How to Make Calendula Soap 🌼 a cold process calendula soap recipe
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Calendula is the only flower that retains its natural color in soap recipes. In this video, I show you a simple way to make calendula soap using the cold process method. It creates about ten bars of soap, and you can use fresh or dried flowers to make it. We add the petals to both the oils and the lye solution, creating gorgeous yellow bars with flecks of orange petals.
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00:00 Introduction
02:55 Calendula Soap Recipe
03:01 How to Make Calendula Soap
08:21 Oven processing soap
08:56 Unmolding and cutting soap bars
10:07 Curing handmade soap
Cold-process soapmaking is chemistry, and this recipe uses lye. Lye is a caustic substance that is completely neutralized in the soapmaking process, but it can be harmful if not handled correctly. Please read this soap making safety guidance before proceeding: lovelygreens.com/soap-making-...
Full printable recipe: lovelygreens.com/calendula-soap/
7.69 oz (218 g) distilled water
3.86 oz (109 g) sodium hydroxide
7.05 oz (200 g) coconut oil
4.23 oz (120 g) shea butter
2.82 oz (80 g) cocoa butter
12.7 oz (360 g) olive oil
1.41 oz (40 g) castor oil
2 TBSP (1.6 g) dried calendula petals
5.25 tsp (20.7 g) may chang e.o.
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This calendula color is naturally beautiful.
Thank you for this recipe and introducing me to calendula flowers. I am growing them, drying them and making lotion, lip balms and now today, soap!
Thank you
You're so welcome! Well done, and have a fantastic time making soap 😍
Ooh this is so lovely, I just grew calendula for the first time and I can't wait start making soap, thank you so much!! Have a lovely day 😊
Thank you! You too!
This is wonderful, I love Calendula, can't wait to make some...many thanks Amanda, your garden is beautiful ❤
Love your videos! Great to see you on Gardener's World, ❤🎉🎉🎉
I've been following you for quite some time - Mostly on the gardening content. Now I've got to try your soap; you're a master. Greetings from Virginia Beach, Virginia, east coast USA where I garden & teach on my property along a salt marsh. All the best to you! 😊
Thank you so much 💓 Waving across the pond to you in your lovely garden!
thank you
i was so happy to see that you have a calendula soap recipe! I just so happen to have a large zip- lock back full of dried calendula blossoms from our old house before we sold it! For me this will be a wonderful stroll through memory lane with all the garden meant to me and to know that a piece of it will be made into soap and shared. Thank you so much!
What a lovely way to use your calendula and remember your old garden 🙂💚
Thank you
Always a lesson and inspiration! I have yet to make soap, but I have loads of calendula flowers...here we go!
Woo hoo! Time to get soaping :)
Thank you so very much!!!!
You're welcome!
Thank you.
Welcome!
I'm super excited for this recipe...I have some calendula infused olive oil that I can use as well. Thanks for the recipe!!
It'll be super yellow with the infused oil! Have fun soaping :)
@Lovelygreens oh thats true, maybe I'll make a second batch with it and ine without and see. I made some goats milk soap with infused dandelion olive oil and it was a pretty yellow color.
most enjoyable tanya
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I love to use calendula infused olive oil if I have it on hand
Lovely video, after the second day you said to still wear gloves because of the lye, what happens to the lye after this time? does it totally disappear?
It doesn't disappear - it transforms into soap. Oil/fats and lye break apart on a molecular level and then rebond into soap molecules. Soapmaking is natural chemistry 🙌😍
Great video! Wondering what essential oil did you use and what quantity? I didn’t see it listed in the recipe? Thank you ❤
I've used may chang (litsea cubeba), a gorgeous citrus essential oil. You can find the full printable recipe here: lovelygreens.com/calendula-soap/
Lovely recipe! What essential oils did you use for this batch?
Litsea cubeba 🍋 a gorgeous citrus scent that lasts in soap recipes.
What essential oil did you use?
i never grow tired of watching your soap making videos...did i see miss maggie in the background when you were outside?...the calendula does make a beautiful gentle color for the soap...which scent do you use for the calendula recipe?...thank you again
Good spot! She was nosing around behind me at one point :) I used may chang for the scent - it's a perfect choice for that lemony color 💛
Loved your video! CAN YOU USE GOATS MILK IN THIS RECIPE, INSTEAD Of H20?
