I use orange essential oil as well. That's a great tip to share with everyone. You have a charming personality Ms. Ellen. Don't ever apologize for your lovely tangents!
Thank you for putting this on TH-cam. I have been looking for a recipe for this and I am so excited to try this. I bought 1 bar at my healthfood store over 8 dollars! Thank you and God bless you!
I love tangents LOL! My brain relates 😂 Yes on the added olive oil!! The pure coconut I made was just too drying on my farm hands!! Thank you for sharing AND all the extra effort you put in! Really appreciate it!
My friend gave me 6 used jam jars today and I was almost quitting trying to remove the stickers, then I started to watch your video and you just helped me..I got my orange essential oil out and was able to remove everything in a small amount of time. I'm also going to change my dish bar recipe to yours cause I have soap residue in mine. Thank you so much.
Hello Ellen, Thank you for your lovely video.I love your videos. I made this dish soap,it came out perfectly well.I have used in my kitchen it is awesome with plenty of lather .Thank you once again for sharing this video with recipe . please can you share triple buter soap recipe . Thank you 😘
Very nice Ellen, I like to add citrusy EO to my dish soap as well, usually I combine orange, lemon and lime, but your blend is calling me, anything with eucalyptus is good to me, thank you for sharing
When I make dish soap I use Real orange or lemon zest shave small into batch really good men's shop or home cleaning hands soap as well as dish soap. I add more castor oil no stearic acid or lactate. I find olive oil is good for hands but definitely makes soap softer
I love tangents too!! I think the best, most helpful tips come on the heels of tangents😉😄 Thank you! For the video and the recipe! I'm definitely going to make some! I love watching your videos, you have some clever ideas, I've learned a lot from you & I love that you talk!! ❤
Gosh, you have a great personality and beautiful voice, face and laugh ❤ I always use orange oil to remove sticker goo! Thanks for the recipe! Can I use just olive? I have an allergy to coconut.
Hi Ellen this is a great recipe thanks. Do you have any plans for a dishwasher powder or tablet recipe as I've tried your clothes washing powder and liquid it is a fav of mine now.
I love this and would like to make some, but when you say you are working on Room Deperature, what di you mean. When making cold process soap, don't we need to warm up the oils for the right temperature and also the lye? Can you be so kind to explain this. Thank you!
You do need to warm the oils to melt them. I like to let them cool a bit and have the lye solution at room temp or so... 80 degrees is my favorite temp to soap at.
Thank you for the recipe. I just made these today. Im a beginner and even though I followed the recipe mine came out with white spots all over. I looked it up and it says its stearic acid spots aka my temp was too low. Was I supposed to warm the oils or the distilled water before mixing?
Thank you for this video. I plan to make this dish soap soon. As a hobby soap maker, I still consider myself a beginner. I need to scale down the recipe and calculated that 9 oz of water is 27% of the 33 oz total oils. In my lye calculator, do I check off "Water as percentage oils" and enter 27%? That seems very low. Thank you in advance for your guidance on this.
Thank you so much for your videos, you are so inspiring! I just made these and I soaped too hot so they kinda volcanoed in my molds. Lesson learned :) I have a quick question about PH, if I test right after putting them in the mold and they've hardened a bit should the PH be around 9 or will it be higher right off then lower after they have set & they're actually ready to unmold?
This looks like a great recipe and cannot wait to try it. One question though, due to the high coconut and 0 superfat for this recipe, do you still wait 4-6 weeks to cure?
Thank you for this video and recipe. I am making this today. I am excited 😄. Just want you to know that the chemicals in the ph test strips are toxic. So don’t get it on your skin.
Been looking for a good dish bar formula. I have some clients with coconut allergies, do you have a good recommendation for a different oil besides coconut for a good hard bar. I'm a coconut oil fiend but am trying to accommodate some sensitive clients.
I know this video is a couple years old but I just started making cold process soap for our business about a year ago and we want to add a solid dish soap to our line. But we wondering if you have to use a food grade lye for dish soap rather than the regular lye you use when making CP?
If I didn't want to add essential oils to this, would it be ok to add ground lemon and/or orange peels? Do you think it would leave bits of stuff behind, or would the scent even come through that way?
