How to rebatch your old soap and make it into something new 🌱
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Do you have too many soap scraps? Or soap you don't like, or cut in a weird, unusable shape? Rebatching is the answer! Learning how to rebatch soap is a great technique and a fun, creative soap-making project. With a slow cooker or double boiler, a grater and some soap - you can make all kinds of interesting rebatch and confetti soap creations! You can use this rebatch method for both hot process and cold process soaps.
In this video, I briefly discuss how to rebatch lye heavy or oily soap. If you plan to attempt this, make sure you do your research and calculations first, and always use safety gear when handling lye or lye heavy soap.
If you would like to add essential oils to your rebatched soap, I would recommend adding at a rate of 3% of the total soap weight. Just stir it through at the end, once the soap has cooled off a little.
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My best friend travels and collects the hotel soap. I've rebatched them. It's fun and safe. I think of remaking candles as it's the same process. ❤🌅🌵🌅😷
That's so cool!
Why did it turn dark when you started with all light color soap
@@gloriaramos1430 , 1:55 the dark colored soap is dominant and will turn light colored soap dark. If you don't want dark colored soap, you have to use all light. ... This technique is for practicality not for beauty. I take a shoebox full of hotel soaps (2x3x 1/4) and slivers of soap, melt them down and make nice sized bars (my husband loves them). It's recycling/remaking the bits into something useful. It's safe, no risk of burning yourself with lye and lots of fun! There's no predicting the color... Once I used slivers of Irish Spring and it didn't melt well, so the soap had specks of green soap all through it ... looked like confetti. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷 Ps. Light colored means white or almost white. The tan ones and the rust/orange colored soaps that she used are considered dark. If she didn't add the activated charcoal 11:05 the soap would have come out that brown color that you see in the crockpot, but activated charcoal is similar to the charcoal for BBQs or in artist's pencils that's why soap turned so black.
Can your pot get ruined doing this?? 🤔😆😆
@@moniesmiles2647, when I get done, there's usually a thick coating of soap covering the pot. You can wash the soap off, but since I use an old pot from the second hand store. I don't bother washing it out good enough for food prep, but you could certainly do so. I just don't want to waste the soap. The next time I melt soap, what's in the pot melts and goes into the next batch. 💖🌞🌵😷
Elly, you are such a blessing to us newbie soap makers (and to everyone!). Your videos are presented in a much-appreciated down-to-earth, straightforward, encouraging and pleasant way. Thank you for all that you do. May this season and the coming year bring you all that is good. God bless you.
Thank you Patricia, I appreciate that very much.
This is a great video for everyone Elly, from newbie to longterm soap maker! I already have a batch I am not happy with and had thought of turning it into laundry powder using your recipe and now I have 2 options. This so agrees with my environmental beliefs of reduced waste and reusing/repurposing. Thank you so much 💛
You're welcome Marion, yes it's so great to make something new from something old. Sometimes I keep my white/light coloured old pieces for the laundry soap, and rebatch the darker colours that aren't best for laundry. Many options here :)
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Also what a great way to start the new year. Reusing last yrs soap and making something new from it...
Thanks Susan, that's exactly what I thought :)
I watched your hot process soap video and I think it's fantastic, and now I'm watching more of your content. It's very informative.
This is exactly what I needed! I have so many leftover soaps, both melt and pour and cold process soaps.Cant wait to try this. Thanks for posting!
Thanks Teresa, you're welcome!
Your videos have been a huge help, i love the way you explain everything simply and give us advice along the process really appreciate it❤️❤️
Made lye heavy soap and knew that you were the only one here on UA-cam to help me save it! Thank you so much!😊
Glad I could help!
Great soap! Creative idea! 🦋
Hello Elly: Thank you for this video. I found it very useful. Watched it yesterday and am on my third batch of rebatch!!! The key is patience, blending and not too much water!. Thank U again.
Very different, Elly. Lovely looking soap. Thanks for walking us through the whole process.☺️ Iris
You're welcome Iris, thanks for your feedback :)
You are a complete delight to watch and listen to love, I learned a lot and enjoyed your video.
Thank y'all so much dearest 🌹
Y'all such an inspiration 🥰
Appreciate y'all from the bottom of my heart 💖
Be Blissful Eternally 🙏👼🌈
You've given me a clue now of what to do with soap scraps. I've been collecting these scraps but only to soak them and remould without this new knowledge I've learnt. Now I hope, I'm gonna collect as many as I can and rebatch them and sell them back to those who like to get rid of those small pieces of soaps. Thanks for opening up my brain.
Wow, that turned out very interesting. Love the rlecks of orange.
