Beautiful! Beautiful! Looks amazing. Nothing wrong with that lather for a 100% Shea, straight out of the mould (presumably?), or otherwise. Who needs moisturiser; - with such a luscious, nurturing soap. Brava, Holly❣️ Simple elegance
These are pure looking bars I love the stamp! 😍 I have been using 100% shea butter soap on my face for a few years and I no longer have to switch to a gentle detergent facial cleanser during the winter for dry super flaky skin!
Thank you but hope there is written recipe in this batch i really needed this as i always had eczema and everytime i need to use vaseline hope this will help
I'll have to give this a try! I have about 15 pounds of shea in my soap stash! I usually only use 15-20% in my luxury bars but this may take over my lard and olive oil soaps for my kids delicate skin!
I love this!!! I didn't see the usual soapcalc breakdown you often do at the ends of videos. How much did you superfat this? Thank you so much! You've inspired me to make soap!!
Thanks for sharing Holly. I might try this and add a little castor oil to assist with bubbles. Always love watching your videos. So professionally done and your artistic skill is amazing.
Thank you for sharing. Your soap looked wonderful and love the idea of one oil recipes, because I have seen other Shea Butter soap recipes and some use 2 or 3 other oils claiming it is a Shea Butter recipe.
Awesome! I may need to try this (or a variation with a little coconut oil) as a vegan alternative to my high lard soap. It's amazing how white it ended up after seeing the dark unrefined shea butter. 😊
I've wondered how a shea butter soap would work. Thanks for sharing. I love your videos!! Very clear and well put together. I can't wait the next one. I wish you'd be posting just a bit more often:-).
thank you for your video.. I have a tone of Shea butter that I ordered for lotions and some how received double the order.. I am so happy to find this and just received sodium lactate to use .. today... so I am looking for your recipe for the amounts to use and also at what stage do I add the essential oils?
I have purchased a beautiful shea butter and lavender soap at the Temecula Lavender Company. Their label reads: pure glycerine soap, shea butter, lavender. Are they adding glycerine to increase lather? As I want to make my own shea butter soap, I'm grateful for this video, Holly. It is very helpful and as beautiful as your soap is!
I believe that glycerin does contribute to lather because it’s sweet. Sugar increases bubbles. It also softens a base and makes a soap glide in the hands. If you try the Shea butter soap with glycerin, please let us know how it turned out. :)
You don't need glycerin as the coconut oil produces the bubbles, you can also use Babassu oil it works the same way as coconut oil in producing bubbles and cleaning
Go to soapcal.net and plug in your numbers, according to your mold size. For example, I did 3lbs and it calculated @ Shea butter 48oz, lye 5.82 & water 12.95. Good luck
You should have a look at a soap calculator, you just have to select your oil of choice and it will give you how much lye and water to use: brambleberry.com or soapcalc.net
In my regular soaps where I use no more than 15 to 20% shea butter, I never notice the scent (always gone after the soap cures 4 weeks). However, with this 100% shea soap, even after 6 months I could still pick up the scent of the shea butter. I recently made a new soap using 60% shea butter. It's been curing for 2 months, and the shea butter scent is still very strong.
Holly. Hi. I was wondering... i ran 100 % shea through thre soap calc. It didnt come out with decent numbers..how do I run it so that its high conditioning and extremely low cleansing? Ty for the great video
I understood cold process soap took weeks to harden. You say it was the same after a day as after four weeks, in a good way or bad? Slicing that block looked so satisfying!
The lather was the same...very little lather. Some viewers wondered if the lather might improve with time (as the water evaporated from the bars), so I kept checking and it never did. I really liked the soap, but for people who want lather, this probably isn’t for them. Thanks for watching!
@@hollysoapmaking thank you! I'm new to this so investigating still as I just don't like commercial soaps on offer for price vs the scents that I like (very subtle woody resinous scents) in decent quantity so decided to make my own. This has been very informative particularly regarding shea butter.
I think this would be a great bar of soap if it was 50% coconut oil and 50% Shea butter. Nice lather and a smooth silky feel - cleansing and conditioning as long as you kept the super fat low (4-5% should be good enough).
Thank you! It was accelerating even faster with the stick blender, making it get super thick right at the base of the blender. When I began stirring with a spoon, I had more time to get the oil and lye mixed evenly. I should have just stirred from the beginning. :)
Hmmm- fabulous! Thank you SO much I LOVE Shea butter (so happy to see you use unrefined), but never tried using it 100% in a soap. What do you think about adding castor oil to increase lather?
