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My best friend travels and collects the hotel soap. I've rebatched them. It's fun and safe. I think of remaking candles as it's the same process. ❤🌅🌵🌅😷
@@gloriaramos1430 , 1:55 the dark colored soap is dominant and will turn light colored soap dark. If you don't want dark colored soap, you have to use all light. ... This technique is for practicality not for beauty. I take a shoebox full of hotel soaps (2x3x 1/4) and slivers of soap, melt them down and make nice sized bars (my husband loves them). It's recycling/remaking the bits into something useful. It's safe, no risk of burning yourself with lye and lots of fun! There's no predicting the color... Once I used slivers of Irish Spring and it didn't melt well, so the soap had specks of green soap all through it ... looked like confetti. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷 Ps. Light colored means white or almost white. The tan ones and the rust/orange colored soaps that she used are considered dark. If she didn't add the activated charcoal 11:05 the soap would have come out that brown color that you see in the crockpot, but activated charcoal is similar to the charcoal for BBQs or in artist's pencils that's why soap turned so black.
@@moniesmiles2647, when I get done, there's usually a thick coating of soap covering the pot. You can wash the soap off, but since I use an old pot from the second hand store. I don't bother washing it out good enough for food prep, but you could certainly do so. I just don't want to waste the soap. The next time I melt soap, what's in the pot melts and goes into the next batch. 💖🌞🌵😷
I’m so glad I stuck it out and watched this whole video. I wasn’t sure you were going to answer my questions but you totally helped! My husband bought a bunch of bar soap that dries both of us out. But with how expensive everything is, I’d hate for it to go to waste just because it makes our skin dry! So I’m gonna attempt to boil it down and add some oils and Shea butter to hopefully make the soap a bit more conditioning.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking they aren’t that long! I just wasn’t sure if this video in particular was the right one to answer my question, because of it being answered towards the end. But with attention spans getting shorter and shorter, what’s long to others may seem short to me, etc.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking I do have a question for you though, if you mind helping a girl out! So the soap I have that dries us out, is Dial antibacterial bar soap. When I do my ratios for adding oils/shea butter to it, what would you suggest be the correct amount to use for a basic 4oz bar? I can do the rest of the math, I just wasn’t sure how much to add without rendering the soap useless.
This is a great video for everyone Elly, from newbie to longterm soap maker! I already have a batch I am not happy with and had thought of turning it into laundry powder using your recipe and now I have 2 options. This so agrees with my environmental beliefs of reduced waste and reusing/repurposing. Thank you so much 💛
You're welcome Marion, yes it's so great to make something new from something old. Sometimes I keep my white/light coloured old pieces for the laundry soap, and rebatch the darker colours that aren't best for laundry. Many options here :)
Elly, you are such a blessing to us newbie soap makers (and to everyone!). Your videos are presented in a much-appreciated down-to-earth, straightforward, encouraging and pleasant way. Thank you for all that you do. May this season and the coming year bring you all that is good. God bless you.
Thank you SO much for this video. From all you taught me, I saved my soap from a disaster. I made a batch of coconut oil soap and, as a new soapmaker, I think I experienced everything that could go wrong. The batch came up lovely, but after an hour a crack started appearing, so I knew it was overheating. I used alcohol and a plastic bag to slurry shut the crack and popped it in the fridge. After a few minutes, I put it on a raised rack with a gentle fan breeze around it. It came out of the mold perfectly, but partially gelled. So, I tried the CPOP method with success. Perfect, I thought. I carefully transferred the bars to a rack to harden. Tragedy struck. The rack must have been too top heavy, collapsed and sent my lovely bars crashing to the floor. Every single one was damaged. So, I rebatched it all in a double boiler and it melted up nicely and now it's back in the mold. All in a day, right? Without your patient instruction I would not have known where to begin. Cheers from the mountains of Virginia. You are a soap saint. ❤️
Always great information and tutorials! My husband has severe arthritis in his hands and prefers a larger bar of soap, so he ends up with a half bar or more that he won’t use. I have started collecting his half-used soaps and will do a re-batch for him! Thanks for this great idea! Happy new year to you!
Yes, I collect the left over soap that my husband would otherwise throw away, but I can't seem to melt it without burning it. Some soaps are softer than others and the hard ones just don't melt! It's frustrating. That's why I'm here. I'm looking for ways to melt it without burning it.
I just "glue" the old bar to the new bar. To do this, use both bars while showering. When finished, create a nice lather in your hands and scoop it with the smaller bar. Then press it firmly to the larger bar. Let it throughly dry. I've been doing this for years, even with store bought soap. Now that I'm making my own soap it works even better.
@@keithfacchino3980 I do that too, but it's been so dry lately my hands are peeling off. I want to incorporate some shea butter into the soap which would require me to melt it all the way down, but I can't get it hot enough to melt.
Hello Elly: Thank you for this video. I found it very useful. Watched it yesterday and am on my third batch of rebatch!!! The key is patience, blending and not too much water!. Thank U again.
Thank you Elly, you make the best videos on making soap! Thanks to you, I started making soap! I always thought it is much too complicated, but with your on point explanations, easy to understand and follow! Great compliment to you! Thanks for sharing!
You've given me a clue now of what to do with soap scraps. I've been collecting these scraps but only to soak them and remould without this new knowledge I've learnt. Now I hope, I'm gonna collect as many as I can and rebatch them and sell them back to those who like to get rid of those small pieces of soaps. Thanks for opening up my brain.
