. Soaping is a science, but also tons of fun. Love your videos Karen. ❤️
@@sl4983 When your mixing the lye and oils there is not lye fumes. However, when you add water to the lye there is fumes. To solve that just get some polypropylene bottles with tops. Than all you have to do is just shake the bottle to mix and there are won't be any fumes. Just be sure and wear some heat mittens as it will get about 200 degrees.
I have been researching for a year and making soaps, candles, and melts on my own for about three months and I appreciate all of your tips. The last 2 days I have made my very favorite the past few days. I failed at my first cold process, but my melt and pour with a new technique (to me) I am loving the result!
I Make ALL of my own crystal clear ALOE and glycerin M&P, which is Awesome 2 inches thick and clear as glass..i Spent 2 months trying different formulations and worked this one out. Then I use it for several different soapmaking project's. I do hybrid Soaps, on the fly embeds, so much more.. It's so versatile..I started making GM Cold Process Soap, FHP, Hybrid..i love IT..
I love your videos. You share equal time with melt and pour and cold process. I wanted to try cold process soaping, but my house is very old, and it isn't suitable for the the process. I can't ensure a controlled temperature. But melt and pour was alot of fun to try. I made some small blue bars with little pink and blue rubber duckies in them, they were for my daughter's friends baby shower. Really cute. Lol. Thank you for sharing your process and experience. 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for sharing your experience. I really enjoyed making melt and soap, but I switch to different methods because my M&P soap bars became very slimy after one use. I would really appreciate any help. My condition is taking it's toll and doing a lot of greasy dishes and stick blending ,not an option. Doing something when you can is the best therapy, specially when you enjoy it. Thank you again, you remind me that i can do massage bars.
Would you tell me please where you bought your molds for the embeds you’re using in this video? I absolutely love it and may not be able to live without this mold. LOL
When u use Snow White mica from MadMicas it’s shimmery and gorgeous. I haven’t use titanium dioxide in over a year. I only use Snow White mica by MadMicas. I have only done cp soap for 4 years now and I love it.
Thanks so much for the video as always! I made my own glycerin soap for years, only recently have I started buying a base to try. As you mentioned there are so many great choices. Do you ever add additional oils, for example coco butter or avocado if so what percentage do you recommend? My homemade I could add 8% but every time I’ve tried with base it has leached or not set well. Thanks again!! 💚 From USA
Adding oils and butters to melt and pour really does nothing as the base is already made. So the oils and butters are only suspended into to soap. Also be careful adding salts of any kind!! It will make melt and pour sweat really bad. Also your fragrance choices are crucial due to most will not fully integrate with the melt and pour it simply gets suspended into the soap base and the fragrance oil will just sweat out. If you want something more than basic white and clear. There are many options as three butter melt and pour. Aloevera and olive soap base. Shea Butter melt and pour. Donkey milk melt and pour. Goat milk melt and pour. Honey base melt and pour. Oatmeal melt and pour. So on and so forth. Also mica powders do not color the white melt and pour very well. And the clear melt and pours melt very liquid vs the white melt and pours. Hope this helps
Hey there, thank you for the great video. I'm a newbie and I'm wondering, is there any way to do a mica line with mp? I'm afraid it won't stick to the skin, but if I do it too soon, won't it just sink in? What if I sprayed with alcohol and then sifted mica over the alcohol? Would it just melt into the next layer I pour? Help!!! If it's possible, could you maybe demonstrate? ✌🙋♀️🌿🐦
Let the first layer dry almost completely. Then spirits with alcohol as its a good binder for the soaps surface. Then dust your mica over the top. Let that dry and lightly dust the extra off and then pour your second layer. Hope that helps
I buy stephensons melt and pour, however I changed supplier recently, (mainly for cost reasons) But I’ve noticed that my soap is thickening up very fast , I don’t have time to pour (after it has fully melted) can you advise me what to do ?
