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One important thing not mentioned, when working with lye, use only stainless steel utensils. NEVER USE ALUMINUM! The lye will react with the aluminum to form hydrogen gas which is flammable
I have a dedicated wooden spoon from last time I made soap, and I mixed the lye and water in a 4 cup Pyrex mixing cup from our wedding shower in 1989. The old Pyrex containers are more heat-proof than the new ones; the new ones have been reformulated so drug makers can't use them.
@@scottwallace8704 Hey, Scott, you reminded me - I already use such lids, washed, to cover my drinking glasses and any opened tinned goods for temporary refrigeration, so... there you go! Nice to know about the "tube as mold" use, though. Think someone somewhere else mentioned rolling and storing their mini-string lights in them, as I recall, using empty paper towel cardboard rolls cut to fit within the Pringles containers (could even cover such with cheapo peel & stick coverings, to mask them & make them all the same ). LOVE intelligent re-purposing/ re-use. 😀 Cheers!
Great lesson in saponification. Thank you for telling everyone to be very careful with the Lye. It is NaOH (sodium hydroxide) and is a strong base, just like hydrochloride acid is a strong acid. Both can give severe burns. Safety glasses must be worn when working with lye. It has a pH of 10 on the pH scale. 7 is neutral. It sounds like 10 isn’t much away from neutral but it is (exponentially). Please be careful as he suggested.
One thing you didn't mention, NEVER reuse any of the dishes, spatulas, spoons or stick blender for anything else. Once you make soap with it, it needs to be dedicated to strictly soap making. Also, ALWAYS, let the soap cure for at least 4 weeks before using it. It takes that long for the saponification process to work. If you use it before then, you take the risk of the Lye still being active and you could get serious burns. I used to be a soap maker and believe me, the burns from the Lye are no joke.
Actually, the saponification process takes around 2 days total (48 hours) ... I let my bars sit 4 days just to be safe though. All "curing" does is allows excess water to evaporate creating a harder bar. That process usually takes 4-6 weeks before the bar stops shrinking. Soaps are perfectly safe to use a week (or less) after un-molding. I use the end bits almost immediately since I like to test each recipe right away ... they just don't last as long. But I agree with you about the lye burns!! I live in south Florida and was wearing long gloves while making soap... I assumed my arms were sweaty from the warm weather and gloves but it turned out l mistakenly transferred untraced soap batter onto my apron and that rubbed into the end of the glove opening. The burns got worse over a 48 hour period and it was turning the oils IN my skin into soap! I had deep holes on the forearms that I had to wrap in bandages for about two weeks. I almost quit making soap because it was so painful. Now I'm extra cautious and wash my hands repeatedly during the process and shower immediately after.
Thanks! I've asked about needing dedicated tools for soap making in several forums. No one answered. None of the TH-camrs bothered to include tool safety.
So soap can't touch dishes? I think you're repeating an old wives tale. If you had any idea the chemicals your dishes already touched before you get them you'd eat from the ground.
This is such an awesome video. A lot of people, even in the prepping community, don't realize that hygiene is just as important in prepping and survival as most other things. Not to mention the morale boost you get during that kind of situation from being able to get and feel clean. It makes a difference. It is important. And it's definitely a great barter item. Thank you for sharing this. Great to see you back.
More importantly! Buy a stock pile of the proper equipment and create the whole set and gear and all! Sell that with a how to instructions with pictures and a scan code to your pro you tube video! $ for thought?
Should you also fill up water bottles with white vinegar? With the cap of the soft small squeezable bottle punctured for a neutralizing eye wash station?
Yup, I have made soap many times in the past. I have a box of soap making and candle making supplies...for shtf situations. Also have started making homemade vinegars for cleaning and salad dressing type purposes. Love that you are showing people how to do this basic skill that most people don't know how to do anymore
We used to make a lot of soap I would make my bars with oak moss from Washington soaked in oil for a year Charcoal and tiny patchouli drop. Almost a decade later I still have people asking me to make it again. 7.11 lye to 16.5 water 18oz of the Oakmoss Olive oil, 4 table spoons of charcoal, 30 oz Lard or Shortening, 2 drops patchouli oil.
Your help, opinion and expertise would be appreciated. If I had canola oil that is sort of starting to go rancid could I still use it for soap making? Also, can I use my fresh rosemary to infuse with the scent? Thanks in advance.
@@markpang8847 Rancid oils will cause dreaded orange spots (aka DOS) to develop in your soap. Yes you can use rosemary or other herbs to infuse your oil.
Use of oakmoss is being reduced in England because a small %of the population has an allergic reaction. It serves as a fixative in perfume. My guess is it makes the scent last longer.
Hey there my friend Rudy, so glad to see you get back to showing people how to do things they will need to know. These were the videos that made me subscribe in the beginning. Everyone else is just bringing up every little thing they can find to keep people panicked, but never give or show solutions. Stay healthy my friend.
Thank you, AP. I was thinking of making a book of simple easy homestead recipes/instructions for the basics such as cob, soap, process acorns, treating raw water, etc. Just like ten or 12 items.
Hi AP Fam… Rudy did an awesome job! As a diaper, I have a couple of things to suggest that might make things a little easier. If you freeze your water into small ice cubes , it will take the fumes of the lye down a lot. It will also stay closer to room temperature. Your oil and lye-water are better to mix around the same temperature. I personally don’t use sodium lactate so if you don’t have it, don’t sweat it. Your soap will still be great! If you want to have some botanicals but don’t want the little bits in your soap you can infuse the oil ahead of time and strain out the botanicals and it will still have the properties in the soap. I make a gardeners soap that I infuse calendula and comfrey in my olive and safflower oil, then I strain out the plant material and use that in my soap making. Any essential oils that you like, you can use in your soap. Just remember things like cinnamon if used heavily can have a burning sensation. Happy Soaping all! 😊
Your help, opinion and expertise would be appreciated. If I had canola oil that is sort of starting to go rancid could I still use it for soap making? Also, can I use my fresh rosemary to infuse with the scent? Thanks in advance.
I am an old WV mountain woman who has always made my soap. I usually use lard, but also use beef or deer tallow. Pulmus can be added to make a good scrubbing (mechanic's) soap. I also keep some white vinegar handy just in case I get some lye on me.