Thank you for watching them! I've purchased all of my soap stamps from Dave at Lasercutz (UK based company). He's always been so helpful with my logo requests and does a wonderful job. Here's his link in case you need it - www.etsy.com/shop/Lasercutz
I always stamp it as soon as I cut it or the next day at the latest. Otherwise, it can be harder to stamp (the letters want to dent instead of nicely stamping). Thanks for asking!
Hi can you tell me if the end result is a hard bar or softer bar if finished soap after curing time. im interested in trying but want to know the end result for hardness. 💜
Nature Mist just put it into a lye calculator using the amount your mold will hold. If you want more lather you may need to add another oil or additive:)
You could add castor oil for mor lather. Super fat is the percentage of yout total oil weight that is left unsaponified after mix icing in your lye/water mixture.
Caster Oil doesn't add anymore lather ive tried it. I added Babassu Oil worked wonders its similar to Coconut Oil... A good alternative if you are allergic to Coconut Oil
Holly, this was a truly excellent video. Super high production quality and the content delivered everything I needed. Your supplies are also beautiful and intentional. And I can see the way that shows up in your products. Beautiful crafting.
I shave with a straight razor and recently bought a shea butter shaving soap, it has got a thick creamy lather and is a great shave, it left my skin feeling great but was pretty expensive... £45. I'd love to know how to make it, can you do a video on how to make shaving soap?
Awesome, thanks for the video ! I always want to try make shea butter soap. But I wonder if it feels great on your skin. Which one is better, 100% olive oil or shea butter?
Thanks for watching! I’ve never made a 100% olive oil soap. Maybe someone else will comment on that comparison. I do like how my skin feels using the Shea butter soap. :)
Holly - Kapia Mera Soap Co A pure Castile is amazing! I cure for a year..but try along the way. I can only imagine a Shea Butter soap being Divine❣️ Would be curious to see how much it would improve with the same Curing as a Castile ((~_\
You can clearly see it wasn't crumbly at all. They look like the most luxurious, smooth bars! I'd try it if organic shea butter wasn't a specialty butter for me, lol. Way too expensive to do 100% shea butter.
Hi, it has now been a year since you’ve made this 100% luxury shea butter soap Have you seen a little bit of improvement in later recently using the soap after curing for a year or do? Does your skin still feel very soft after using this soap ?
I can't believe it's been a year! Wow. Actually, I used one of these bars after about 8 months and was surprised to see a little lather for the first time. It's still my favorite soap to use during the dry winter months. My skin feels clean but not dry at all.
Lye is just the natural chemical You need to turn your oils into soap is the natural chemical reaction created by natural rain Ash and wood . It is how your fat and oils become soap naturally soap can't be created without it.
yes thak you for your knowledge to everyone, but i have Some problems about use Engelvaer Norwegian oil or fish oil mixed in to The Soap, i don't know How i do If you know please share
watching the soap being cut is so satisfying for me. i'm very excited to start creating my own.
Beautiful! Beautiful! Looks amazing. Nothing wrong with that lather for a 100% Shea, straight out of the mould (presumably?), or otherwise. Who needs moisturiser; - with such a luscious, nurturing soap. Brava, Holly❣️ Simple elegance
this was so interesting! Lotion type soap probably feels super good this time of year!
These are pure looking bars I love the stamp! 😍
I have been using 100% shea butter soap on my face for a few years and I no longer have to switch to a gentle detergent facial cleanser during the winter for dry super flaky skin!
Hii
Can i ask you from where you bought shea butter.?
Thanks
Thank you but hope there is written recipe in this batch i really needed this as i always had eczema and everytime i need to use vaseline hope this will help
The best soap making video I've ever watched. I loved your soap mould, the cutter and the stamp.
Thank you so much!
Ahh the smoothness from hand stirring 🤩
I'll have to give this a try! I have about 15 pounds of shea in my soap stash! I usually only use 15-20% in my luxury bars but this may take over my lard and olive oil soaps for my kids delicate skin!
Maybe a little sugar water for bubbles. I may try this. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful bar of soap. Probably feels great❤️
This looks absolutely luscious. Will have to try this experiment! Maybe add some cocamidopropyl betaine for bubbles.
