My 5 year old farm boy is all snuggled up watching mom learn more about soap and he goes “hey I like how that looks like a tire track on the top!” When you were adding the texture 😂
Hey Simi I just wanted to say how grateful and happy I am that you're heading down this path of more UA-cam and sharing knowledge. It's amazing and I love it. Keep the video rolling girl! ❤
@@muddymintsoapthere is silk that’s called peace silk because the moth is allowed to hatch out and live out the rest of it’s life. The silk is good for soap but not great for making yarn/fiber because they, the worm/moth, dissolves a hole in it to hatch.
@ Chrys lives part-time here in the U.S., and part in her home-town in Brazil. Authentic, great quality! BTW I found you through Jan Berry/Nerdy Farm Wife and then discovered we’re neighbors! I’m right nearby you, in Boulder. 😀 Santè DaySPA, in Niwot. Cheers~
Hello Simi. I have just ordered a hard copy and ebook version the hard copy pre order and as in Aus thought it might take a while to get. Hoping the ebook will be faster as dying to learn the 50:50 lye water ratio. It sounds the way to go even for someone not selling. Thank you so much I just turned 80 and just love this hobby started during Covid and made my most easiest loaf today smooth sailing from start to finish and no massive mess. I’m into Canadian glacial clay at the moment makes a lovely soap. Like you I prefer the natural products. Looking forward to reading through your book Bye for now from Down under
Hi there! Thank you for this lovely comment! Hopefully you get your ebook (and the physical book) soon! 50/50 lye water is definitely the way to go. I personally love it and it sounds like a lot of people are seeing the benefits! I love that you started making soap in your 70s during covid! What an awesome story. I've been meaning to try Canadian glacial clay for a long time... will have to get some! Enjoy and happy soapmaking! :)
I’m awaiting your beautiful book. In the UK it is pre-order stage still until available the 18th of July. Lovely video and soaping process, and purple soap. I really like the idea of mixing clays and botanicals together to create stronger, and innovative new colours. More of that please. Bless ya. Xxx
Yes, the international release date is 6-8 weeks later, which is so hard when you see everyone in the US and Canada getting it! One more month! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks!
I’m in Australia, ordered from Blackwells in the UK and received about a week and a half later. I received it around the 6th or 7th June (unfortunately damaged), but was quite surprised that I received it so soon.
I like to put my freshly poured soap loaves into coolers. If I put two loaves in a small cooler, it creates enough heat that they help each other get through gel phase and I don’t have to worry about squishing a top. It’s like they’re nice and safe in there. Ha! Actually I have many many coolers because my friend works at pharmacy and he’s able to get the discard coolers for me for free. So I just stack them on top of each other when I make multiple batches. Because I live in a cabin in Alaska, I always have to help my soap through gel. Thanks for this video. Be blessed friend.
Did you make something similar? Maybe it was the Purple Smoothie from my book? We literally just released this recipe at the same time as this video, so it probably wasn't this exact soap, unless you're super fast! :)
Love your video and thank you for the ones about master batching it has changed my way of making soap. It wasn't until I saw your video that I knew you could masterbatch oils and lye
how does the lye water solution and the coconut milk work. do you need to do a water discount because you added the milk with the oils so the lye amount should be adjusted i guess.
Thanks! These were part of our regular soap line for many years, but we’ve recently shut down most of our production soapmaking and are just doing a few releases a year. This gives us more time to teach and do videos like this one!
@@muddymintsoap hi Simi, Thanks so much for your feedback and clarification. I might got confused with pomace olive oil. By the way, I love all your recipes ☺️
@@natureescapesoaps No problem! You can use pomace olive oil instead, if you like. I've heard that it can accelerate faster, but I've never used it so I'm not sure. :)
I love your videos. They are so helpful. Thank you for making them. I do have a question about milk soaps. Sometime I see people keep their soaps warm by covering them to help them gel all the way through and sometimes, I think with milk soaps, they try to keep them cool through the saponification with either fans or refrigeration. Is that to prevent gel? Or just to keep the milk from burning or discoloring? What is your opinion on that? Maybe that’s something you will be covering in your goat milk soap video. I’m looking forward to that one too. 😁
This is a great question! Milk soaps are often kept cooler to prevent gel in order to keep the soap whiter. I used to do this with my silicone molds (without a wood box) and it worked great, but as soon as I got the molds with wood, I found that I would get partial gel on the soaps I put in the fridge/freezer, so I stopped doing it. I find that the color is more of a creamy, white but still lovely! And, once you start making a lot of soap, it just isn't feasible to put them in the fridge anymore. I hope this helps! :)
I love this video! Packed with so much knowledge and information. Do your colors come in those square plastic containers? Whenever I get them they come in bags. I love your containers. A great way to store color powders.