Hi Karen! Beautiful soap and love the shredded look. Watched a couple of times, caught where you mention the lemony fragrance but not it’s name. Would please let me know? I can smell the lemons clear over here in the USA! THANK YOU for all that you share with us. I will forward your video to all my soaping pals. -Momo
I’m pretty sure it’s Litsea Cubea - also known as May Chang . I make bath bombs & have used with other essential oils in those. It’s gorgeous. Sorry only just discovered this vid & comments so probably a bit late in replying. I’m totally impressed/ loved watching this also & I don’t even make soap!
A easy way to make your cheaper melt and pours harder and not like a jelly soap is to take your melt and pour soap base out of its wrapping or container for a week and let it dry. Then when melting melt little bits at a time such as 4 to 5 cups at a time. As soon as its poured put the molds right in front of a box fan and let set for 2 hours. You then will end up with a more solid no gummy and no sweat bar of soap. Hope this helps
I don't understand how you're able to do all of this without a film forming or it starting to solidify. I use the same soap and it doesn't seem to stay melted very long at all it almost immediately starts getting a film on top before I can even mix in colors and smell. How do you do it?! Please help nothing ive done has worked really. The microwave for me is a complete fail and the crock pot I have some luck with. How you keep it melted long enough to work with?! Thank you so so much for the video
I use a low power setting on my microwave and do it for about a minute at a time. Once it's melted enough that there's no chunks, an extra 30 seconds on a slightly higher power level usually keeps it hot enough to add stuff to without burning it. If it starts to solidify while I'm adding things in, I just pop it back in for a little longer. The film on top seems to be a side effect of milk bases from my experience and the only way to deal with it is to scoop it out before pouring into the molds.
Could be your weather is cooler or drier than where she is. I live in the desert so just like my hair doesn’t take long to dry after I wash it, neither does my soap lol. So I have to work really fast.
Love the nails! 💅🏼 Watched the whole video, thanks, I love watching you make cold process, but am not able to make it here. For my birthday I am asking my husband for a melt and pour kit!! Can’t wait 🥰💕🙂
Love making soap, Problem is it’s not bubbling much what the problem of my soap? I put 40 gram of shea butter and 30 grams of coconut oil , what you can say , did I put to much oil in it ? Oh use also 2Lb. Of soap but not much bubbles , Hope can give an ideas ,then after that prey heat it again put more soap. Thank you so much for your tips….
Hi Karen , could you tell me if it’s ok to put melt and pour embeds on top of cold process soap. If it is, will they melt when you try to put your soap through the gel phase? As you can probably tell I’m new to soap making 🤦♀️🤣 Many Thanks
Hi. Ilkwd your beautiful soap video. U r really very creative & am your big fan. I have few queries if u mind to answer to the newbie. 1. Is this necessary to disperse TD & micas into water? In your opinion, water must be warm & how much TD can be made for 500 GM's base? 2. If dispersed colours into water mixed into base, does it give glycerine rivers after cutting? I live in humid area. Thank U
If you don't mind answering, what is your table made of? It stays so clean! I use a regular table and cover it in paper but would like to get away from it.
I'm pretty sure this is it, it's a long time since I bought it though, so I'm not 100% certain:- www.worktop-express.co.uk/laminate-worktops/white-kitchen-splashback-3000-600-6mm
@@EdensSecret1 Thanks! Since commenting I put up my glass table cover but it reflects my lights too bad. I think I'll give this a try! Thanks for helping me. I've watched nearly all your videos and am attempting to apply what I've learned. Thx from West Virginia, USA!
Hi could I grate my mp to melt it I'm having a hard time melting my mp without burning it tried stove top microwave in very short bursts but still ?? Only going to do small amounts just now-
I’m having trouble with melting. I’ve tried medium low heat but it’s still over cooking it? It ends up leathery and doesn’t melt well. It leaves a film and stringy pieces
Have you tried a double boiler method (water in a pan with a bowl over the top and your soap in the bowl). Did you try the microwave? And is your soap the same brand as the one I'm using "stephensons"?
