Making Soap with Fresh Rosemary from my Garden (fresh herb infusion, CP soap method). So much fun :)
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- Hi everyone, wow this has been one of my favourite cold process soap making adventures! In this video I show how I made beautiful rosemary infused soap at home using simple base oils and a bunch of fresh rosemary harvested from my backyard garden.
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How was the scent difference between the two?
Where do you buy the sodium hydroxide solution? Do you need to buy it online or certain shops?
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The reason why the Ph is relatively high is that you dissolved the lye and used it right away. You should dissolve it and keep it in room temperature for at least 24 hours. This yields the soap to be very smooth and with low Ph level. As for the lather part, try adding some citric acid next time, thus enhances the production of lather.
This info is passed on to me by a professional soap maker where I live in Damascus. So try it this way next time.
Keep it up 👍
Thanks for the tips 🎉 would love to learn more. Thanks
It's very interesting, but what about the temp between lye and oils?
I'm new as a soap maker 🥹
I did my first batch n it tested about 11 on the ph strip even after 7 wks. Does it mean the soap has failed n not safe to use? What can I do with the batch of failed soap?
ولكن اخبرونا اننا يجب ان تكون درجة الحراره بين الغسول والزيوت من 30فما فوق والفرق بينهما 5درجات على الاكثر
كيف نضيف حامض الستريك ومتى وماهي الكميه المناسبه
I’m a 4th year naturopathy student. Keeping the temperature below 60 degrees is a good idea to keep the medicinal properties. Rosemary is very good for stimulating hair growth and soothing psoriasis sores. Good to see another Australian on TH-cam showing the world how it’s done :)
Thanks, yes that's ideal but soap recipes get a lot hotter than that through saponification unfortunately, so overheating is almost unavoidable.
Using the rosemary sticks as BBQ lamb skewers is my absolute favourite way to not waste them. Beautiful video, nice one!
Chicken is delicious as well on the rosemary skewers.
@lincroyableprocrastinateur5414 how do you actually make the branch go into the meat?
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@@annepatteet7689 I'd poke through the meat with a metal skewer, take it out and put the rosemary stick in instead❤
I used to teach Medievel apothecary and I am excited to start soap making soon following your advise. The best time of day to pick herbs is first thing in the morning before the sun has had a chance to evaporate the aromatic oils. Pick after any dew has evaporated and before the sun gets hot. See if you get an even richer rosemary oil picking earlier. Just an idea to try.
Thanks, that's great. I think my rosemary is very strong any time of the day! Great advice for more delicate herbs though.
كيف يمكن استخلاص فوائد الاعشاب وزيوتها بطريقه سهله للمبتدئين من فضلك
Me too...I want to n
Learn more..new subscriber here from the Philippines
Will the infuses oil smell of rosemary?
That sounds like such an interesting subject!!!
Holy Moley! I happened upon this on Sunday afternoon, kind of drowsing, this woke me right up and my mind has not stopped running. I have never thought on making soap, I love to buy homemade soaps at fairs and farmer markets, but WOW. This is a truly knockout video, calm and in a true spirit of teaching. You have wetted my attention. From the middle of a large rosemary pasture, in the Great State of Texas, Yee Haw!
Thank you so much!
Whetted, not 'wetted.' She didn't get your attention 'wet' she sharpened it - like using a whetstone to sharpen a knife. And we don't 'whet' our attention; we 'whet' our appetite. Texans... do you have schools there?
So now I have so many lovely moments in this video:
1. Writing the weight of the mugs at the bottom , game changer really how One never thinks of these simple things.
2. The point where you say this video raises more questions than it answers.
3. The point where you laugh over the fact that there is no lather
4.Elly it really is so heart warming to see how you are still so excited to cut a soap, I mean after 10 years of soaping and see what is there in it, and and also by the colour changes.
Waiting to see the larther test of these after 2 months.