Thank you!! :) Our colorants usually come in bags and we transfer them to these plastic containers. We used to use glass containers, but with our production space being all concrete floors, we switched to plastic to be safer. I can't remember exactly where we got these containers, but I'll see if I can figure it out! They are super helpful!
Hi I watched your 50/50 lye solution video and bought this recipe. So just to make sure. When doing this recipe if I make the 50/50 lye solution I would add 482g of lye solution correct?
Hello! I was just wondering if you put the recipes using milk in the fridge or is it not necessary? I see everywhere that you need to fridge . Thank you for letting me know!
Hi there! We just leave our milk soaps out and let them do their thing. I used to put our milk soaps in the fridge, but it doesn't really work when you use wood molds, as the wood is insulating the soap and the fridge is trying to cool it down, so you often end up with a gel ring this way. If you're using a rigid sided silicone mold, then it works much better to use the fridge! And, the only real reason to do it is to keep your soaps whiter, which is more of an issue with goat milk than with coconut milk. I hope this helps!
Yes - the oils are out of a custom drum and we have a heat band around it, so they are warm coming out of the drum. We did warm up our lye-water a little off camera. I warmed it up in a hot water bath for about 3 minutes to get it up to temp. I hope that helps!
Hi Simi. I bought several of your soap recipes. I’ve tried this wild lavender recipe 2 times. It just won’t set up. I’ve tried with the 50/50 lye solution and that batch never got hard. I threw the batch out after 5 days. Then I tried just the normal lye to water today and it is not getting hard. I’ve carefully measured the ingredients and it just isn’t getting hard. I’ve wasted so much money on ingredients. I’ve been soaping for a while and never have I had this problem. Do you have any advice?
Oh no! I’m so sorry! We will definitely get to the bottom of this. Please email me and we’ll figure it out, as this shouldn’t be happening. If you’ve already emailed, I’ll be in touch soon. I was away for the weekend, but will be replying to all messages over the next day or two. My first thought is that the lye amount might be off? We can go through it together and find the issue, as many people have made this recipe with success, so something must be off.
First of all, I have to say how much I like your videos and how much I love your fuzzy free approach! ❤ Thank you for the knowledge and all the tips. I have a question about the coconut milk. I wanted to order it and saw that it contains Polysorbate 60 as a emulsifier, which is a synthetic compound, produced from ethylene oxide and other stuff. How does it behave in the soap or alter the soap? Is the soap still natural, because the Polysorbate 60 also goes into the mixture?
Oh my goodness! You are right! I just went and checked and all the small boxes I have in my studio say 100% coconut milk, but the larger boxes have a sticker covering the old ingredients that show the polysorbate 60! And, it appears that the listings on Amazon now show that is contains 99.95% coconut milk and 0.05% polysorbate 60. I wonder if it's always contained it and they just started labeling it that way? Or, if they started using it to help prevent clumping? Hmmmm... this definitely messes with things! Haha! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention.
@@muddymintsoap Thank you very much for looking and answering so quickly. I'm very grateful for your effort. I'm glad I discovered this. Here in Germany the 100% coconut milk is always lumpy and I always have to warm it up to be able to use it. A liquid 100% coconut milk without lumps would be a relief and the brand you recommended from the link is also available in Germany. It would have been too good to be true 😅
Yep, too good to be true, I suppose… polysorbate is often used as an emulsifier in bath and body products, but it’s not natural, and I certainly wouldn’t want to drink it! Ugh! You’ve ruined my day with this discovery! 😂 (just kidding!)