Thank you Elly, you make the best videos on making soap! Thanks to you, I started making soap! I always thought it is much too complicated, but with your on point explanations, easy to understand and follow! Great compliment to you! Thanks for sharing!
That is wonderful! Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. I appreciate it a lot. :)
Love to look. I have some re-batching to do so I will be trying the confetti method... Lol... You're Great!!!!
Thanks for all your helpful hints...
Thanks Rodney :)
Just when I was wondering what to do with the unused soap bars, I came across your video. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love your rebatched charcoal soap.
Thanks Amrita, that's great!
a most excellent video. i like the way you explain it. my wife keeps throwing my collection of soap scraps out. i'll do what you do and put them in a large zip lock baggie. thanks again Terry.
That is beautiful! I love your channel!!!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Always great information and tutorials! My husband has severe arthritis in his hands and prefers a larger bar of soap, so he ends up with a half bar or more that he won’t use. I have started collecting his half-used soaps and will do a re-batch for him! Thanks for this great idea! Happy new year to you!
You're very welcome Terry, that sounds like a perfect solution, Happy new year :)
Yes, I collect the left over soap that my husband would otherwise throw away, but I can't seem to melt it without burning it. Some soaps are softer than others and the hard ones just don't melt! It's frustrating. That's why I'm here. I'm looking for ways to melt it without burning it.
I just "glue" the old bar to the new bar. To do this, use both bars while showering. When finished, create a nice lather in your hands and scoop it with the smaller bar. Then press it firmly to the larger bar. Let it throughly dry. I've been doing this for years, even with store bought soap. Now that I'm making my own soap it works even better.
@@keithfacchino3980 I do that too, but it's been so dry lately my hands are peeling off. I want to incorporate some shea butter into the soap which would require me to melt it all the way down, but I can't get it hot enough to melt.
@@rlolo777 put the leftovers in a sponge( cut it open)
Looks delicious 😋
Happy New Year. I love your videos...there is such serenity in the way you teach, you are so beautiful.
I finally made soap for the first time the other day using your 100% coconut oil with 25% superfat recipe...it has turned out so lovely...they are drying (day 2)
Thank you so much for giving me the confidence to start something that I have put off for years.
I will try rebatching...have been collecting scraps and now shavings from my neatened soap edges :-)
Blessings and much love
Ahh, thank you so much, that makes my day :)
Very well done!!!👍🏾👏
This was a great video and very informative and I will use your techniques tomorrow when I re-batch! Thank you very much
I'm glad it helps! Thank you so much. :)
great video as usual, thanks for sharing , nice idea.
Happy New Year Elly! Loving this video. Just to let you know that I made laundry soap using your instructions and it's fabulous. My daughter in law loves it too!!! What a revelation - thank you. Definitely going to make a soap just to make laundry powder. All the very best for this new venture 👍 🙋🐾Trish and Nige
Yes! That's great Trisha, so cool :)
This was so helpful!
Thank you!
Wow that turned out amazing! I didn't even know this was a thing. Thank you for sharing 😍 To think of all the poor little soap nubbins I've thrown out over the years 🙄
Thanks so much! 😊
This is the BEST VIDEO for re batching soap I have ever found. And it has the mixing in of the second color I just read about in my new book too. Thank you so much! You have no idea how this changed my day today. No other videos had how much liquid to even add to the crock pot. Like…how do I know, just by chance? You are a goddess.
Aww, thank you! I'm so happy to hear your feedback. You're welcome!
Thank you SO much for this video. From all you taught me, I saved my soap from a disaster. I made a batch of coconut oil soap and, as a new soapmaker, I think I experienced everything that could go wrong. The batch came up lovely, but after an hour a crack started appearing, so I knew it was overheating. I used alcohol and a plastic bag to slurry shut the crack and popped it in the fridge. After a few minutes, I put it on a raised rack with a gentle fan breeze around it. It came out of the mold perfectly, but partially gelled. So, I tried the CPOP method with success. Perfect, I thought. I carefully transferred the bars to a rack to harden. Tragedy struck. The rack must have been too top heavy, collapsed and sent my lovely bars crashing to the floor. Every single one was damaged. So, I rebatched it all in a double boiler and it melted up nicely and now it's back in the mold. All in a day, right? Without your patient instruction I would not have known where to begin. Cheers from the mountains of Virginia. You are a soap saint. ❤️
Thank you. You're most welcome :)
Lovely video for a newbie. Fantastic channel ❤️
Thanks Catherine, much appreciated :)
Thank you from Texas. I really enjoyed your video and made three batches yesterday after a three year absence. I have never re batched but now I will because some of the soap I made yesterday came to trace really fast and it looks rough! I am a new and self taught soaper, so thank you for the tips!!