Easy way to get a perfect melt and pour is to cut the desired amount into half inch by half inch cubes. Put into microwave safe container and melt for 30 then take out and stir and then continue to melt in 20 seconds intervals at a time taking out and stiring everytime until completely melted. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your question. No, it wasn't boiling, it's 1 and a half kilo of soap base. When you are watching other channels they are usually melting a much smaller quantity of soap, which takes a couple of minutes.
TY karen, for all the tips!! I'll SHARE.. I have over a yrs worth of Soaps and more, I want to go further, but im tech retarded & can't afford to much, but I need some help, how can I get a Virtual Assistant, Or pay for someone to do my intro. I made 1 in canva, but I don't know how 2 add it to my videos. So, I'm stuck any suggestions?
@@TheBoldandUnbothered.podcast TY 4 the Suggestion. I movie, my son downloaded it for me and it's like Chinese to me. And I just have a simple Android..Ill figure out something..until then I'll keep Soakin and Blessin others
There is lye used when melt and pour is created during the manufacturing process. Just like with CP, we don't add lye on the ingredient listing, but doesn't mean it wasn't used. Tons of articles in the online.
Excellent and very informative video. Being a CP soap maker for well over 15 years, I’ve recently ventured into the soap world of formulating my own MP base. Soaping is a science, but also tons of fun. Love your videos Karen. ❤️
How do you avoid the lye steam when you're making the soap?
Do you sell your base soap?
@@sl4983 When your mixing the lye and oils there is not lye fumes. However, when you add water to the lye there is fumes.
To solve that just get some polypropylene bottles with tops. Than all you have to do is just shake the bottle to mix and there are won't be any fumes. Just be sure and wear some heat mittens as it will get about 200 degrees.
You have the sweetest grandma accent ever! Like how can u punish anyone with that voice.❤
So glad your doing melt and pour as this is what I'm doing I've made 5 different ones so far and love making um xxx
This video has given me an excellent idea for a Christmas soap. Thank You!
I haven’t made any melt and pour in forever! Now I’m motivated 🤩
I had super fun, with making melt and pour soap . With my great nieces.
Practice,patience,passion. True. Really like your creativity.
I love your knife! Can’t find one like it anywhere.
I have been researching for a year and making soaps, candles, and melts on my own for about three months and I appreciate all of your tips. The last 2 days I have made my very favorite the past few days. I failed at my first cold process, but my melt and pour with a new technique (to me) I am loving the result!
Watched you from the very beginning! Your videos have always inspired me in my little soap business! Xxx
I also love your nails as I have Covid nails right now! Motivational nails and video 😍
I Make ALL of my own crystal clear ALOE and glycerin M&P, which is Awesome 2 inches thick and clear as glass..i Spent 2 months trying different formulations and worked this one out. Then I use it for several different soapmaking project's. I do hybrid Soaps, on the fly embeds, so much more.. It's so versatile..I started making GM Cold Process Soap, FHP, Hybrid..i love IT..
Thank you Karen for sharing the tips the soap looks beautiful
Awesome video> Im disabled and cant work so this is great for me to make extra money
This video has us sitting at the edge of our seats for an entire evening. But we trusted the process and you've done it again!
First video for soap making that the soap looks really pretty. Thankyou so much
I love your videos. You share equal time with melt and pour and cold process. I wanted to try cold process soaping, but my house is very old, and it isn't suitable for the the process. I can't ensure a controlled temperature. But melt and pour was alot of fun to try. I made some small blue bars with little pink and blue rubber duckies in them, they were for my daughter's friends baby shower. Really cute. Lol. Thank you for sharing your process and experience. 🥰🥰🥰
I love your nails
Hi mam wonderful video very creative thank you I like to try..plz tell us measurements.