Hi Muddy mint, I just purchased 12 of your soaps labeled as beginner or intermediate friendly. I have printed all the docs associated and am about to order your book. Here is my question, do you have videos that correlate to those recipes that you sold? I plan to read and follow but I realize that I get it more when I watch it being done. Thanks in advance.
Funny that I would ask this question under this soap, I ordered a soap with he same name. I haven't looked at the ingredients yet but now wonder if this is one of them.
We are trying to create videos for all our recipes, so some are on here, but not all of them. Eventually we hope to have them all recorded, but that's not the case at the moment. :)
Love your videos Simi! Always so helpful! One thing I have been curious about is adding the essential oils at the beginning. Do part of them get 'eaten' up (react) in the saponification process since you don't wait until trace to add them?
Hey Stephanie! Thank you! Remember that saponification happens for the first 48 hours, so the lye is just as likely to react with essential oils in the mold (when things get really hot!) than it is when you put the lye-water in. I'm not a scientist, but I'm guessing that it doesn't matter when you add them! I certainly have never noticed a difference in scent and we've always done it this way. However, I will say that we do soap cooler (under 100 degrees F) so this may make a difference, as our soap doesn't get ultra hot in the mold.
@@muddymintsoap Mind blown! I have always seen everyone add them after trace and just assumed that something happened at trace! Thank you for explaining it Simi!
Just remember to always wait to add accelerating essential oils!! If you add them early, they can be highly problematic, so I only add essential oils that behave well to the oils. If I'm using clove or anything else that accelerates, I add it at trace. :)
@@muddymintsoap Thanks for the added tip and all your wealth of information! You are making so much more helpful process information available to mid-size soapers!
Hey Simi. Thanks for all you showing us. But I thinks I made a mistake 😅 When I added the oat milk to the oils, the mixture curdled. Should I have waited for the oils to cool down before adding my homemade oat milk?
Oh no!! Were you able to save the batch? I’m so sorry that happened! I’m not overly careful about it, but I’d say our oils are usually 120 degrees F or less when we add our milk. I’ve never had it curdle!
@@muddymintsoap it's not a big deal I put cocoa butter bee wax and when mix cooled everything was fine. Of course I first tried with small amount only 300 grams mixed oils and sea salt too.
I forgot to tell you dissolving one silk cocoon per 10 ounces of lye when you’re making a 50-50 solution works great to get silk into your soap. It’s truly a luxury ingredient that doesn’t add an extreme amount of cost.
OMGeeee i need this recipe!! LOL I recently bought your book too, I'm obsessed!!! I did have a question about usage rates for the EOs though. I know each EO has it's own rate, but what about total when you are making a blend? If Peppermint is 3% (just making up numbers) and Lavender is 5%, I don't think that means you can do a total of 8%...but I really don't know. And if not, how do you figure out the total? Thanks so much, I'm so new at this, I'm having a blast though thanks in part to your channel and book!!!
Thank you so much! I do address this in the book, but it's a pretty small section that would be easy to miss. The general rule of thumb is to use 3-6% total, based on your oil weight. So, if your oils weigh 60oz, you want to use between 1.8 to 3.6 oz in your batch of soap. That's for the TOTAL amount of essential oils. Of course, you still need to take into consideration IFRA rates for each essential oil. In addition, I think that in the EU, you can't use more than 3% total essential oils, so you want to take into account local regulations as well. I hope this helps!
@@muddymintsoap Yes it helps tremendously, THANK YOU!! I'm gonna go back in the book and see what I missed, sorry about that. I had it all wrong, I thought it was based on the end weight not the oil weight, so glad I asked. I appreciate you
Hi there! The lather is created by the saponified oils and each oil has a different type of lather. So, coconut oil (once saponified) creates big bubbly lather, olive oil creates small slippery lather, butters create a creamy lather, castor oil helps stabilize and sustain lather, and sugars boost lather! So, it's a complicated blend of everything!
