How to spot emulsion, and why that makes your soaping journey easier | Day 50/365
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
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Today we are focusing on emulsion. Side note: it’s currently 108 degrees and 97 degrees in my house (construction and addition, and literal walls and windows missing right now), and my brain is fried like the egg we cooked on top of a car today. Also did cookies inside the car - it was a fun time. Albeit hot. Anyway, point - we are in a heat wave, my brain is not super working, and I feel slow. Cut me some slack today, por favor. Love you!
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I literally just threw a shirt on over my swimsuit to do this face vid. It’s so hot.
The heat is supposed to break tonight. There's a sweaty light at the end of the tunnel finally...
“Pull out your stick and check the head” “ Pull out your tools and check”😂😂. I am such a child too!🤣
@@cliviascreations excuse you but Arizona has the air conditioning infrastructure to survive that kind of heat. The pacific northwest, on the other hand, does not. You can run your AC and day after day it handles the load. My friend up here had his die out after only a couple days of continuous high 90s and 100s. Further because our summer weather has historically been much milder, it's incredibly uncommon actually find housing, rental or owned, that even HAS central air conditioning. Thus this uncharacteristic heat is literally killing people up here. It couldn't be prepared for any better than say, the freeze in Texas. Sure had government and private bodies been prepping for years, we'd be fine. But that was not the case and people are suffering. It's incredibly disrespectful to try to play the misery comparison game and gatekeep who has it bad. We can all be suffering in our relative positions and empathize with each other.
No bickering! I actually felt so bad for the planet today - when hot weather exists, both water and electricity are overworked and it’s not doing anyone any favors. I also remember living in AZ and refusing to turn on my air because I was stubborn. 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay My apologies. Not my channel, I should behave. Misery comparison gatekeeping is a *thing* with me but I should still control myself.
She Blinded Me with Science!...😜 thanks for this important information. 😃
Wow I actually learnt what emulsion is and looks like - thank you for a great explanation and demonstration!
I think this is how I originally found you - another emulsion video and it changed my soaping world! Visuals like these, with multiple examples, are so useful! A trace video would also be great particularly for newbies since trace can seem like an elusive concept when others explain it in a way that assumes "you should know this". It's not as hot here (only 95) but the humidity is ridiculous. I walked the dog at 6am and got back home and was drenched. I can't believe the PNW is hitting triple digits! Stay cool! Good luck with the kidlets! Summer is tough! Only having one, I'm breaking up arguments between her and the dog.
That’s so funny about the kids… i as a single mom of 2 and raising an additional teen boy, Literally by day 2 of summer break I had a reality check meeting. ME: “ ok! Let’s get this straight, 1: I’m not the activities director.
2: nor am I able to make anyone stop breathing on you or looking at you.
3: what I am is a full time worker, short order cook, 24/7 laundromat, the maid, taxi, dishwasher, and the dogs pooper scooper.
SOO unless your looking to arguing your way into become a dishwasher, pooper scooper, laundry person or yard & garden maintenance person,,,, may I suggest you find your roller blades, bikes, tennis rackets, basketballs, skateboards.. etc.” didn’t hear a peep for weeks then that wore off and they became -insert chore here- persons..
lol what I wouldn’t do to have them that young again… enjoy the controlled madness, because someday it will turn in deafening silence…
Not that this has anything with today’s soaping video, it just brought up a beautiful memory.
😳😂
And yes, please would love to see that video as well !!
Omg! Thank you. I’ve been obsessed with mixing to light trace. And my soap seizes up so bad. No matter what I’ve tried.
I usually take my soap batter to a thick 'pudding' stage. Not because I want it that thick, but because I'm always nervous about undermixing. This is helpful. Thanks.
Me too 🤣 I’m guessing with time we will trust the emulsion process
Nice kingdom hearts keys on the back wall. This video helped a lot. You’re a wealth of knowledge
Not Kingdom Hearts, but that’s a great series as well!
