Making Soap for Sensitive Skin {with aloe + calendula} S2W11
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2013
- Season 2 Week 11 of Soaping101 and we are infusing oils, making calundula tea and using fresh aloe to create a soap for sensitive and sun burned skin.
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This soap is just plain and simple and beautiful. Perfect as usual!!!
This is truly beautiful...simple and soothing. Thank you for sharing AGAIN!
Oh gorgeous! Love your texturing tool!
I like SOAPing 101, you are doing an amazing job and i really appreciate the time youve spent teaching, time that is precious! you ROCK! !
I have watched your videos for months and you have me to start soaping .... I hope they come out as good as yours!!
I have used the infused oil and have been very happy with it. Like this idea for sun damaged skin! Time to grow some aloe!
I loved this! I have lots of aloe plants and wasn't sure how to properly incorporate the gel into a soap. Thanks for this vid!!
Yes me too
Fabulous video, Catie, as always. I just love using those ingredients xx Linda
i really enjoy the amount of time, work and energy you put into your soaps!! im really excited for next week! :)
You my dear are amazing ! I am anxious to try this ! Love the infusion idea and thanks for the link to the Aloe Vera juice ! Thank-You for all the work you do to help us be better soapers ! :)
After stumbling across your youtube channel I have been inspired to dive into the world of handmade soaps !! It's so addicting as are your videos. I've watched them all several times. Thanks so much for all your helpful tips and insightful instructions. Signed a new soaper from Oklahoma !~
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch my videos :)
Oooh I will for sure be making some of this! Excellent idea, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
5/19/17 I made this last night and this morning as it is a bit time consuming. I added Lemon Grass as an essential oil and I love the way it turned out. Probably one of the creamiest bars I have ever poured into a mold. The next time I make it I will do some prep work way before hand. I am going to infuse an entire bottle of olive oil over a 2-3 week period so I have it on hand. I am also going to extract the health benefits from the Aloe before hand buy taking 2 quart jars , buying a large Aloe leaf from the grocery store, peel it only on 1 side, cut it in chunk and dividing it into the jars covering them to the top with distilled water then pop it in the frig for 48 hours and drain with a fine sieve freezing the liquid in 1 oz. cubes, drinking any leftovers for the health benefits. I hope that helps. Donna in sunny Florida
Love you soap recipes! I can’t wait to try this one!
Great video and I can't wait to try it!
AAAH!! Amazing, C! I love it! I made some calendula salves for bug bites and still have plenty of infused oil to make soap with. Thanks for the inspiration! :o)
Hi Maxine :) part one
The recipe at 3:45 lists all of the ingredients to make her beautiful bastile soap. Here she also incorporates calendula petals, and aloe vera gel, for their skin loving benefits. Yes, you will have a total of 10.56 *by weight* ounces of liquid, that will include the prepared calendula tea (made w/ distilled water), and the aloe vera gel, then topped up with distilled water, until you have reached the total of 10.56 ounces. She then froze the 10.56 oz of liquid...
thank you so much easy to understand and soothing voice too
I Definitely want to try this! I have eczema plus get a contact dermatitis from many commercial soaps.
You gave me an idea how to infuse fast, Thank you once again.
Looks so smooth and soothing, ooh and aah!
Thanks Mari!
Question. If you are using master batched lye that is cooled to room temp would you still need to freeze your tea and aloe? Thanks, Mary
I made this about a month ago and it doesn’t seem to be hardening up. I made it in individual silicone molds. I noticed after 24 hour that the soap came out of the molds sticky and soft. It is better but it should be harder after 4 weeks of curing right? I am a newbie soaper so any advice you could give would be great. I followed the recipe exactly except I added camomile to the tea as well. Perhaps I should add stearic acid or sodium lactate next time? Thanks again for you awesome videos and expert advice!
Thank you for sharing...Can't wait to try!
Awww. Thanks! I feel great. Just starting to get back into the swing of things. :o)
Pretty soap, thanks for sharing
You are so welcome!
How do you make the aloe juice?
They are some of my favorite too :)
Awesome soap! You are a great teacher! Can I please ask where you got your soap cutter?
I love your videos. So much information
I was wondering how to make aloe soap. I've seen the juice for sale and wondered how to incorporate it into soap. Thanks.
