Can you show the lather of your soaps after you make them.... It would be a really nice addition, kind of how you show the bath bombs fizzing, for new customers who are unsure how your melt and pour lathers. ☺
Thank you so much for making this video! With all the information that is available online it's hard to determine what is accurate and what isn't. You are one of my go to trusted sources for information (and trust me when I say that I research until I'm cross eyed)❤ this was very helpful and informative. I find that I always have very specific questions that I end up having while I'm making something and never have anybody to ask to find answers. In this video I found some answers to some of those specific questions! Thanks again and God bless!
I love all of Bramble Berry melt and pour soaps. My favorites are the goats milk soap, the hemp, the clear and the basic white. I love making soap and enjoy watching the videos. Thank Anne Marie for such a great products and teaching! 💕💜
Here after royalty soaps recommend you, and honestly, I don't make soap, but you just sound like a really kind person, which is kinda rare on the internet, so I just love watching your videos.
I add a small amount of coconut oil, it helps with the lather with the base I use. It also makes it smell GREAT. I use soap colouring, NEVER use food colouring. When using mica powder find one that in corperates well and never use craft glitter. When using molds try to find one that dosn't have little details as sometin=mes it wont come out XX
Thanks for sharing this info. Im just trying out melt and pour, and wanted to ask -- have you found any workaround for adding more oils and putting botanicals and embeds in a way that it doesnt spoil?
I'm just starting to make my own soaps and toiletries for my B&B to get rid of all those single use plastic containers. Thank you for all the advice, i need it! lol Have a great day. x
Your videos are always so wonderful to watch ! The soaps turned out beautifully ! Thank you for sharing ❤️! I can't find any alcohol everywhere is sold out ! what can be used instead, to pop bubbles and help the layers stay together?
Could anyone help me please. Made my first melt and pour soap today. It smells glorious as it is, however it leaves a weird smell on the skin. Glyceriny, weird, can't describe. I can't smell my oils on my skin at all. What can be the reason?
Thank you for the video. I have a one question that I couldn't find answer for: Is my microwave still food safe after I use it to melt the soap, or do I need to deep clean it before I put my food in?
Melt and pour soap is just soap, so it's not dangerous. (It's not like the sodium hydroxide used to make cold process soap, which is dangerous until it fully reacts with oils to form soap.)
I've tried to do swirls but if I let my mp cool down I am constantly getting a skin on top of the soap. You don't mention anything in your video about the skin that forms. in saying that if you remelt then the soap is too hot to pour.
Hey Hun. I have my own soap company, Haus of La Luna (@thehausoflaluna) and I do M&P projects. I would suggest to spray just a bit of rubbing alcohol at the top where the skin is formed. That will seperate it and not create that skin. Just two spritz. Nothing crazy. Hope you have fun and check me out on Instagram 😉
I have started out my soap making journey using melt and pour. It makes it so easy to be creative, doesn't it? The last soap I did was sushi inspired, so the little bars of soap looked like pieces of sushi. Went down well as a gift anyway! Thanks for sharing your tips ☺
Do you mean the soap itself or materials? The materials are pretty cheap especially because of the high quality. I am not quite sure about their soap itself.
You can use a double boiler on the stove. I'll do that if I'm making a bigger batch because I find all the soap doesn't melt consistently in the microwave without stopping constantly to stir. Just put an inch of water in a pot and then a glass or metal bowl on top that doesn't touch the water. Heat the water to simmering and pop on the bowl with the soap. The smaller you cut the pieces the faster it will melt. JUST DON'T FORGET THE BOWL WILL BE HOT! I've also hung a measuring cup over the edge of the pot, but you really have to watch that. Good luck. I hope that helps you.
Hello, I am about to start creating melt and pour soaps. I am aware it's not advisable to use pyrex for cold process soap. However, can I use Pyrex measuring cups for melt and pour soap making?
I do wonder, as we are trying to minimize the usage of plastic, do any of u guys think or maybe tried wrapping it with wax paper? My concern is the sweating, will it still have the glycerin dew or sweating?