We're not. However, we will be selling the soaps for the videos we made at the end of this month! We'll have three sea salt soaps (Citrus Sea Salt, Lavender Sea Salt, and Peppermint Eucalyptus), Coconut & Rose, Mountain Man, Wild Lavender, and Sea Salt & Kelp for sale. :)
Hi Mam I am from india my soap bar is so hard before my trace because I am using butters in my recipe how to manage temperature for oil batch and my 50/50 lye solution
QQQ why don’t you just mix the lavender buds into the batter? I’m not a soap maker just watching your videos, really nice information.. I buy a lavender soap from Trader Joe’s and that lavender has the buds mixed in.. just wondering 🤔
Do your milk soaps overheat? I find mine always have to go directly in the fridge or the tops crack from overheating. Id like to know your secret if yours do not. 😂
They don't! But, I did have that happen in the early days. For one thing, we use the milk in oils method, which means we're only using half the amount of milk than if you were doing the milk ice cubes method. We also soap cooler (always under 100 degrees F, but usually closer to 90). We leave our soaps uncovered as well. That seems to do the trick! Even when we moved to slabs, which get much hotter, we still never got cracks in our milk soaps.
I do the 50/50 lye solution and add the milk to my oils as well. I think I may be soaping too high. Thank you for the 50/50 lye video. That was a game changer for sure! I guess I'll just have to keep experimenting to see how to get my milk soaps to not crack. I am planning on trying an oat milk soap soon for my daughter's sensitive skin. Maybe by then I will have figured out the issue. Thanks for the reply!
Hi there! It looks pretty purple in person, but it is a "natural" purple. If you're not worried about using natural colorants in your soap, you can use purple mica for a full-on bright purple. :)
Oh shoot! Can you send me a link to some information? We get ours from Starwest Botanicals and it is labeled as Wildcrafted from Germany, but I'm not sure if this is the type that is endangered or not. In fact, the botanical name is Pterocarpus soyauxii (I looked it up and it comes up as African Padauk), which is different than the botanical name for red sandalwood (Pterocarpus santalinus).
My 5 year old farm boy is all snuggled up watching mom learn more about soap and he goes “hey I like how that looks like a tire track on the top!” When you were adding the texture 😂
Aww... I love that! Thanks for sharing! :)
Hey Simi I just wanted to say how grateful and happy I am that you're heading down this path of more UA-cam and sharing knowledge. It's amazing and I love it. Keep the video rolling girl! ❤
Thank you!! I appreciate this so much!
@@muddymintsoapyou're welcome ❤
@@muddymintsoapthere is silk that’s called peace silk because the moth is allowed to hatch out and live out the rest of it’s life. The silk is good for soap but not great for making yarn/fiber because they, the worm/moth, dissolves a hole in it to hatch.
I've been mixing rose clay with indigo "ink", since I ran out of purple clay, and it makes a beautiful lavender color.
Oooo!! I love hearing that! Will have to try it. Thanks! :)
Im a newbie have cancer on my good days i started to make soaps.Your UA-cam is the first one I have watched that tells us so much.Thank you so so much
Thank you so much for watching and I'm happy you're enjoying our videos!
Your increased UA-cam content is such a great companion to your fabulous book. My friends and family will love this soap.
Thank you! I'm so happy you're enjoying our videos! :)
Rainforest Chica is the very best source for purple Brazilian clay. They even offer an “Intense Purple” clay. Check them out.
Awesome!! Thank you for the recommendation!
@ Chrys lives part-time here in the U.S., and part in her home-town in Brazil. Authentic, great quality! BTW I found you through Jan Berry/Nerdy Farm Wife and then discovered we’re neighbors! I’m right nearby you, in Boulder. 😀 Santè DaySPA, in Niwot. Cheers~
@@grinchlette That's so cool! Howdy, neighbor! :) Thanks again for the recommendation!
