So am I from experience anything alive and fruity, flowery or vegetabley always turns an ugly brown from the lye. The green colored mica probably covered up any off tones, otherwise It surely wouldnt be as vibrant even if it did hold its green color
The tea speckles made me think of robins eggs, tea speckles with a beautiful blue colored oral shaped column mold embed. Would be an awesome soap for Easter/spring 🐣
It would be nice if she could do a "this is what happens if you mess ______ up" kind of tutorial video. Like showing us ricing up close and how to fix it if possible, what causes seizing, etc. Kind of like the short & sweet version of the first 5 Soaping 101 tutorial vids, but with an updated twist and a TH-camr that doesn't instantaneously put you to sleep... LOL
Do you ever sell the soap ends or sample sets? My skin is really sensitive to scents, dyes, etc so I'm allergic to most soaps. It would be nice to be able to sample some of the soaps you make without having to purchase the whole bar.
If you had courses on skill share I’d totally take all of your classes. You’re so fun to watch and you go into detail and give people options on how people can go about getting the same results.
This soap could possibly be one of my favorites so far. I love the fact that it's natural. Would love to see you do one incorporating lemon juice and/or grapefruit juice for a fresh Spring/Summer scent. Btw, I took up a new craft a few weeks ago. I'm knitting and thought of you when I made some "soap sacks".
The natural soap you made for last release is my favorite from all the soaps I bought!!! Please, make more similar to that one. Natural colorants and essential oils make me feel better about what I'm putting on my skin and down the drain.
Beautiful soap, I’m a natural botanical aromatherapy soaper and I am making one similar but I will add Bergamot essential oil. Thanks for inspiration. Keep doing your thang girl....
I finally made my first purchase of the things I need to start making soap. I am so excited and can't wait to make my own soaps. Thank you so much for encouraging me through your videos❤❤❤
What is the shelf life for this soap? Does it still need to cure when cut? I see some of other lye soaps need to cure for approx 3 weeks thereafter? Love your videos!!
As someone who is a huge tea drinker and fan, I am so excited for this soap! My husband purchased the Jabberwocky and Golden Afternoon soaps for me for Valentines day and they are amazing! I have sensitive skin and these soaps leave my skin feeling soft and refreshed! Beautiful work as always!
With soaps like this with actual food in it, would you have to store it a certain way or use it before a certain time? Like would the soap go bad because there is actual fruit in it?
I’ve made soaps with raw egg yolks, milk, cream and food powder (almond pudding powder etc), as long as the oils that used to make the soap don’t go rancid, they last quite a long time. Like a year or two in a dark, dry and cool place. There’re different kinds of oils that could be used for soap. Soaps containing high % of grape seed oil, canola oil, sweet almond oil, apricot kernel oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil do go rancid very quickly and animal fats like lard and tallow, jojoba oil, olive oil and macadamia nut oil lasts a long time. If the oil is saponified all most all of it without much super fat, the soap do last ages, like 2-3 years or more made with those long lasting oils (heat tolerant oils) and 6 months instead of 3-4 months with those short life oils. Using essential oils also prolong the shelf life of the soaps too, just as they do for oils. So it’s mostly oils and not really the optional additives actually.
I love the soaps with the decorating but I wouldn't want to use those types of bars. The fancy curly ones like this are great but I would actually use those
I love watching you make soap. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. I would love to see a dirt pudding soap with gummy worms or a gummy bear soap.
Not a great idea, the juice is too acid; makes the soap mushy. But you could use the zest of the oranges/lemons; gives a nice yellow/orange colour too. You can add the zest to the lye water.
That was me for a year or two. Well, I've been making soap for a month now (yep, quarantine) and I've made 11 batches and run out of surfaces in the guest bedroom to cure my soap!
This reminded me of something that my grandma used to say (only because of the avocado, nothing else): if you can eat avocado without salt, you can eat poop. That’s a censored translation, since my grandma used to say it with more... colorful words. She also used to throw pee to the kids that used to smoke weed under her balcony. She was an interesting lady, to say the least. Edit: the day of her funeral, the same weed smoking kids that she would throw the pee at gathered one last time under my grandma’s balcony, and cried together, saying how they would miss “that old crazy hag”.
The swirly in the middle of the soap reminds me of wax seals on envelopes. Which made me think that you should definitely do a victorian love letter inspired soap with wax seals on top!
Yeah but that means it wouldn’t be great for exfoliation, which is what I think she was going for. You wouldn’t see as much speckling, if any, if she used Matcha.
You can use dried herbs like rose petal and chamomile the same way as the green tea, if you want your speckles to be in different colors. So many herbs, actually. I love these more natural soaps you do, the simplicity is always so gorgeous! (But I Love all your soaps soooo).
This might be a "stupid" question but wouldn't it be easier to add avocado oil instead of mushing the avocados? or is that done with the purpose of getting the color as well? no hate, just curious :3
Yes it would! 😁 No chance of mold either. The purpose of this soap was to use fresh fruit though. Almost all botanical colours fade away (cucumber peel e.g.) or turn brown. You need to add a mica or an oxide to get a green soap that stays green over time.