Joya, thank you! I'm getting better at learning what to include and what to leave out. THANK YOU for that amazing feedback. It helps me so much 💗
You most welcome, the amazing video motivated me to write this feedback
Thank you for the video. I was so glad to learn how to infuse fresh leaves . For years I have infused much of my olive oil with dried chamomile and then I keep a couple of bottles of infused comfrey olive oil. I have always use the dried leaves and just let it sit in the olive oil for a few months and then strain it. Comfrey makes an absolutely gorgeous green for marbling soaps with, I have a large rosemary plant myself and I’m going to try your method. I really appreciate your recipes in your teaching technique. They always work well for me. I have been making soap for well over 40 years and I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you.
Donna in NW Florida. By the way, just for preference, I only infused extra-virgin olive oil. Then I use that oil in a normal recipe with no other changes calculated because of the infusion , the soaps always turned out beautifully. I didn’t realize I was supposed to do something different.
Hi Donna, you can do it many ways. I just wanted to infuse all of my oil with the rosemary, but definitely easier to infuse just one oil. Just sharing my fun experiments :) Thanks so much for your wonderful words, I appreciate your comment very much. Thanks also for the comfrey tip, I have a lot of comfrey in my garden! You probably can see it in the video. We use it as a weed barrier around the vegie gardens. Thanks again, Elly
Elly I recently start making soaps like 5 months ago and I start using your calculations in measuring my oils and lye and my Soaps came out beautiful, but I try to be very creative I will use fresh fruits and blend them and others times i will use spices like clove powder and cinnamon powder and so on. Thank you elly I appreciate your videos.
Wow ! Thanks Elly. ❤ I can't wait to try this soap recipe you shared. I can imagine the beautiful fragrance of that rosemary . Beautiful. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Elly. I just love your soap recipes. Will be making my own soon.
Elly, these are gorgeous! That green it turned out is just lovely. I love the idea of using the sticks of the rosemary for BBQing...great idea. Love your videos: you are so much fun!
Thank you Gwendolyn, that's so nice! I had heaps of fun with this one.
Some great tips Elly, love the colour changes wow.. thank you so much
The colour is stunning! 🤍
That will be a very gentle bar!! Love the colour too. 💞
i did this soap afetr infusing roseamry during eight weeks, the smell was incredible, im totally addicted to this smell now
How did you infuse? And did the smell come through after making the soap?
@@mariahmollel1258 there are a lot of book about "folk method" wihch is cold infusion (between 4 and 8 weeks) but you can also find tutorials to sterilize and clean the jars. you let the jar closed during weeks and you open it, the smell go in your entire house. But be very careful and read a lot on folk method before doing it
Hi Elly and thanks for your very helpful videos. Just wanted to pass on a tip for your cleanup video from a few years ago. Caustic waste water was a problem for me too until I started pouring some household cleaning vinegar into the wash water. It doesn't take much and neutralizes the caustic water instantly with no fumes. Salts are the main byproduct. It's cheap, easy and no mess.
Love love love the color! What a color morph!!!
Hi Elly.
I’ve never seen a rosemary plant that big. Didn’t know it could get that big. Where I live I’ve only seen it in pots as patio plants. I have a small pot and hope it will be enough. I’ve never seen another soap video as good as yours. Many people sharing on You Tube won’t even put in recipe links. That goes for food too. I like the way you explain things so thoroughly. Other You Tubers could sure learn a lot from you about how to make a video that people actually want to watch. I’m camping as I write this but eager to try the soap when I’m home. Thanks as always.
Cathy
Thanks so much Cathy, I appreciate your comment immensely! This rosemary plant was given to me by a neighbour. It's a very tall variety!
Cathy if you can find it the variety GORIZIA ROSEMARY is a wonderful upright type of rosemary. It can grow 5 feet tall in good conditions. Hope this helps!
? Does these soaps stop up plumbing being olive, palm, tallow, coconut oil? Just wondering.
Wow I love your Rosemary garden ❤
Beautiful Soap !
Very nice Ellys. Good presentation.
Nice demonstration. The process of saponification can be fastened by heating the oil and the sodium hydroxide together. No foam means unreacted oil is still present in the soap.
I love this . Thank you for opening up my mind to trying something so valuable.
that's great! Have fun. :)
Your soap looks great! You’ve inspired me to use more of my fresh herbs in my soaps.