Fascinating experiment, glad you were able to stir the batter down so it was pourable. Beautiful soap, nicely done.
This is the best simplest video I ever watched but wouldn't it need time to cure. Afraid a newbie will see this and use right away.
I love this!!! I didn't see the usual soapcalc breakdown you often do at the ends of videos. How much did you superfat this? Thank you so much! You've inspired me to make soap!!
Beautiful, I'd love to add this to my natural soaps.
lye is not natural it's really bad for you ....
@@MsChazcat lye is not in the final product.
try a 70% shea and 30% coconut ratio... perfect lather
is there recipe with coconut oil, olive oil, shea butter (and if could also beeswax)?
How much superfat?
@@damianchisley can do 0 as shea butter is atleast 7% unsaponifiable. However I like to do 3% superfat
@@keepinitrealwithgee thank you ❤️
Thank you
Thanks for sharing Holly. I might try this and add a little castor oil to assist with bubbles. Always love watching your videos. So professionally done and your artistic skill is amazing.
those are beautiful, where did you get your soap stamp from?
Did the castor oil help? How much pray tell did you use?
Completamente apaixonado pelo seu trabalho e pelo seu talento! Saiba que tem um fãn aqui no Brasil. ❤️
i’ve never seen perfect a soap bar like this u made 😍😍😍😍 gonna try it out
Thank you for sharing. Your soap looked wonderful and love the idea of one oil recipes, because I have seen other
Shea Butter soap recipes and some use 2 or 3 other oils claiming it is a Shea Butter recipe.
Looks smooth as silk, unrefined shea butter? The lather was better than I expected........ very interesting
Your videos are just so nice to watch. You make people want to make soaps. And this is by far my favourite recipe 2 ingredients 🤓
Thank you so much! Your comment just made my whole day! 😊
My bad 3 ingredients (forgot H2O)🤗 still amazing bars. Love the stamp as well
Very interesting! I need to try it for my skin. Thank you for sharing.
So satisfying to watch and the color is so pretty.
Awesome! I may need to try this (or a variation with a little coconut oil) as a vegan alternative to my high lard soap. It's amazing how white it ended up after seeing the dark unrefined shea butter. 😊
Thank you for sharing your video. Mother just sent me a few containers of shae butter even though she doesn't want any soap from it🤷♀️
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely videos. They are very helpful.
I've wondered how a shea butter soap would work. Thanks for sharing. I love your videos!! Very clear and well put together. I can't wait the next one. I wish you'd be posting just a bit more often:-).
Beautiful 😻. Will it make bubbles??
thank you for your video.. I have a tone of Shea butter that I ordered for lotions and some how received double the order.. I am so happy to find this and just received sodium lactate to use .. today... so I am looking for your recipe for the amounts to use and also at what stage do I add the essential oils?
I have purchased a beautiful shea butter and lavender soap at the Temecula Lavender Company. Their label reads: pure glycerine soap, shea butter, lavender. Are they adding glycerine to increase lather? As I want to make my own shea butter soap, I'm grateful for this video, Holly. It is very helpful and as beautiful as your soap is!
I believe that glycerin does contribute to lather because it’s sweet. Sugar increases bubbles. It also softens a base and makes a soap glide in the hands. If you try the Shea butter soap with glycerin, please let us know how it turned out. :)
You don't need glycerin as the coconut oil produces the bubbles, you can also use Babassu oil it works the same way as coconut oil in producing bubbles and cleaning
That looks so luxurious. I have to try this. ❤️
Great video
Thanks!
can you please tell me how many oz of shea butter and how much water and lye u used to make it?
Thanks
Go to soapcal.net and plug in your numbers, according to your mold size. For example, I did 3lbs and it calculated @ Shea butter 48oz, lye 5.82 & water 12.95. Good luck
You should have a look at a soap calculator, you just have to select your oil of choice and it will give you how much lye and water to use: brambleberry.com or soapcalc.net
Good shampoo bar for dry hair
Miss Maww yes! Or cleansing conditioner!
Hi, I feel shea butter is a strong smelly butter, does that smell stay after it becomes soap? Many thanks 😊
In my regular soaps where I use no more than 15 to 20% shea butter, I never notice the scent (always gone after the soap cures 4 weeks). However, with this 100% shea soap, even after 6 months I could still pick up the scent of the shea butter. I recently made a new soap using 60% shea butter. It's been curing for 2 months, and the shea butter scent is still very strong.