After making the soap it takes about 6 weeks for them to be ready to use. The pH will not be a problem if you are using a lye calculator and measuring accurately.
Hi Anna Marie, I loved all your videos so much that I have started my own cold soap making. I request you to send me recipes for oils such as Safflower oil, Sunflower oil, Ground nut oil, coconut oil and sesame oil since these are the oils readily available to me locally. I will be grateful to you if you can share some recipes for the above mentioned oils. Thanks, Vijay
Please please reply! I've been making melt and pour soaps lately and I've been attempting marbled look, but my soap base gets a kindof skin on the surface, and I've had two failed attempts at it. Idk what to do
If the melt and pour bases are forming a skin before you pour them into your mold, you can heat them for a few more seconds and stir. This should dissolve the skin back into the soap base.
My issue is when I do melt and pour is when I do a clear with an embed over time that embed blues until you can't even tell what it was . How do I stop that?
Using liquid food dyes can be safe, though they may react differently in your soap. Some can fade or morph colors since they are not designed for soap. We recommend using colorants designed specifically for soap! Melt and Pour Colorants: www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-craft/soap-making/melt-and-pour/colorants
No final results on the green and white soap, must have turned out bad since she didn't re-heat the white. Also I enjoy Anne-Marie's soap ideas and I like that she made a Q&A video but I constantly felt being sold to. She would have a question, say the best solution is to just buy it from her website, and then give a flippant, sometimes inaccurate answer that makes it seem like in reality she only wants you to purchase her products (which are overpriced by most soap-makers standards, unless you are a hobbyist only) and not try to make soap on a budget.
She has a huge channel of free tutorials, I've learnt so much from her for years, even being on the other side of the world (and therefore, not being able to purchase her products). I don't mind if she tries to sell me her brand. What's so wrong about marketing your business while you're helping people for free? This is how she sells her brand and if she couldn't sell it, she definitely wouldn't be able to afford making such professional -and educational- videos for free. If you don't want marketing my dear, then I suggest you pay for a course on soapmaking or buy a book ;)
@@HealingMagick how do you have internet access but can't by from her website just because of your location? A more sensible claim would be because the ingredients are banned in your country. I live in Oregon and I can buy stuff from any country where a merchant is willing to sell to us, so long as it doesn't contain anything illegal here.
Our clear melt and pour bases don't contain Titanium Dioxide. We offer a Clear, Honey, Hemp, Olive Oil, LCP Clear, and Aloe base which all do not contain that ingredient. www.brambleberry.com/search?q=SFIC&search_type=Products
Hi. I recently started making melt & pour soaps. I use the johnsson brand. I have started with the clear base. I use 2 different sets of essential oils and liquid colourants. My question is: after a few uses, is the soap meant to lose it's colour?. Also how do you make it so that each time you make the same soap, stay the same colour?. Xx
Hi Anne-Marie I wonder if you could help me with something- could I lower the ‘ph’ balance of a melt and pour soap base by using citric acid....? Or could you advise me what would be best to use. Also do you have Bramble Berry stockists in the UK? Thank You 🌷
I went to her website and went to order two things that the total was $8 well when I go to check out it went to $40 insane completely, had to go to a different website which the same stuff only cost $20
What if melt and pour embeds are sweating in the CP soap? Can I wrap it up before it’s been cured for at least 6 weeks? M&P were made about 3-4weeks ago but they still sweat 😥
I’ve thought about using melt and pour. But no matter the website I look on, nooooooooooone of them show they have any kind of carrier oils in them. Does melt and pour soap not have olive oil, coconut oil or anything like that? Bc oils are nowhere in the ingredients
We list the ingredients (including oils) of our melt and pour bases on their individual product pages. You can find all of the bases we offer on our website here: www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-craft/soap-making/melt-and-pour/bases
Is there a place where the best temps m & P are listed. Highest temp before it's bad. Best temp for colorants (mica, color blocks, food coloring) best temps for essential oil, fragrance oil, etc. Best temp for what I didn't cover in this ?
is there such a thing as a soap supplier or any supplier that sells beeswax wraps or vegan wax wraps for a reasonable price? trying to be eco-friendly and i'd love to not have to use plastic.