Brilliant colour. I’d love to see some colour experiments please ❤thank you ❤
Hopefully we get around to doing some... thanks for watching! :)
I got your book (love it), watching your videos. You have become my favorite soaper. Thank you
Thank you soooo much! That is so kind! Thanks for watching. :)
Hello Simi. I have just ordered a hard copy and ebook version the hard copy pre order and as in Aus thought it might take a while to get. Hoping the ebook will be faster as dying to learn the 50:50 lye water ratio. It sounds the way to go even for someone not selling. Thank you so much I just turned 80 and just love this hobby started during Covid and made my most easiest loaf today smooth sailing from start to finish and no massive mess. I’m into Canadian glacial clay at the moment makes a lovely soap. Like you I prefer the natural products. Looking forward to reading through your book Bye for now from
Down under
Hi there! Thank you for this lovely comment! Hopefully you get your ebook (and the physical book) soon! 50/50 lye water is definitely the way to go. I personally love it and it sounds like a lot of people are seeing the benefits! I love that you started making soap in your 70s during covid! What an awesome story. I've been meaning to try Canadian glacial clay for a long time... will have to get some! Enjoy and happy soapmaking! :)
I’m awaiting your beautiful book. In the UK it is pre-order stage still until available the 18th of July. Lovely video and soaping process, and purple soap. I really like the idea of mixing clays and botanicals together to create stronger, and innovative new colours. More of that please. Bless ya. Xxx
Yes, the international release date is 6-8 weeks later, which is so hard when you see everyone in the US and Canada getting it! One more month! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks!
I’m in Australia, ordered from Blackwells in the UK and received about a week and a half later. I received it around the 6th or 7th June (unfortunately damaged), but was quite surprised that I received it so soon.
Wow! That is quite surprising, although I’m sorry to hear it was damaged. 😢
The soap is just gorgeous !!! :)
Thank you!! :)
Thank you Simi for letting us know where you purchased your colorants since each herb or clay can give a different color (depending where purchased).
Absolutely! I'm glad you found it helpful. :)
I just bought your book! Yay! Loving it so far! Ty
Thank you so much!! :)
Simi is adorable! I’m loving the book so far!
Aww, thank you! :) Happy to hear you're enjoying the book too.
Just adorable
Thank you so much!
I like to put my freshly poured soap loaves into coolers. If I put two loaves in a small cooler, it creates enough heat that they help each other get through gel phase and I don’t have to worry about squishing a top. It’s like they’re nice and safe in there. Ha! Actually I have many many coolers because my friend works at pharmacy and he’s able to get the discard coolers for me for free. So I just stack them on top of each other when I make multiple batches. Because I live in a cabin in Alaska, I always have to help my soap through gel. Thanks for this video. Be blessed friend.
Wow! That is so cool and such a smart idea! I love it. Thank you for sharing. :)
@@muddymintsoap thanks! I’m just cheap and free is just my price. Ha!
I literally just made this soap
Did you make something similar? Maybe it was the Purple Smoothie from my book? We literally just released this recipe at the same time as this video, so it probably wasn't this exact soap, unless you're super fast! :)
I love that you keep the final color simple ,just 1 or 2 per soap.
Check out Rainforest Chica for the Brazilian clays, even purple!
I love a good simple soap! Thanks for the recommendation on the purple Brazilian clay! :)
Loved the video and absolutely loved your book
Thank you! So happy to hear that! :)
The book is absolutely amazing with an abundance of beautiful recipes ❤
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you're enjoying it! :)
I just bought your book! I can't wait until it comes.
Thank you! I hope you love it! :)
Love this video, love your book, love your recipes! Thank you!!
Aww, thank you so much Jill! :)
Love your video and thank you for the ones about master batching it has changed my way of making soap. It wasn't until I saw your video that I knew you could masterbatch oils and lye
I love hearing that! Yay! Master batching makes such a huge difference.
purple color is my favorite color
I just bought your book, and love it!
Thank you!! So happy you're loving it! :)
how does the lye water solution and the coconut milk work. do you need to do a water discount because you added the milk with the oils so the lye amount should be adjusted i guess.
Yes, exactly. I also use a 1:1 lye water solution and then I add one part of additional liquid. I hope this helps!
Beautiful! Are these custom loaves?
Thanks! These were part of our regular soap line for many years, but we’ve recently shut down most of our production soapmaking and are just doing a few releases a year. This gives us more time to teach and do videos like this one!
@@muddymintsoapOk, thank you!
❤ nice
Thanks!
Hola, 🌟💫😘
Beautiful as always ❤😍
Thanks! :)
Beautiful video. Loved it!
So glad you enjoyed it! :)
Beautiful!
Thank you! :)
Wonderful detailed Video.
Glad you enjoyed it - thanks!
I am also like your soap making video. Thanks You.
Thank you! :)
Great video. So well explained
Thank you! :)
What is the olive oil that you use? I purchased your book but it doesn’t specify the specific olive oil(s).
