Soap Making Recipe: Using Sodium Lactate and Colorant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2020
- Why add sodium lactate to soap? Sodium lactate hardens soap made with liquid oils that, otherwise, would be too soft. It also enhances other soap properties, such as lather and hydration.
This soap recipe is a 100% olive oil soap, scented with peppermint, that uses a natural, ultramarine blue mineral-equivalent colorant. You can find the ingredients and equipment required below.
If you wish to buy castile soap instead of making it, find some handmade castile soaps in the following links:
Lavender Lemongrass Castile Goat's Milk Soap (Etsy) tidd.ly/38ghaTI
Pure Castile Soap (Etsy) tidd.ly/3xCrIg0
Organic Olive Oil Castile Soap (Etsy) tidd.ly/4cjyJli
Ingredients
4.23 oz distilled water sovrn.co/1harvlx
2.05 oz lye (100% sodium hydroxide) tidd.ly/3xu0CYA
1.0 tsp sodium lactate tidd.ly/3xCxMFq
0.5 tsp french green clay tidd.ly/3Q6zVzC
16.05 oz extra virgin olive oil sovrn.co/m0p1jor
6.0 drops grapefruit seed extract (GSE) (anti-oxidant) tidd.ly/3hu2bK7
0.54 fl.oz essential oil peppermint sovrn.co/vx40841
Equipment
Soap molds tidd.ly/3zhoQWr
Immersion blender sovrn.co/x3my12k
Pyrex/Stainless steel bowl sovrn.co/11fys73
Heat-proof jug for lye solution sovrn.co/6wtj2ip
Pitcher nurturesoap.com/collections/s...
Digital scale tidd.ly/3xmle55
Kitchen thermometer sovrn.co/1yulzp9
Measuring spoons nurturesoap.com/collections/s...
Rubber spatulas sovrn.co/3an2ot1
Cup (for after trace ingredients) sovrn.co/v5phro9
Safety Mask sovrn.co/6p0jf3z
Safety Gloves tidd.ly/3GacgH2
Safety Goggles tidd.ly/3lCgO0U - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Hello
Can I add sodium lactate after I mixed lye and oils?
For example after light trace - before medium trace?
Thank you for the video.
Hello asyadangelenadam. Sodium lactate is added to lye water for best effect as a soap hardener. For other properties, for example, as an humectant, it might perform better added during trace. Still, if you forgot to add sodium lactate to your lye water, most likely it will still work as a soap hardener if added during trace just maybe not so well. But be aware I've never tried to use it during or after trace. I've exchanged sodium lactate with table salt lately as a soap hardener because it's much cheaper and available and it works as well.
Hi! Quick question, can I use sodium lactate in place of lye to harden my (coconut oil/shea butter) soap?
Hello miss_mumzy, not sure if I understood exactly what is your question. You can add sodium lactate to harden soap but not replace lye with sodium lactate.
Lye is a basic ingredient to make soap, meaning that you must have lye to make soap. This is not optional. Even with hard oils like coconut oil and shea butter, you need lye to make soap.
Lye is calculated to react with the oils, therefore, the amount of lye, water and oils must be respected, or else your soap might be ruined. Several issues come with adding too much oil or too much lye. The most dangerous is when you have too much lye, your soap can irritate your skin, or even make small chemical burns, since lye is a corrosive substance.
Besides, with a soap made with coconut oil and shea butter you don't need a substance to harden your soap, It will be naturally hard since you're using hard oils (solid oils and room temp.).
You will have to be carefull with soap acceleration though, since a soap with 100% hard oils easily accelerates trace (it gets solid too fast). Use temperatures near 30ºC and use your immersion blender very carefully, with very few pulses and more manual mixing.
If you have more questions, let me know!
Cheers.
The noise that was used as music is disturbing.
If I were 2 add citric acid do I put the sodium lactate or citric acid in first?
Hello Mrs. Canary, and thanks for watching this channel. If you mix them all well with the lye water, in the end, I don't think it really makes a difference about the order. I've made soap adding sodium lactate before and after adding lye to the water. Didn't find any significant difference. Sodium lactate doesn't seem sensitive to temperature either.
However, I'd add the citric acid first, but because this is going to react with the lye (be consumed by it to create sodium citrate, the chelator we want) and adding it first, gives time to be properly consumed.
Hope this helps!
@@HerbAlcochete perfectly explained thank you
Can I put turmeric powder to replace your colora?