You are so welcome!
This is very helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome Lee, thank you.
Hi Elly! Had to take a second to let you know that your video tutorials were such a gift when I found them at the end of such a stressful year of 2020. I got the soaping bug early enough to ask my family to forgo typical gifts this year in lieu of soap making gear and fragrances. Then using your tips, I have already made two batches in 2021 and am about to make a third. I can't wait to share the bounty with loved ones when it is finally safe to gather and socialize again here in the United States. Until then, I can't believe how hard it is to wait for them to cure. I peep in on them every day! Many, many thanks for your kind, thoughtful, and fantastic instructional videos. Happy new year!
Ahh thank you so much Amber, you're very kind. I'm so happy to hear you're loving your soap making so much! Take care.
Hi Elly, great to see you again❣️
Thanks Bonnie :)
This was extremely helpful! Thank you so much!
Thank you, you're welcome!
I was wondering how to rebatch! Thank you
Great video Elly, I have never tried rebatch, may just try it out :) Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome George! It's a fun little project.
A great information and another type of soap processs have been learned from u Elly mam. We learned a great knowledge and learned about waste soaps and how its reused
Thank you Kajol :)
Thank you for this useful video!
Beautiful soap Elly! Greetings from Connecticut xoxo
Thanks Dari!
excellent! thank you for this. It'll be rebatching for me tomorrow hopefully for the last day of quarantine (brissy here). Also I love your hair cut, it really suits you. :)
Aww, thanks Emma! Have fun, so nice to hear from you :)
I bought these Turkish soaps on clearance and the fragrance are super strong. Wanted to spread that fragrance a bit with milder soaps. So this video came in really handy. Thank you
When you melt the soaps sometimes it can make the scent degrade so it might not smell super fragrant anymore!
Thank you, this answers my questions.
Thanks again for your help because I have few ugly soaps..and I don't know what to do lol and happy new year ✨ 💛 💖
Thanks for this. I've got a good few offcuts from previous batches and was looking for a method for reaching them. Off to the workshop now. All the best from Panama.
Thanks Jim, that's fantastic. Glad this helped.
I’m so glad I stuck it out and watched this whole video. I wasn’t sure you were going to answer my questions but you totally helped!
My husband bought a bunch of bar soap that dries both of us out. But with how expensive everything is, I’d hate for it to go to waste just because it makes our skin dry! So I’m gonna attempt to boil it down and add some oils and Shea butter to hopefully make the soap a bit more conditioning.
That sounds very good! Have fun, and thanks. My videos are long but hopefully valuable all the way to the end!
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking they aren’t that long! I just wasn’t sure if this video in particular was the right one to answer my question, because of it being answered towards the end.
But with attention spans getting shorter and shorter, what’s long to others may seem short to me, etc.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking I do have a question for you though, if you mind helping a girl out!
So the soap I have that dries us out, is Dial antibacterial bar soap. When I do my ratios for adding oils/shea butter to it, what would you suggest be the correct amount to use for a basic 4oz bar? I can do the rest of the math, I just wasn’t sure how much to add without rendering the soap useless.
Hello my granddaughter (14) makes cold process soap and she has just had her first fail (soap on a stick). So, while looking for a video on how to rebatch, we found your video, I would just like to say thank you for this one as it is easy and simple for her to follow.
Fantastic! I am going to give it a try!
Awesome! Have fun :)
Very useful and interesting. Thank you.
Wow who would have thought that it would turn out like that 😍
It really looks like lava! :-) I will do some re-batching soon. Thanks for the tutorial!
You're welcome Karen :)
Thanks you made my day !
Excellent
Beautiful 🌸
I was given a bit of wonderful smelling herbal homemade soap from local Gleaners group. The biggest share of it was very thin end cuts, so today I am trying your rebatching method. I have made soap, so I have molds and am looking forward to the bigger bars of this. Thanks for sharing this.
It turned out great and I am doing the second half of it this morning. I actually did the grating in a small food processor as I have numb fingers and after normal grating of the first little bar knew it would take a big portion of my day doing grating otherwise. That worked rather well. I tnink today's batch is a bit larger, so 2 loaves and a little more of nice sized bars from the "Oh so thin" bars is so much nicer. Next will be your Pine Tar Soap recipe when my ingredients arrive. Have a good day. Thanks again.
One question. This just needs to dry right? No need to "cure" for the 4-6 weeks again? Thank you.