Can I just say.. I stumbled across your channel and have been binge watching all your videos. I've never made soap before but have always had a curiosity and interested in learning. You make it so interesting and educational and I live it! And however small it may seem, the perfect timing for your "commercial break" just as the ad rolls, is actually refreshing for some reason. I dont feel like it was interrupted so much lol like ok she let us know it was coming and she will be right back. Seems so much better than a mid sentence cut off by an ad. Gah I just rambled on about the tiniest little thing but I just had to say I noticed and didnt know how much I appreciate that u til now hahah
Welcome to the soapy sisterhood!! We're happy to have you here :) (Brothers are also welcome) And it's okay to make long comments, we all do the same thing around here. Katie has that affect on us. She just makes everyone feel safe enough to open up and talk.
OMG!! I actually gasped when you cut that soap!! I'm going to buy some avocados and just ordered that green tea from Amazon! Love those tea flecks in the bottom! Thank you for another fabulous video!!
I'm feeling inspired to make a similar soap! I have some expired looseleaf green tea and green tea fragrance oil. I can throw in some fresh avocado and maybe swap avocado oil for almond oil. Well that's my project for tonight! Update: Okay, it took 3 days, but I did it! Modified Katie's recipe to include 15% avocado oil!
Oh, great to hear it worked well - I'm just considering trying my hand at soap-making, and this design and recipe seemed very tempting to me. :) Perhaps after some practice with simpler loaves.
Katie, at some point: "now we're gonna weigh the avacado." My brain for the rest of the day: 🎶weigh the avacado, weigh the avacado. Weigh the avacado weigh the avacaaadooo🎶
"and look when I pour it in, it looks like a lava lamp!" *camera decides now is the best time to go out of focus*😂😂
😂😂😂 right
Lol I thought it was my interwebs going wonky😆
I was gonna type that as well! So funny! XD
Tbh I just thought it was my eyeballs giving up because it’s literally 5am & I haven’t slept so I’m glad someone else said something😂😂
I have eye problems and I thought I was paying for being to close to the screen!
oooooooo...................would it have been possible to like put a core throu it? so like when you were to cut em it looks like an avacado pit?
That would be so awesome looking
Or a cream gumball coated with dark brown mica cut in half on each top.
Was thinking the same!!
I was hoping for a pit 😩
Yeah like a circle imbed!
Can you do a succulent soap?
Oh my God yes !
Yes that would be so cute
I second that!!
You’re my favorite person! Because I love your PFP ||-// skeleton clique foreverrrr
Thank you guys so much☺️
Is anyone else old enough to remember salad fingers? Every time she mentions her favourite spoon I think of “I like to touch rusty spoons”
Funny enough, there was a new episode of salad fingers released, like, last month or something
You brought up a memory I had long forgotten..
YC really? I had no clue!
Laurel Moore is that a good or bad thing? Lol
@@hedgerow.homestead I don't even know 😂 it's like a neutral thought
This soap should be named “fre shavacado” 😂
Yessss.
😂😂😂😂
YOU HAVE TO!!!!
Yes
This comment is my favorite ♡
With how easily avocado turns brown I'm surprised the soap stayed such a nice color.
I mean it's 3.5oz in a batch of what, 52? bars that are 3.5oz each? It's all blended in to the oils which will keep it from direct exposure to the air
Danni Marie they added mica
I would imagine that the lye prevents oxidation
So am I from experience anything alive and fruity, flowery or vegetabley always turns an ugly brown from the lye. The green colored mica probably covered up any off tones, otherwise It surely wouldnt be as vibrant even if it did hold its green color
Rose that was a lot ;-;
Wish you had put a brown cane in each to represent the seed. Lol
Pit* sorry lol
@@TBananabread it's also a seed.
@@chalseywilder937 true
Chalsey Wilder I thought that was a pity 😄 (that’s a pun, not a correction)
@@teardroponawhiterose lol
The tea speckles made me think of robins eggs, tea speckles with a beautiful blue colored oral shaped column mold embed. Would be an awesome soap for Easter/spring 🐣
All I want is this soap but with a brown circle right in the middle of the two layers like if you had split an avocado
YES
Right!! That's all I was hoping for 😂
Katie: "Perfect for spring time!"
Me: -looks outside at the 8 feet of snow-
Looks outside at blistering sun and leaves starting to turn brown.
Canada?
The lettuce mica is dying to be made into a key lime pie soap 👀👀
Hi Katie, can you make a video showing what happens when things go wrong in a soap.
She actually has several videos where her soap goes wrong and doesn't end up how it's supposed to
It would be nice if she could do a "this is what happens if you mess ______ up" kind of tutorial video. Like showing us ricing up close and how to fix it if possible, what causes seizing, etc. Kind of like the short & sweet version of the first 5 Soaping 101 tutorial vids, but with an updated twist and a TH-camr that doesn't instantaneously put you to sleep... LOL
@@gardeninggamergirl7761 exactly how I would have said it if I could have found the right words
Do you ever sell the soap ends or sample sets? My skin is really sensitive to scents, dyes, etc so I'm allergic to most soaps. It would be nice to be able to sample some of the soaps you make without having to purchase the whole bar.