Thank you so much! That is lovely, Kim. :)
I love the smell rosemary, can't wait to make this. Thank you!👍🙏❤️🕊️
You are so welcome
Hey Elle, so I recently I made an aloe and moringa (infused in coconut oil) and the soap had a nice light green natural hue. Great video!
That color morphing was absolutely fascinating!
It sure was. I've got some amazing colour morphs in some of my videos :)
Awesome soap, I love Rosemary! Thank you Ellie!
You are so welcome!
Looks really good! I'd love to eventually give it a try.
Hi! Im spanish and using new and clean virgin olive oil is a sacrilege. Use the kitchen used oil, the Sodium hydroxide is going to kill the properties anyways. This way you can recycle the used oil, in Spain we make soap with the oil used for cooking, we dont throw it in the garbage (is also forbiden because a drop of oil contaminates thounsands litres of water).
The main point is not to waste the oil.
Also!! try to avoid metal spoons to move the mix, use wooden spoons :)
Greetings.
Can you tell me if the smell of the cooked items in the spent oil comes through to the final soap? I understand my question comes many months after you posted. Gracious!
@@dianetm8557 Hi! You won’t notice any smell because sodium hydroxide neutralizes them. You can add any essence if you want. Here we use this kind of soaps to wash delicate clothing and cotton clothes in general. We also use it for kitchen counter cleaning, floors, tiles… This soap is a good bug repellent so you can dissolve a teaspoon in a liter of water and spray it on the plants.
🤍 its name is ‘jabón de castilla’.
Thank you for sharing, Elly!!!💖
You're welcome Vivian!
I really love your channel, it’s very interesting and informative. Thank you and keep up the great content 🤗🤗👍👍
Another lovely video Elly. Thank you 😊
Thank you! 😊
This is lovely you are smart. I love the way you do all measurements.
Dry out all your herbs in a dehydrator, this way you don't have to worry about spoilage. Also, guickly grind your herbs into very small pieces and keep it in the soap🙏🏻
Thanks for the tips!
The dehydrator does kill alot of the terpenes and pieces in the soap seems like it would be annoying when you're in a process of cleaning yourself.
I really liked watching the infusion process to the soap making process. I can imagine the rosemary fragrance while the infusion was being made.
It was HEAVENLY!
Coconut oil is the lather maker in the main trinity of oils. Palm adds hardness and olive cleanses. Castor oil ups the lather and skin nourushment, as does butters (butters also add hardness). Hemp seed is very nourishing as well, maybe try using a bit of that since it's also a green color? Thanks for the video, I've been curious about what infusing our main batch oils would do and this gave lots of imput. That was a wild color morph, i probably would have freaked out if i tried it without your video! 😂
Very pretty soap. in a few weeks will be just right, thank you Elly
Thank you! :)
Thank you for this recipe.I plan on making my lard and coconut oil soap with rosemary and mint soon.Soaps with oils and no animal fat dries my skin so bad.Since using lard soap,no more dryness.I only use a tiny amount of coconut for added bubbles only.My 1st batch was 100% lard,and I still like it.
this is just what I wanted to make rosemary soap, ty
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
what a beautiful color! thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! :)
Thank you for sharing your videos. It is much appreciated.
Very inspiring and I love the natural color it turned out. Olive oil is a great ingredient to soften the skin. However, if you would like to have more bubble, you may need to balance with coco/ricin/palm oil.
I always look forward to watching your calm and hands on while making soap enjoyed watching your rosemary soap and will use coconut and caster oil in the mix Thanks again.
That's wonderful! Thank you :)
I took a pic of my rosemary plant and TH-cam brought me here. 😂 I also found a couple bars in a box after I moved of some rosemary soap i made over 20 years ago. I can’t wait to try and make it again.
Wow! Thanks for sharing! So jealous of your rosemary, she's massive and beautiful!!
So nice of you
I did it! I made it and had so much fun. Watching the colour morph in person was wild… right up there with Himalayan rhubarb infused oils. Thanks again so much for this inspiring video, Elly.
That's wonderful @pinkiedee! Well done.
Will the infuses oil smell of rosemary?
@@mariahmollel1258 Nope. That didn’t make it through the saponification process.
This video inspires me to make pandan leaves soap, because rosemary plant is rare here in Indonesia, but maybe it might get the same color transform effect. Thanx Ellie for the video
That sounds so nice. Have fun!