I'm not sure how fine a powder your citrus peels are, but I would think they would add some grit to the finished bar. You can just leave it unscented...
I am a very beginner on making soap and want to learn it so bad (not for business) so last night I tried this recipe. I used same molds (bought them from you a package of flowers and two round bars) but I got two bars more than you 😏. So I found out that my scale (etekcity) has oz. Lb oz. G. Ml. (Water/milk). Fl’oz (water/milk). Which one should I use oz or fl’oz?
Hello Ellen, thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I have tried a very small quantity (200g 😉) and I had a funny surprise: a few minutes after pouring the soaps in the moulds, they started to react like small volcanoes 😳🤣. I am a beginner and as I have read that if we use Stearic Acid it needs a hotter soaping temperature (at least 160 ° F) to make sure it stays melted ... Does the mistake come from that? Thank you so much again for all your videos, I learn a lot with you, and from my mistakes too, haha 😅
I love your videos. I made this recipe but my stearic acid may not have dissolved all the way. So is my soap still good? I took it out of the mold today and have it curing. Thank you.
Where did you purchase these fantastic brushes? I also saw the shave soap and love the little metal cups with handles if your willing to share i would love to know where those came from too! :)
hi and im sorry im new to this but i do like it .i have a question about that acid u used .well im not english native so to say and when i translate to my lingo makes no sence .so chemical formula of something would be good tyvm .but bloody i will try .1s u buy in shop is crap .sorry
Hi Ellen! I have a question... could I do this with hot process? Either in a crockpot or "high-temp hp"? I do mostly hot process soaping. Thanks so much and I love your videos! :)♥
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you for your reply! I guess the main reason I asked is because you said that it sets up so fast and you know how sometimes HP soap can get pretty thick anyway... even tho I "try" to make my HP pretty fluid. If I do try it HP I will let you know how it goes :) May just stick to CP this first time. Thanks again!
I notice you have 2 dish soap recipe. One with coconut + castor + olive and the other coconut + olive + rice bran oil. Which one is your favourite and which is more gentle to your hands? I dont use glove when I wash dishes so looking for dish soap recipe that doesn't dry the hands.
Hi Ellen, so, I just boiled down some dark beer, now when you made your lye solution with it, did you freeze it, or did you just make it after it cooled all the way down?
I made some of the solid dish soap and the color is weird. I didn't use any fragrance or essential oils. Most of the bar is a light tan color and then at the top of the bar (what was exposed to the air) is a layer of white. I just pulled them out of the molds and haven't tested the pH yet because I was curious as to why it looks the way it does. Do you know?
I would like to incorporate hemp seed oil and was thinking I could modify the olive oil from 4 oz to 2 oz and add 2 oz hemp seed oil. Would this change the outcome significantly?
I'm a new soap maker, I have 2 questions, first question when adding all the oils for soap calculator do I add the 2 ounces for essential oil? Can you tell me what is the lye concentration or water lye ratio for this recipe. Thank you
Good quesitons. No you don't need to add the essential oil to the volume of oils. Most calculators will have a scent % area. For this recipe, because it's fast moving, I recommend the full water amount at 38%.
Thank you for taking the time, I appreciate your help. I am trying to put your recipe into the calculator and the numbers don't match. I will keep trying. Thank you for sharing your recipe too.
Would this recipe be able to use a certain percentage of goat milk instead of all water or what would you suggest? Im having a hard time finding a recipe
Hi Ellen, i live in India and my weighing scale just says 'Oz'. The ounce you're using here is the US fl ounce? And does it matter? Also, how important is it to check the temperature while making soaps? Thank you.
If you change any oils in a CP soap recipe, it's a new recipe and you'll need to run the numbers thru a soap calculator to make sure the lye ratio is correct.
I tried making this recipe today and I stirred way too long and it got super hard so I can’t put it in my molds. Is there a way to heat it up again or can I not do that with the lie already mixed in?
At this point the only option would be to grate it up, add a touch more water and melt it down like a rebatch. It'll still be great soap, just not super smooth looking.