Fantastic video! I have a cold processed soap that is very oily and soft after 6 weeks…I plan on re batching after learning the technique from your video. My question is..if I add other “old scraps” of soap that have saponified perfectly to the ‘oily’ soap, will I need to add more lye. If so how do you calculate how much.. or will the good scraps melt with the oily scraps to make a good re batched soap? Thank you
Hi Elly! Had to take a second to let you know that your video tutorials were such a gift when I found them at the end of such a stressful year of 2020. I got the soaping bug early enough to ask my family to forgo typical gifts this year in lieu of soap making gear and fragrances. Then using your tips, I have already made two batches in 2021 and am about to make a third. I can't wait to share the bounty with loved ones when it is finally safe to gather and socialize again here in the United States. Until then, I can't believe how hard it is to wait for them to cure. I peep in on them every day! Many, many thanks for your kind, thoughtful, and fantastic instructional videos. Happy new year!
Just when I was wondering what to do with the unused soap bars, I came across your video. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love your rebatched charcoal soap.
Wow that turned out amazing! I didn't even know this was a thing. Thank you for sharing 😍 To think of all the poor little soap nubbins I've thrown out over the years 🙄
a most excellent video. i like the way you explain it. my wife keeps throwing my collection of soap scraps out. i'll do what you do and put them in a large zip lock baggie. thanks again Terry.
Hello my granddaughter (14) makes cold process soap and she has just had her first fail (soap on a stick). So, while looking for a video on how to rebatch, we found your video, I would just like to say thank you for this one as it is easy and simple for her to follow.
Thank you from Texas. I really enjoyed your video and made three batches yesterday after a three year absence. I have never re batched but now I will because some of the soap I made yesterday came to trace really fast and it looks rough! I am a new and self taught soaper, so thank you for the tips!!
This is the BEST VIDEO for re batching soap I have ever found. And it has the mixing in of the second color I just read about in my new book too. Thank you so much! You have no idea how this changed my day today. No other videos had how much liquid to even add to the crock pot. Like…how do I know, just by chance? You are a goddess.
When i had my kids we ysed cloth nappies and i used to make liquid soap to wash them with 1 bar of chopped sunlight soap and about 2 litres of water. Boil till liquid then left it till it wrnt jelly when cold. 1 cup of the slime added to a full nappie wash. Worked well and the sun took care of the yellow stains.❤
A great information and another type of soap processs have been learned from u Elly mam. We learned a great knowledge and learned about waste soaps and how its reused
Happy New Year. I love your videos...there is such serenity in the way you teach, you are so beautiful. I finally made soap for the first time the other day using your 100% coconut oil with 25% superfat recipe...it has turned out so lovely...they are drying (day 2) Thank you so much for giving me the confidence to start something that I have put off for years. I will try rebatching...have been collecting scraps and now shavings from my neatened soap edges :-) Blessings and much love
I was given a bit of wonderful smelling herbal homemade soap from local Gleaners group. The biggest share of it was very thin end cuts, so today I am trying your rebatching method. I have made soap, so I have molds and am looking forward to the bigger bars of this. Thanks for sharing this.
It turned out great and I am doing the second half of it this morning. I actually did the grating in a small food processor as I have numb fingers and after normal grating of the first little bar knew it would take a big portion of my day doing grating otherwise. That worked rather well. I tnink today's batch is a bit larger, so 2 loaves and a little more of nice sized bars from the "Oh so thin" bars is so much nicer. Next will be your Pine Tar Soap recipe when my ingredients arrive. Have a good day. Thanks again.
Thanks for this. I've got a good few offcuts from previous batches and was looking for a method for reaching them. Off to the workshop now. All the best from Panama.
I was hoping that you would have shown how to form the "extra" (what didn't fit into the mold) into patties by hand. Oh, well. Maybe next time. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉. ❤🌅🌵😷
Ah yes, I hoped to, but I only had a tiny bit left so it wasn't really worth doing. It's easy, just wait until the soap cools enough to handle it and shape it into the desired shape. You can add a teeny bit more water to help :)
Happy New Year Elly! Loving this video. Just to let you know that I made laundry soap using your instructions and it's fabulous. My daughter in law loves it too!!! What a revelation - thank you. Definitely going to make a soap just to make laundry powder. All the very best for this new venture 👍 🙋🐾Trish and Nige
OMG, it needed this a few months ago. I messed up and left out my mango butter. I knew exactly how much I needed to add, I didnt know, I kept it for ages , was gonna put it in with the washing powder. But I threw if out. Now I know I wont do it again. I love the charcoal, it's good for oily skin. If you use it just slightly crushed it's good for raspberry and strawberry skin, ie the dried skin on your arms and thighs.
This was so beautiful. Thank you, Elly. I am binge-watching your videos and others as I prepare to start making my own homemade soaps just to save some cash! Ahahahaha! Wish me luck! :)
Hi Elly, I'm new to soap making, so I have plenty of oops didn't mean to do that soaps. I'm going to visit the thrift shops to see if I can find a crock pot and get to rebatching. Thanks for the helpful ideas.
excellent! thank you for this. It'll be rebatching for me tomorrow hopefully for the last day of quarantine (brissy here). Also I love your hair cut, it really suits you. :)
Hello Elly, I am new at soap making for home use. I overmized after i added fragrance. Can i add water to liquefy it to pouring consistency. Thank you for sharing so many tips ❤❤❤
I am going to have to do my first rebatch of an HP soap with goat's milk because I forgot to add the superfat at the end. I love the essential oil blend that's in there and am concerned it will evaporate off when the soap gets hot during the rebatch. Thanks! Appreciate your videos!!
Great soap and I love the method! I do have a question though.... You mentioned adding oil to lye heavy soap to even it out, but I understood that lye won't dissolve in oil and that you'd need to add water to do so. Does that make sense? Otherwise it may continue to be lye heavy.... Or maybe I didn't understand you correctly?