I helped make lye soap in a large cauldron back in the 70’s when I worked in a pioneer living history museum. Teaching those who came by. Thanks for memories.
I started buying my soap making supplies a couple years ago. I’m planning on having everything I need to keep me busy and prepared for retirement. I want to do “crafts “ that have a purpose like soap making, quilting, herbs… thanks for the video and Have a wonderful Easter Weekend 😊
If you're using pure canola oil and no other oil to make soap, you HAVE to use sodium lactate. If anyone wants to make their own soap, I really recommend using a combination of oils and use a lye calculator
The longer the soap bar drys the water out the longer the soap bar wil last. This goes for store bought soap bars too. Open the ends of the packages or remove soap bars completely. Water dried out a soap bar can last a yr. Mom used to do that with her Dove bars and use 1 for a yr!!!! Ive made a lot of soap and candles. Throw wax candles in freezer for a while and they will last longer!!!!
I make laundry soap from boiling English Ivy. That’s it! It is a natural soap. It costs nothing and you don’t need to add anything. It smells great naturally. There are many TH-cam videos that you can watch. Keep it simple guys!
No way?! What?! Ivy?! Wow!thank you for sharing I've learnt something new today! 😮❤ I'm in England and got a ton of ivy destroying my garden wall! Lol! 😂
Well done AP! This is a great simplified soap recipe and instruction video. I usually keep a small bowl of vinegar and a few paper towels handy. If you accidently splash it on your skin, the vinegar will neutralize the alkaline in the soap and help prevent chemical burns.
Thank you for that tip! I know he says you don't have to use the sodium lactate at all to help harden the soap, but in voice he says 1/2 tablespoon and the video says to use 1/2 TEASPOON. He didn't measure presicisely but was just wondering. I called him on it to be sure before I type it up for my notebook. I also googled Castile liquid soaps and bar soaps made with potassium hydroxide that creates a softer soap rather than using Sodium hydroxide for the hard soap. Imho, the hard soap will last longer I think
Thanks a lot! My dad kept a bar of what he called "lye" soap, in the medicine cabinet, till he passed. I don't know why, but they used to have to make their soap when he was a kid. It was gold and looked like glycerin soap.
There's no such thing as "lye" soap. All soap is made with lye (NaOH) otherwise it's not soap. During the saponification process the lye water and oils/butters transform completely into soap as long as your measurements are precise. I always superfat my soaps to make certain all the lye (water) is used up during the process, which takes about 4 days to complete. There should be absolutely NO lye in the final bar and I do a zap test and pH test to confirm safety. I use all my soap bars on myself and my young children - I just use gentle oils and butters for more conditioning properties and less dryness (coconut oil is very drying). Hope that clears up and misunderstanding about lye bars. 😊 You definitely don't want to wash with lye! lol
For real ... I immediately see the emulsification process happen within the first 30-60 seconds depending on temp/oils. I don't think I'd have the time or willpower to mix by hand after using the immersion blender! I mean I could ... but why? lol
@@yonikki Truthfully I and my then wife tried making soap in the seventies before the stick blenders came out. It left us with admiration for the pioneer women and a determination to not do it again. Once I discovered stick blenders I went back to soap making and made enough to last 20 years,
@@jamesnelson1968 I absolutely LOVE it! Currently, I have a guest room full of bars curing. It's both an art and a science and I fully appreciate both aspects and try my best to make my fore-mothers proud that we (collectively) are continuing the tradition . Although, I have yet to make my own lye-water from wood ash. I will NEVER buy a bar of soap from a store again. I have 2 stick blenders but you just reminded me to buy another as a backup! I don't think I can make soap without them. haha
@@yonikki Yes with the proper technology it is so easy to make and the cost is low for such a quality product. I used to try different combinations of fats and oils just for fun. If you haven't tried it making your own bacon and corned beef is on the same level of easy and fun. The only technology needed is a cold place to cure the meat and a smoker. And an oven and come liquid smoke can substitute for the smoker and you get bacon with no sugar added.
@@jamesnelson1968 Also try sausage making. My neighbor. Is a hunter and I got venison and elk meat. Combined it with herbs from my garden and ground meat from the grocer and came up with really neat combinations
I'm very blessed, my sister owns an organic soap and beauty products store she makes everything so I know what it's in it. I make all organic tincture and capsules for inflammation that sell like hot cakes, but her and I barter!!! This is so important to know how to do these things.❤
I forgot to add, you could have also told people how to make the Lye - easy. Take an old non-reactive bucket and punch a few holes in the bottom, center, and fill halfway with wood ashes. Put a larger non reactive container set directly under the top bucket. Fill top bucket with water, it will seep down through the ashes and what you have is lye water - handle carefully. You can let evaporated to make a powder or thicker solution. Best to do this outside, or in a ventilated garage. The smaller the drain holes, the slower it drips and the stronger it will be.
I thought we had to down boil the resulting ash water in order to get the potency of lye water? I make my own soap but haven't tried the hard wood/ash process yet because I'm not clear on how to get proper results. Right now I use a lye calculator down to the gram. How would homemade lye translate to store bought lye?
As a kid growing up we bought Ivory soap. My mom always unwrapped it before putting in the cupboard. It got really hard & lasted for months with 6 + people using it daily. My grandparents all made soap & it was the way they did it. Great tutorial, keep up the good work 👍❤
hello, My dear Aunties would grind their homemade soap in an old fashioned meat grinder and keep it for doing dishes and laundry, they were very careful and took their time with it. Your instructions are super excellent, thank you from Ontario, Canada
Two of my favorite additives are: 1-2 Tbsp poppy seeds (after trace), makes a great scrubby soap for winter dry skin Or: 1/2 Cup of Oatmeal, (added in the oils before lye). Makes a nice skin soothing soap. Trace is generally described as "like cake batter" thickness. The dark center is caused by "gel phase", the center got warm during curing. Don't worry if it's still there 6-8 wks later on, it's not raw soap. I use a wire cheese cutter to cut mine.
Thanks AP. I never knew soap making was that easy. One day I might find the time to make some. I already have several years of soaps including some hand crafted bars. I don't think you can have too much soap. Have a great Easter. Much Love ❤
I've watched dozen soap making videos, many over and over but this one is best and truly easiest. At my age learning new things O like to keep it simple.Thank you from California!