Thank you! To help prevent sweat on melt and pour, the bars can be wrapped tightly with plastic wrap after they come out of the mold. We have an article with more tips available here: www.brambleberry.com/tips-and-tricks/soap/art0010-explaining-and-preventing-glycerin-dew.html
Well...I was waiting to see the results if the green and white soap.
Yes thank you!
Me too
Hell, yes. Me too. I was so disappointed to not see it
As was I!
Check out the bramble berry celestial soap video and you’ll see it there. Enjoy! 🤗
I just started my interest in melt and pour soap and this is by far the best video I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing!
Can you show the lather of your soaps after you make them....
It would be a really nice addition, kind of how you show the bath bombs fizzing, for new customers who are unsure how your melt and pour lathers. ☺
what a perfect project for right now while we're all thinking about being clean and finding ways to make being home more enjoyable! thank you!
Thank you so much for making this video! With all the information that is available online it's hard to determine what is accurate and what isn't. You are one of my go to trusted sources for information (and trust me when I say that I research until I'm cross eyed)❤ this was very helpful and informative. I find that I always have very specific questions that I end up having while I'm making something and never have anybody to ask to find answers. In this video I found some answers to some of those specific questions! Thanks again and God bless!
I love all of Bramble Berry melt and pour soaps. My favorites are the goats milk soap, the hemp, the clear and the basic white.
I love making soap and enjoy watching the videos.
Thank Anne Marie for such a great products and teaching! 💕💜
am i watching this instead of doing my online schoolwork . yep .
Here after royalty soaps recommend you, and honestly, I don't make soap, but you just sound like a really kind person, which is kinda rare on the internet, so I just love watching your videos.
Thank you! We love all the content Katie makes, too!
It would have been nice to see how the swirled green and white soap turned out.
I personally dont make soap but I love watching all of your videos
You're profile pic, a person of culture I see.
Yes
We were there
you make this look soooooooo easy. enjoyed the video
Yes!!!!my favorite type of soap can you please make more videos with melt and pour?
These tutorials are the best ...love it
Loved these videos! They are always very helpful! Thank you! Answered all my questions!❤️
I add a small amount of coconut oil, it helps with the lather with the base I use.
It also makes it smell GREAT. I use soap colouring, NEVER use food colouring. When using mica powder find one that in corperates well and never use craft glitter. When using molds try to find one that dosn't have little details as sometin=mes it wont come out XX
Thanks for sharing this info. Im just trying out melt and pour, and wanted to ask -- have you found any workaround for adding more oils and putting botanicals and embeds in a way that it doesnt spoil?
Love these videos, I've learnt so much over the past two years😃
I'm just starting to make my own soaps and toiletries for my B&B to get rid of all those single use plastic containers. Thank you for all the advice, i need it! lol Have a great day. x
thank you so much for the amazing video,
I have a question: what can we add to the soap base to increase the lather of the resulting soap?
11:16 would a hair dryer work
Your latest soap you posted on Instagram is stunning, the black and purple and the glitter and the moon indent really compliment each other.
Your videos are always so wonderful to watch ! The soaps turned out beautifully ! Thank you for sharing ❤️!
I can't find any alcohol everywhere is sold out ! what can be used instead, to pop bubbles and help the layers stay together?
I like the part where you cut into the swirled melt and pour lol. Thanks for teaching this technique. Will try on my next soap adventure!!
You are so welcome! We hope you have fun!
Could anyone help me please. Made my first melt and pour soap today. It smells glorious as it is, however it leaves a weird smell on the skin. Glyceriny, weird, can't describe. I can't smell my oils on my skin at all. What can be the reason?
Thank you so much. 💞
How do you properly incorporate additives such as turmeric and lemon peel powder to your melt and pour?
Golden Owl mix them with a little rubbing alcohol first
Thank you for the video. I have a one question that I couldn't find answer for: Is my microwave still food safe after I use it to melt the soap, or do I need to deep clean it before I put my food in?