Great question Sonja, well you are right that lye won't dissolve in oil, but if you are adding more oil to a lye heavy soap, the lye is already dissolved into the original soap, so it's just a matter of mixing more oil into that and getting it to saponify (mixing, heat and time). It would not work if you were mixing oil and dry lye together, but the new oil and the lye heavy soap mix quite well. Hope that makes sense :)
Hi Elly! Just bump in this rebatch video of yours. I had a small batch which I accidentally spilled out my lye solution so it's a bit lacking and so the result is a softer soap. I wanna rebatch them but I don't know how much lye solution I lost. I'm afraid if I'll add even a bit of lye solution will make it lye heavy. I wonder if I could rebatch it by using this method of yours without adding lye solution anymore? If it's okay, can I also just add citric acid and sugar syrup to make sure it bubbles nicely? Hope it's not too much to ask haha
Hi Elly ;I am glad watch this video. This is very usefull information. Because I missed one ; should I go directly to rebatch without waiting the soap up to 6 weeks ? I am quite new in soap making. Thanks, cheer
I grew up in nz in the 60s and we were so poor that my mother kept all the small used bars of soap till she had enough to boil it up and make more soap. Used to be a box of dried old soap in the laundry for about a year!😂
Hehe, I am a TOTAL gusher for Chandrika and Medimix! I don't know what it is, I love the medicinal scents. Yes, I like mysore sandalwood too. When I travelled in India, my bag was full of soap on the way home :)
@@bee7549 oof thats a steep markup.. im glad you enjoy them! it's my emergency soap that i keep in my cupboad so it makes my stuff smell good in the mean while :)
Hello Elly… I have made a batch that’s way too soft and I plan on rebatching… My question is can I use a crock pot liner in it???? So the clean up is easier??? Thank you in advance… Blessed Be
Hi, I think it would be really hard to stir the soap if you used a liner. If you have a good spatula you'd be surprised it's very easy to get all of the soap out of the pot, and the rest soaks off very easily.
this may have been asked, but I didn't want to go to far down the comments. I'm a beginner, so don't have a lot of supplies, so if I use a grater for the finished soaps, like for this, can it be used for foods again if cleaned well?
Hi Elly, I made a batch of soap today but the powders I used clumped together and formed little specs in my soap. Will rebatching melt down the clumps and help the colour to spread in the soap? Looking forward to your response. Love your videos, I’ve learnt so much from you:)
Thank you so much Elly. I'm going to try this. Quick question. I made some coffee soap and the scent morphed into smelly feet smell. It's disgusting!. Could I use it and add some EO to the rebatch ?
So I made a cold process soap process and accidentally added only half the oils to my lye causing it to get really chunky. I noticed after it was chunky that I forgot the total amount so I then added the rest of the oils but there is still some chunks.. would heating it down and remolding fix this ?
Hi Elly. It’s October 26, 2021. I made a small 640g soap recipe yesterday and used a silicone mold for the first time. Today when I prepared to unmold it, I noticed the top of the loaf had tiny spots of wetness or oil on top. It came out of the mold ok, but the edges seem soft. I’m afraid to cut it, so I’m wondering if I should rebatch it as you’ve done in this video -- although grating it would be kind of impossible. Can uncured soap be rebatched? I was attempting a moisturizing face bar and I used a few oils I’ve never used before (babassu instead of coconut, and apricot oil), and also olive, castor, cocobutter and shea butter. The recipe seemed to work fine on soapcalc. Has this ever happened to you? I used orange, lavender, and sandalwood EOs. If I melt it down, could I add some kaolin clay to dry up the excess oil? Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Hi Bonnie, yes that has happened to me. It could be that it overheated a bit, or some of the oils have sweated out. Have you got any pH paper to test it? It might be ok if you wipe the moist drops off. Otherwise, it could be that it's separated a bit, maybe not mixed enough? In that case you'd have to test the bars on the top and the bottom, see if there are any lye heavy spots and then rebatch. You can rebatch it at any stage, if it's soft, just mush it up into a slow cooker and cook it as per HP. Or wait till it hardens and grate it. I wouldn't correct the soap unless you know it needs it, but if it has a lot of excess oil you could add a tiny bit more lye to it and test it until it's right. A bit tricky without knowing what's going on. Just test it and go from there :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Elly, the bars cut easily (like butter) but held together. The pH test strips read at 5/6. I think this means not enough lye? too much superfat? I don’t think it overheated because the mold never really got hot during the insulation process. Your guess that I didn’t mix it long enough may be the problem. I stick blended until light trace trace. I think I will wait a few weeks and see what happens to the pH as the bars cure. Is this a good plan? Thank you again for your guidance. 🎃💜
Hi! I love your channel and as a new soap hobbyist, I have learned so much from it. I think your instructions and manner are lovely and straightforward. I also really like your aesthetic: simple, clean, natural-looking. My first soap was a batch of Castile that after curing for a month I've decided that I don't care for the texture of the soap (also it was my first soap and I think I could have done a better job). It's kind of slimy, which I have researched and found is normal. I was wondering if I can rebatch it so that I add in another oil (say coconut or whatever) to hopefully make it not so slimy--or as I've read to create a "Bastile", aka bastardized Castile. For example, if I want to add 100g of another oil would I do the soap calc for that amount and then add it and the corresponding amount of lye/water to the melted Castile? Thanks! I've tried researching this but nobody seems to focus on this reason for wanting to rebatch.
Hi Dawn, thank you for your kind words. Yes, you can totally rebatch the soap to add more oils with the right amount of lye, just make sure you're very careful with the calculations and check everything thrice :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thanks! It also occurred to me that I could put in a couple of bars of soap made from only coconut oil and that might be enough to help with the texture.
Hi Elly , great video, just love how creative you can be in Rebatching. I do have a question, is it safe to use a soap that has one oil less (forgot to use coconut oil). ?? I have investigated, and I do not know if I am interpreting the information right, but it said that oils have nothing to do with lye solution. Well I’ll just wait for your input. Thank you Elly.
Oils are absolutely essential for the correct soap recipe! Oils and lye amounts are the only critical part of a soap recipe in fact. You would definitely need to correct your recipe if you left an oil out.