Soap is on my calendar for next month! You can use quart and half gallon milk cartons for molds until you get nicer ones or any silicone bread or cake pans. You can also cut store bought soap in 2-4 pieces so they last longer or to barter.
You do not know how hard it is to search for this information. (Maybe its just me) but I have spent several Months trying to get the specific raitios and temps for this type of soap. I have made lots of batches that never solidified and this is a Godsend, thank you so much!
Lol! I have been making soap,lotions, bath salts and spa products for years, but I don't think of myself as a guru by any stretch. There are many complex and simple recipes for soap; but the bottom line....we want to be clean! Truthfully, with a very few exceptions, fancy soap and simple soaps all perform well.....with little difference. So keep it simple, have fun and learn a great survival skill!
That looks like a homemade bread slicer you're using for the soap. I know how to make lye soap like my grandmother made during the depression! Wood ashes were boiled outside and then strained. Yes, we can survive! Peppermint is good for acne. It dries the skin. My granddaughter bought some liquid Dr. Bronner's and I read on it. I'm 67 so I need the oil in my skin lol, not drying it out. Thank you AP! Have a wonderful weekend!
I've made a lot of soap, not guru..but I do put fragrances in mine because I enjoy it. It's been a usable hobby for me. I don't "down" those that do or don't want fragrances in theirs.
Been doin this for years. Now have healthy hair and skin throughout the family! I do recommend using nicer oils. They do absorb into the skin/body. Olive oil castile is my fave. Same for shampoo version. Never had long hair it dropped out at shoulder length... No more!!! Down to waist!
Thank you Rudy.. I've made molds before but out of pre-made soap from hobby lobby. After reading A. Americans books he mentions it but I never got around to getting the exact ingredients.. I made a list going to order it.. I will definitely need something to earn money or barter since my job is cleaning for rich people something tells me I won't be doing that.. Lol. Which is fine. I make good money which has allowed me to prepare but I'm over the spoiled entitled attitudes... God bless you!
I cleaned a standing meat cutter when I worked at a deli in a grocery store. I had the clearest,cleanest skin,I have ever had in my life. Before or after. You need smelling oils in it or you'll smell like lye. But no acne for sure.
Rudy, you look so much healthier! Glad you backed off of politics. Concentrate on these type videos and product reviews. Put our energies where we have control. Blessing to you and your family
Hello Rudy and AP family. Happy Passover and Resurrection Sunday. Yes, wear eye and hand protection when working with lye. I'll have to drag out all my soap making supplies and make some. Handmade soap makes a great gift.👍😀. Fun video. Thanks Rudy. 🤗💗
If you change the oils you use, you need to run everything through a lye calculator. When you change oils, it changes the amount of lye you need. Soap will turn out lye heavy or it may not have enough lye and soap will not harden. I urge all that are wanting to learn to make soap to check out some additional resources that are more in depth. This video gives the very basics but there is a lot more to it than what he shows here.
My first soap mold was a small cardboard box that I lined with a heavy trash bag. Made a soap slab. Wasn’t the prettiest soap but it worked. That was 4 years and probably close to 100 batches ago.
Love it! I have well over a hundred bars of handmade soap curing in our guest room because I'm constantly challenging my formulations! lol I think I've developed a soap-making obsession ... or passion. At least everyone on Earth needs a bar of soap! 😂
Thanks for sharing, I looked into this some time ago. %100 coconut oil soap will still foam up in salt water while other blends will not. Something a prepper might want to consider
Hello Rudy, glad to catch up with you a bit. I used to make soap to sell but shipping is just too expensive these days. You have a very good and simple soap. It's good to know how to make soap. I have lots made ahead. Some even decorative and some with fragrance. It makes great gifts for family and friends although I think I'm soaping them out for the holidays lol Your awesome Rudy and are a great soapmaker! This is a skill everyone should know. Even if just buying glycerin to melt and add fragrance and botanicals. Those end pieces cut up are great for putting in an empty hand soap bottle and let it sit for one's homemade hand soap. A little runny but works great. Thanks for sharing, Rudy. Have a wonderful Easter!
I have made quite a bit of soap. I believe the reason you don't add the water to the lye is because you can have an uncontrolled reaction that will be very dangerous and cause an explosion. I taught my daughter and grandkids to kind of sing a song, lye in the water, and think about swimming and laying on your back in the water. It sounds kind of crazy if you try to sing water in the lye.
Leave in mould for 18-24 hr. It can irritate skin badly if done too soon. And it may not cure properly. Olive oil soap needs longer than 6ek usual dry time. May need up to a year... Worth it.
nice to see that you are back I know you had a couple of other videos but I was busy with life. Miss hearing your messages and thinking of making this soap with my daughter been looking for a project to do with her
I am so thankful that you made this video I was just in the shower and I was thinking I would really like to learn how to make soap and then I come over here and I see that you put up a video On how to make soap alls I have to say is God is great. Blessed is Hashem Thank you Rudy For making it very easy explanatory video hands-on because now I feel I can do it
Homemade Soap is the best, no dodgy ingredients. I use that same mold, I used a Loaf tin first. TFS AP, take care, keep busy everyone, & Happy Easter everybody. 🐣❤🙂🐶
I started screaming when I seen you cut up those vanilla beans because I make my own extract and the cost of vanilla beans nowadays is through the roof. With that being said, the soap turned out really nice. I love that you added tea leaves to it and I love also that this is a simple, no nonsense recipe and easy to make. I've never made soap but this is an easy recipe I can follow. Thanks so much for sharing.
I made soap with used cooking oil from a restaurant and added Borax and Baking Soda for dish washing and it became very clean and cut the grease. I did ground up the soap to powder to cut down on waste and faster dissolving in the water. If you have land you can make your own essential oils by growing Lavender or other kinds of greens.
Instead of spending the money on the sodium lactate you could add a 1 teaspoon per pound of soap of regular sugar and regular table salt give that a try. You will get harder soap with more lather and save some money to boot! 😊
AP, here’s something fun you could look into , FORAGING. I’m learning. Did you know spruce trees are loaded with Vitamin C? I just found this out. You can candy the cones when they’re newly growing. The inside of the bark and the needles are useful. :)
I worked at a soft pretzel company so very familiar with the fumes and burns from sodium hydroxide. So I would definitely wear gloves and work in a well ventilated area. And if you are making soft pretzels to give that pretzel taste a quick dunk in a lye solution.