I made this tonight but forgot the sodium lactate and sugar, will it still be hard and at least a little bubbly? I can grate it down and rebatch it and add the sodium lactate if I need to.
Hi-I’m a beginner soap maker. I followed this recipe exactly but my soap crumbled when I tried to cut it into bars. Any ideas on what went wrong & do I have to throw out the batch? Thanks!
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I use orange essential oil as well. That's a great tip to share with everyone. You have a charming personality Ms. Ellen. Don't ever apologize for your lovely tangents!
Thank you 🥰
Thank you for putting this on TH-cam. I have been looking for a recipe for this and I am so excited to try this. I bought 1 bar at my healthfood store over 8 dollars! Thank you and God bless you!
Unrelated to this soap but I'm using your Aleppo style currently. It's PHENOM! Thanks so much for making incredible soaps affordable.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for your videos - and for always explaining what the ingrediens actually does. 🌸🤗
This is great Ellen, ty. I’m going to make this so my kids can stop wasting all my dish soap.
Hope you enjoy
I love tangents LOL! My brain relates 😂 Yes on the added olive oil!! The pure coconut I made was just too drying on my farm hands!! Thank you for sharing AND all the extra effort you put in! Really appreciate it!
🥰 Thanks for watching!
My friend gave me 6 used jam jars today and I was almost quitting trying to remove the stickers, then I started to watch your video and you just helped me..I got my orange essential oil out and was able to remove everything in a small amount of time. I'm also going to change my dish bar recipe to yours cause I have soap residue in mine. Thank you so much.
That is awesome!❣️
Hello Ellen, Thank you for your lovely video.I love your videos. I made this dish soap,it came out perfectly well.I have used in my kitchen it is awesome with plenty of lather .Thank you once again for sharing this video with recipe . please can you share triple buter soap recipe . Thank you 😘
Very nice Ellen, I like to add citrusy EO to my dish soap as well, usually I combine orange, lemon and lime, but your blend is calling me, anything with eucalyptus is good to me, thank you for sharing
Love your blend of essential oils! Citrus is so fresh smelling!
Just love your vids Ellen :-) thank you - as always - for sharing! You're a super-sweet soap lady!!
You are so welcome!
Awesome idea
You are an amazing person and such a beautiful soul...
Thank you so much!
I was definitely meant to see this❤
When I make dish soap I use Real orange or lemon zest shave small into batch really good men's shop or home cleaning hands soap as well as dish soap.
I add more castor oil no stearic acid or lactate. I find olive oil is good for hands but definitely makes soap softer
I made these, and they turned out great! I use it every day in my own kitchen. Thanks for sharing. I just love your videos!
That’s awesome ❣️ I’m so glad you’re enjoying them!
I was hoping to hear some feedback on this. I plan to make some for myself and family.
@@ODNA07079 Everyone I gave a bar to loves it!
Thanks!
I like to use orange essential oil in my dish bars too. These bars look beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I love the smell of orange E.O.
The only time I used stearic acid it didn't turn out well. Will have to give it another try. Thanks for the video! 😀
Great video😊
When you dropped the soap in the water I was like... 😲 lol. I want to try a dish soap one of these days. That brush is really cute too.
🤣 thanks 🥰
Very nice, I like these dish soap bars and I love orange 🧡 scent!!
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Thank you the soap looks wonderful and in my family this recipe is going to be greatly appreciated
Glad you enjoyed the video 🥰
I learn sooo sooo much from your videos. Thank you so much for continuing to share for us all to enjoy and learn from. So very appreciated. Thanks!!!
🥰 thank you for watching, and for your sweet words 💕
Muchísimas gracias Ellen,desde Buenos Aires te mando muchos cariños
Thank you!
Thank you Ellen for sharing your recipe and video
You're welcome 🥰
I love tangents too!! I think the best, most helpful tips come on the heels of tangents😉😄
Thank you! For the video and the recipe! I'm definitely going to make some! I love watching your videos, you have some clever ideas, I've learned a lot from you & I love that you talk!! ❤
🥰 thank you so much for watching 💕
I love Coconut oil bars for cleaning they do such an amazing job. I use it to clean all my soaping equipment. Thanks for the video 🙏
Yes! Thank you!
