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@candysleezer7691 Hey Candy! If you are in Houston, I'd love to teach you soapmaking in person. Details are here: www.meetup.com/houston-soap-making-meetup-group/

@nadiaasad7812 I'll post something soon ish lol

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@@nadiaasad7812 Hey Nadia! I put the recipe up on my website. Enter your email and you'll see the recipe and video on the following page. Hope this helps!

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Here's the information on the class I took in Ghana. Highly recommend!: Twitter. : @Soap_Training Instagram: soapmakingtraining Webpage: soapmakingtrainingbycreators-ghana.blogspot.com Facebook page: facebook.com/soaptrainingghana

All measurements were in ounces. Great question!

I'll add a recipe for this and will update you then.

This video is more of a travel vlog instead of a traditional tutorial. I respect the instructor for this class, and it just didn't feel right putting his recipe up on TH-cam without permission. But if you type in "African black soap recipe" in the youtube search bar, you'll get a whole bunch of detailed tutorials. I made this soap once, and so I'm not an expert in this at all compared with someone like my excellent teacher. You should consider seeing a medical professional to help with any allergies you are encountering! Hope this helps!

Are you in Ghana? If so, take this instructor's class! He's excellent!

In this recipe, NO. There is no caustic soda. We used potash - a combination of plantain ashes and cocoa pod ashes.

I'll see about creating a video on this topic. Thank you for asking!

Thank you, Tree! 🌳 I really appreciate that.

We used coconut oil for this recipe.

Haha I've only ever done this when teaching but yeah it's absolutely possible to do both! The texture of the cold process is smoother and denser while the hot processed is more rustic. Love them both! It's been years since I made this recipe and I still have some bars left. They lather beautifully. <3

You use sodium hydroxide for both cold and hot process soapmaking. Potassium hydroxide is for liquid soap.

Thanks for the great reply, @bellyfulochelly4222!

@changlyn100 the "hot process" is used to make both solid bar soap and liquid soap (aka soap paste). Since I'm making bar soap with the hot process method, I used sodium hydroxide (NaOH). However, if I were making liquid soap or soap paste with the hot process method, I would use potassium hydroxide (KOH) instead. Here's a vlog of me taking a soap paste workshop in Kumasi, Ghana using this method: th-cam.com/video/13rjAnV-tEU/w-d-xo.html!

Eu também gosto do sabonete alata samina!

Great questions, @lindaschouten7210! Which one is softer for the skin? -This is subjective! However anecdotally, people use Castile soap because it's gentle on the skin. I personally notice that this soap has a dense lather rather than huge bubbles. The hot processes bar is slimier. The cold process bar is more dense. Can the cooked soap be used immediately or does it have to cure and let the lye dissipate too? This is a contested question in the soapmaking community! Here's my take: Hot process cooks all of the lye out of the mixture so that no lye remains in the end. [It has gone under a chemical reaction. Like an alcoholic dessert that gets baked. Alcohol goes into the recipe, but does not come out in the finished dessert. It's become something new. You can no longer split the ingredients back into what they once were.] I always like to test my soaps over a period of time. I use a small piece immediately (usually a cooled piece crusted onto the crockpot) and test the lather in the kitchen sink. And I'm celebrating because, YAY I MADE SOAP! If you are new to soapmaking, I encourage you to try your soap weekly over a few months to see how it develops in hardness, how scents adhere to the bar, and to notice other things like color changes etc. Also, I see that some soap makers add water to their soap. What is the difference if you do that? This recipe uses distilled water. Are you talking about at the end? Adding water is harmless. It will increase the time it takes for the bars to cure.