Hi Angie - dunk the pretzels in a lye sol'n? 1) Is it safe for consumption?, and if so, 2) what are the ingredigents/ proportions/ measurements of lye to water or is it oil?, and, 3) is it before or after cooking/ baking frying? Sorry, have never heard (or even conceived!) of this... Thanks for reply, for all of us. Cheers! ❤, 😀.
@@kgrant3184 we made a large solution. To make 12 at home it would be 2 T of food grade sodium hydroxide to 1 quart water. Always add the lye to the water. And it’s added before making the pretzel. That is what make the pretzel brown and give it that pretzel taste. I’ve attached a recipe. www.tasteofhome.com/article/how-to-safely-use-food-grade-lye-for-pretzels/
The recipe for soap changes depending on the oils you use to make it.... different oils bond with the lye at different rates so you have to be careful to make sure that once the soap is done there isnt any lye in the soap that has not bonded with the oils... you should run your recipe thru a lye calculator to make sure
There is not going to be a Live Stream today, Friday, 7 April 2023. Have a great weekend and we will pick it back up with a Live Stream Next Friday. God Bless...
@Alaska Prepper I hope that you and your family have a Blessed Easter weekend!🙏✝️💟
Happy Easter 🐣 🐇🐰
Rudy God Bless you and your family have a good peaceful Easter weekend. Please remember the true reason for this precious holiday. 🙏 ❤️ 🙏
Blessings to you and your family. Happy Easter!!
Happy Easter Rudy❤✝️
One important thing not mentioned, when working with lye, use only stainless steel utensils. NEVER USE ALUMINUM! The lye will react with the aluminum to form hydrogen gas which is flammable
WOW! SUPER IMPORTANT TO KNOW!! Thank you so much!! ❤ Cheers!
*adds to notebook of useful tidbits* THIS is why I read the comments. Thank you!!
I have a dedicated wooden spoon from last time I made soap, and I mixed the lye and water in a 4 cup Pyrex mixing cup from our wedding shower in 1989. The old Pyrex containers are more heat-proof than the new ones; the new ones have been reformulated so drug makers can't use them.
@@daniellebrown5647 Thanks, Danielle. Cheers, and Happy Easter! ❤
@@daniellebrown5647 please note that over time and many uses the glass will break due to heat.
The “molds” that I use are empty Pringles potato chip cans. Being mostly paper they can be peeled off once the soap has cured.
Excellent 2nd use of the Pringles' cans! Any way to get a 3rd use outta them? 😀 Cheers, Scott, & thx for telling us this. ❤
@@kgrant3184 Maybe find another use for the plastic lids but the tube gets ripped to sheds to remove the cured soap.
@@scottwallace8704 Hey, Scott, you reminded me - I already use such lids, washed, to cover my drinking glasses and any opened tinned goods for temporary refrigeration, so... there you go! Nice to know about the "tube as mold" use, though.
Think someone somewhere else mentioned rolling and storing their mini-string lights in them, as I recall, using empty paper towel cardboard rolls cut to fit within the Pringles containers (could even cover such with cheapo peel & stick coverings, to mask them & make them all the same ). LOVE intelligent re-purposing/ re-use. 😀 Cheers!
Great lesson in saponification. Thank you for telling everyone to be very careful with the Lye. It is NaOH (sodium hydroxide) and is a strong base, just like hydrochloride acid is a strong acid. Both can give severe burns. Safety glasses must be worn when working with lye. It has a pH of 10 on the pH scale. 7 is neutral. It sounds like 10 isn’t much away from neutral but it is (exponentially). Please be careful as he suggested.
I found the plastic lids handy for covering my wine glass. In the summertime the gnats and fruit flies are attracted to the alcohol.
One thing you didn't mention, NEVER reuse any of the dishes, spatulas, spoons or stick blender for anything else. Once you make soap with it, it needs to be dedicated to strictly soap making. Also, ALWAYS, let the soap cure for at least 4 weeks before using it. It takes that long for the saponification process to work. If you use it before then, you take the risk of the Lye still being active and you could get serious burns. I used to be a soap maker and believe me, the burns from the Lye are no joke.
Actually, the saponification process takes around 2 days total (48 hours) ... I let my bars sit 4 days just to be safe though. All "curing" does is allows excess water to evaporate creating a harder bar. That process usually takes 4-6 weeks before the bar stops shrinking. Soaps are perfectly safe to use a week (or less) after un-molding. I use the end bits almost immediately since I like to test each recipe right away ... they just don't last as long.
But I agree with you about the lye burns!! I live in south Florida and was wearing long gloves while making soap... I assumed my arms were sweaty from the warm weather and gloves but it turned out l mistakenly transferred untraced soap batter onto my apron and that rubbed into the end of the glove opening. The burns got worse over a 48 hour period and it was turning the oils IN my skin into soap! I had deep holes on the forearms that I had to wrap in bandages for about two weeks. I almost quit making soap because it was so painful. Now I'm extra cautious and wash my hands repeatedly during the process and shower immediately after.
Thanks! I've asked about needing dedicated tools for soap making in several forums. No one answered. None of the TH-camrs bothered to include tool safety.
Since I use my soap for everything, even dish washing, I have always continued to use whatever used to make soap.
Please use white vinegar to nutrulize the lye
So soap can't touch dishes? I think you're repeating an old wives tale. If you had any idea the chemicals your dishes already touched before you get them you'd eat from the ground.
This is such an awesome video. A lot of people, even in the prepping community, don't realize that hygiene is just as important in prepping and survival as most other things. Not to mention the morale boost you get during that kind of situation from being able to get and feel clean. It makes a difference. It is important. And it's definitely a great barter item. Thank you for sharing this. Great to see you back.
We need to begin to include the making of toothpaste, mouthwash! I have recipes for both
@@Kristin5059 Could you share your recipes, please? I am learning how to make things for our family. Thank you.
@@Kristin5059 Ma'am, would you be willing to share your toothpaste and mouthwash recipes?
