Liquid soap making video using potassium hydroxide for face, hands and body. Hope you enjoy this video!
Please always follow safety requirements while making soap! Sodium/Potassium hydroxide is caustic and can cause burns on skin or on mucous membranes!
The recipe I am using in this video:
25% Coconut oil
25% Olive oil
30% Canola oil
10% Sweet Almond Oil
10% Castor Oil
2% superfat
30% lye concentration
Remember to use potassium hydroxide or you will end up making solid soap bars!
The percentage of coconut oil is kept 25% for nice bubbles but not too drying. All the other oils are also good options to choose from for making a clear soap, producing moisturising and stable lather! Also, keep the superfat at a minimum if you want a clear soap!
How I dilute my soap paste:
The batch made in the video is made with the total oil weight of 500g and would yield around 1000g of soap paste. Please run the formula through a lye calculator first and check the purity of your potassium hydroxide. The amount of potassium hydroxide varies with different purity and hence I did not include the amount I used. The lye calculator I like to use is http://soapee.com/calculator. The soap paste will then be further diluted for use. The dilution rates vary with person to person, the dilution I will use for this soap will be 1:3 or 1:5. (soap paste:distilled water).
I also made a video of how I dilute my soap paste: https://youtu.be/qoTb3qLEtTA
Time links to the video:
0:06 Making Potassium hydroxide lye solution
1:00 Pouring of the lye solution into crockpot
2:29 Thick applesauce
2:54 Thick custard with bubbles
3:30 Watery mashed potatos
4:13 Solid Taffy
4:59 Chunky/creamy Vaseline
6:09 Translucent Vaseline
6:15 pH test
I have received a lot of insight and help from: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/basic-liquid-soap-recipe-516965
Go check out the website for more information.
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I am a soap hobbist so I don't buy my materials in large batches. I love shopping at iherb for my oils and essential oils. You may get a 5% discount through my link below:
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Direct links to the essential oils/oils:
Olive oil: https://hk.iherb.com/pr/La-Tourangelle-100-Organic-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil-25-4-fl-oz-750-ml/73007?rcode=AKV0278
Coconut Oil: https://hk.iherb.com/pr/California-Gold-Nutrition-Cold-Pressed-Organic-Virgin-Coconut-Oil-16-fl-oz-473-ml/78063?rcode=AKV0278
Sweet almond Oil:https://hk.iherb.com/pr/Now-Foods-Solutions-Sweet-Almond-Oil-16-fl-oz-473-ml/896?rcode=AKV0278
Castor Oil: https://hk.iherb.com/pr/Now-Foods-Solutions-Castor-Oil-16-fl-oz-473-ml/897?rcode=AKV0278
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My name is Janice and I am a pharmacist working in Hong Kong. The Scraftworks is the short form for "Soap Craftworks" and that this channel is dedicated to show my creations and other home crafts. Soap making for me is a combination of art and science - I love it!
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