Thanks 😊
Hi there! I think I mention it in the book somewhere, but it may be hard to find! We use refined olive oil. :)
@@muddymintsoap hi Simi,
Thanks so much for your feedback and clarification. I might got confused with pomace olive oil. By the way, I love all your recipes ☺️
@@natureescapesoaps No problem! You can use pomace olive oil instead, if you like. I've heard that it can accelerate faster, but I've never used it so I'm not sure. :)
I love your videos. They are so helpful. Thank you for making them. I do have a question about milk soaps. Sometime I see people keep their soaps warm by covering them to help them gel all the way through and sometimes, I think with milk soaps, they try to keep them cool through the saponification with either fans or refrigeration. Is that to prevent gel? Or just to keep the milk from burning or discoloring? What is your opinion on that? Maybe that’s something you will be covering in your goat milk soap video. I’m looking forward to that one too. 😁
This is a great question! Milk soaps are often kept cooler to prevent gel in order to keep the soap whiter. I used to do this with my silicone molds (without a wood box) and it worked great, but as soon as I got the molds with wood, I found that I would get partial gel on the soaps I put in the fridge/freezer, so I stopped doing it. I find that the color is more of a creamy, white but still lovely! And, once you start making a lot of soap, it just isn't feasible to put them in the fridge anymore. I hope this helps! :)
@@muddymintsoap Thank you. That is so helpful!
I love this video! Packed with so much knowledge and information. Do your colors come in those square plastic containers? Whenever I get them they come in bags. I love your containers. A great way to store color powders.
Thank you!! :) Our colorants usually come in bags and we transfer them to these plastic containers. We used to use glass containers, but with our production space being all concrete floors, we switched to plastic to be safer. I can't remember exactly where we got these containers, but I'll see if I can figure it out! They are super helpful!
@@muddymintsoap Thank you so much and super smart with concrete floors!
Hi I watched your 50/50 lye solution video and bought this recipe. So just to make sure. When doing this recipe if I make the 50/50 lye solution I would add 482g of lye solution correct?
Thanks for purchasing our recipe! Yes, that is correct! :)
Hello! I was just wondering if you put the recipes using milk in the fridge or is it not necessary? I see everywhere that you need to fridge . Thank you for letting me know!
Hi there! We just leave our milk soaps out and let them do their thing. I used to put our milk soaps in the fridge, but it doesn't really work when you use wood molds, as the wood is insulating the soap and the fridge is trying to cool it down, so you often end up with a gel ring this way. If you're using a rigid sided silicone mold, then it works much better to use the fridge! And, the only real reason to do it is to keep your soaps whiter, which is more of an issue with goat milk than with coconut milk. I hope this helps!
@ yes thank you so much!!
You said you prebatch your oils and lye. So was there a step to heat them up that you did off video? How did you heat up the lye?
Yes - the oils are out of a custom drum and we have a heat band around it, so they are warm coming out of the drum. We did warm up our lye-water a little off camera. I warmed it up in a hot water bath for about 3 minutes to get it up to temp. I hope that helps!
Hi Simi. I bought several of your soap recipes. I’ve tried this wild lavender recipe 2 times. It just won’t set up. I’ve tried with the 50/50 lye solution and that batch never got hard. I threw the batch out after 5 days. Then I tried just the normal lye to water today and it is not getting hard. I’ve carefully measured the ingredients and it just isn’t getting hard. I’ve wasted so much money on ingredients. I’ve been soaping for a while and never have I had this problem. Do you have any advice?
Oh no! I’m so sorry! We will definitely get to the bottom of this. Please email me and we’ll figure it out, as this shouldn’t be happening. If you’ve already emailed, I’ll be in touch soon. I was away for the weekend, but will be replying to all messages over the next day or two. My first thought is that the lye amount might be off? We can go through it together and find the issue, as many people have made this recipe with success, so something must be off.
First of all, I have to say how much I like your videos and how much I love your fuzzy free approach! ❤ Thank you for the knowledge and all the tips. I have a question about the coconut milk. I wanted to order it and saw that it contains Polysorbate 60 as a emulsifier, which is a synthetic compound, produced from ethylene oxide and other stuff. How does it behave in the soap or alter the soap? Is the soap still natural, because the Polysorbate 60 also goes into the mixture?