More importantly! Buy a stock pile of the proper equipment and create the whole set and gear and all! Sell that with a how to instructions with pictures and a scan code to your pro you tube video! $ for thought?
Should you also fill up water bottles with white vinegar? With the cap of the soft small squeezable bottle punctured for a neutralizing eye wash station?
Yup, I have made soap many times in the past. I have a box of soap making and candle making supplies...for shtf situations. Also have started making homemade vinegars for cleaning and salad dressing type purposes. Love that you are showing people how to do this basic skill that most people don't know how to do anymore
great skills you are learning. Keep it up.
How did u make vinegar?
@@00jlove fruit, sugar, water and a lot of time. Need to remember to stir daily. Many TH-cam videos on how to make it.
How about candles
O ya, candles are pretty easy. I have quite a few and I have everything to make more
Ap dollar tree and dollar general has great silicone trays that's great to make soap in . I love them and my oldest loves to make soaps .
Very cool idea🎉
We used to make a lot of soap I would make my bars with oak moss from Washington soaked in oil for a year Charcoal and tiny patchouli drop. Almost a decade later I still have people asking me to make it again. 7.11 lye to 16.5 water 18oz of the Oakmoss Olive oil, 4 table spoons of charcoal, 30 oz Lard or Shortening, 2 drops patchouli oil.
Is the oak moss for fragrance or does it have health benefits? Going to be making a `
'No frills' batch soon, but I have lots of herbs I can use.
Can you explain more about the oakmoss.... sounds interesting
Your help, opinion and expertise would be appreciated. If I had canola oil that is sort of starting to go rancid could I still use it for soap making? Also, can I use my fresh rosemary to infuse with the scent? Thanks in advance.
@@markpang8847 Rancid oils will cause dreaded orange spots (aka DOS) to develop in your soap. Yes you can use rosemary or other herbs to infuse your oil.
Use of oakmoss is being reduced in England because a small %of the population has an allergic reaction. It serves as a fixative in perfume. My guess is it makes the scent last longer.
Hey there my friend Rudy, so glad to see you get back to showing people how to do things they will need to know. These were the videos that made me subscribe in the beginning. Everyone else is just bringing up every little thing they can find to keep people panicked, but never give or show solutions. Stay healthy my friend.
Dude I love that You literally showed us start to finish.
Thank you, AP. I was thinking of making a book of simple easy homestead recipes/instructions for the basics such as cob, soap, process acorns, treating raw water, etc. Just like ten or 12 items.
That would be awesome.
Yes!
Keep me posted !! I am sure many ppl would appreciate it !
You absolutely should….and do it asap before shtf when it may be too difficult to get the book out to people!
That would be a great help to us who don't know anything about this. Thank you 😊
Hi AP Fam… Rudy did an awesome job! As a diaper, I have a couple of things to suggest that might make things a little easier. If you freeze your water into small ice cubes , it will take the fumes of the lye down a lot. It will also stay closer to room temperature. Your oil and lye-water are better to mix around the same temperature. I personally don’t use sodium lactate so if you don’t have it, don’t sweat it. Your soap will still be great! If you want to have some botanicals but don’t want the little bits in your soap you can infuse the oil ahead of time and strain out the botanicals and it will still have the properties in the soap. I make a gardeners soap that I infuse calendula and comfrey in my olive and safflower oil, then I strain out the plant material and use that in my soap making. Any essential oils that you like, you can use in your soap. Just remember things like cinnamon if used heavily can have a burning sensation. Happy Soaping all! 😊
Can you please tell us how warm both oil and lye solution can be to still blend?
@@evelynshaw3932between 90-110F is fine. Some people go lower on temps.
I love that you give us a basic receipe to make our own!
So glad to see a "How To..." video, I was getting tired of the never ending doom and gloom.
I am a soap maker, I let all my ingredients go to room temperature. Works great. That way you don't have to temp anything.
Your help, opinion and expertise would be appreciated. If I had canola oil that is sort of starting to go rancid could I still use it for soap making? Also, can I use my fresh rosemary to infuse with the scent? Thanks in advance.
@@markpang8847you could and it would still be soap, but you’ll get DOS (dreaded orange spots)… still functional soap though.
I am an old WV mountain woman who has always made my soap.
I usually use lard, but also use beef or deer tallow. Pulmus can be added to make a good scrubbing (mechanic's) soap.
I also keep some white vinegar handy just in case I get some lye on me.
Don’t use vinegar on the skin if there’s lye on it! It will burn your skin. Just cool water will suffice.
I helped make lye soap in a large cauldron back in the 70’s when I worked in a pioneer living history museum. Teaching those who came by. Thanks for memories.
I started buying my soap making supplies a couple years ago. I’m planning on having everything I need to keep me busy and prepared for retirement. I want to do “crafts “ that have a purpose like soap making, quilting, herbs… thanks for the video and Have a wonderful Easter Weekend 😊
Also, good tip - writing the recipe on the mold👍🏽
I'm about to go get my soap supplies. I was waiting for someone to make a basic simple soap. Thank you!
dehydrated citrus peel, herbs, or flowers would be fun to use as well! Thanks for the video!
I’m growing more luffa this year to use in a homemade version of Lava soap.
Yes they would!
If you're using pure canola oil and no other oil to make soap, you HAVE to use sodium lactate. If anyone wants to make their own soap, I really recommend using a combination of oils and use a lye calculator
The longer the soap bar drys the water out the longer the soap bar wil last. This goes for store bought soap bars too. Open the ends of the packages or remove soap bars completely. Water dried out a soap bar can last a yr. Mom used to do that with her Dove bars and use 1 for a yr!!!! Ive made a lot of soap and candles. Throw wax candles in freezer for a while and they will last longer!!!!
I make laundry soap from boiling English Ivy. That’s it! It is a natural soap. It costs nothing and you don’t need to add anything. It smells great naturally. There are many TH-cam videos that you can watch. Keep it simple guys!
No way?! What?! Ivy?! Wow!thank you for sharing I've learnt something new today! 😮❤ I'm in England and got a ton of ivy destroying my garden wall! Lol! 😂
What a gem!
Wow amazing! I need to look into this
Well done AP! This is a great simplified soap recipe and instruction video. I usually keep a small bowl of vinegar and a few paper towels handy. If you accidently splash it on your skin, the vinegar will neutralize the alkaline in the soap and help prevent chemical burns.
