Hi Lisa, hope you are well. Good to see another soap being made although I'm not used to seeing you do hot process; it turned out lovely and your shop must smell amazing, i love the smell of lilac bushes my parents had one in their garden, and you could smell it so strong. x
Your hot process soap upload showed up in my recommended feed so, being that I also make my own soap, I opted to watch yours. Great work!! You can really tell that you've been at this for quite a while! 👍 I don't make as much soap as I used to some years ago. Much being that when I moved back here to Sweden after having lived in Canada for many years, I'm not allowed to sell my soaps, salves, body products etc. over here... Health agencies go crazy if you do that, even if you have written the exact amount of everything on the label. I can give it away as gifts but, not sell. Go figure!!? When I do make soap, I usually opt for the hot process soap, as I really don't feel like having trays of soap everywhere, drying/curing for 6 weeks or more. Have to little space and to many cats... 😂 Only different method I will use when making/cooking my hot process soap, is when I make the 100% lard soap for my laundry soap/creme and stain stick. I'll even get impatient with the regular hot process method and opt to do the REAL fast hot process method. (NOTHING I recommend for someone new at making hot process soap...) Can't remember what it's called. It's when you pour your HOT lye solution into your HOT oils/fats. Quick blend and that stuff volcanoes to the point where if you don't have a large enough container and are there to whisk it down, you'll have hot gunk everywhere... 😱Been there, done that, more than once... LOL However, since it's only the soap for my laundry, I don't add anything in it, such as fragrance etc. I'll just plop it as is into the mold I use and leave it at that. It's just plain soap that I'll most of the time just go ahead and use the day after to make my laundry soap. Only soap that will sit and dry, is the soap left for future batches of laundry soap/creme. I'll do the same method as you when making soap for myself and friends, as it is easier to have more control over both fragrance, texture, color etc. Sometimes I'll intentionally add more fluids than necessary, if I do want to make a "prettier" swirly hot process soap or so. Yes it does take longer to dry but, so does a cold process soap, during curing. I do make cold process too but, for whatever reason, most of my cold process soaps are a total fail. Still soap that cleans but, looks like they have spider webs throughout the soap. Know it has something to do with the soaps heat while drying/curing but, regardless of what I've done to try to avoid that, the darn soap refuses to cooperate!! So, hot process is usually what I opt to do. Thank you for a great show of how you make your hot process soap. I will definitely try the plastic wrap method, as I hate it when the soap is dry and crusty on top.
Hi Lisa, hope you are well. Good to see another soap being made although I'm not used to seeing you do hot process; it turned out lovely and your shop must smell amazing, i love the smell of lilac bushes my parents had one in their garden, and you could smell it so strong. x
Thank you! It's super popular!!
Your hot process soap upload showed up in my recommended feed so, being that I also make my own soap, I opted to watch yours. Great work!! You can really tell that you've been at this for quite a while! 👍
I don't make as much soap as I used to some years ago. Much being that when I moved back here to Sweden after having lived in Canada for many years, I'm not allowed to sell my soaps, salves, body products etc. over here... Health agencies go crazy if you do that, even if you have written the exact amount of everything on the label. I can give it away as gifts but, not sell. Go figure!!?
When I do make soap, I usually opt for the hot process soap, as I really don't feel like having trays of soap everywhere, drying/curing for 6 weeks or more. Have to little space and to many cats... 😂 Only different method I will use when making/cooking my hot process soap, is when I make the 100% lard soap for my laundry soap/creme and stain stick. I'll even get impatient with the regular hot process method and opt to do the REAL fast hot process method. (NOTHING I recommend for someone new at making hot process soap...) Can't remember what it's called. It's when you pour your HOT lye solution into your HOT oils/fats. Quick blend and that stuff volcanoes to the point where if you don't have a large enough container and are there to whisk it down, you'll have hot gunk everywhere... 😱Been there, done that, more than once... LOL However, since it's only the soap for my laundry, I don't add anything in it, such as fragrance etc. I'll just plop it as is into the mold I use and leave it at that. It's just plain soap that I'll most of the time just go ahead and use the day after to make my laundry soap. Only soap that will sit and dry, is the soap left for future batches of laundry soap/creme.
I'll do the same method as you when making soap for myself and friends, as it is easier to have more control over both fragrance, texture, color etc. Sometimes I'll intentionally add more fluids than necessary, if I do want to make a "prettier" swirly hot process soap or so. Yes it does take longer to dry but, so does a cold process soap, during curing. I do make cold process too but, for whatever reason, most of my cold process soaps are a total fail. Still soap that cleans but, looks like they have spider webs throughout the soap. Know it has something to do with the soaps heat while drying/curing but, regardless of what I've done to try to avoid that, the darn soap refuses to cooperate!! So, hot process is usually what I opt to do.
Thank you for a great show of how you make your hot process soap. I will definitely try the plastic wrap method, as I hate it when the soap is dry and crusty on top.
Thanks for your kind words!
The spider web look is usually caused when you don't discount your water in cold process soaps. I actually love the look!