Gosh, you have a great personality and beautiful voice, face and laugh ❤ I always use orange oil to remove sticker goo! Thanks for the recipe! Can I use just olive? I have an allergy to coconut.
Olive oil isn't the best for cleansing, it's a very conditioning type lather.
Thank you for sharing. I love your videos ❤️
Thanks for watching!💕
I love it 🥰
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Great video! Great product! Thanks for sharing 💖
Thanks for watching 🥰
Thankyou for sharing. I’m going to try this. Can I use a blended essential oil say like “calm”? I’m thinking it might calm me when I do dishes 😂😂
Yes, I think any essential oil blend that you like would be great in this.
I love your tangents! Just be you and dont worry about it.i love your hair in this video🙂
Thank you so much!!🥰
Helen as always you come up trumps. 🥰🇬🇧
I love this video, just waiting for my ingredients to arrive to make it. Do you stamp your dish soaps prior to curing?
I don't stamp the round soaps😉
Thank you. @@EllenRuthSoap
Hi Ellen this is a great recipe thanks. Do you have any plans for a dishwasher powder or tablet recipe as I've tried your clothes washing powder and liquid it is a fav of mine now.
I've been asked several times about dishwasher soap, so now I'm researching... TBA😉
@@EllenRuthSoap great to know I'm well watching that one, I've binge watch everything you make.
I'll have to try this. Just need to get some steric acid ordered. Thanks Ellen for sharing
Have fun soaping 🥰❣️
Thank you for the great video Ellen! Do I have to wait 4-6 weeks to use like with other soap?
They will last longer with a full cure time.
I love this and would like to make some, but when you say you are working on Room Deperature, what di you mean. When making cold process soap, don't we need to warm up the oils for the right temperature and also the lye? Can you be so kind to explain this. Thank you!
You do need to warm the oils to melt them. I like to let them cool a bit and have the lye solution at room temp or so... 80 degrees is my favorite temp to soap at.
Thank you so much. I have tried buying solid dish soap online and it always seemed to oily for me. I’m going to give this a try.
Hope you like it!
Awesome 😎 thanks for sharing. Where did you get the brushes from so cute 🥰
They’re available in my shop😉
Thank you for the recipe. I just made these today. Im a beginner and even though I followed the recipe mine came out with white spots all over. I looked it up and it says its stearic acid spots aka my temp was too low. Was I supposed to warm the oils or the distilled water before mixing?
Yes, it's important to make sure all the oils are melted. I like to soap at about 80 degrees
Lovely 😊
I’ve made 100% coconut oil dish soap and it left some pretty harsh residue and spots.
Do you find it with this recipe?
No, I've found this recipe with the essential oils rinses nice and clean.
@@EllenRuthSoap
Fantastic:) I just may give it a shot, thank you!
Love your videos! Can I omit the stearic acid? Thanks
That would be a different recipe, so you'd need to run the numbers thru soap calc...
Thank you for this video. I plan to make this dish soap soon. As a hobby soap maker, I still consider myself a beginner. I need to scale down the recipe and calculated that 9 oz of water is 27% of the 33 oz total oils. In my lye calculator, do I check off "Water as percentage oils" and enter 27%? That seems very low. Thank you in advance for your guidance on this.
I do a steep water discount when I soap. But you can adjust the water % to whatever you're comfortable with.
Wonderful, gorgeous!😉 Ellen where do I go to ask a personal question?? TIA
Hi Ellen.. I just bought my Stearic Acid.. may I know how do you dissolve stearic acid for making this soap? Thank youu.
You melt it in with the oils😉
Wonderful🤗!!! Can I use something else instrad of the stearic acid?
You can omit the stearic, just run the # thru soap calc😉
Thank you so much for your videos, you are so inspiring! I just made these and I soaped too hot so they kinda volcanoed in my molds. Lesson learned :) I have a quick question about PH, if I test right after putting them in the mold and they've hardened a bit should the PH be around 9 or will it be higher right off then lower after they have set & they're actually ready to unmold?
They are still saponifying for the first 48 hours, so the pH test won't be accurate until after that..