Thanks, Linda, for sharing that! ❤ Cheers!
Thanks Linda for info brill 👍🤗🇬🇧
Thank you for that tip! I know he says you don't have to use the sodium lactate at all to help harden the soap, but in voice he says 1/2 tablespoon and the video says to use 1/2 TEASPOON. He didn't measure presicisely but was just wondering. I called him on it to be sure before I type it up for my notebook. I also googled Castile liquid soaps and bar soaps made with potassium hydroxide that creates a softer soap rather than using Sodium hydroxide for the hard soap. Imho, the hard soap will last longer I think
Good to know. Thank you 😊
Don’t use vinegar on skin that has lye on it. It will cause burns. Cool water is more than sufficient.
Thanks a lot! My dad kept a bar of what he called "lye" soap, in the medicine cabinet, till he passed. I don't know why, but they used to have to make their soap when he was a kid. It was gold and looked like glycerin soap.
If you are exposed to poison ivy, wash immediately with lye soap. It is said to help wash off the oils causing less skin reaction.
My husband also kept lye soap in the medicine cabinet. He used it when he got poison ivy. He said it kept it from spreading
@@lalalinda36 My Dad used that also for poison ivy. He always swore by it.
There's no such thing as "lye" soap. All soap is made with lye (NaOH) otherwise it's not soap. During the saponification process the lye water and oils/butters transform completely into soap as long as your measurements are precise. I always superfat my soaps to make certain all the lye (water) is used up during the process, which takes about 4 days to complete. There should be absolutely NO lye in the final bar and I do a zap test and pH test to confirm safety. I use all my soap bars on myself and my young children - I just use gentle oils and butters for more conditioning properties and less dryness (coconut oil is very drying). Hope that clears up and misunderstanding about lye bars. 😊 You definitely don't want to wash with lye! lol
@@yonikki Yeah, he made it sound like it was strong and only used it for certain things. But I don't know what.
I started making soap back before immersion blenders and hand mixing takes hours. The blenders are a gift from the angels.
For real ... I immediately see the emulsification process happen within the first 30-60 seconds depending on temp/oils. I don't think I'd have the time or willpower to mix by hand after using the immersion blender! I mean I could ... but why? lol
@@yonikki Truthfully I and my then wife tried making soap in the seventies before the stick blenders came out. It left us with admiration for the pioneer women and a determination to not do it again. Once I discovered stick blenders I went back to soap making and made enough to last 20 years,
@@jamesnelson1968 I absolutely LOVE it! Currently, I have a guest room full of bars curing. It's both an art and a science and I fully appreciate both aspects and try my best to make my fore-mothers proud that we (collectively) are continuing the tradition . Although, I have yet to make my own lye-water from wood ash. I will NEVER buy a bar of soap from a store again. I have 2 stick blenders but you just reminded me to buy another as a backup! I don't think I can make soap without them. haha
@@yonikki Yes with the proper technology it is so easy to make and the cost is low for such a quality product. I used to try different combinations of fats and oils just for fun.
If you haven't tried it making your own bacon and corned beef is on the same level of easy and fun. The only technology needed is a cold place to cure the meat and a smoker. And an oven and come liquid smoke can substitute for the smoker and you get bacon with no sugar added.
@@jamesnelson1968 Also try sausage making. My neighbor. Is a hunter and I got venison and elk meat. Combined it with herbs from my garden and ground meat from the grocer and came up with really neat combinations
I'm very blessed, my sister owns an organic soap and beauty products store she makes everything so I know what it's in it. I make all organic tincture and capsules for inflammation that sell like hot cakes, but her and I barter!!! This is so important to know how to do these things.❤
Got a website for purchasing those? Link please
I've seen soap makers use ice with the lye to reduce heat. I'm a newbie researching, but thought I'd share 😊❤
"God Bless you & your family!!!You're really a "MAN FOR ALL SEASONS"🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I forgot to add, you could have also told people how to make the Lye - easy. Take an old non-reactive bucket and punch a few holes in the bottom, center, and fill halfway with wood ashes. Put a larger non reactive container set directly under the top bucket. Fill top bucket with water, it will seep down through the ashes and what you have is lye water - handle carefully. You can let evaporated to make a powder or thicker solution. Best to do this outside, or in a ventilated garage. The smaller the drain holes, the slower it drips and the stronger it will be.
I thought we had to down boil the resulting ash water in order to get the potency of lye water? I make my own soap but haven't tried the hard wood/ash process yet because I'm not clear on how to get proper results. Right now I use a lye calculator down to the gram. How would homemade lye translate to store bought lye?
@@yonikki That maybe true, I have never made soap, I just know that's how you make your own lye water from wood ashes.
What would a non reactive material be?
Steel does not react to acid, neither does glass or wood, plastic might work as well. Do not use iron, aluminum or copper.@@carissacantwell9355
What about Oil ?do you have to boil it?
I’ve always made homemade soap. It’s the best.
Can you see his recipe I can't tell what it says?
@@kimberlyorgill5962 3 ingredients. Water. Lye. And oil.
@@edieboudreau9637 Measurements/ proportions to help those who can't see well? Many thanks! ❤
Me too! I’ve been a professional soap maker for 40+ years.
@@edieboudreau9637 I wanted to know the measurements not the ingredients
As a kid growing up we bought Ivory soap. My mom always unwrapped it before putting in the cupboard. It got really hard & lasted for months with 6 + people using it daily. My grandparents all made soap & it was the way they did it. Great tutorial, keep up the good work 👍❤
hello, My dear Aunties would grind their homemade soap in an old fashioned meat grinder and keep it for doing dishes and laundry, they were very careful and took their time with it.
Your instructions are super excellent, thank you from Ontario, Canada
I love soap making! And it will last forever!
I'm with you sister.
It's all about survival. I plan on staying clean when shtf.
Happy Easter to you and your family!
Use ice as half your water measurement it will cool the lye.
I have always wanted to make my own soap. This is a brilliant, brilliant recipe!! Thanks Rudy!! 🥰
Two of my favorite additives are: 1-2 Tbsp poppy seeds (after trace), makes a great scrubby soap for winter dry skin
Or: 1/2 Cup of Oatmeal, (added in the oils before lye). Makes a nice skin soothing soap.