Hi there and thank you! The coconut milk we use is 100% coconut milk. Let me double check my link to make sure I linked to the right one!
Oh my goodness! You are right! I just went and checked and all the small boxes I have in my studio say 100% coconut milk, but the larger boxes have a sticker covering the old ingredients that show the polysorbate 60! And, it appears that the listings on Amazon now show that is contains 99.95% coconut milk and 0.05% polysorbate 60. I wonder if it's always contained it and they just started labeling it that way? Or, if they started using it to help prevent clumping? Hmmmm... this definitely messes with things! Haha! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention.
@@muddymintsoap Thank you very much for looking and answering so quickly. I'm very grateful for your effort. I'm glad I discovered this. Here in Germany the 100% coconut milk is always lumpy and I always have to warm it up to be able to use it. A liquid 100% coconut milk without lumps would be a relief and the brand you recommended from the link is also available in Germany. It would have been too good to be true 😅
Yep, too good to be true, I suppose… polysorbate is often used as an emulsifier in bath and body products, but it’s not natural, and I certainly wouldn’t want to drink it! Ugh! You’ve ruined my day with this discovery! 😂 (just kidding!)
Hi Muddy mint, I just purchased 12 of your soaps labeled as beginner or intermediate friendly. I have printed all the docs associated and am about to order your book. Here is my question, do you have videos that correlate to those recipes that you sold? I plan to read and follow but I realize that I get it more when I watch it being done. Thanks in advance.
Funny that I would ask this question under this soap, I ordered a soap with he same name. I haven't looked at the ingredients yet but now wonder if this is one of them.
We are trying to create videos for all our recipes, so some are on here, but not all of them. Eventually we hope to have them all recorded, but that's not the case at the moment. :)
Love your videos Simi! Always so helpful! One thing I have been curious about is adding the essential oils at the beginning. Do part of them get 'eaten' up (react) in the saponification process since you don't wait until trace to add them?
Hey Stephanie! Thank you! Remember that saponification happens for the first 48 hours, so the lye is just as likely to react with essential oils in the mold (when things get really hot!) than it is when you put the lye-water in. I'm not a scientist, but I'm guessing that it doesn't matter when you add them! I certainly have never noticed a difference in scent and we've always done it this way. However, I will say that we do soap cooler (under 100 degrees F) so this may make a difference, as our soap doesn't get ultra hot in the mold.
@@muddymintsoap Mind blown! I have always seen everyone add them after trace and just assumed that something happened at trace! Thank you for explaining it Simi!
Just remember to always wait to add accelerating essential oils!! If you add them early, they can be highly problematic, so I only add essential oils that behave well to the oils. If I'm using clove or anything else that accelerates, I add it at trace. :)
@@muddymintsoap Thanks for the added tip and all your wealth of information! You are making so much more helpful process information available to mid-size soapers!
Hey Simi. Thanks for all you showing us. But I thinks I made a mistake 😅 When I added the oat milk to the oils, the mixture curdled. Should I have waited for the oils to cool down before adding my homemade oat milk?
Oh no!! Were you able to save the batch? I’m so sorry that happened! I’m not overly careful about it, but I’d say our oils are usually 120 degrees F or less when we add our milk. I’ve never had it curdle!
@@muddymintsoap it's not a big deal I put cocoa butter bee wax and when mix cooled everything was fine. Of course I first tried with small amount only 300 grams mixed oils and sea salt too.
Your oils do need to be very hot when you use beeswax, so maybe that was the issue. Glad it wasn't a big deal!
I forgot to tell you dissolving one silk cocoon per 10 ounces of lye when you’re making a 50-50 solution works great to get silk into your soap. It’s truly a luxury ingredient that doesn’t add an extreme amount of cost.
Oooo! Fun idea! We make a lot of vegan soaps, so we can't do that, but I love the idea of putting it in with the 50/50 lye water solution!