Lenka's Creative Colouring Absolutely!
I would imagine just to be safe to deep clean it if you want
Melt and pour soap is just soap, so it's not dangerous. (It's not like the sodium hydroxide used to make cold process soap, which is dangerous until it fully reacts with oils to form soap.)
I've tried to do swirls but if I let my mp cool down I am constantly getting a skin on top of the soap. You don't mention anything in your video about the skin that forms. in saying that if you remelt then the soap is too hot to pour.
Hey Hun. I have my own soap company, Haus of La Luna (@thehausoflaluna) and I do M&P projects. I would suggest to spray just a bit of rubbing alcohol at the top where the skin is formed. That will seperate it and not create that skin. Just two spritz. Nothing crazy. Hope you have fun and check me out on Instagram 😉
I have started out my soap making journey using melt and pour. It makes it so easy to be creative, doesn't it? The last soap I did was sushi inspired, so the little bars of soap looked like pieces of sushi. Went down well as a gift anyway!
Thanks for sharing your tips ☺
How long did you heat it for it to Melt? And is it better to use a microwave or stove?
hi. im a new follower. i just wanna know what other way to melt the soap other than using microwave
A double boiler works great. Just be careful and stir it constantly.
Awesome update my friend
Don’t use plastic molds, hard to get out
I wish you had shown the finished Bar of soap that you swirled
HI Anne-Marie, thanks for sharing with us. Love and greetings from Pretoria, South Africa. Stay safe :-)
Most of bramble berry stuff is more expensive than from other sellers
Do you mean the soap itself or materials? The materials are pretty cheap especially because of the high quality. I am not quite sure about their soap itself.
You R Good....... Hmmmm. Actually ..,.. the best.
Falling in love for the way, the presentation! The knowledge and what not. God Bless
Are you only able to make mica veins with cold press?
If I don't have a microwave, how do I use/melt down melt-and-pour?
You can use a double boiler on the stove. I'll do that if I'm making a bigger batch because I find all the soap doesn't melt consistently in the microwave without stopping constantly to stir. Just put an inch of water in a pot and then a glass or metal bowl on top that doesn't touch the water. Heat the water to simmering and pop on the bowl with the soap. The smaller you cut the pieces the faster it will melt. JUST DON'T FORGET THE BOWL WILL BE HOT! I've also hung a measuring cup over the edge of the pot, but you really have to watch that.
Good luck. I hope that helps you.
For a beginner like me, I learned so much tips from you. So many tips and tricks. You're amazing. Love yah
I saw this great video on melt and pour soap swirling - look up ‘ask anne marie melt and pour swirling”
Can we make shower gel? Also, can we make liquid soap from melt and pour? Thanks ever so much.
Fine !, then when do i add the alcohol to surface to prevent the bubbles ? Immediately after pour ? Or when its cooling down ?
After the pour
Thank you Anne Marie!! Love your videos and products!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love Bramble Berry but their shipping takes forever
Craft stores sell these soap making supplies
Hello, I am about to start creating melt and pour soaps. I am aware it's not advisable to use pyrex for cold process soap. However, can I use Pyrex measuring cups for melt and pour soap making?
@Just a Peach
This is probably waaaay too late but pyrex is totally fine and my go to container for melting my soaps in.
@@moleholedotcom thank you
Can we add chickpea flour or rice flour to melt and pour soap?
I do wonder, as we are trying to minimize the usage of plastic, do any of u guys think or maybe tried wrapping it with wax paper? My concern is the sweating, will it still have the glycerin dew or sweating?
it doesn't sweat if you wrap it in wax paper that is what I do
You are awesome !
Anne-Marie, I really appreciate all the tutorials, information and videos BB has for all us newbies. Fantastic. Great products too!
How long we should wait for use after making the base of coconut oil and NaHo ? How to control PH?
After making the soap it takes about 6 weeks for them to be ready to use. The pH will not be a problem if you are using a lye calculator and measuring accurately.