Trace is generally described as "like cake batter" thickness.
The dark center is caused by "gel phase", the center got warm during curing. Don't worry if it's still there 6-8 wks later on, it's not raw soap.
I use a wire cheese cutter to cut mine.
Thanks AP. I never knew soap making was that easy. One day I might find the time to make some. I already have several years of soaps including some hand crafted bars. I don't think you can have too much soap. Have a great Easter. Much Love ❤
I've watched dozen soap making videos, many over and over but this one is best and truly easiest. At my age learning new things O like to keep it simple.Thank you from California!
Soap is on my calendar for next month! You can use quart and half gallon milk cartons for molds until you get nicer ones or any silicone bread or cake pans. You can also cut store bought soap in 2-4 pieces so they last longer or to barter.
You do not know how hard it is to search for this information. (Maybe its just me) but I have spent several
Months trying to get the specific raitios and temps for this type of soap. I have made lots of batches that never solidified and this is a Godsend, thank you so much!
Same here.
I'm so glad your back! It's videos like this and your older videos is what hooked me on your channel.
Who cares what the soap gurus say we’re here for survival
I don't put any smells in my soap and I make it I just wanted to clean me and that's it. If I want a fragrance i have some perfume
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Lol! I have been making soap,lotions, bath salts and spa products for years, but I don't think of myself as a guru by any stretch. There are many complex and simple recipes for soap; but the bottom line....we want to be clean! Truthfully, with a very few exceptions, fancy soap and simple soaps all perform well.....with little difference. So keep it simple, have fun and learn a great survival skill!
That looks like a homemade bread slicer you're using for the soap. I know how to make lye soap like my grandmother made during the depression! Wood ashes were boiled outside and then strained. Yes, we can survive! Peppermint is good for acne. It dries the skin. My granddaughter bought some liquid Dr. Bronner's and I read on it. I'm 67 so I need the oil in my skin lol, not drying it out. Thank you AP! Have a wonderful weekend!
I've made a lot of soap, not guru..but I do put fragrances in mine because I enjoy it. It's been a usable hobby for me. I don't "down" those that do or don't want fragrances in theirs.
I literally said “Oooooooooooh!” before clicking on this one. Soap is often on my mind!
Thanks for the information. Many people will try this because of you! I've made soap for years and truly enjoy it. Have a great day and God bless 💞
Been doin this for years. Now have healthy hair and skin throughout the family! I do recommend using nicer oils. They do absorb into the skin/body.
Olive oil castile is my fave. Same for shampoo version. Never had long hair it dropped out at shoulder length... No more!!! Down to waist!
Thank you Rudy.. I've made molds before but out of pre-made soap from hobby lobby. After reading A. Americans books he mentions it but I never got around to getting the exact ingredients.. I made a list going to order it.. I will definitely need something to earn money or barter since my job is cleaning for rich people something tells me I won't be doing that.. Lol. Which is fine. I make good money which has allowed me to prepare but I'm over the spoiled entitled attitudes... God bless you!
I cleaned a standing meat cutter when I worked at a deli in a grocery store. I had the clearest,cleanest skin,I have ever had in my life. Before or after. You need smelling oils in it or you'll smell like lye. But no acne for sure.
Lye doesn’t survive the saponification process. If there’s active lye in any soap, it was made wrong.
Rudy, you look so much healthier! Glad you backed off of politics. Concentrate on these type videos and product reviews. Put our energies where we have control. Blessing to you and your family
For rectangular bars I use cigarettes cartons.
When I do shaving soap much different recipes catered to my skin I use parchment paper lined PVC pipe
Thank you Rudy ✝️❤️
Hello Rudy and AP family. Happy Passover and Resurrection Sunday. Yes, wear eye and hand protection when working with lye. I'll have to drag out all my soap making supplies and make some. Handmade soap makes a great gift.👍😀. Fun video. Thanks Rudy. 🤗💗
Hi good to see u JT hp u are well,where would I get lye what type of shop I'm in the UK ta 👍🤗🇬🇧
@@jacquelinejohnson7541 Hi Jacqueline.👋🤗I ordered mine from Amazon. Not sure if Amazon UK carries it. Just search Sodium Hydroxide.
If you change the oils you use, you need to run everything through a lye calculator. When you change oils, it changes the amount of lye you need. Soap will turn out lye heavy or it may not have enough lye and soap will not harden. I urge all that are wanting to learn to make soap to check out some additional resources that are more in depth. This video gives the very basics but there is a lot more to it than what he shows here.
Yes yes yes!!!
My first soap mold was a small cardboard box that I lined with a heavy trash bag. Made a soap slab. Wasn’t the prettiest soap but it worked. That was 4 years and probably close to 100 batches ago.
Love it! I have well over a hundred bars of handmade soap curing in our guest room because I'm constantly challenging my formulations! lol I think I've developed a soap-making obsession ... or passion. At least everyone on Earth needs a bar of soap! 😂
You've been missed but glad you took the time to care for yourself and family. Have a blessed Easter.
Thank you AP I see I need to add a soap making kit to my preps so I can make my own b4 I run out
You’re looking good Mr Rudy!!! Keep getting healthy! Low carbs and activity. Keep it up!
Thanks for sharing, I looked into this some time ago. %100 coconut oil soap will still foam up in salt water while other blends will not. Something a prepper might want to consider
Thanks Rudy.
Hello Rudy, glad to catch up with you a bit.
I used to make soap to sell but shipping is just too expensive these days.
You have a very good and simple soap. It's good to know how to make soap. I have lots made ahead. Some even decorative and some with fragrance.
It makes great gifts for family and friends although I think I'm soaping them out for the holidays lol
Your awesome Rudy and are a great soapmaker!
This is a skill everyone should know. Even if just buying glycerin to melt and add fragrance and botanicals.
Those end pieces cut up are great for putting in an empty hand soap bottle and let it sit for one's homemade hand soap. A little runny
but works great.
Thanks for sharing, Rudy. Have a wonderful Easter!
tyty AP, My boys and I ordered everything we need, arriving monday, CANT wait to make our own soap!
The reason I was always told (to add the lye to the water) was to avoid splashing the mixture onto yourself or anything else.