OMGeeee i need this recipe!! LOL I recently bought your book too, I'm obsessed!!! I did have a question about usage rates for the EOs though. I know each EO has it's own rate, but what about total when you are making a blend? If Peppermint is 3% (just making up numbers) and Lavender is 5%, I don't think that means you can do a total of 8%...but I really don't know. And if not, how do you figure out the total? Thanks so much, I'm so new at this, I'm having a blast though thanks in part to your channel and book!!!
Thank you so much! I do address this in the book, but it's a pretty small section that would be easy to miss. The general rule of thumb is to use 3-6% total, based on your oil weight. So, if your oils weigh 60oz, you want to use between 1.8 to 3.6 oz in your batch of soap. That's for the TOTAL amount of essential oils. Of course, you still need to take into consideration IFRA rates for each essential oil. In addition, I think that in the EU, you can't use more than 3% total essential oils, so you want to take into account local regulations as well. I hope this helps!
@@muddymintsoap Yes it helps tremendously, THANK YOU!! I'm gonna go back in the book and see what I missed, sorry about that. I had it all wrong, I thought it was based on the end weight not the oil weight, so glad I asked. I appreciate you
I love this work tell me how i can succeed in this work you have experience my sister ⭐ stars if soap your sister yassmina🎉❤
Just keep watching videos and researching! It takes a lot of time and patience to grow a successful soap business. :)
What makes the oils lather. Is it the lye
Hi there! The lather is created by the saponified oils and each oil has a different type of lather. So, coconut oil (once saponified) creates big bubbly lather, olive oil creates small slippery lather, butters create a creamy lather, castor oil helps stabilize and sustain lather, and sugars boost lather! So, it's a complicated blend of everything!
@@muddymintsoap thanks so much
Are you still selling your soap bars?
We're not. However, we will be selling the soaps for the videos we made at the end of this month! We'll have three sea salt soaps (Citrus Sea Salt, Lavender Sea Salt, and Peppermint Eucalyptus), Coconut & Rose, Mountain Man, Wild Lavender, and Sea Salt & Kelp for sale. :)
Hi Mam I am from india my soap bar is so hard before my trace because I am using butters in my recipe how to manage temperature for oil batch and my 50/50 lye solution
Shall I use my butters without melting
Hi there! How much additional water/liquid are you using?
2:1 Mam
QQQ why don’t you just mix the lavender buds into the batter? I’m not a soap maker just watching your videos, really nice information.. I buy a lavender soap from Trader Joe’s and that lavender has the buds mixed in.. just wondering 🤔
You certainly can! I don’t like to put lavender buds inside the soap, as they turn brown, so I usually just put them on top. Thanks for watching! ❤️
@@muddymintsoap you’re right about them turning brown but that’s why I kind of like them in the soap.. I think of them as just natural
You just inspired me to try it! Thank you! 💜
Do your milk soaps overheat? I find mine always have to go directly in the fridge or the tops crack from overheating. Id like to know your secret if yours do not. 😂
They don't! But, I did have that happen in the early days. For one thing, we use the milk in oils method, which means we're only using half the amount of milk than if you were doing the milk ice cubes method. We also soap cooler (always under 100 degrees F, but usually closer to 90). We leave our soaps uncovered as well. That seems to do the trick! Even when we moved to slabs, which get much hotter, we still never got cracks in our milk soaps.
I do the 50/50 lye solution and add the milk to my oils as well. I think I may be soaping too high. Thank you for the 50/50 lye video. That was a game changer for sure! I guess I'll just have to keep experimenting to see how to get my milk soaps to not crack. I am planning on trying an oat milk soap soon for my daughter's sensitive skin. Maybe by then I will have figured out the issue. Thanks for the reply!
Good luck! Soap science always keeps us on our toes! :)
It does! 😂
This isn't purple tho
Hi there! It looks pretty purple in person, but it is a "natural" purple. If you're not worried about using natural colorants in your soap, you can use purple mica for a full-on bright purple. :)
Red Sandalwood is endangered. It’s extremely sad you’re using it.
Oh shoot! Can you send me a link to some information? We get ours from Starwest Botanicals and it is labeled as Wildcrafted from Germany, but I'm not sure if this is the type that is endangered or not. In fact, the botanical name is Pterocarpus soyauxii (I looked it up and it comes up as African Padauk), which is different than the botanical name for red sandalwood (Pterocarpus santalinus).