@@MrsSoapAndClay oh 🫢
Excellent information for me. New soap maker and really enjoying.
Yay! Thanks! I worked for a wood company and Johnny the thoughts during meetings. My boss would just look at me with a little grin, she got me. I get you! LOL
Thanks so much for this video. I am reasonably new to soap making an this one has answered a question that I have struggled with. I can't wait to view the many, many more videos.
Check your stick and head often. Bwhahahahaha. Love it.
I love when you do these types of videos. All the learnings.
Hahaha, my mind lives in the gutter too 🤣
Came back here after your more recent video about trace. Thanks so much for these, gamer sudsers unite 🤓
I adore you and you truthful conversation. Gotta love kids!
And your scientific explanations really help.
Thankyou!
It has been humid here too last week here in Sittingbourne, Kent UK. It rained and just felt more humid. It eased off on Tuesday and it’s not so humid today, Thursday 1 July.
Thank u! You are a great teacher 👩🏫
Glad to see someone else on my wavelength…. Perhaps a group activity or starting them on their own hobbies might help…
Love this thanks so much! I always have problems with pure coconut soap because my stick blender is white. The tip on holding it up for at least 20s should help me out!
Omg... your comment had me laughing my head off. Loved it.🤣🤣 hope you get rid of your headache. I'm living in the same heat that you are down here in Oregon. And I feel like I'm melting.
I mean, we are very spoiled up here. I get that. But we specialize in rain - we aren’t built for this!
@@MrsSoapAndClay I'm not built for it either. And after the past three days I always thought 90s were bad now I'm looking forward to it.
I’m legit staying up tonight until I FEEL that 80 degree weather they have promised. Not that staying up will be hard - I haven’t slept since this heat wave started! 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay wish I could stay up. But my alarm clock will go off at 5 a.m.🙄
Thank you for sharing! 🥰😘
Thank You this helped me a great deal with ricing!!! Merci
Yes definitely!! I'm in!
Watched this three times before I got the joke. You are hilarious! Learned how to spot emulsion in the process. Getting ready to make the leap to cold process from M&P, for the holiday weekend. Independence Day, truly. Thank you so much!
This was sooo helpful! I moved from your area 7 years ago. I miss the PNW but not at 112 degrees! I love your videos. I opened a little shop almost 2 months ago now. Will you be doing some business tips? Thank you!
Hey! I have a few lives and end of week business things coming up - get your questions ready!
Thank you for sharing. I am the king of over mixing.
Always look forward to seeing your videos.
Ahhhhh I got it now. Ten batches later lol. Thank you🙏🏾
Yo I feel you!!!! My nephew lives with us and him and my daughter are battling like Spartans everyday! So yes, I created a summer study program and mandatory outside time with art projects in between. I noticed a big difference in behavior! Now they appreciate the down time with each other a LITTLE more. I still kept it simple. Some math, reading and writing with some science and geography sprinkled through. Just enough to curve some of that energy.
Good luck!!
Gotta make sure that summer learning slump doesn’t happen this year!
One more tested tip! (Because this has been an issue in my house since the pandemic started!) I find that some individual play time helps with the tension. At first they would lay on the floor in whatever room they were in and complain but eventually they started playing with something and a hour would pass and they would want to play with each other again. It gives them a chance to miss each other.
Children thrive on a schedule, it's true. Sounds like you're a pro, Ms Norris.
THANK YOU! I have been looking for just exactly this - up close, repetitive and perfect for how I learn. Thank you again!
16:10 bahaha! Once as a dental assistant, another gal was showing me how to work with a new cement and we were making a gentleman's temporary crown about to cement it. She said to me "just play with it until it gets hard and then you know it's ready" the guy in the chair lost it... then so did we. There are so many double meanings out there and you just have to make sure you're not in the wrong place at the wrong time when it strikes your funny nerve! 😅🤣
Yeah I would’ve giggled at that too. 😂
You always teach us so much. Can't wait for the video about unemulsified batter poured into soap molds!!! That paired with over blended batter would be cool.