Wonderful video Elly awesome. I hav3 lots of old soap.
Thanks Donna, glad you liked it. I thought it was a good, practical video to start the year on :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking to right i loved it.
That's a great idea! 👌
Greetings from Turkey! 🙂
THanks, glad you enjoyed it. Greetings from Australia!
OMG, it needed this a few months ago. I messed up and left out my mango butter. I knew exactly how much I needed to add, I didnt know, I kept it for ages , was gonna put it in with the washing powder. But I threw if out. Now I know I wont do it again. I love the charcoal, it's good for oily skin. If you use it just slightly crushed it's good for raspberry and strawberry skin, ie the dried skin on your arms and thighs.
Thank you! Saved my crumbled batch :)
Oh that's good! :)
When i had my kids we ysed cloth nappies and i used to make liquid soap to wash them with 1 bar of chopped sunlight soap and about 2 litres of water. Boil till liquid then left it till it wrnt jelly when cold. 1 cup of the slime added to a full nappie wash. Worked well and the sun took care of the yellow stains.❤
That is lovely, Diana! ❤️
OMG I love Chandrika soap!!!!!
Hi Elly, I'm new to soap making, so I have plenty of oops didn't mean to do that soaps. I'm going to visit the thrift shops to see if I can find a crock pot and get to rebatching. Thanks for the helpful ideas.
You're welcome Vera, op shops are the best places for soap making gear! All for a good cause too :)
That is super fun!! I love the confetti look in the charcoal. I make charcoal soap all the time but this just adds that extra bit of fun. Thank you for the great video
Thanks Trisha, glad you liked it :)
thankyou so much for the information
such a blessing for me
You're most welcome
This was a great example, just tried some out myself with little scraps I had haha
thank you sooooo much!!!
Thank you ma and God bless you
Happy to see Chandrika soap. Am. From India and that soap has a great smell.
Oh yes I adore Chandrika soap!
I am going to have to do my first rebatch of an HP soap with goat's milk because I forgot to add the superfat at the end. I love the essential oil blend that's in there and am concerned it will evaporate off when the soap gets hot during the rebatch. Thanks! Appreciate your videos!!
It might flash off a bit, I usually add extra when I rebatch :)
Fantastic video! I have a cold processed soap that is very oily and soft after 6 weeks…I plan on re batching after learning the technique from your video. My question is..if I add other “old scraps” of soap that have saponified perfectly to the ‘oily’ soap, will I need to add more lye. If so how do you calculate how much.. or will the good scraps melt with the oily scraps to make a good re batched soap? Thank you
Those are such nice bars of soap you grated up 😭 I would have loved to try one of those
So I made a cold process soap process and accidentally added only half the oils to my lye causing it to get really chunky. I noticed after it was chunky that I forgot the total amount so I then added the rest of the oils but there is still some chunks.. would heating it down and remolding fix this ?
It hasn't dried out yet so it's still soft should I wait till it's hard then do this or?
Great to see you again do have soap making classes
Not yet, but I'll be developing my website soon so lots more helpful information to come there :)
Great video! Thanks
Thank you Miriam :)
I was hoping that you would have shown how to form the "extra" (what didn't fit into the mold) into patties by hand. Oh, well. Maybe next time. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉. ❤🌅🌵😷
Ah yes, I hoped to, but I only had a tiny bit left so it wasn't really worth doing. It's easy, just wait until the soap cools enough to handle it and shape it into the desired shape. You can add a teeny bit more water to help :)
Pretty cool
Thank you, Valentina! :)
I enjoy your videos so much. They are so informative and full of encouragement! I did make the castile soap. I was nervous about it for months, but it was so easy to make! Can you include the size of bowls and containers you use? When using the immersion blender, I had a lot of splattering and air bubbles. I used 4.5 quart bowl. Too big?
Thanks Belinda, it probably is more important to get the shape of the bowl right as well as the size. You just have to get the right shape so that the oil is deep enough. Maybe you need a smaller or thinner and taller bowl or bucket :)
Just on the right time when I was wondering how to fix my soaps which didn't turn out how I wanted to. You are awesome. Love from India.
Thank you Deepti, that's lovely
Thanks a whole lot. Now I can cut down on a lot of waste.
Hi Elly! Thanks so much for this video. Can you rebatch soap with what appears to be undissolved lye?
Another excellent Elly explanation, thank you. When you use this soap in the kitchen is it for hands or dishes or both?
Both. Mostly hands and pots and pans :)
Sorry Elly am new to your channel i just saw how to make soap and ill continue thank you
ThankYou for a great video. My question is the cleaning of slow cooker. Do you have cooker for this use only?