I love your soap slicer. Can you tell me where you purchased it? Thanks.
How many weeks should i cure this soap. Love your tutorials. I really enjoy learning with your videos🤗
Love your videos!!! Can't wait to make your recipe, but I have some questions... You add lye twice first on the calendula tea infusion and aloe vera juice. Did you subtracted that amount from the original recipe? How much did you use for that and how much for the lye solution. and What type of oil you used to make the tea infusion?
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us! I have a question. Do the additives that are added with caustic soda or instead of water (or fibers like silk) lose their properties when subjected to this alkali?
You have a lot of great information in your videos. I have to ask how you soaped with this recipe at 101.1? Also, you scoop out the CLEAR aloe gel from the plant but your video shows green frozen cubes? Why not just use the whole plant and hit puree or run it through a juicer? How much aloe PPP do you add? Finally, what % SF do you use? There seems to be a few holes in this tutorial. Thanks in advance for your response.
thanks your soap are fantastic,...
I made this recipe over the weekend and scented it lightly with cucumber es
Can't wait to see how yours turns out :)
Thanks for the tutorial, great ideas but I don’t think this was quite detailed instructions. I’ve been making soaps for a long time so I know how to do this better to my liking but I think this was not the best tutorial but idea sharing?
For example, when you want to make calendula infused oil, I would recommend you to put the flower petals in a blender and pulse them, or cut them in smaller pieces with a pair of scissors maybe to expedite the process. I would fill much more of calendula flowers like half the bottle packed then add a main oil. In fact you could actually measure all of the oils and make calendula oils. Whatever it’s absorbed you can add olive oil to make it the same oil total weight and keep the same amount of lye and it’s still be ok if you want to make very healing soap. You would need to leave the jar in slow cooker on low or around 60 degree Celsius water bath for 45 min-an hour and cover it and put them in cooler overnight to keep warm for some time. You would need to do this twice. You then need to leave the bottle for a week or so shaking the bottle everyday in dark place just to get some decent macerated calendula oil. The end product should be very yellow like amber golden color for the oil to have some healing properties.
I loved the idea of that frozen fresh aloe and calendula frozen tea so that both won’t be scorched by the lye. Thank you so much for sharing the excellent ideas!!
It looks great! What kind of oil do you use to make the calendula oil?
I hope it helps!
Yes, I never gel my milk soaps.
Well I enjoyed that video, very relaxing even if I never make soap!!
part two for Maxine, ..the 10.56 oz of frozen liquid will be used to add your sodium hydroxide to, which will then become your lye solution. The olive oil she uses to infuse the calendula (and put in the crock pot)is a portion of the 22 oz total. If you use , say, 7 ounces of oil to infuse the flower petals into, you will end up with slightly less than 7 ounces, so you will use slightly over 15 additional ounces, to reach your total olive oil...
Love it, I'm making some real soon!
Perhaps I haven't found it yet but have you done a calendula, hemp oil soap? I have severe rheumatoid arthritis and I've heard hemp is good for it. I swear by dandelion and calendula for healing, thought hemp might help too?
At the beginning you were only showing taking the gel but you never mentioned to use the whole plant because when you showed the frozen aloe it looks green. you are confusing us!
Hi. What oil could be used to the infusion? Thanks for your videos
Beautiful !
Hi, im back again to this business, thank you so much for the info. you still made the best as always,
Your videos are amazing. I've learned so much. I can't wait until we finish moving so I can use some of your recipes.
I was a bit surprised about how pale the infused Calendula oil was. I make Calendula oil all the time and it always comes out a brilliant gold color. Is there a reason yours is light? Thanks. :-D
wonderful! i will make this! thank you!!!
If you use the tea and juice in stead of distilled water how much % should I use Aloe juice and Calendula tea?
You can grow your our pot marigold and save the petals, but I purchased these from Wholesale Supplies Plus.
Love this! Thank you!
part three for Maxine, The infused oil will go right on in your main container/pot/glass measure, along the rest of the oils in the recipe. When its time, you will be adding your 10.56oz lye solution to your 32oz of oils. Sorry so long! I sometimes have difficulty summerizing. Hope this helps someone :)
thanks!! great video!
Should soaps have an expiry date? If so, how can one estimate theirs please?