Hi Elly, I tried making a transparent soap and landed in problem. Wonder if you could guide me.. I took 150gm oils (coconut 75g+rice bran 30g+ palm oil 45g), 24g lye with water lye ratio 1.5:1. I used hot process after getting trace. Cooked using water bath(double boil method) for about 1.5 Hrs and when I got consistency of wet mashed potatoes, i added 100g isopropyl alcohol and 50g sugar in 100gwater. Stirred and then cooked for another 15 min. The result was a gruel like consistency. I thought that was enough and plopped it into the mould. After 25 hrs, the consistency is same and it hasn't sent in the mould yet. Could you please guide me where I went wrong and what could be done to salvage the mess? Thanks a lot in advance.
Will it be safe to use your slow cooker again now for foods, or should you now keep it purely for soap making purposes like all your other equipment you use when making soaps?
I always make liquid soap out of my leftovers. With honey and water, mixing it until it's creamy... Most people like to use liquid soap, so here they have the choice between bar and liquid soap. But both homemade...
Thanks for this video. I made a batch of soap yesterday and totally forgot to add my Olive Oil! I just finished grating the soap with gloves on of course and about to rebatch. Think I will add activated charcoal to my rebatch too. Could I add coconut milk to this if I don't have yogurt? Also, if the fragrance isn't present, could I add more fragrance oil to it? Would it be the same rate as if I were making a fresh batch of CPS?
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thanks. I ended up using a product called "Dahee" its very similar to yogurt and the soap turned out great. Didn't need to add any additional fragrance.
Well I tried this but mine didn't come out nearly as smoothly as yours did it's very lumpy and and uneven. do you think it would be OK to start over again?
Elly, can this process be used for a high temp hot process dual lye soap? I'm not sure if my batch didn't reach emulsion or if the fragrance just accelerated it but it became stiff (this batch is supposed to be thick) and chunky very quick and did not remain a smooth batch. I triple checked all of my measurement but will still test the pH before attempting any type of recovery of this batch.
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My best friend travels and collects the hotel soap. I've rebatched them. It's fun and safe. I think of remaking candles as it's the same process. ❤🌅🌵🌅😷
That's so cool!
Why did it turn dark when you started with all light color soap
@@gloriaramos1430 , 1:55 the dark colored soap is dominant and will turn light colored soap dark. If you don't want dark colored soap, you have to use all light. ... This technique is for practicality not for beauty. I take a shoebox full of hotel soaps (2x3x 1/4) and slivers of soap, melt them down and make nice sized bars (my husband loves them). It's recycling/remaking the bits into something useful. It's safe, no risk of burning yourself with lye and lots of fun! There's no predicting the color... Once I used slivers of Irish Spring and it didn't melt well, so the soap had specks of green soap all through it ... looked like confetti. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷 Ps. Light colored means white or almost white. The tan ones and the rust/orange colored soaps that she used are considered dark. If she didn't add the activated charcoal 11:05 the soap would have come out that brown color that you see in the crockpot, but activated charcoal is similar to the charcoal for BBQs or in artist's pencils that's why soap turned so black.
Can your pot get ruined doing this?? 🤔😆😆
@@moniesmiles2647, when I get done, there's usually a thick coating of soap covering the pot. You can wash the soap off, but since I use an old pot from the second hand store. I don't bother washing it out good enough for food prep, but you could certainly do so. I just don't want to waste the soap. The next time I melt soap, what's in the pot melts and goes into the next batch. 💖🌞🌵😷
I’m so glad I stuck it out and watched this whole video. I wasn’t sure you were going to answer my questions but you totally helped!
My husband bought a bunch of bar soap that dries both of us out. But with how expensive everything is, I’d hate for it to go to waste just because it makes our skin dry! So I’m gonna attempt to boil it down and add some oils and Shea butter to hopefully make the soap a bit more conditioning.
That sounds very good! Have fun, and thanks. My videos are long but hopefully valuable all the way to the end!
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking they aren’t that long! I just wasn’t sure if this video in particular was the right one to answer my question, because of it being answered towards the end.
But with attention spans getting shorter and shorter, what’s long to others may seem short to me, etc.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking I do have a question for you though, if you mind helping a girl out!
So the soap I have that dries us out, is Dial antibacterial bar soap. When I do my ratios for adding oils/shea butter to it, what would you suggest be the correct amount to use for a basic 4oz bar? I can do the rest of the math, I just wasn’t sure how much to add without rendering the soap useless.
This is a great video for everyone Elly, from newbie to longterm soap maker! I already have a batch I am not happy with and had thought of turning it into laundry powder using your recipe and now I have 2 options. This so agrees with my environmental beliefs of reduced waste and reusing/repurposing. Thank you so much 💛
You're welcome Marion, yes it's so great to make something new from something old. Sometimes I keep my white/light coloured old pieces for the laundry soap, and rebatch the darker colours that aren't best for laundry. Many options here :)
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Elly, you are such a blessing to us newbie soap makers (and to everyone!). Your videos are presented in a much-appreciated down-to-earth, straightforward, encouraging and pleasant way. Thank you for all that you do. May this season and the coming year bring you all that is good. God bless you.
Thank you Patricia, I appreciate that very much.
Also what a great way to start the new year. Reusing last yrs soap and making something new from it...