Beautiful soap. Thank you for sharing
Beautiful - my favourite ingredient
Awesome video! Where do you purchase the powder Shea butter at the beginning of the video before you melt it to add to the recipe? Thanks
Thanks! I get my oils and butters from Soaper’s Choice online.
Holly. Hi. I was wondering... i ran 100 % shea through thre soap calc. It didnt come out with decent numbers..how do I run it so that its high conditioning and extremely low cleansing? Ty for the great video
I understood cold process soap took weeks to harden. You say it was the same after a day as after four weeks, in a good way or bad? Slicing that block looked so satisfying!
The lather was the same...very little lather. Some viewers wondered if the lather might improve with time (as the water evaporated from the bars), so I kept checking and it never did. I really liked the soap, but for people who want lather, this probably isn’t for them. Thanks for watching!
@@hollysoapmaking thank you! I'm new to this so investigating still as I just don't like commercial soaps on offer for price vs the scents that I like (very subtle woody resinous scents) in decent quantity so decided to make my own. This has been very informative particularly regarding shea butter.
You’re welcome! Good luck with your soap making!
Did you use a fragrance? I added a fragrance, and the trace was really thick. I barely had time to get it in the mold.
I think this would be a great bar of soap if it was 50% coconut oil and 50% Shea butter. Nice lather and a smooth silky feel - cleansing and conditioning as long as you kept the super fat low (4-5% should be good enough).
The bar looks silky smooth. I wonder if it has to cure for 6 months to a year for better lather? Thank you for sharing your test with us.
Lovely and the stamp is so pretty *
Always enjoy watching your videos Holly! ❤
Hello nice video where do you get the lovely soap mold and cutter thanks
Beautiful work!!!! Congratulations and thanks for sharing 😀
Can i make shea butter soap without lye?
That's a beautiful bar of soap
Hello! Great video as always! Why did the lye and oil didn't mix well with the stick blender at first? Thanks!
Thank you! It was accelerating even faster with the stick blender, making it get super thick right at the base of the blender. When I began stirring with a spoon, I had more time to get the oil and lye mixed evenly. I should have just stirred from the beginning. :)
Hello. Would this recipe be good for hot process since it accelerated so quickly and do you have a hot process tutorial.
That’s fun! I might try to make it
I ordered shea butter saop and it had no fragrance and when I used this soap it feel really good for my dry skin
Hmmm- fabulous! Thank you SO much I LOVE Shea butter (so happy to see you use unrefined), but never tried using it 100% in a soap. What do you think about adding castor oil to increase lather?
Hello. Thank you for sharing your videos. Could you tell where I can order a soap stamp? I'm new to soap making
Thank you for watching them! I've purchased all of my soap stamps from Dave at Lasercutz (UK based company). He's always been so helpful with my logo requests and does a wonderful job. Here's his link in case you need it - www.etsy.com/shop/Lasercutz
Hello Holly,
How many days did you wait to stamp your soap?
I always stamp it as soon as I cut it or the next day at the latest. Otherwise, it can be harder to stamp (the letters want to dent instead of nicely stamping). Thanks for asking!
Beautiful!! Can't wait to try this recipe.
Hi can you tell me if the end result is a hard bar or softer bar if finished soap after curing time.
im interested in trying but want to know the end result for hardness.
💜
What a beautifully creamy bar.
where did you get that super large package of shea butter?? The soap looks lovely.
I purchased it online from Soaper’s Choice. :)
Holly - Kapia Mera Soap Co thanks!
Beautiful creamy color ♥️♥️♥️ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Mam super excited videos one doubt which oils are best for skin fragrance oil are essential oils
Thank you for sharing. Love the stamp
Plz give me measure in grams, I want more lather in my soap, so wat should I add, and wat s superfat Wer I get dis plz reply
Nature Mist just put it into a lye calculator using the amount your mold will hold.
If you want more lather you may need to add another oil or additive:)
You could add castor oil for mor lather. Super fat is the percentage of yout total oil weight that is left unsaponified after mix icing in your lye/water mixture.
Laurie Cass so about 5% of the total weight of the Shea butter
Caster Oil doesn't add anymore lather ive tried it. I added Babassu Oil worked wonders its similar to Coconut Oil... A good alternative if you are allergic to Coconut Oil
Hello, I’m looking for the soap mold you used in the video. Can you share the link or website please.