Thanks :)
Love this soap !
;)
Can the Olive oil be replaced with Shea Butter or Jojoba Oil? I am allergic to olive oil and I would like to try to tweek this recipe a bit and turn it into a beauty bar. Thanks
Where can i get that cutter from please?
I've never made soap but watching your videos sure makes me think I want to try it. But I have a few questions. First, whats trace?
Great vid! Where do you get your Calendula petals from? The last batch I bought was full of sticks, dried leaves and bugs! :( Thanks for sharing!
Nice video! I have pretty dry skin (and eczema on my hands). I think I see a recipe in my future.
I noticed that the lye you mix with the oils was clear. Where''s the lye with the calendula and the aloe vera juice?
It's certainly pretty in that simple rustic way. You know everything. :-)
Is the frozen aloe juice just frozen aloe gel?
How are you feeling V? You have been in my prayers :)
Curious...why is it that the lye water containing your aloe and calendula is colored but the lye water that you add towards the end is clear? Can anyone answer this question?
Because it isnt lye water it is the infused calendula OIL
Where did you purchase the wire cutter you used to cut the soap ??
i just luvU...all of you vids...i don't care what question i have...u got the answer u r AWESOOOME! I want to start looking at your 1st season...up to current...how?
Thank you!
If I were to make the calendula infused oil, instead of using the croc pot could i just let it sit outside throughout the day then strain it at night when i make the soap?
i have an issue with aloe vera ...I use it fresh from my garden ,but I never manage to make it so smooth as aloe vera gel we can get from shops...I know it can be mixed with glycerin in the mixer and become smoother but how can it be done in this video,because I do not think the aloe cubes were just the cut and sliced aloe,because they would not disolve without leaving chunks in the lye...so If you are kind enough could you please explain the whole thing to us since so many people have the same question with me...thank you and congratulations on your excellent helping videos of yours..I ADORE THEM!!!
you can put the chunks of Aloe in your lye solution and then pour your solution through a strainer when adding lye to your oils
You are a pleasure to listen to. :)
Beautiful soap with a lot of label appeal.
I fear that not much of the Aloe goodiness will survive the lye attack though.
Thx to superfatting there probably will remain a bit of the calendula.
thanks
What was the powder? Did u use powder and liquid lye?
Just used the inner gel
Gorgeous like always !! :D
wow this is gr8..thank you
look the part that she added the " lye water". It was crystal clear lye water (lye+ water), not the aloe and tea+lye solution.
+Jocelyn Cao Wonder about that
Good catch! That definitely wasn't the same tea/aloe solution she was making before.
i would love if your instructions were a bit clearer for those of us who are not so au fait with what you do, for instance what did you use to make the aloe juice? did u sue some of the distilled water and subtract it back? and what abt the remaining lye solution what is the percentage water in that? those are the parts that are not so clear. thanks for your help
Thanks, I think you rock too :)
How long is the shelf life of this aloe soap?
great! interesting to watch!
At 4:41 in the video, she added which quantity of calendula oil and what does it mean that it was substacted from the recipe?
it meens that she infused the olive oil in her recipe with the calendula. she didn't add any more oil to it. adding more oil can throw off the recipe. since the lye amount is calculated to soaponify that particular amount of oils.
Thanks !
+Marie Nadeau no problem :)
did u add water to the aloe vera?
Cathy do you never gel your soaps?
What kind of oil can be used?
HELP! You said you added infused calendula oil and subtracted from the recipe. How much was added? and what oil was used? Maybe I missed something.
Thank You for your help.
hello!! i tryed to make this recipe and unfortunately i failed. i would like to ask you, when you say aloe juice what excactly you mean? maybe aloe gel? for example if the recipe it has 500gr water you make the gel and mixed it with 250gr of water and the other 250gr you make the calendula tea?
how much liquid lye solution did you add?
Plz tell me where i can get ur reciepe measurement ?
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You're the best! What fun~
I’m not sure if I want lye in my soap. Can you let the juice cool to room temp? Also how did you make the juice? First you were cutting aloe then out if now where came the cubes of juice I just want to know how you got to that point
All true soap has lye...you can't get soap without it. If you have a cleansing type agent/"soap" without lye, it is a detergent - not soap. No lye - no true soap. 🙂 hope this helps