I have made quite a bit of soap. I believe the reason you don't add the water to the lye is because you can have an uncontrolled reaction that will be very dangerous and cause an explosion. I taught my daughter and grandkids to kind of sing a song, lye in the water, and think about swimming and laying on your back in the water. It sounds kind of crazy if you try to sing water in the lye.
Yes, as Ruth said, its the potential chemical reaction. Chem class told us, always add acid to water. 😁
You will cause a ‘volcanic eruption’ if you add water to the lye.
Water 1st; Lye 2nd. This is a serious safety issue. Don’t do it wrong! 🙏
@@ruthbloink9095 I remember: "Snow falls on the lake."
@@yonikki that's a good one too
Glad to see you doing what you enjoy doing. These simple things are so handy to know. Thanks Rudy ☺️🙏❤️🙏
Thank you! I needed this! With Love and Gratitude, Shari 🙏💞
Thank you Rudy I was looking for an easy soap recipe.
I missed hearing “Ladies and Gentlemen”. Very respectful which is not common today.
Looking good Rudy! Getting in shape! Awesome!
Like a lot of other things you will need to know how to make soap laundry detergent this detergent etc knowing how is being prepared and doing it
I buy the melt and pour soap base at hobby lobby shea butter or goats milk.
Buy when on sale soap is great
I'm so glad I came across your channel! I have plenty of things I want to try now. Thank you for your help!
Leave in mould for 18-24 hr. It can irritate skin badly if done too soon. And it may not cure properly. Olive oil soap needs longer than 6ek usual dry time. May need up to a year... Worth it.
Thank you Rudy! You're a good teacher! I'm going to listen to it a second with a notepad.
nice to see that you are back I know you had a couple of other videos but I was busy with life. Miss hearing your messages and thinking of making this soap with my daughter been looking for a project to do with her
Easter Blessings to you and your family Rudy. He is Risen!🌅
Great video, I've made soap with coconut oil, olive oil and caustic soda with water. It's very cheap to make
That was so interesting! Thank you for taking the time to make this video, Rudy.
Thank you, thank you, so glad you broke from panic, gloom & doom videos & sharing an educational tutorial!
I am so thankful that you made this video I was just in the shower and I was thinking I would really like to learn how to make soap and then I come over here and I see that you put up a video On how to make soap alls I have to say is God is great. Blessed is Hashem
Thank you Rudy For making it very easy explanatory video hands-on because now I feel I can do it
You got a God wink! My daughter-in-law and I both got God winks today. God is good on Good Friday.
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Homemade Soap is the best, no dodgy ingredients.
I use that same mold, I used a Loaf tin first.
TFS AP, take care, keep busy everyone, & Happy Easter everybody. 🐣❤🙂🐶
I started screaming when I seen you cut up those vanilla beans because I make my own extract and the cost of vanilla beans nowadays is through the roof. With that being said, the soap turned out really nice. I love that you added tea leaves to it and I love also that this is a simple, no nonsense recipe and easy to make. I've never made soap but this is an easy recipe I can follow. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wow cool
I made soap with used cooking oil from a restaurant and added Borax and Baking Soda for dish washing and it became very clean and cut the grease. I did ground up the soap to powder to cut down on waste and faster dissolving in the water. If you have land you can make your own essential oils by growing Lavender or other kinds of greens.
You have so many good skills! Thank you for sharing that.
I enjoyed your tutorial for so many reasons! Love your positivity 😊
I use the box commodity cheese comes in for my soap mold. I line it with a Walmart sack 😉
Rudy for people who have sensitive skin...the best recipe for soap is coal tar soap...you can wash your hair with it also to look after dandruff
Think this could be a great gift idea. Thanks for sharing
Instead of spending the money on the sodium lactate you could add a 1 teaspoon per pound of soap of regular sugar and regular table salt give that a try. You will get harder soap with more lather and save some money to boot! 😊
Before adding the lye though. Don’t ask me how I know. 😂
AP, here’s something fun you could look into , FORAGING. I’m learning. Did you know spruce trees are loaded with Vitamin C? I just found this out. You can candy the cones when they’re newly growing. The inside of the bark and the needles are useful. :)
What a great video! Thank you Rudy for sharing this info with us!
I worked at a soft pretzel company so very familiar with the fumes and burns from sodium hydroxide. So I would definitely wear gloves and work in a well ventilated area. And if you are making soft pretzels to give that pretzel taste a quick dunk in a lye solution.
Hi Angie - dunk the pretzels in a lye sol'n? 1) Is it safe for consumption?, and if so, 2) what are the ingredigents/ proportions/ measurements of lye to water or is it oil?, and, 3) is it before or after cooking/ baking frying? Sorry, have never heard (or even conceived!) of this... Thanks for reply, for all of us. Cheers! ❤, 😀.
@@kgrant3184 we made a large solution. To make 12 at home it would be 2 T of food grade sodium hydroxide to 1 quart water. Always add the lye to the water. And it’s added before making the pretzel. That is what make the pretzel brown and give it that pretzel taste. I’ve attached a recipe. www.tasteofhome.com/article/how-to-safely-use-food-grade-lye-for-pretzels/
@@angiedasner Angie, thanks so much, for me and others. Cheers! ❤,😀.
@@kgrant3184 have a super weekend!
@@angiedasner Thanks Angie, you & loved ones, too! ❤ Happy Easter/ Passover!
Hello AP and community!
The recipe for soap changes depending on the oils you use to make it.... different oils bond with the lye at different rates so you have to be careful to make sure that once the soap is done there isnt any lye in the soap that has not bonded with the oils... you should run your recipe thru a lye calculator to make sure
Soap Calc is a really calculator for soap making.
Where would I get a lye calculator please?
@@marianmurphy4625 Search Google "soapcalc"
@@marianmurphy4625 soap calculators can be found online or via phone app.
Reposted this on my Community page. Hugs ❤🤗
Happy to see u back. U mean soooo much to the community u started.🐾💕
A truly; informational, educational, motivational, and enjoyable video. Thank you!
Yup.this is prepping 😊
Awesome vid thanks ap. I love being clean. I'm definitely going to do this. I make own toothpaste. I love to be as chemical free as possible.
How do you make your own toothpaste?