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you so much!!!
This looks like a great recipe and cannot wait to try it. One question though, due to the high coconut and 0 superfat for this recipe, do you still wait 4-6 weeks to cure?
Yes, I still cure for 4-6 weeks.
She said one week
Thank you for this video and recipe. I am making this today. I am excited 😄. Just want you to know that the chemicals in the ph test strips are toxic. So don’t get it on your skin.
Thanks for the heads up on the pH strips👍
Sounds and looks wonderful, just a question...do you still need to cure these like regular soaps? Thankyou 😊
Thanks! Yes, they still need a full cure time.
Been looking for a good dish bar formula. I have some clients with coconut allergies, do you have a good recommendation for a different oil besides coconut for a good hard bar. I'm a coconut oil fiend but am trying to accommodate some sensitive clients.
I haven't formulated a coconut free recipe yet...
I know this video is a couple years old but I just started making cold process soap for our business about a year ago and we want to add a solid dish soap to our line. But we wondering if you have to use a food grade lye for dish soap rather than the regular lye you use when making CP?
This is the lye I use: amzn.to/3TZuZyT
If I didn't want to add essential oils to this, would it be ok to add ground lemon and/or orange peels? Do you think it would leave bits of stuff behind, or would the scent even come through that way?
I'm not sure how fine a powder your citrus peels are, but I would think they would add some grit to the finished bar. You can just leave it unscented...
Thanks for the recipe! Can you use Goats milk soap instead of water or will it be to hot for the goats milk?
Personally I wouldn’t use goat milk in a dish soap, but you could try it and see how you like it.
thank you for the recipe i wonder if adding 2 tbs of glycerin will help with the conditioning without reducing the cleansing
I would try a small test batch to make sure it still rinses well.
I am a very beginner on making soap and want to learn it so bad (not for business) so last night I tried this recipe. I used same molds (bought them from you a package of flowers and two round bars) but I got two bars more than you 😏. So I found out that my scale (etekcity) has oz. Lb oz. G. Ml. (Water/milk). Fl’oz (water/milk). Which one should I use oz or fl’oz?
I use the oz setting
Hi Ellen, it seems like your stearic acid usage rate is 3% of total oils. Isn’t that a bit high? Thanks a lot for the great content.
It really helps the bar last longer and stay harder while wet..
Hello Ellen, thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I have tried a very small quantity (200g 😉) and I had a funny surprise: a few minutes after pouring the soaps in the moulds, they started to react like small volcanoes 😳🤣. I am a beginner and as I have read that if we use Stearic Acid it needs a hotter soaping temperature (at least 160 ° F) to make sure it stays melted ... Does the mistake come from that? Thank you so much again for all your videos, I learn a lot with you, and from my mistakes too, haha 😅
Thanks for giving the recipe a try. I've never had a soap volcano in the mold??? Perhaps try soaping at cooler temps and blending a bit longer.
@@EllenRuthSoap Thanks a lot. I will definitely try again following your advice 🌸
Hey Ellen....where did you find those small scrubbers?? I love those
They're available in my shop 😉
@@EllenRuthSoap oh yay!! I am waiting on an order from you now...it should be here any day!!!!
when you left them to sit for a day/overnight did you leave them room temperature while the sat in the mold? also where did you get your molds?
Yes, I left them at room temp overnight. There's a link for the molds in the description😉
Such a great idea! Where do you find the dish bamboo scrubby thingie?
Thanks 💕 I carry them in my shop😉
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you! I will check it out!
Hi dear thank you so much ♥️ how many days we have to wait to star using them ?
I recommend a full 4 week cure on these
@@EllenRuthSoapthank you so much♥️
I love your videos. I made this recipe but my stearic acid may not have dissolved all the way. So is my soap still good? I took it out of the mold today and have it curing. Thank you.
I would do a pH test strip on it just to make sure, but it should be fine.
@@EllenRuthSoap I sure will. Thank you so much and for answering back so quickly.
Where did you purchase these fantastic brushes? I also saw the shave soap and love the little metal cups with handles if your willing to share i would love to know where those came from too! :)
I got them both on Amazon, there's a link for the stainless mugs in my store 😉
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you :)
I got your stainless steel shaving soap for my son a while ago, and he loves it! It looks adorable too ❤! Thank you for been so creative!