Hi 👋 Thanks for sharing 🙂
Using citric acid as an additive in soap helps reduce soap scum.
Really?? I haven’t come across that in my learning yet!! Thank you for sharing I will take that advice for the future ❤️❤️❤️
How much of it though ?
Everywhere I’ve read and saw says you don’t use citric acid to melt and pour. I bought me a bottle that’s just sitting on my counter. 😢
great tips and videos
good job
Thank you so much for your video, just watched this one and really enjoyed it, really inspiring and informative. thanks again Mark
Thank you for sharing your experience. I really enjoyed making melt and soap, but I switch to different methods because my M&P soap bars became very slimy after one use. I would really appreciate any help. My condition is taking it's toll and doing a lot of greasy dishes and stick blending ,not an option. Doing something when you can is the best therapy, specially when you enjoy it. Thank you again, you remind me that i can do massage bars.
Beautiful job, very informational and your nails look gorgeous too =)
Very nice video
thanks Karen, love your videos they are a great inspiration.
So inspired!
Thank you.Great video
Very informative! Loved watching the grated soap part! Subscribed!
The fruit looks great, I find grating the soap a bit of a bind, but I like the finished effect. Once again thank you for sharing. xx
Great video Karen thank you.
¡Muchas gracias! Muy lindos jabones.
Muchas gracias por todos los consejos.
Would you tell me please where you bought your molds for the embeds you’re using in this video? I absolutely love it and may not be able to live without this mold. LOL
When u use Snow White mica from MadMicas it’s shimmery and gorgeous. I haven’t use titanium dioxide in over a year. I only use Snow White mica by MadMicas. I have only done cp soap for 4 years now and I love it.
Thanks for sharing that info with us xx
Thanks so much for the video as always! I made my own glycerin soap for years, only recently have I started buying a base to try. As you mentioned there are so many great choices. Do you ever add additional oils, for example coco butter or avocado if so what percentage do you recommend? My homemade I could add 8% but every time I’ve tried with base it has leached or not set well. Thanks again!! 💚 From USA
Adding oils and butters to melt and pour really does nothing as the base is already made. So the oils and butters are only suspended into to soap. Also be careful adding salts of any kind!! It will make melt and pour sweat really bad. Also your fragrance choices are crucial due to most will not fully integrate with the melt and pour it simply gets suspended into the soap base and the fragrance oil will just sweat out. If you want something more than basic white and clear. There are many options as three butter melt and pour. Aloevera and olive soap base. Shea Butter melt and pour. Donkey milk melt and pour. Goat milk melt and pour. Honey base melt and pour. Oatmeal melt and pour. So on and so forth. Also mica powders do not color the white melt and pour very well. And the clear melt and pours melt very liquid vs the white melt and pours. Hope this helps
@@montanahammond7218 thank you, so informative
Great tips
Thank you for your video! 👍
Hey there, thank you for the great video. I'm a newbie and I'm wondering, is there any way to do a mica line with mp? I'm afraid it won't stick to the skin, but if I do it too soon, won't it just sink in? What if I sprayed with alcohol and then sifted mica over the alcohol? Would it just melt into the next layer I pour? Help!!! If it's possible, could you maybe demonstrate? ✌🙋♀️🌿🐦
Let the first layer dry almost completely. Then spirits with alcohol as its a good binder for the soaps surface. Then dust your mica over the top. Let that dry and lightly dust the extra off and then pour your second layer. Hope that helps
Hi, thanks for sharing! My question is, I didn’t know we could add water to MP? I always mix my TD with my oils, so I’m a bit confused? Thanks
Yes you can add water. I've used water based colours for ever in MP we learn something new every day don't we
Love ur videos
Welcome Zee and Big Momma
You are 100% correct Karen....It's fun....If it isn't fun to you...try a different hobby...mary
Anna from koala soap recommended a salad shooter for grating. It was life changing.