Thanks Susan, that's exactly what I thought :)
Thank you SO much for this video. From all you taught me, I saved my soap from a disaster. I made a batch of coconut oil soap and, as a new soapmaker, I think I experienced everything that could go wrong. The batch came up lovely, but after an hour a crack started appearing, so I knew it was overheating. I used alcohol and a plastic bag to slurry shut the crack and popped it in the fridge. After a few minutes, I put it on a raised rack with a gentle fan breeze around it. It came out of the mold perfectly, but partially gelled. So, I tried the CPOP method with success. Perfect, I thought. I carefully transferred the bars to a rack to harden. Tragedy struck. The rack must have been too top heavy, collapsed and sent my lovely bars crashing to the floor. Every single one was damaged. So, I rebatched it all in a double boiler and it melted up nicely and now it's back in the mold. All in a day, right? Without your patient instruction I would not have known where to begin. Cheers from the mountains of Virginia. You are a soap saint. ❤️
Thank you. You're most welcome :)
Made lye heavy soap and knew that you were the only one here on TH-cam to help me save it! Thank you so much!😊
Glad I could help!
Always great information and tutorials! My husband has severe arthritis in his hands and prefers a larger bar of soap, so he ends up with a half bar or more that he won’t use. I have started collecting his half-used soaps and will do a re-batch for him! Thanks for this great idea! Happy new year to you!
You're very welcome Terry, that sounds like a perfect solution, Happy new year :)
Yes, I collect the left over soap that my husband would otherwise throw away, but I can't seem to melt it without burning it. Some soaps are softer than others and the hard ones just don't melt! It's frustrating. That's why I'm here. I'm looking for ways to melt it without burning it.
I just "glue" the old bar to the new bar. To do this, use both bars while showering. When finished, create a nice lather in your hands and scoop it with the smaller bar. Then press it firmly to the larger bar. Let it throughly dry. I've been doing this for years, even with store bought soap. Now that I'm making my own soap it works even better.
@@keithfacchino3980 I do that too, but it's been so dry lately my hands are peeling off. I want to incorporate some shea butter into the soap which would require me to melt it all the way down, but I can't get it hot enough to melt.
@@rlolo777 put the leftovers in a sponge( cut it open)
Hello Elly: Thank you for this video. I found it very useful. Watched it yesterday and am on my third batch of rebatch!!! The key is patience, blending and not too much water!. Thank U again.
Thank you Elly, you make the best videos on making soap! Thanks to you, I started making soap! I always thought it is much too complicated, but with your on point explanations, easy to understand and follow! Great compliment to you! Thanks for sharing!
That is wonderful! Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. I appreciate it a lot. :)
This is exactly what I needed! I have so many leftover soaps, both melt and pour and cold process soaps.Cant wait to try this. Thanks for posting!
Thanks Teresa, you're welcome!
Very different, Elly. Lovely looking soap. Thanks for walking us through the whole process.☺️ Iris
You're welcome Iris, thanks for your feedback :)
You've given me a clue now of what to do with soap scraps. I've been collecting these scraps but only to soak them and remould without this new knowledge I've learnt. Now I hope, I'm gonna collect as many as I can and rebatch them and sell them back to those who like to get rid of those small pieces of soaps. Thanks for opening up my brain.
Fantastic video! I have a cold processed soap that is very oily and soft after 6 weeks…I plan on re batching after learning the technique from your video. My question is..if I add other “old scraps” of soap that have saponified perfectly to the ‘oily’ soap, will I need to add more lye. If so how do you calculate how much.. or will the good scraps melt with the oily scraps to make a good re batched soap? Thank you
I watched your hot process soap video and I think it's fantastic, and now I'm watching more of your content. It's very informative.
Thank y'all so much dearest 🌹
Y'all such an inspiration 🥰
Appreciate y'all from the bottom of my heart 💖
Be Blissful Eternally 🙏👼🌈
Hi Elly! Had to take a second to let you know that your video tutorials were such a gift when I found them at the end of such a stressful year of 2020. I got the soaping bug early enough to ask my family to forgo typical gifts this year in lieu of soap making gear and fragrances. Then using your tips, I have already made two batches in 2021 and am about to make a third. I can't wait to share the bounty with loved ones when it is finally safe to gather and socialize again here in the United States. Until then, I can't believe how hard it is to wait for them to cure. I peep in on them every day! Many, many thanks for your kind, thoughtful, and fantastic instructional videos. Happy new year!
Ahh thank you so much Amber, you're very kind. I'm so happy to hear you're loving your soap making so much! Take care.
Just when I was wondering what to do with the unused soap bars, I came across your video. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love your rebatched charcoal soap.
Thanks Amrita, that's great!
Wow that turned out amazing! I didn't even know this was a thing. Thank you for sharing 😍 To think of all the poor little soap nubbins I've thrown out over the years 🙄
Thanks so much! 😊
a most excellent video. i like the way you explain it. my wife keeps throwing my collection of soap scraps out. i'll do what you do and put them in a large zip lock baggie. thanks again Terry.
Your videos have been a huge help, i love the way you explain everything simply and give us advice along the process really appreciate it❤️❤️
You are a complete delight to watch and listen to love, I learned a lot and enjoyed your video.
Hello my granddaughter (14) makes cold process soap and she has just had her first fail (soap on a stick). So, while looking for a video on how to rebatch, we found your video, I would just like to say thank you for this one as it is easy and simple for her to follow.
Thank you from Texas. I really enjoyed your video and made three batches yesterday after a three year absence. I have never re batched but now I will because some of the soap I made yesterday came to trace really fast and it looks rough! I am a new and self taught soaper, so thank you for the tips!!
You are so welcome!
Love to look. I have some re-batching to do so I will be trying the confetti method... Lol... You're Great!!!!
Thanks for all your helpful hints...
Thanks Rodney :)
This is the BEST VIDEO for re batching soap I have ever found. And it has the mixing in of the second color I just read about in my new book too. Thank you so much! You have no idea how this changed my day today. No other videos had how much liquid to even add to the crock pot. Like…how do I know, just by chance? You are a goddess.
Aww, thank you! I'm so happy to hear your feedback. You're welcome!