Absolutely! Just ensure the milk is kept from scorching in the lye solution or in the soap afterwards. Don't oven process it either. Here's my goat milk soap recipe to show you how to add the milk, etc: lovelygreens.com/how-to-make-natural-goat-milk-soap/
Hello, I enjoyed watching your video! Thank you so much for the recipe! I just have a question, is the soap for both body and face or just body?
For both! 💚
@@Lovelygreensthank you so much for replying ❤
Thank you🧡, it looks like a lovely soap. And I'm going try and make it💛!!
How do you package your soaps?
I leave them completely unpackaged until I use them or sell them. Then, I either sell them as part of my packaging-free soap sale lovelygreens.co.uk/shop/packaging-free-natural-soap-isle-of-man/ or put them in kraft paper boxes with a pretty label. Doing this allows the soap to breathe, stops it from sweating, and extends the shelf life.
@@Lovelygreens amazing, thanks for sharing 🧡!!!
Very inspiring thankyou, I look forward to making it
I'm growing calendula this year, so I'm really excited to try this. Your recipe looks perfect for me. I was thinking of infusing some oil with the petals though. It's one way better than the other? By better I mean better color?
By the way, I'm also growing Japanese indigo after watching your video on processing it last year. I've watched it so many times so that I feel confident when the time comes.
@@DMB088 That's brilliant! Exactly what I hoped for with the video :)
You can absolutely do that :) With this recipe, the calendula petals infuse into the solid oils while they're heating. If you want to infuse the liquid oils with calendula, it will add even more color! I share that method over here: lovelygreens.com/calendula-infused-oil-soap-recipe-natural-yellow-soap/
Where do you get calendula plants or do you grow them from seed? I have looked at many stores and nurseries for them. I know they are annuals, and many articles have stated that marigolds are the same thing, but they don't look the same to me.
Not sure if you live in the US, but I got my calendula plants from Azure Standard this year and they are doing great.
One common name is Pot Marigold, but they're not the same as the marigolds we plant as bedding plants. Calendula are Calendula officinalis and marigolds are tagetes. Calendula is normally grown from seed and you can find them for sale here: shrsl.com/47hkt
I live in Ohio. Thank you for the information. Your soap is lovely. I want to plant some calendula to use for soap and body butters, but also because they are gorgeous.
What should calendula oil smell like? I see nothing on the Internet about that. Should it smell..."stewed" cooked/ almost burnt? It looks ok, never had mold etc. Just not sure what to " expect " as this is the first time I made oil
It doesn't have much of a smell. Slightly nutty, maybe, but not deeply scented at all.
@@Lovelygreens maybe I " overcooked" mine accidentally. Thank you. I will try again !
@@shervin6711 You may want to consider a cold-infusion method. I go through three ways to make calendula oil here: lovelygreens.com/how-to-make-calendula-oil/
Do you have to measure the amounts of each product ? Or foes it matter
The amounts must be precisely measured and safely precautions taken. The amounts are listed in the video and in the video description. lovelygreens.com/calendula-soap/
@@Lovelygreens thank you
I have a question on making soap when the weather is very warm or very humid. I have had times when mine just took forever to cure to dry and to cure what is the solution to that? How do I resolve that issue? I've spoken to some of the Amish people and that make their own soap and they say they never make soap in a month that doesn't have an r. If it does not have an "R" in it. Those months it doesn't seem to dry and cure correctly. Help, I'm having trouble!
When it's humid, soap has difficulty curing since the water doesn't evaporate out as easily. There's also a chance of DOS forming and spoiling your bars, and dried botanical decorations can mold. You can either wait until the humidity decreases or invest in a good dehumidifier. We have low humidity here in general, but I always have a small unit going in my soap room. In your case, you could have a designated room (or wardrobe/closet) for soap curing with a dehumidifier inside. It needs to be kept on at all times but will help you make soap whenever you want or to run a soap business in your region. Here's a good one to consider: amzn.to/4633FDR (affiliate link)
@@Lovelygreens thank you
Can tell the oils you are using and their ratio
The recipe is in the video text description. For a full printable recipe, with ratios, head here: lovelygreens.com/calendula-soap/
Just subscribed to you, growing veg and flowers i need no help with, but the soap making thing i really want to try as i grow tons of calendula in my veg garden, till now only for eating but thats about to change 😁😁😘
Food, medicine, soap, skincare, fabric dyeing, crafts... You'll have a lot to explore with your abundance of calendula 😍