Do your have any ideas how to make melt and pour soap base from scratch.
Make lye soap bar base.....fat of choice and sodium hydroxide..
How to harden the melt & pour soap. What chemical is used.
I buy stephensons melt and pour, however I changed supplier recently, (mainly for cost reasons) But I’ve noticed that my soap is thickening up very fast , I don’t have time to pour (after it has fully melted) can you advise me what to do ?
Did you find a solution
Hi Karen! Beautiful soap and love the shredded look.
Watched a couple of times, caught where you mention the lemony fragrance but not it’s name. Would please let me know? I can smell the lemons clear over here in the USA! THANK YOU for all that you share with us.
I will forward your video to all my soaping pals.
-Momo
I’m pretty sure it’s Litsea Cubea - also known as May Chang . I make bath bombs & have used with other essential oils in those. It’s gorgeous. Sorry only just discovered this vid & comments so probably a bit late in replying. I’m totally impressed/ loved watching this also & I don’t even make soap!
what's the titanium oxide for?
To make it white color
color...white
Hi.how to make extra foaming soap melt n pour what to aad so the soap get extra foaming
Hi from 🇦🇺🐨do you know if there is anything that can be added to melt and pour bases to make them a little harder ? Thx :)
Gosh I actually don’t know but I do know different brands are different some harder than others such as Stephensons brand
A easy way to make your cheaper melt and pours harder and not like a jelly soap is to take your melt and pour soap base out of its wrapping or container for a week and let it dry. Then when melting melt little bits at a time such as 4 to 5 cups at a time. As soon as its poured put the molds right in front of a box fan and let set for 2 hours. You then will end up with a more solid no gummy and no sweat bar of soap. Hope this helps
I don't understand how you're able to do all of this without a film forming or it starting to solidify. I use the same soap and it doesn't seem to stay melted very long at all it almost immediately starts getting a film on top before I can even mix in colors and smell. How do you do it?! Please help nothing ive done has worked really. The microwave for me is a complete fail and the crock pot I have some luck with. How you keep it melted long enough to work with?! Thank you so so much for the video
I use a low power setting on my microwave and do it for about a minute at a time. Once it's melted enough that there's no chunks, an extra 30 seconds on a slightly higher power level usually keeps it hot enough to add stuff to without burning it. If it starts to solidify while I'm adding things in, I just pop it back in for a little longer. The film on top seems to be a side effect of milk bases from my experience and the only way to deal with it is to scoop it out before pouring into the molds.
Could be your weather is cooler or drier than where she is. I live in the desert so just like my hair doesn’t take long to dry after I wash it, neither does my soap lol. So I have to work really fast.
Your room temperature maybe? Also maybe put it in a pot of hot water?
I have been facing exact same issue. There is a film that forms every time I pour the soap
Do all the varieties of M&P sweat except the “no sweat”?
Yes unless the base is left out to dry before melting. Hope that helps
@@montanahammond7218 So let a brand new base dry for a while, Before you melt it?
Great video. I subbed. :)
Sobee from Alaska USA . Can you use a processor to grate your soap ?
Yes but if you use the machine for food you must clean it well
Are botanicals safe to use in soaps
Yes an no inside flowers can cause mold and if not dried and if on top I suggest not too many AND wait until it is at a cooler temperature.
Love the nails! 💅🏼
Watched the whole video, thanks, I love watching you make cold process, but am not able to make it here. For my birthday I am asking my husband for a melt and pour kit!! Can’t wait 🥰💕🙂
Love making soap, Problem is it’s not bubbling much what the problem of my soap? I put 40 gram of shea butter and 30 grams of coconut oil , what you can say , did I put to much oil in it ? Oh use also 2Lb. Of soap but not much bubbles , Hope can give an ideas ,then after that prey heat it again put more soap. Thank you so much for your tips….
May I know which soap base in Amazon is best for lather?