Meant your stainless steel cup shaving soap!! Lol!
Hi Ellen.. do you wait 4 weeks to use it? Or just use it when ph is okay?
I do give it a full cure time. They last longer if cured for 4-6 weeks.
hi and im sorry im new to this but i do like it .i have a question about that acid u used .well im not english native so to say and when i translate to my lingo makes no sence .so chemical formula of something would be good tyvm .but bloody i will try .1s u buy in shop is crap .sorry
I used the other recipe you shared without castor oil yesterday, which one do you like the best?
I really like them both, it's hard to pick a favorite😉
Hi Ellen! I have a question... could I do this with hot process? Either in a crockpot or "high-temp hp"? I do mostly hot process soaping. Thanks so much and I love your videos! :)♥
I haven’t tried it, but I don’t see why not?❣️
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you for your reply! I guess the main reason I asked is because you said that it sets up so fast and you know how sometimes HP soap can get pretty thick anyway... even tho I "try" to make my HP pretty fluid. If I do try it HP I will let you know how it goes :) May just stick to CP this first time. Thanks again!
Hi Ellen my soaps they look very grainy is that normal? or can I put them on a saucepan and try to dissolve them in a low temperature heat
It sounds like stearic spots?? You could try to rebatch, but rebatch soap is typically pretty rustic looking..
Hello Ellen when do you use a hand steamer what’s it for please?
It shines up the tops, if they are dull or have soda ash..
Great minds think alike. I use left over bacon and hamburger grease to make dish soap and it works beautifully and the fat isn't wasted.
What a great idea❣️
I am planning to make soap with all the oil that drained from the kitchen chimney. But am confused how do I calculate the lye concentration?
I notice you have 2 dish soap recipe. One with coconut + castor + olive and the other coconut + olive + rice bran oil. Which one is your favourite and which is more gentle to your hands? I dont use glove when I wash dishes so looking for dish soap recipe that doesn't dry the hands.
I like the coconut, castor and olive best. And it's not drying on the hands😉
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you for replying! i have been following your video for quiet some time and excited to try this. Have a awesome day!
Hi Ellen, so, I just boiled down some dark beer, now when you made your lye solution with it, did you freeze it, or did you just make it after it cooled all the way down?
If you add the lye slowly, you don't need to freeze it.
How do you make lye from dark beer ?
@@laurahonea3491
You have to boil the carbonation out of it for about 20 minutes, let it cool down and you can mix your lye in slowly.
I made some of the solid dish soap and the color is weird. I didn't use any fragrance or essential oils. Most of the bar is a light tan color and then at the top of the bar (what was exposed to the air) is a layer of white. I just pulled them out of the molds and haven't tested the pH yet because I was curious as to why it looks the way it does. Do you know?
Sounds like soda ash, which won't effect the pH and it rinses off after a couple of uses.
I would like to incorporate hemp seed oil and was thinking I could modify the olive oil from 4 oz to 2 oz and add 2 oz hemp seed oil. Would this change the outcome significantly?
If you change the oils, you'll need to run it thru soap calc. Each oil has a different sap value...
I currently do not have any olive oil or coconut oil for this recipe, but how would a hemp seed oil work in place?
If you change a soap recipe at all, you need to run the numbers thru a soap calculator, they may have different sap values and change the lye amount.
I'm a new soap maker, I have 2 questions, first question when adding all the oils for soap calculator do I add the 2 ounces for essential oil? Can you tell me what is the lye concentration or water lye ratio for this recipe. Thank you
Good quesitons. No you don't need to add the essential oil to the volume of oils. Most calculators will have a scent % area. For this recipe, because it's fast moving, I recommend the full water amount at 38%.
Thank you for taking the time, I appreciate your help. I am trying to put your recipe into the calculator and the numbers don't match. I will keep trying. Thank you for sharing your recipe too.
Would this recipe be able to use a certain percentage of goat milk instead of all water or what would you suggest? Im having a hard time finding a recipe
Personally, I wouldn't use milk in a cleansing bar. But you could use milk as part of the liquid if desired.