This was a great video and very informative and I will use your techniques tomorrow when I re-batch! Thank you very much
I'm glad it helps! Thank you so much. :)
Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
When i had my kids we ysed cloth nappies and i used to make liquid soap to wash them with 1 bar of chopped sunlight soap and about 2 litres of water. Boil till liquid then left it till it wrnt jelly when cold. 1 cup of the slime added to a full nappie wash. Worked well and the sun took care of the yellow stains.❤
That is lovely, Diana! ❤️
Just on the right time when I was wondering how to fix my soaps which didn't turn out how I wanted to. You are awesome. Love from India.
Thank you Deepti, that's lovely
A great information and another type of soap processs have been learned from u Elly mam. We learned a great knowledge and learned about waste soaps and how its reused
Thank you Kajol :)
Happy New Year. I love your videos...there is such serenity in the way you teach, you are so beautiful.
I finally made soap for the first time the other day using your 100% coconut oil with 25% superfat recipe...it has turned out so lovely...they are drying (day 2)
Thank you so much for giving me the confidence to start something that I have put off for years.
I will try rebatching...have been collecting scraps and now shavings from my neatened soap edges :-)
Blessings and much love
Ahh, thank you so much, that makes my day :)
I have learned that this process has a much lovelier name....
Hand milled soap!!!
😎😎😎😎😎
Haha yes, depends on who you ask and what original soap you're using. When it's scraps I'm calling it a rebatch!
I was given a bit of wonderful smelling herbal homemade soap from local Gleaners group. The biggest share of it was very thin end cuts, so today I am trying your rebatching method. I have made soap, so I have molds and am looking forward to the bigger bars of this. Thanks for sharing this.
It turned out great and I am doing the second half of it this morning. I actually did the grating in a small food processor as I have numb fingers and after normal grating of the first little bar knew it would take a big portion of my day doing grating otherwise. That worked rather well. I tnink today's batch is a bit larger, so 2 loaves and a little more of nice sized bars from the "Oh so thin" bars is so much nicer. Next will be your Pine Tar Soap recipe when my ingredients arrive. Have a good day. Thanks again.
One question. This just needs to dry right? No need to "cure" for the 4-6 weeks again? Thank you.
Wow, that turned out very interesting. Love the rlecks of orange.
Thanks for this. I've got a good few offcuts from previous batches and was looking for a method for reaching them. Off to the workshop now. All the best from Panama.
Thanks Jim, that's fantastic. Glad this helped.
I love your videos! You make everything seem so easy to make. I’m ready to re batch now. ❤❤
I was hoping that you would have shown how to form the "extra" (what didn't fit into the mold) into patties by hand. Oh, well. Maybe next time. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉. ❤🌅🌵😷
Ah yes, I hoped to, but I only had a tiny bit left so it wasn't really worth doing. It's easy, just wait until the soap cools enough to handle it and shape it into the desired shape. You can add a teeny bit more water to help :)
I was wondering how to rebatch! Thank you
Hi Elly, great to see you again❣️
Thanks Bonnie :)
Happy New Year Elly! Loving this video. Just to let you know that I made laundry soap using your instructions and it's fabulous. My daughter in law loves it too!!! What a revelation - thank you. Definitely going to make a soap just to make laundry powder. All the very best for this new venture 👍 🙋🐾Trish and Nige
Yes! That's great Trisha, so cool :)
That is beautiful! I love your channel!!!
OMG, it needed this a few months ago. I messed up and left out my mango butter. I knew exactly how much I needed to add, I didnt know, I kept it for ages , was gonna put it in with the washing powder. But I threw if out. Now I know I wont do it again. I love the charcoal, it's good for oily skin. If you use it just slightly crushed it's good for raspberry and strawberry skin, ie the dried skin on your arms and thighs.
Happy to see Chandrika soap. Am. From India and that soap has a great smell.
Oh yes I adore Chandrika soap!
Very well done!!!👍🏾👏
This was so beautiful. Thank you, Elly. I am binge-watching your videos and others as I prepare to start making my own homemade soaps just to save some cash! Ahahahaha! Wish me luck! :)
You can do it!
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thank you!
Wow who would have thought that it would turn out like that 😍
Hi Elly, I'm new to soap making, so I have plenty of oops didn't mean to do that soaps. I'm going to visit the thrift shops to see if I can find a crock pot and get to rebatching. Thanks for the helpful ideas.
You're welcome Vera, op shops are the best places for soap making gear! All for a good cause too :)
Another excellent Elly explanation, thank you. When you use this soap in the kitchen is it for hands or dishes or both?
Both. Mostly hands and pots and pans :)
excellent! thank you for this. It'll be rebatching for me tomorrow hopefully for the last day of quarantine (brissy here). Also I love your hair cut, it really suits you. :)
Aww, thanks Emma! Have fun, so nice to hear from you :)
Great soap! Creative idea! 🦋
Amazing idea Thank you elly
Hello Elly, I am new at soap making for home use. I overmized after i added fragrance. Can i add water to liquefy it to pouring consistency. Thank you for sharing so many tips ❤❤❤
Hi Elly! Thanks so much for this video. Can you rebatch soap with what appears to be undissolved lye?
Thank you! Saved my crumbled batch :)
Oh that's good! :)
Thanks a whole lot. Now I can cut down on a lot of waste.
I am going to have to do my first rebatch of an HP soap with goat's milk because I forgot to add the superfat at the end. I love the essential oil blend that's in there and am concerned it will evaporate off when the soap gets hot during the rebatch. Thanks! Appreciate your videos!!
It might flash off a bit, I usually add extra when I rebatch :)
Looks delicious 😋
Great soap and I love the method! I do have a question though.... You mentioned adding oil to lye heavy soap to even it out, but I understood that lye won't dissolve in oil and that you'd need to add water to do so. Does that make sense? Otherwise it may continue to be lye heavy.... Or maybe I didn't understand you correctly?