Hi @YoungE591, this is seriously a great question and I hope this helps other folks who wonder this too. In soapmaking lye, water, and oils/fats are combined in such a way that they form a new item: soap. Lye is corrosive on its own. Oil is liquid on its own. Distilled water is watery on it's own. However, when put together in the right order, the lye/water combine into a solution and mix with oils turning them into solid soap. In this recipe, I've added in extra oil (called a superfat) so that we are sure that there is more nourishing oil in the final product than free lye. I used a lye calculator to create this recipe. Here's an analogy. Hot process cooks all of the lye out of the mixture so that no lye remains in the end. It has gone under a chemical reaction. Like an alcoholic dessert that gets baked. Alcohol goes into the recipe, but does not come out in the finished dessert. It's become something new. You can no longer split the ingredients back into what they once were.

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What would you change about this video?

Have you ever made soap? Are you planning to make something similar from scratch?

You can download the recipe here: make.superpowersoap.com/checkout/6

To make your own recipe, use a lye calculator like this one: www.brambleberry.com/calculator?calcType=lye

I ordered this from the Hermes website! I loved their packaging and suggest you do the same.

Yes, it's sturdy!

Noted! This is a video log I made to remember the workshop experience! But I encourage you to search youtube for "alata samina recipe" to see other great tutorials.

Noted! This is a vlog meant to share the workshop experience! But I encourage you to search youtube for "alata samina recipe" to see other great tutorials.

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Congratulations! Why did you decide to make your own soap?

Hey there Pramod! This castile soap recipe is in the description. Raw ingredients for 42.64 oz. of Castile soap (with a 5% superfat): 30 oz. Olive Oil 3.9 oz. Lye 8.73 oz. Distilled water Hope this helps!

Hi Tsevetelina, this is bar soap for the body and I don't recommend using it as a shampoo. Thanks for the question!

It smells lovely!

Maybe on the next video. :)

I'm not certain if cocoa pod ash and plantain ash are equivalent to potassium hydroxide. Can you share any resources on this? I'd love to learn more. In this recipe, I chose to use the ashes as an additive. Check out my other video where I work with an expert to make African black soap the way it's traditionally made in Ghana. Thanks for the questions, Evelyn!

Thanks for your feedback Carmen! Making these videos is fun and I always make changes as I go along. If you are looking for 1:1 instruction or detailed steps, please check out my online course where everything is written out in ebook form along with a step by step video. Happy soapmaking!

If you use a traditional bar of handmade soap as hair shampoo, you'll need to use some kind of rinse (such as apple cider vinegar) afterwards to restore your hair's pH. Alternatively, you can look into making a shampoo bar. This would be a synthetic detergent bar a.k.a. syndet and not true soap. I hope this helps! Thanks, Sara!

Yes, you would dissolve the potassium hydroxide in distilled water. You'd also dissolve the soap paste in distilled water and use a preservative so that it does not grow bacteria.

You can pour the soap into an appropriate cup of your choosing! Plastic or lined paper will work.

I'm not an expert on liquid soapmaking. Check out Brambleberry.com for info!

I'm not an expert on liquid soapmaking. Check out Brambleberry.com for info!

Thanks Susan, I love seeing the full way things are made. Happy soapmaking to you!

I share recipes in my online course available for purchase. Check it out at SuperPowerSoap.com. Thanks, Kafui!

Maybe :)

Share your questions here in the chat! Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed this, Tchagbelle!

LOL sure does! Smells much better than cheese thankfully haha

@@superpowersoap I dunno cheese smells pretty good!

Hi Tiffany! Thanks for your question. This video shows a way of making African Black Soap using the standard hot process method and adding in potash as an additive (similar to adding in clays or other additives to HP soap). BUT If you want to see the REAL African Black Soap Making process, watch my video here where I learn from an expert Ghanaian soap maker: th-cam.com/video/hLvSOaNXluk/w-d-xo.html If you are travelling to Ghana, I encourage you to take the class and learn from a professional as the process is very specific (and rewarding).

Great question! Currently, I melt the oils on HIGH. Then I cook the soap on LOW.

Great question. NO! Use Distilled water. Tap water contains minerals and other additives that can have a bad reaction with lye. You can find distilled water in most grocery stores. Let me know if you have any other questions!