5/13 Lye safety | Cold Process and Hot Process | Super Power Soap

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Welcome to Super Power Soap! If you enjoyed learning how to make soap with this video, let me know with a Like and Subscribe. Or just send good vibes in the comments below. I'm new to TH-cam and had fun filming this and hope you enjoy watching it. Got questions or wanna celebrate your soapmaking successes? Leave a comment below and I will point you in the right direction or send you a virtual high-five!
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Learn the basics about making handmade soap in this video series.
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Welcome to Super Power Soap. If you enjoyed learning how to make soap with this video, let me know with a Like and Subscribe. Or just send good vibes in the comments below. This is a new channel and the second soap video I have ever created for TH-cam. I had fun filming this and hope you enjoy watching it. Got questions or wanna celebrate your soap making successes? Leave a comment below and I will point you in the right direction or send you a virtual high-five!
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Castile Soap is a common name for 100% olive oil based soap. This is a simple recipe and great for beginners.
I LOVE making hot process soap. In this video I show you both cold process soap making and hot process soap making. As you’ll see, the ingredients stay the same but the cook process is where the two branch off. The major difference between the two is the texture of the finished product. Cold process soap tends to be super smooth in appearance while hot process soap is often more rustic and freestyle in appearance. Both methods produce lovely hard bars of soap.
Olive oil soap takes 6+ months to cure (many wait at least 1 whole year before using it!). The wait is worth it because the end result is a silky mild bar that produces a gentle lather and cleanses all skin types- including sensitive skin like my own skin. I personally love the pungent scent of pure olive oil soap. Enjoy the video and leave your comments below about your experience with Castile soap.
Why soapmaking? Soap making brings me so much joy. It’s my happy place. I started making soap in 2014 and haven’t stopped since. Creating each batch of soap is an opportunity to make something unique, beautiful, and useful. I hope to spark the joy of soap making in your life.

[@YoungE591]

Why use lye on your skin when you have to put all the protective equipment on? I know its apart of the process but use something more friendly.

[@superpowersoap]

Hi @YoungE591, this is seriously a great question and I hope this helps other folks who wonder this too.
In soapmaking lye, water, and oils/fats are combined in such a way that they form a new item: soap. Lye is corrosive on its own. Oil is liquid on its own. Distilled water is watery on it's own. However, when put together in the right order, the lye/water combine into a solution and mix with oils turning them into solid soap. In this recipe, I've added in extra oil (called a superfat) so that we are sure that there is more nourishing oil in the final product than free lye. I used a lye calculator to create this recipe.
Here's an analogy. Hot process cooks all of the lye out of the mixture so that no lye remains in the end. It has gone under a chemical reaction. Like an alcoholic dessert that gets baked. Alcohol goes into the recipe, but does not come out in the finished dessert. It's become something new. You can no longer split the ingredients back into what they once were.