Hot Process Soap Making 101 - Tips, Tricks for Fluid Batter, Essential Oils, Trace, & Superfat

Welcome to Wet Soap Wednesday! This prerecorded soaping day is all about hot process soaps. I'll walk you through the basics with lots of tips and tricks along the way. We even get a chance to look at various stages of trace that apply to cold process soaps too! Here's list of all the topics covered in this natural soap hot process video:

🧼Hot Process Oil Temperatures
🧼What is Super Fat (and how it all works)
🧼Different stages of trace in handmade soap
🧼Retaining a fluid batter in hot process soap making
🧼Understanding temperatures in hot process soap
🧼Stages of hot process soap batter
🧼Adding super fat with essential oils to hot process soap
🧼Molding tips for hot process soap

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00:00:31 Using cinnamon essential oil in hot process soap
00:01:56 What is superfat in soap?
00:02:48 Superfat in cold process soap
00:03:56 Hot process additives and temperature
00:05:29 Heat sources and containers for hot process soap
00:07:05 Soap batter trace examples: Working with thin / light trace
00:08:10 Soap batter trace examples: Working with medium trace
00:08:58 Soap batter trace examples: Working with thick trace
00:10:05 Heat and water retention - the hot process "wait" time
00:12:35 First hints of a volcano
00:16:44 The hot process volcano
00:18:00 How hot process volcanos work
00:20:01 Vaseline stage in hot process soap
00:22:00 Adding superfat and essential oils
00:25:05 Pipe molds and hot process soap
00:27:10 The Cut - smooth hot process soap