Love this video. So gonna try this one. ❤
Aww Elly, so great to see you back at soap again!!! Love the rosemary soap and wondering now after curing if you were able to achieve lather...i like to use castor oil to help with bubbly lather..love your herb garden, would enjoy more herbal recipes...miss you!! Gin❤
Love this! Thank you my love! Love knowing how to infuse oils!
You're very much welcome! I'm glad to help. :)
Hello Elly, I see your Rosemary. I do have it in my garden. It is easy to grow, being that needs plenty of sun and only once a week water. It is amazing! Thank you for your videos! Love to watch your videos.
Thanks so much!
Rosemary is one of my all-time favorite herbs with so many benefits and uses so I love this video, I would love to create this soap but with some coconut oil included. I'm sure these bars smell amazing. Thankyou for sharing your method
Will the infuses oil smell of rosemary?
was not expecting that colour!!! my gosh its gorgeous..;.
Thank you so much❤!
The green colour is so pretty 😮
Hello friend 👋 such of a super idea 👌,rosemary infused homemade soap ❤.Thanks for sharing the process with us ,best wishes Simon and Beth ❤🙋
Thank you for your wonderful feedback. I appreciate it :)
Good afternoon Elly and fellow you-tubers!! Excellent soap!! I infuse rosemary, sage and laurel from my garden to make my shampoo bars with olive oil, coconut and castor oil. Never mind dear Elly decorating soaps as long as they are such high quality products as yours using such pure ingredients. Havea nice day everyone!!
Thanks so much, you're very kind :)
Did the infuses oil smell of rosemary?
Thank you, love Rosemary, the colour is wonderful, greetings from Norway😊
Thank you! 😊
PH until 8 is ok especially if it is recently done. Normally we should wait at least 20 days before using a soap.
Making this recipe tomorrow 🌿 Thank you 😊
This is amazing
I am so excited about this video because I've always wanted to make soap with rosemary. I have a bush in my backyard but it doesn't look as nice as your plant.
I would love to make a liquid soap as well Thank you!
I adore your soap videos, my rosemary plant is such a baby right now but I hope it grows healthy so I can try this method. Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome. I hope that for you too!
Love this idea, I have lavander and rosemary in my garden 😊
Wonderful!
The real question I have is how old is that rosemary plant? I've never seen one that big. It's as large as you.
Really? Libraries and gardens all over Australia have rosemary bushes this big. 😯
I'm I'm canada, we get winter so super stunted growth. After 12 months my rosemary plant isn't larger then 12"
@@InFeCtEdSoApYwow. Yeah here in Australia we use them as hedges they get so big.
@@InFeCtEdSoApY create a warmer micro climate, protect the plant from cold air flowing by.
There's a rosemary bush at my mom's house that's like 5 times bigger than that one 🤣
I can almost smell the rosemary! You are delightful to listen to, also.😊
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20:50 Thanks Elly ,worth the wait. Now I understand why I was short in my olive oil. I didn’t allow for the loss with the leaves. Going to make another batch soon.
Ah yes. Best to calculate the recipe after the straining :)
I love rosemary so much,and I would love to try this one and make soap for me and my family. It is quite inspiring, ❤❤ so much
I really love the end color.
Made it today!! Hopefullt the green comes through
Wow the end color really surprised me and it's beautiful 😍 and you have a cute kitty 😻
Thank you! 😊
Would love to see a liquid soap done with this
Oh, genius! Great suggestion, thank you. I REALLY want to do an aloe liquid soap soon....
I just grate my soap into a pan with water in, heat it up and pour it into a pump container. Depends on how hard the soap is to the quantity of soap to water. My hard soaps I have to use about 1:4 ratio
@@helenbrown6612 For liquid soap used caustic potash(Potassium hydroxide) instead sodium hydroxide
liquid brain
Potassium Hydroxide is too strong for the skin. Not recommended for those who have sensitive skin.
This is such a nice color :)
What a beautiful soap. Is amazing the color change. Awasome colors, i imagine smells very nice. I will definily make it. I have in the freezer Rosemary and chamomille water infusión. They smell really nice. I will be making soap with them. Thank you for sharing Elly.