Hello and thanks for your interest in this video. Yes, you can add turmeric as a natural colorant, it will give your soap a pinkish-orange to dark orange color depending on the turmeric quality and amount you add.
I have a recipe of turmeric soap: th-cam.com/video/ytR4ecqFT5k/w-d-xo.html
and my blog post about it is here: herbalcochete.com/turmeric-and-ylang-ylang-soap-recipe/
Hope this helps!!
Hi, is it possible to not mix the colourant , and have two colours in the soap? Or do you have to have to 2 different batch to have two different types of colour? Just wanted to know please 😊
You would have to spilt the batch you made a color them separately then re add them
@@kcirtap9575 thank you for answering :) does this method also apply when you add two different type of essential oils, just wanted to know please??
Hello MissEcstasy. If I understood you correctly, you want to know if you need to split a batch of soap to add different aromas in the same soap? When using different essential oils in soap, soapmakers usually make blends, a mixture of different aromas than creates a new, unique fragrance. Also, some essential oils work better than others in soap. If you add different essential oils to splitted batches of soap that will be "mixed" later on, I think the aromas will blend together anyway. So, it's unnecessary work, you don't need to do it. Splitting batches of soap only makes sense for different colors, as you can make layers or color swirls: you will be able to see the different colors in the soap. Hope this answered your question!
@@HerbAlcochetehi, if I replace the water with aloe vera extract, lemon juice or rice milk and add sodium lactate is there a adverse effect?
You're video encouraging to soap starters. What is the purity of Sodium lactate solution.
Hello Naresh, thanks for your comment :) This one I am using is 60% sodium lactate, 40% water. I've heard you can use kitchen salt with the same hardening effect as sodium lactate and I intend to explore it, as sodium lactate is somehow expensive.
Please answer I will thanks
I may take a couple of days, but you can count with a reply to any question in this channel :) Feel free to ask more questions!
Cheers.
You didn't mentioned the qty??
Hello and thanks for your comment. It is not a recipe, it's a tutorial (and an old one by now), there are no quantities to mention. If you wish to see recipes, please, browse the channel for more recent recipes, I have several soap recipes with quantities. Cheers.
Hi Mam
For 1kg oil - how much of sodium lactate?
Kindly mention in grms
Certainly. For 1Kg oils that would be 9g. I use 1 teaspoon per 450g of oil. Hope it helps :)
@@HerbAlcochete thank you mam
Sodium lactate quantity please Please
Hello @meghlanasrin691 thanks for your interest in this video! I use 1 tsp (around 4ml) for 450g or 1 pound of oils. You can replace sodium lactate with fine salt (cheaper) with little difference in the final soap quality. Hope this helps!
Thanks for ur reply.
What’s benefits of sodium lactate in soap?
Hello Farah, thanks for your interesting question. Sodium lactate's is a salt solution with the main benefit of hardening soap.
When you use many liquid oils, soap tends to take a long time to harden. Sodium lactate allow the soap to harden and unmold faster. You can also do it with other salts, but the behaviour is more unpredictable.
Hope this answers your question!
@@HerbAlcochete thank you my dear god bless you
@@HerbAlcochete is that possible to use sodium lactate in hot process ?
@@abdinegash6208 Hello. I haven't tried to make hot process soap yet, but I've read recently that sodium lactate is not just a hardener substance for soap: it also is an emmolient and adds foam to soap.
For hot process it's a very handy substance to add at the end of cooking as the soap becomes more fluid to mold. To answer directly to your question, yes it is possible and you should do it. You can check more information about sodium lactate in this link: nurturesoap.com/products/sodium-lactate?aff=411
Pretty good overall picture of the process for ppl who are just curious as well as someone wanting to start soapmaking. Pretty sure you realize you forgot the first step...safety goggles and gloves!
Hello Debbie and thanks for watching and for your comment, I appreciate it.
At 0.21 it is mentioned to not forget about safety goggles and gloves. It is true that I don't give detailed instructions on the why about it, but there is also a video in this channel entirely dedicated to safety instructions. Actually, this video is part of a recipe post, where I complement with links to the safety instructions video, how to make lye water, etc.
I simply don't "link" it here in TH-cam, but I take your comment as a suggestion that I should take this into account: I am going to advise people to go check my blog before trying the recipe :)
I'm guessing you didn't see the part of the video where they were wearing gloves...
Debbie Downer🙊
@@HerbAlcochete sorry, I missed where you advise to use goggles and gloves at the start. Great video!
@@pinkjely-bean4582 see my comment to her.