I think the No Sweat Has the best lather
@@EdensSecret1 Okay .Thank you so much !
@@EdensSecret1 is that a brand name?
Hi Karen , could you tell me if it’s ok to put melt and pour embeds on top of cold process soap.
If it is, will they melt when you try to put your soap through the gel phase?
As you can probably tell I’m new to soap making 🤦♀️🤣
Many Thanks
Yes you can do that but it is a possibility they could melt if your soap gets too hot during gel
@@EdensSecret1 thanks Karen
Hi. Ilkwd your beautiful soap video. U r really very creative & am your big fan. I have few queries if u mind to answer to the newbie.
1. Is this necessary to disperse TD & micas into water? In your opinion, water must be warm & how much TD can be made for 500 GM's base?
2. If dispersed colours into water mixed into base, does it give glycerine rivers after cutting? I live in humid area.
Thank U
Hi Karen, is there any legal requirements for selling mp like there is with cp ??? Xx
If you don't mind answering, what is your table made of? It stays so clean! I use a regular table and cover it in paper but would like to get away from it.
I'm pretty sure this is it, it's a long time since I bought it though, so I'm not 100% certain:- www.worktop-express.co.uk/laminate-worktops/white-kitchen-splashback-3000-600-6mm
@@EdensSecret1 Thanks! Since commenting I put up my glass table cover but it reflects my lights too bad. I think I'll give this a try! Thanks for helping me. I've watched nearly all your videos and am attempting to apply what I've learned. Thx from West Virginia, USA!
Oh, I forgot to tell you that I LOVE your knife! Where did you get it?
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Do u have to add titanium dioxide?
According to my small knowledge..it's just sunscreen..so u can leave it out if u want
Hi could I grate my mp to melt it I'm having a hard time melting my mp without burning it tried stove top microwave in very short bursts but still ?? Only going to do small amounts just now-
I use a plastic pitcher inserted into a pan of water heated on the stove. No scorching. Take your time 😊💕
Double boil method in a pot of boiling water
I’m having trouble with melting. I’ve tried medium low heat but it’s still over cooking it? It ends up leathery and doesn’t melt well. It leaves a film and stringy pieces
Have you tried a double boiler method (water in a pan with a bowl over the top and your soap in the bowl). Did you try the microwave? And is your soap the same brand as the one I'm using "stephensons"?
Easy way to get a perfect melt and pour is to cut the desired amount into half inch by half inch cubes. Put into microwave safe container and melt for 30 then take out and stir and then continue to melt in 20 seconds intervals at a time taking out and stiring everytime until completely melted. Hope this helps.
I am watching
no gloves?
It was very hard to hear you when you were stirring in the glass
I cant hear you speaking when your doing the chopping
5 minutes in microwave? That had to have been boiling!
Thanks for your question. No, it wasn't boiling, it's 1 and a half kilo of soap base. When you are watching other channels they are usually melting a much smaller quantity of soap, which takes a couple of minutes.
TY karen, for all the tips!! I'll SHARE.. I have over a yrs worth of Soaps and more, I want to go further, but im tech retarded & can't afford to much, but I need some help, how can I get a Virtual Assistant, Or pay for someone to do my intro. I made 1 in canva, but I don't know how 2 add it to my videos. So, I'm stuck any suggestions?
If you have iMovie on iPhone you can use that
@@TheBoldandUnbothered.podcast TY 4 the Suggestion. I movie, my son downloaded it for me and it's like Chinese to me. And I just have a simple Android..Ill figure out something..until then I'll keep Soakin and Blessin others
😂
There's no lye involved in melt and pour soap.
There is lye used when melt and pour is created during the manufacturing process. Just like with CP, we don't add lye on the ingredient listing, but doesn't mean it wasn't used. Tons of articles in the online.
It’s not reassuring that your equipment is decrepit
This isn’t a great teaching video
Hi.. Love your nails. I sent you a message on Instagram.