@EllenRuthSoap ok thank you
So Is it safe to say that regular soap is skin safe after a week also?
The pH of soap is “skin safe” after 3-4 days, the cure time is waiting for the extra water to evaporate and make a harder, longer lasting bar.
Hi Ellen, i live in India and my weighing scale just says 'Oz'. The ounce you're using here is the US fl ounce? And does it matter? Also, how important is it to check the temperature while making soaps? Thank you.
Yes, the oz setting on the scale is what I use. And I'm not super picky about temps, but I do prefer to soap at cooler temps.
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you
Hi there,
Could I pour these into a mold and slice them into blocks - rather than into individual molds?
Yes, you sure can!
Hi😅 what brand such we use for the olive oil?
Any brand will do, I shop for the best price... Currently I get my olive oil at Sam's or Costco.
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im really sorry but im completly new to this.can u replace coconut oil plz ?dont want to mess up at first go .
If you change any oils in a CP soap recipe, it's a new recipe and you'll need to run the numbers thru a soap calculator to make sure the lye ratio is correct.
@@EllenRuthSoap aaa ok ty .not sure how to use soap calculater but ill give a go .tyvm
I tried making this recipe today and I stirred way too long and it got super hard so I can’t put it in my molds. Is there a way to heat it up again or can I not do that with the lie already mixed in?
At this point the only option would be to grate it up, add a touch more water and melt it down like a rebatch. It'll still be great soap, just not super smooth looking.
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you!
I made this tonight but forgot the sodium lactate and sugar, will it still be hard and at least a little bubbly? I can grate it down and rebatch it and add the sodium lactate if I need to.
It should still be a good bubbly cleansing soap👍
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you! I love all your recipes that I’ve tried :)
Do you need to let these bars cure for 4 to 6 weeks like other cold process soaps?
Yes, the need a full cure time.
Eucalyptus oil also removes sticky residue
Good to know!
Do I use 4 oz less coconut oil if I use the 4 oz of olive oil ?
Help 🤓
No, it's not a replacement. The lye ratio given is for all the oils, if you change the oils you'll need to run the numbers thru soap calc.
Where can you purchase lye? I see some on Amazon but have no idea which one is right for this recipe
Here is a good one: amzn.to/3RDkpuE
@@EllenRuthSoap thanks!
Does it requires curing period like other cold process soaps?? Thankyou
Yes, I give it a full cure.
How soon can these be used after made? Do they have to cure for 4-6 weeks
Yes, I like to give them a full cure time😉
Ruth,Can we use Palm kernal instead of coconut oil??
I haven't tried that, I would suggest doing a small test batch
@@EllenRuthSoap 😘
Hi-I’m a beginner soap maker. I followed this recipe exactly but my soap crumbled when I tried to cut it into bars. Any ideas on what went wrong & do I have to throw out the batch? Thanks!
The dish soap recipe is very high in coconut oil, which gets super hard. I suggest using cavity molds that don’t need to be cut.
Do you have a suggestion for the batch I made? I really hate to throw it out!
@@lindanichols6407 I would try to melt it down in a double broiler and remold. Go low temp and slow.
Hi Laura-my husband suggested slicing it on the band saw. Worked perfectly!
Hi Ellen!! Do you have any of these available on your site?
They are currently sold out.
Can we add goat milk? Or will that make soap scum or leave some kind of residue?
I wouldn’t add milk to a cleaning bar…
What temperature do you mix the lye water with the oils at?
I like to soap at 80-90 degrees
@@EllenRuthSoap oh wow, I didn't know you could soap that low. Thank you 😊
Did you say how long they need to cure for?
I like a 4 week cure time.
Thank you.
How long do you let cure? Looks like only 1 week?
Never mind, I saw your reply, thanks!
What do you do about the film left on dishes when theyre washed in hard water?
Hard water can be tricky... You could try adding some salt to the bars to act as a water softening agent...
@@EllenRuthSoap Ok. That sounds good.
I haven't made dish soap but I put a little citric acid (1.5%) in my bar soap and it helps prevent soap scum in the shower