Sounds great, have fun!
Beautiful!!
Yet another beautiful video from you.
Love all the way from Nigeria 😍😍
Oh thank you so much!! Hi from Brisbane :)
Beautiful. Thank you
The recipe you have, is absolutely lovely.
Hi...me i nkow what the color white sulution on what the name of it...watching from philippines...
Beautiful video so correct explain in details step by step wonderful congratulations. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
You are so welcome
❤❤as soon as I saw the slow cooker I thought also 😊
This was very interesting, thanks
I’m planning on making a horsetail/nettle/rosemary shampoo bar. I have the oil infused (from a couple months ago when the horsetail was first coming up). I just gave it the sniff test and it doesn’t smell rancid or anything so here’s to hoping! Anyway, you’ve inspired me to actually do it now. I hope it turns out as lovely as yours did.
It might be fine as soap, but definitely don't ingest any of it! Botulism is a concern with fresh herb infusions in oil. It thrives in anaerobic environments and you can't taste or see it. Be very careful and do some more research I'd say. I don't think I'd risk it.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Oh my!!
I love foraging horsetail.
wound botulism is also a threat though@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching
Thanks Ellie been waiting it to be posted. Ive used rosemary in shampoo and hair oil no colour as different process. But now I must try this Rosemary in soap using my recipe when i get back to Aus. I love the colour change that occurs with ingredients from nature.
When you cut it it looked like a lovely iced sponge cake. For newbies it may be easier to just use olive oil for the infusion then after strained and calculated amount, then add what other oils or butters your recipe calls for, to give you the total oil quantity you need. This is how i do my infusions for soap.
Exactly. I go over those options in the blog post :)
Definitely one to try when I get home. It was a fabulous experiment, thank you I did love it ❤ Guess I’ll be buying out the local supermarket of all their rosemary!!
Thank you, have fun! Perhaps there is some growing locally you can harvest?
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Hi, can’t find anything here locally which is a shame but I have found a farm that will cut to order so I will give that a go when I get home 😁
I always want to learn how to make soap 👍 I did hit that like button and subscribed for all content. Looking forward to your future videos. 🤠 Thank you for sharing
Soap math is the only math I love 😂
These are spectacular and I can hardly wait to get my hands on some fresh rosemary. Thanks for sharing the process.
Thanks Pinkee! I'm with you on the math 😂
Thank you so much Ellie. I have many rosemary bushes just waiting for this recipe ❤
Blessings from South Africa
Oh that's great. Thank you. Have fun with your rosemary soap!
Thanks so much for sharing Elly. My rosemary bush is currently taller than me so I'm excited to use more of my rosemary in my next rosemary soap and give the bush a prune at the same time! I am fascinated by soaps that colour morph like this one, it never gets old watching an oil change when the lye hits it, and then watching soaps change again as they cure. Himalayan rhubarb is also a great botanical for colour morphing, although it does fade after it's cured if it's exposed to sunlight for too long. Wondering if the green will hold its colour in the coming months, I'll have to experiment and see how it goes!
Thanks for your reflections.. I think this colour might fade a bit. We'll see...
Don't worry about the decoration, your soaps are high quality. They look lovely.
Thank you so much 🙂
Thanks for sharing your recipe 👌 👏 ❤❤
You're very much welcome. Glad it helps! :)
😮 the color!!!
Muy hermoso 💚 💕 gracias por los detalles
You're an "expert" in soapmaking!!! Look at you calculating your oils, amazing!!!! I love watching you making soap!! Making me also making my own!!! Oh dear, those oils make me bhuy!!!hahahaha
Thank you! Cheers!
I used this technique for the COLOR alone! I ended up making a pure ALOE soap with it --- THE COLOR IS PHENOMENAL!! It's the most lovely olivy-sagey-pale green .. it's perfect!
Fantastic! The colour is great.
Lovely, inspirational vlog. Such a modest person :a rarity nowadays. Thank you
Thank you for your lovely comment. I appreciate it a lot :)
The soap color is gorgeous
so nice of you. Thank you! :)
I can wait to plant my rosemary’s 💓💓💓💓