My god, if I blended my soap this long, it would be in chunks. I rarely get in more than 20 seconds & then I'm scrambling to get all of my additives in. No matter what I do, low temperatures, high temperatures, mid temperatures, blending to emulsion, adding my essential oils before / after emulsion, you name it - I end up plopping my soap in my molds. Absolutely makes me nuts. All I want is a fluid batter....is that too much to ask?
My soaps turn out really well with really nice, creamy, abundant lather, the way I love them. No problems with separating, no issues with oils pooling, no lye spots, no ashy tops, colors are vibrant, no issues with gelling (they always gel), no crumbling, no overly soft or hard soaps, no orange spots, my essential oil blends are well anchored....but I have so many designs I wish to do that are NOT happening because my batter is thickening up so fast, every single time. I'm capable of this, I have done it before many times, so I just don't understand it.
Is it possible that the elevation I'm at has something to do with it? Is it possible that because I use sodium lactate that this is happening? These are the only 2 things which have changed over the years of me making soap.
Thanks so much for the video....I feel ya on the kids screaming at each other....now that they're grown they're more likely to scream at me than at each other LOL
Why don’t you try moving to hand mixing a batch or two to see if you can spot when the soap hits emulsion? If you love the finished product but want more working time, I would consider that, or adding more water to the batch. Elevation is not a factor I’ve considered!
Thank you! Okay I’m ready to go play with my new soap tools today! Thank you for all of your experiences and videos. ❤❤❤❤ thank you for getting me excited about soap again!
Great tips!!
Thanks for sharing! Stay cool and hydrated.
BTW...I saw, THE Quentin episode last night 😭😭.
Oh my god wasn’t it just the saddest?!?!
@@MrsSoapAndClayYes, it was. But it was soooo good!
I'm totally geeking out right now because of all of your defences to dressing making. That's where I've lived for decades, in the dressings and sauces and everything about the chemistry of feeding faces. In a dressing you need an acid (lemon juice or vinegar) to get that emulsion to hold for more than a few seconds. The fireworks in my head are exclaiming does the lye, being caustic, and enabling emulsion to happen... Does changing the pH have something to do with getting that emulsion?
And also, I have made mayonnaise on the weekly for a decade or so. Since I started making soap, I say to myself, "my mayo is emulsified, I'm not stopping until it's at a medium-thick trace." And when I'm making soap, it feels totally unnatural to stop before I get to medium trace. Except when I'm soaping in the winter at 65°, and barely emulsified looks like medium-thick trace anyway.
Ha! Yeah it would be tough to remember what you’re making - Mayo DOES need to be thicker, soap does not. 😂 For the lye bit - it acts as both the emulsifier AND the catalyst for saponification, which makes it super cool. Science actually IS all around us!
Thank you once again for all the information and yes I would love to see the trace video
Why did I not get notified until today? I missed 6 days. 😥
For real. Love your kids all you want, but Parenthood is a fine balance between "Look at this amazing person I created!," and "Why is it wrong to eat your young? Other species do it, and they continue to evolve, so mayyybee.. Nah." Ok, I got a pour to watch..
That’s a whole mood. 😂
Thank you! This was Fantastic. When your stirring with your hand mixer is it going or not going
Mostly when I’m stirring, the stick is not mixing. Good question!
Thank you soo much for this. I had to toss out my last batch because I am pretty sure I had false trace(it tricked me. Not nice) so yea I'm voting for the trace video. Your comments are hilarious. Not dirty but dirty. Haha.
Dont throw it next time
Rrebatch and Cook it 😍
@@mvelenagarcia whaaaat!!
Take the failed soap, put it in a crockpot or a doble boiler and Cook it
@@mvelenagarcia I'll have to check that out next time. I did not know you could do that. See ya learn something new everyday. I love the soap community. Not selfish with information to us newbies. Thank you
Newbie myself. Second batch was a disaster, thats when I learned
A few batches ago I started looking for info like this. I pieced together some of your year 1 videos and soaping 101 videos to understand this concept. It has elevated my crafting fun to a better level. And gave me lots of extra working time. My first few recipes I took to a thicker light trace and oops...