Thank you again.
The slow cooker is easy to clean, you just soak it and wash the soap out. It's just soap :) I do have a cooker just for soap making.
I have learned that this process has a much lovelier name....
Hand milled soap!!!
😎😎😎😎😎
Haha yes, depends on who you ask and what original soap you're using. When it's scraps I'm calling it a rebatch!
Thanks and helpful as always! I have a perfect batch of soap but I just don't like the color so I am going tp rematch! I wonder if I can use a blender apposed to a grater?
A food process or works okay, but you have to cut the soap finely first. It might be a bit much for a blender to handle.
Hello Elly, I am new at soap making for home use. I overmized after i added fragrance. Can i add water to liquefy it to pouring consistency. Thank you for sharing so many tips ❤❤❤
Hi! I love your channel and as a new soap hobbyist, I have learned so much from it. I think your instructions and manner are lovely and straightforward. I also really like your aesthetic: simple, clean, natural-looking.
My first soap was a batch of Castile that after curing for a month I've decided that I don't care for the texture of the soap (also it was my first soap and I think I could have done a better job). It's kind of slimy, which I have researched and found is normal. I was wondering if I can rebatch it so that I add in another oil (say coconut or whatever) to hopefully make it not so slimy--or as I've read to create a "Bastile", aka bastardized Castile. For example, if I want to add 100g of another oil would I do the soap calc for that amount and then add it and the corresponding amount of lye/water to the melted Castile? Thanks! I've tried researching this but nobody seems to focus on this reason for wanting to rebatch.
Hi Dawn, thank you for your kind words. Yes, you can totally rebatch the soap to add more oils with the right amount of lye, just make sure you're very careful with the calculations and check everything thrice :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thanks! It also occurred to me that I could put in a couple of bars of soap made from only coconut oil and that might be enough to help with the texture.
Yes, that's a great idea!
Awesome
Thanks
Looks so cool. In a previous beginner cold process soap you add lavender powder. What is it and where can I get it?
Hi Penny, I answered on the other video where you asked this :)
Great soap and I love the method! I do have a question though.... You mentioned adding oil to lye heavy soap to even it out, but I understood that lye won't dissolve in oil and that you'd need to add water to do so. Does that make sense? Otherwise it may continue to be lye heavy.... Or maybe I didn't understand you correctly?
Great question Sonja, well you are right that lye won't dissolve in oil, but if you are adding more oil to a lye heavy soap, the lye is already dissolved into the original soap, so it's just a matter of mixing more oil into that and getting it to saponify (mixing, heat and time). It would not work if you were mixing oil and dry lye together, but the new oil and the lye heavy soap mix quite well. Hope that makes sense :)
Què bueno Elly, me vino como "anillo al dedo" porque ya casi estaba que tiraba los primeros lotes que hice, que me quedaron bien pero no me gustan mucho. Te invito un cafè, gracias!
Hi Elly...such a breath of fresh air to my day. I need advice.... was wondering if i rebatched some cold process soap that contained small pieces of unmelted beeswax. Would the beeswax melt with the heat from rebatching? .
Ooh, great question, yes, it would! Beeswax melts at about 60 degrees C, so the crock pot would be well hot enough to melt it. Have fun!
I grew up in nz in the 60s and we were so poor that my mother kept all the small used bars of soap till she had enough to boil it up and make more soap. Used to be a box of dried old soap in the laundry for about a year!😂
oh wow! Your mother is so resourceful, Awesome. :)
Hi Elly. Love your videos! What size bowls & measuring containers do you use? I finally worked up enough nerve to make your Olive oil soap. Had lots of splattering and air bubbles. I used 4.5 quart bowl. Too big?
Yes, could be! I choose my container for the size of recipe I'm using. They are all different!
Thanks a bunch for this video, Elly! I have some soap I think I'll try this on. If I add more water when melting, would I be able to strain the batter? My grinder didn't make small enough particles of orange peel and oatmeal and I want to remove those.
Hi, no you wouldn't want to add too much water. It will never set!
Hello, Elly! Please, can you tell me how you get your essential oils to keep their aroma through the curing process? I find EO's burn off even if i put them in when the CP soap is cooled to 100 degrees. Is it the amount you use or an anti oxidant? Thank you. Love your lessons. From Alberta, Canada
Hi Jane, that's a great question! Yes they do dissipate somewhat. I store my soaps in closed cupboards with dehumidifiers, I think that helps. Also using a good amount helps. I use about 3-5% of EO per total base oil amount for the soap recipe.