@@bramble-berry Thanks.
Very informative. I have various ideas based on this segment.
I just ordered my first melt and pour soap kit today hope it comes soon!
is it nice?
Is milking a word when I’m heating the soap base?
Donde puedo encontrar las pastillas de colores???
I do miss the Bloopers at the end of your videos! It is lighthearted and shows you are just like us! 👍
My favorite part too!!
Hi Anna Marie, I loved all your videos so much that I have started my own cold soap making. I request you to send me recipes for oils such as Safflower oil, Sunflower oil, Ground nut oil, coconut oil and sesame oil since these are the oils readily available to me locally. I will be grateful to you if you can share some recipes for the above mentioned oils.
Thanks,
Vijay
Can you add clay or neem powder or other medicinals to melt and pour?
Please please reply! I've been making melt and pour soaps lately and I've been attempting marbled look, but my soap base gets a kindof skin on the surface, and I've had two failed attempts at it. Idk what to do
If the melt and pour bases are forming a skin before you pour them into your mold, you can heat them for a few more seconds and stir. This should dissolve the skin back into the soap base.
My issue is when I do melt and pour is when I do a clear with an embed over time that embed blues until you can't even tell what it was . How do I stop that?
there is an extra clear type of melt and pour you could use
what are the mica colour blocks you use instead of the powder & where would I purchase that from. Thanks!
You can find our color blocks here: www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-product/ingredients/colorants/color-blocks
I make melt and pour diy soap but the soap ends up in the mould with a not nice smooth surface look on the top in the mould
Can we add food colour in soap base?
Using liquid food dyes can be safe, though they may react differently in your soap. Some can fade or morph colors since they are not designed for soap. We recommend using colorants designed specifically for soap!
Melt and Pour Colorants: www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-craft/soap-making/melt-and-pour/colorants
A hairdryer also works
my microwave always overheats the soap; it doesn't matter what brand! Help!
NewsfromtheGrove Go for shorter spurts of time and adjust the settings on your microwave to low
When I was making soap and I was using melt and pour.I used a crock pot on the lowest setting.
Use a double boiler like they do for chocolate. A pan inside a pan of water.
No final results on the green and white soap, must have turned out bad since she didn't re-heat the white. Also I enjoy Anne-Marie's soap ideas and I like that she made a Q&A video but I constantly felt being sold to. She would have a question, say the best solution is to just buy it from her website, and then give a flippant, sometimes inaccurate answer that makes it seem like in reality she only wants you to purchase her products (which are overpriced by most soap-makers standards, unless you are a hobbyist only) and not try to make soap on a budget.
She has a huge channel of free tutorials, I've learnt so much from her for years, even being on the other side of the world (and therefore, not being able to purchase her products). I don't mind if she tries to sell me her brand. What's so wrong about marketing your business while you're helping people for free? This is how she sells her brand and if she couldn't sell it, she definitely wouldn't be able to afford making such professional -and educational- videos for free. If you don't want marketing my dear, then I suggest you pay for a course on soapmaking or buy a book ;)
I wanted to see the green and white soap too
@@HealingMagick how do you have internet access but can't by from her website just because of your location? A more sensible claim would be because the ingredients are banned in your country. I live in Oregon and I can buy stuff from any country where a merchant is willing to sell to us, so long as it doesn't contain anything illegal here.
you can also use a normal hair dryer for the shrink wrap/band
the purple and blue colors at the beginning of the video are so beautiful!
Anne-Marie is the soap queen, an icon, a legend, and we Stan.
Double Boiler method is much better than the microwave
My wife adds more then shown here and has no problem with the outcome
You’re super informative. I just picked up sop making as a hobby and have learned so much from you thank you!
nice but I wish there wasn't any Titanium Dioxide in these!
Our clear melt and pour bases don't contain Titanium Dioxide. We offer a Clear, Honey, Hemp, Olive Oil, LCP Clear, and Aloe base which all do not contain that ingredient. www.brambleberry.com/search?q=SFIC&search_type=Products
Your awesome!!!! Thank you so much for your detailed video! I can't wait to try it for myself!