Great question Sonja, well you are right that lye won't dissolve in oil, but if you are adding more oil to a lye heavy soap, the lye is already dissolved into the original soap, so it's just a matter of mixing more oil into that and getting it to saponify (mixing, heat and time). It would not work if you were mixing oil and dry lye together, but the new oil and the lye heavy soap mix quite well. Hope that makes sense :)
This was a great example, just tried some out myself with little scraps I had haha
Hi Elly! Just bump in this rebatch video of yours. I had a small batch which I accidentally spilled out my lye solution so it's a bit lacking and so the result is a softer soap. I wanna rebatch them but I don't know how much lye solution I lost. I'm afraid if I'll add even a bit of lye solution will make it lye heavy. I wonder if I could rebatch it by using this method of yours without adding lye solution anymore? If it's okay, can I also just add citric acid and sugar syrup to make sure it bubbles nicely? Hope it's not too much to ask haha
Hi Elly ;I am glad watch this video. This is very usefull information. Because I missed one ; should I go directly to rebatch without waiting the soap up to 6 weeks ? I am quite new in soap making. Thanks, cheer
Yes, you can rebatch at any stage if you need to. Just wear gloves and be safe if your soap is lye heavy!
Thank you Elly
I grew up in nz in the 60s and we were so poor that my mother kept all the small used bars of soap till she had enough to boil it up and make more soap. Used to be a box of dried old soap in the laundry for about a year!😂
oh wow! Your mother is so resourceful, Awesome. :)
omg i NEVER thought id ever see someone gush over chandrika and medimix! have you tried Mysore Sandal soaps? or maybe you find them too strong?
Hehe, I am a TOTAL gusher for Chandrika and Medimix! I don't know what it is, I love the medicinal scents. Yes, I like mysore sandalwood too. When I travelled in India, my bag was full of soap on the way home :)
I LOVE Mysore Sandalwood Soap...we pay up to R50 for a bar in South Africa
@@bee7549 oof thats a steep markup.. im glad you enjoy them! it's my emergency soap that i keep in my cupboad so it makes my stuff smell good in the mean while :)
Excellent
Beautiful soap Elly! Greetings from Connecticut xoxo
Thanks Dari!
OMG I love Chandrika soap!!!!!
ThankYou for a great video. My question is the cleaning of slow cooker. Do you have cooker for this use only?
Thank you again.
The slow cooker is easy to clean, you just soak it and wash the soap out. It's just soap :) I do have a cooker just for soap making.
Lovely video for a newbie. Fantastic channel ❤️
Thanks Catherine, much appreciated :)
This is very helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome Lee, thank you.
great video as usual, thanks for sharing , nice idea.
That's a great idea! 👌
Greetings from Turkey! 🙂
THanks, glad you enjoyed it. Greetings from Australia!
Hello Elly… I have made a batch that’s way too soft and I plan on rebatching…
My question is can I use a crock pot liner in it????
So the clean up is easier???
Thank you in advance…
Blessed Be
Hi, I think it would be really hard to stir the soap if you used a liner. If you have a good spatula you'd be surprised it's very easy to get all of the soap out of the pot, and the rest soaks off very easily.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking 🙏
Thank you ma and God bless you
this may have been asked, but I didn't want to go to far down the comments. I'm a beginner, so don't have a lot of supplies, so if I use a grater for the finished soaps, like for this, can it be used for foods again if cleaned well?
Yes, it's only soap you've grated :)
Hi Elly, I made a batch of soap today but the powders I used clumped together and formed little specs in my soap. Will rebatching melt down the clumps and help the colour to spread in the soap? Looking forward to your response.
Love your videos, I’ve learnt so much from you:)
Hi Monifa, yes, definitely. Especially if you use a stick blender at the end, it should get rid of any clumps.
Great! Thanks so much
Wonderful video Elly awesome. I hav3 lots of old soap.
Thanks Donna, glad you liked it. I thought it was a good, practical video to start the year on :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking to right i loved it.
Thank you so much Elly. I'm going to try this. Quick question. I made some coffee soap and the scent morphed into smelly feet smell. It's disgusting!. Could I use it and add some EO to the rebatch ?
Ooh, that doesn't sound good! Yes, you can probably cover it if you use enough EO ;)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thank you. I will give it a try . Have a great Sunday
Fantastic! I am going to give it a try!
Awesome! Have fun :)
Thank you, this answers my questions.
Chandrika is also my favourite soap😊. It is pure herbal soap.But how did you got this in Australia?
Great video Elly, I have never tried rebatch, may just try it out :) Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome George! It's a fun little project.
Great to see you again do have soap making classes
Not yet, but I'll be developing my website soon so lots more helpful information to come there :)
Those are such nice bars of soap you grated up 😭 I would have loved to try one of those
So I made a cold process soap process and accidentally added only half the oils to my lye causing it to get really chunky. I noticed after it was chunky that I forgot the total amount so I then added the rest of the oils but there is still some chunks.. would heating it down and remolding fix this ?
It hasn't dried out yet so it's still soft should I wait till it's hard then do this or?
Hi Elly. It’s October 26, 2021. I made a small 640g soap recipe yesterday and used a silicone mold for the first time. Today when I prepared to unmold it, I noticed the top of the loaf had tiny spots of wetness or oil on top. It came out of the mold ok, but the edges seem soft. I’m afraid to cut it, so I’m wondering if I should rebatch it as you’ve done in this video -- although grating it would be kind of impossible. Can uncured soap be rebatched?
I was attempting a moisturizing face bar and I used a few oils I’ve never used before (babassu instead of coconut, and apricot oil), and also olive, castor, cocobutter and shea butter. The recipe seemed to work fine on soapcalc.