The other day I did my Pride soap? I hit emulsion SOOOOOO fast that it scared me, to be honest. I was terrified I had false trace. But it held and I made soap and got soap!
Edit to ask: do butters (like cocoa butter) increase probability of soda ash?
Soda ash is really the lye coming in contact with air, so either a hard to saponify oil or a soap that hasn’t been fully emulsified is the culprit. Cocoa butter is pretty middle of the road for ease of saponification, so it’s unlikely to be the primary culprit of soda ash.
@@MrsSoapAndClay hmm. Okay! Thank you!
Hey hey hey. On this day in 1986 Labyrinth opened! You probably already know lol
Clever mama! My girls are 7 & 9 and at each other's throats. I think you're onto something! Now, if I hadn't just got mega pounds of cocoa butter "wafers" delivered on the hottest day of the year in the PNW today... lol, sigh
My liquid lotions melted in the house today. 😂😭
@@MrsSoapAndClay Hah!
@@MrsSoapAndClay oh dear. I'm scared to open the lotion bar can I put mine in. >_
Stick it in the fridge, open when the world makes sense again. Or at least the weather world. 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay 🤣 Have I ever told you that I love your sense of humor and comments? Thankfully since I used beeswax in the making its just a bit shiny but not a puddle.
I meant to ask my emulsion question here and did it in the "What is Trace" video. :D
The stick blender jokes had me cracking!! LOL!
Great video as always, got to go and practice to get that emulsion point!
Ever since I changed my recipe (lard, olive and coconut at 30% each and castor 10%) I reach emulsion very fast and sometimes I cannot do complicated swirls because when I'm going to pour I'm already at medium trace, even when I stopped stick blending it at "emulsion", I mean I like my soaps and kinda given up on swirls by now, but sometimes I yearn for those pretty soaps with fluid batter... LOL
I do have an off topic question: what are those little squares on your wall the one on your right shoulder and the other one that is where the keys were?
Try hand whisking, or increasing your water! The squares are shadow boxes from Michael’s, and the keys inside one are from Borderlands (a video game), and the card inside the other is from a table game my mom brought out for the family to play on xmas. I stole that card from the deck to save the family, because it was something that would have caused hilarity, trauma, and fights. 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay thanks for the tip, I do a discount of 10% of my water, will do with the full water. With the whisking I’m always unsure if I reach emulsion and I end up sticking the blender in... maybe I should try the other way around and first give it a few bursts with the stickblender and then the whisk! 🤔😅
And thanks for answering me all my questions. 😁😘
I have a question. Would it be best to add fragrance, so that it stays in the soap, when the soap batter reaches emulsion?
Why do I get so many bubbles attempting this. Also any suggestions trying keep my mica color?
at 15:20.. you show 2 other containers... a clear liquid and a white powder.. what are those? Colorant and your EO?
My soaps get to trace SOOOOOO FAST... like within 90seconds easy... and are barely pourable. I believe its the 3% beeswax i add...
I suggest hand stirring if you’re having issues getting to trace too quickly. It was likely the scent and the clay that you’re asking about.
Hey there! This may sound like a silly question and I apologize in advance, but can you OVER emulsify? I'm new subscriber and only been watching your videos so I don't get more confused than I already am 😂. The lye part is a little intimidating for me and I just want to make sure it is really incorporated. If you can over emulsify, is the batter ruined?
Hi! So once you hit emulsion, the soap becomes soap no matter what. Overmixing just means that you have very thick batter that is more difficult to work with for design purposes, but it’s not ruined.
@@MrsSoapAndClay thank you so much!!
I’m sorry the sun dragged it’s balls across the Pacific Northwest. Hope it cools off soon.
Ha ha ha 😆
I think you're sweet, cute and funny, just wanted to let you know