What mica is the purple and blue in the swirl? Thank you
Hi. I recently started making melt & pour soaps. I use the johnsson brand. I have started with the clear base. I use 2 different sets of essential oils and liquid colourants. My question is: after a few uses, is the soap meant to lose it's colour?. Also how do you make it so that each time you make the same soap, stay the same colour?. Xx
Wish we got to see what the green and white soap looked like 😅
Hi Anne-Marie I wonder if you could help me with something- could I lower the ‘ph’ balance of a melt and pour soap base by using citric acid....? Or could you advise me what would be best to use.
Also do you have Bramble Berry stockists in the UK? Thank You 🌷
Okay, I have a question, is the only way to get beautiful irridescent color to use melt & pour?
thats EXACTLY what i have been wondering..no definitive answer..but upon research, that's what it seems like...have you found any answers?
@@gen2886 as far as I've found clear M&P is the only way. Even the white M&P seems to take away from it.
Thank you for this video. Would love to make CP soap, but, have nowhere to let it cure for 4-6 weeks. Instead l make MP soap.
YT surfing right now but this is really cool. Definitely something I'll watch later. 😯😍
I made soap with Blue permanent Color for a prank. And gave to a couple of friends.
They weren't happy after a week.
I went to her website and went to order two things that the total was $8 well when I go to check out it went to $40 insane completely, had to go to a different website which the same stuff only cost $20
What if melt and pour embeds are sweating in the CP soap? Can I wrap it up before it’s been cured for at least 6 weeks? M&P were made about 3-4weeks ago but they still sweat 😥
can you use melt and pour soap right away?
yes
Ma'am can you please tell. Me which soap base is good for making soap because I bought from online but that is sticky. I need non sticky soap base..
Soap sweat?
Really appreciate your work, however before im finish pouring the soap begins to harden.what can i do or what am I not doing
Each soap bar is unique and different just like humans are.
What are some tips for melting down the soap base? I microwaved mine for about A minute with mixes in-between and it got all clumpy and gross
They need to make melt and pour more moisturizing so there's no need for extra oils
Thanks so much for your amazing advices i really needed lots of love and blessings to you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ from india 🇮🇳
I’ve thought about using melt and pour. But no matter the website I look on, nooooooooooone of them show they have any kind of carrier oils in them. Does melt and pour soap not have olive oil, coconut oil or anything like that? Bc oils are nowhere in the ingredients
We list the ingredients (including oils) of our melt and pour bases on their individual product pages.
You can find all of the bases we offer on our website here: www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-craft/soap-making/melt-and-pour/bases
Mem pls tell me that my melt and pour soap become white ash on it after some day what is the reson?
I m from India.
Is there a place where the best temps m & P are listed. Highest temp before it's bad. Best temp for colorants (mica, color blocks, food coloring) best temps for essential oil, fragrance oil, etc. Best temp for what I didn't cover in this ?
is there such a thing as a soap supplier or any supplier that sells beeswax wraps or vegan wax wraps for a reasonable price? trying to be eco-friendly and i'd love to not have to use plastic.
What do I add to my vegetable glycine soap to get rid of the film it leaves on the body? I already add coconut oil for the lather and olive oil.
Can I use paper to wrap the soap after fan-drying it for roughly 3 hours or more to remove the moisture? Or will it continue to moist? Thanks!
So.... What's that website again? Lol. Great video thou.
Hello bonsoir ! Quel colorant doit-on utiliser ? Peut-on utiliser les mêmes colorant de crème de gâteau pour le savon?
Hi, loved your video. My soap came out very sweatie. Any suggestions what to do?
Thank you! To help prevent sweat on melt and pour, the bars can be wrapped tightly with plastic wrap after they come out of the mold. We have an article with more tips available here: www.brambleberry.com/tips-and-tricks/soap/art0010-explaining-and-preventing-glycerin-dew.html
Would love to purchase from bramble berry but shipping to the UK came up as £100+ 🙃