Are you able to put the recipe in grams? I made a lot of soap but never used the percentages model. Thanks!
Wow it's a 💯 % Shea .... I would love to use one ... It would be so great
The soaps look lovely. Where did you purchase your Shea butter ?
I used hand mixer and got the same result. Can I still use soap or is it not good to use?
Holly, this was a truly excellent video. Super high production quality and the content delivered everything I needed. Your supplies are also beautiful and intentional. And I can see the way that shows up in your products. Beautiful crafting.
Wow, thank you so much! 💕😊
Very interesting! I see that you did not use a fragrance oil or essential oil? Why not? Would you ever consider it?
Please where can I buy the mold
and the cutter you use
And the stick blender
Do you Think sodium lactat would be suitable in this recipe ?
I shave with a straight razor and recently bought a shea butter shaving soap, it has got a thick creamy lather and is a great shave, it left my skin feeling great but was pretty expensive... £45.
I'd love to know how to make it, can you do a video on how to make shaving soap?
Awesome, thanks for the video ! I always want to try make shea butter soap. But I wonder if it feels great on your skin. Which one is better, 100% olive oil or shea butter?
Thanks for watching! I’ve never made a 100% olive oil soap. Maybe someone else will comment on that comparison. I do like how my skin feels using the Shea butter soap. :)
Holly - Kapia Mera Soap Co A pure Castile is amazing! I cure for a year..but try along the way. I can only imagine a Shea Butter soap being Divine❣️ Would be curious to see how much it would improve with the same Curing as a Castile ((~_\
What a great video, thank you for posting this.
Great soap Holly how did it feel was it crumbly. I would like to try it. Do you mind sharing where you got the mold from
You can clearly see it wasn't crumbly at all. They look like the most luxurious, smooth bars! I'd try it if organic shea butter wasn't a specialty butter for me, lol. Way too expensive to do 100% shea butter.
So simple, but so pretty, clean. I'd love a bar. Luxury soap!!! What's bthe cost for this bas compared to the rest.
Hi, it has now been a year since you’ve made this 100% luxury shea butter soap
Have you seen a little bit of improvement in later recently using the soap after curing for a year or do?
Does your skin still feel very soft after using this soap ?
I can't believe it's been a year! Wow. Actually, I used one of these bars after about 8 months and was surprised to see a little lather for the first time. It's still my favorite soap to use during the dry winter months. My skin feels clean but not dry at all.
Hi, I tried making home however it dint convert as solid as shown. It's little wet and soft. Please suggest how to get a solid structure.
Looks amazing where did you get the imprint stamp? That is so cool
Thank you! I get my soap stamps from LaserCutz (on Etsy).
could you help me with the recipe a little? im trying to make my own but dont want to mess it up
i have one of the 42oz molds
So if I have the basic 4 lbs loaf mold how much Shea butter in grams or oz would I need to measure out?
prease i don't understand you can expand "Water = 2.2 x sodium hydroxide (31% lye solution)"
Beautiful soap!
Beautiful work, thank you 😊
Thank you so much!
Good day. Thank you for the video. Please tell me what percentage of water to oil you used in the recipe. Thank.
Love it Holly. Great video
Excellent video! Thank you
What’s was the clear stuff you poured into the melted Shea butter?
Lye - sodium hydroxide mixed with distilled water
Do tell, where did you get that luxurious shea butter? I haven't been able to find great quality shea butter in years.............
I currently buy both my unrefined & organic refined Shea butters in bulk from Soaper’s Choice (aka Columbus Foods).
We can also use it for hair ???
You used lye and shea butter only?
is it the lye that makes it able to lather?
thank you so much for your time. I love your video. the editing is beautiful and calming.
Lye is just the natural chemical You need to turn your oils into soap is the natural chemical reaction created by natural rain Ash and wood . It is how your fat and oils become soap naturally soap can't be created without it.
Where did you get the name stamp from?
Looks PERFECT 👌🏽
Can we use hot process for making butter soaps
how much did the shea butter and lye weigh before you mix them ?
How much of each did you use in this specific video ?
yes thak you for your knowledge to everyone, but i have Some problems about use Engelvaer Norwegian oil or fish oil mixed in to The Soap, i don't know How i do If you know please share
Your videos are so nice and informative.👍❤️