Has this ever happened to you? I used orange, lavender, and sandalwood EOs. If I melt it down, could I add some kaolin clay to dry up the excess oil? Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Hi Bonnie, yes that has happened to me. It could be that it overheated a bit, or some of the oils have sweated out. Have you got any pH paper to test it? It might be ok if you wipe the moist drops off. Otherwise, it could be that it's separated a bit, maybe not mixed enough? In that case you'd have to test the bars on the top and the bottom, see if there are any lye heavy spots and then rebatch. You can rebatch it at any stage, if it's soft, just mush it up into a slow cooker and cook it as per HP. Or wait till it hardens and grate it. I wouldn't correct the soap unless you know it needs it, but if it has a lot of excess oil you could add a tiny bit more lye to it and test it until it's right. A bit tricky without knowing what's going on. Just test it and go from there :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Elly, the bars cut easily (like butter) but held together. The pH test strips read at 5/6. I think this means not enough lye? too much superfat? I don’t think it overheated because the mold never really got hot during the insulation process. Your guess that I didn’t mix it long enough may be the problem. I stick blended until light trace trace. I think I will wait a few weeks and see what happens to the pH as the bars cure. Is this a good plan?
Thank you again for your guidance. 🎃💜
Hi! I love your channel and as a new soap hobbyist, I have learned so much from it. I think your instructions and manner are lovely and straightforward. I also really like your aesthetic: simple, clean, natural-looking.
My first soap was a batch of Castile that after curing for a month I've decided that I don't care for the texture of the soap (also it was my first soap and I think I could have done a better job). It's kind of slimy, which I have researched and found is normal. I was wondering if I can rebatch it so that I add in another oil (say coconut or whatever) to hopefully make it not so slimy--or as I've read to create a "Bastile", aka bastardized Castile. For example, if I want to add 100g of another oil would I do the soap calc for that amount and then add it and the corresponding amount of lye/water to the melted Castile? Thanks! I've tried researching this but nobody seems to focus on this reason for wanting to rebatch.
Hi Dawn, thank you for your kind words. Yes, you can totally rebatch the soap to add more oils with the right amount of lye, just make sure you're very careful with the calculations and check everything thrice :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thanks! It also occurred to me that I could put in a couple of bars of soap made from only coconut oil and that might be enough to help with the texture.
Yes, that's a great idea!
Hi Elly , great video, just love how creative you can be in Rebatching. I do have a question, is it safe to use a soap that has one oil less (forgot to use coconut oil). ?? I have investigated, and I do not know if I am interpreting the information right, but it said that oils have nothing to do with lye solution. Well I’ll just wait for your input. Thank you Elly.
Oils are absolutely essential for the correct soap recipe! Oils and lye amounts are the only critical part of a soap recipe in fact. You would definitely need to correct your recipe if you left an oil out.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thank you so much and for your prompt reply. I will te batch and add the coconut oil in the crock pot. Thank you
Hi Elly, I tried making a transparent soap and landed in problem. Wonder if you could guide me.. I took 150gm oils (coconut 75g+rice bran 30g+ palm oil 45g), 24g lye with water lye ratio 1.5:1. I used hot process after getting trace. Cooked using water bath(double boil method) for about 1.5 Hrs and when I got consistency of wet mashed potatoes, i added 100g isopropyl alcohol and 50g sugar in 100gwater. Stirred and then cooked for another 15 min. The result was a gruel like consistency. I thought that was enough and plopped it into the mould. After 25 hrs, the consistency is same and it hasn't sent in the mould yet. Could you please guide me where I went wrong and what could be done to salvage the mess? Thanks a lot in advance.
Will it be safe to use your slow cooker again now for foods, or should you now keep it purely for soap making purposes like all your other equipment you use when making soaps?
I only use it for soap making.
Very useful and interesting. Thank you.
Do you have to cover with towels for the 24 hours with the rebatch soap???
Thank you 🙏
Blessed Be
No, the rebatched soap is already gelled so you can just leave it uncovered. It will slowly cool and set after moulding.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thank you…
I take it we still have to Wait 24 hrs again???
Yes, just wait until it is firm enough to cut, then cure for a month or so it to make it hard again.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking ok cool… thank you 🙏
This was so helpful!
Thank you!
Beautiful 🌸
does it have to be activated charcoal powder for soap making.
came across food grade charcoal powder..???
ok to use or not..
great video.....thank you
I think food grade would be fine. Activated charcoal is a bit trendy, but I don't know how much better it actually is.
I always make liquid soap out of my leftovers. With honey and water, mixing it until it's creamy... Most people like to use liquid soap, so here they have the choice between bar and liquid soap. But both homemade...
Yes, that's a good idea, don't you find it slimey though?
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Sometimes. But when you add more water and maybe oil, then it's okay.
Thanks for this video. I made a batch of soap yesterday and totally forgot to add my Olive Oil! I just finished grating the soap with gloves on of course and about to rebatch. Think I will add activated charcoal to my rebatch too. Could I add coconut milk to this if I don't have yogurt? Also, if the fragrance isn't present, could I add more fragrance oil to it? Would it be the same rate as if I were making a fresh batch of CPS?
Hi, yes you could add some coconut milk, that would be nice! And yes, add some fragrance in the usual amount for soap :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thanks. I ended up using a product called "Dahee" its very similar to yogurt and the soap turned out great. Didn't need to add any additional fragrance.
This was extremely helpful! Thank you so much!
Thank you, you're welcome!
I’m trying this today. How long do you have to let rebatched soap cure? Also can you add more fragrance in this process?
About a month is a good drying time for rebatched soap, and yes, more fragrance is good!
Well I tried this but mine didn't come out nearly as smoothly as yours did it's very lumpy and and uneven. do you think it would be OK to start over again?
Elly, can this process be used for a high temp hot process dual lye soap? I'm not sure if my batch didn't reach emulsion or if the fragrance just accelerated it but it became stiff (this batch is supposed to be thick) and chunky very quick and did not remain a smooth batch. I triple checked all of my measurement but will still test the pH before attempting any type of recovery of this batch.