She does! But the sampler packs sell out very very fast!
Avocado peeling SO SATISFYING. I finally started using my glitterati bar and there's so much glitter in it, it actually exfoliates. BONUS!
I really like the simple soaps! They look so clean and fresh!
You're right!
If you had courses on skill share I’d totally take all of your classes. You’re so fun to watch and you go into detail and give people options on how people can go about getting the same results.
You should do a lavender one for spring! And other flower themed ones: lilac, gardenia, rose, etc.
I hope I'm not too late for spring soaps!
the soap looks really cool!
What a gorgeous soap!😍
Think it would look stunning if there is a gold mica line between the two layers.
Wow, I want to take a bite. The greens are perfect for this soap.
This soap could possibly be one of my favorites so far. I love the fact that it's natural. Would love to see you do one incorporating lemon juice and/or grapefruit juice for a fresh Spring/Summer scent. Btw, I took up a new craft a few weeks ago. I'm knitting and thought of you when I made some "soap sacks".
What's naturel about it. People are fools.
The natural soap you made for last release is my favorite from all the soaps I bought!!! Please, make more similar to that one. Natural colorants and essential oils make me feel better about what I'm putting on my skin and down the drain.
Please make more soaps with mica gold poweder imbetween the layers! The one soap you made with it was beautiful
I also love the look of the mica gold powder between the layers.. . it just makes a bar look oh so rich ! And I don't mean rich in $$$,. LOL !
this soap is such an aesthetic. 10/10
Beautiful soap, I’m a natural botanical aromatherapy soaper and I am making one similar but I will add Bergamot essential oil. Thanks for inspiration. Keep doing your thang girl....
This soap is over the MOON ! You're such a talented lady.
It looks so fresh and those greens are so calming. I love green tea and guacamole too! Great now I'm hungry..
I finally made my first purchase of the things I need to start making soap. I am so excited and can't wait to make my own soaps. Thank you so much for encouraging me through your videos❤❤❤
What is the shelf life for this soap? Does it still need to cure when cut? I see some of other lye soaps need to cure for approx 3 weeks thereafter?
Love your videos!!
I can't stop watching. The colors of this remind me of my grandma's bathroom. I like the little bit of nostalgia
This soap is so cool! I kinda wish you put in a soap rod so it looks like an avocado 😂
You make this process look so easy. The end results are stunning.
You should do an orange creamsicle soap for summer! (I know you plan your soaps a while in advance so I’m gonna comment now)
Like an Ice Cream Truck theme!!!
As someone who is a huge tea drinker and fan, I am so excited for this soap! My husband purchased the Jabberwocky and Golden Afternoon soaps for me for Valentines day and they are amazing! I have sensitive skin and these soaps leave my skin feeling soft and refreshed! Beautiful work as always!
Totally gonna buy soap from you! I LOVE LOVE LOVE homemade soap made with love :)
Katie, I bought this soap and I LOVE it!!!!! Thank you for making such wonderful soap!!!
Kelly Jones are the tea bits really scrubby? Just wondered if it’s a comfortable soap to use.
@@sheenabrowning6564 I don't even notice the tea in it. It's really smooth and it smells amazing!!!!!!
I used my Jabberwocky for the first time this morning, I LOVED IT!!!!
Isn't it wonderful! My boyfriend watched the video for it and we bought it as soon as it was released.
@@LibraLoo I did the same!!!! I love more earthy ish smells vs florals and I was just in love!
Oooohhhh, the last Mica u used for the top layer became such a beautiful light, minty green!!! It's frickin' gorgeous!
“I love this color, it’s perfect” *is completely different color the next day*
I love the sponsorships! That way there are no annoying or inappropriate or sad TH-cam ads!
With soaps like this with actual food in it, would you have to store it a certain way or use it before a certain time? Like would the soap go bad because there is actual fruit in it?
Avocados are very high in fat. I feel like that's why it works so well in this soap. It blends right in with the other oils that get saponified.
I’ve made soaps with raw egg yolks, milk, cream and food powder (almond pudding powder etc), as long as the oils that used to make the soap don’t go rancid, they last quite a long time. Like a year or two in a dark, dry and cool place. There’re different kinds of oils that could be used for soap. Soaps containing high % of grape seed oil, canola oil, sweet almond oil, apricot kernel oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil do go rancid very quickly and animal fats like lard and tallow, jojoba oil, olive oil and macadamia nut oil lasts a long time.
If the oil is saponified all most all of it without much super fat, the soap do last ages, like 2-3 years or more made with those long lasting oils (heat tolerant oils) and 6 months instead of 3-4 months with those short life oils.
Using essential oils also prolong the shelf life of the soaps too, just as they do for oils.
So it’s mostly oils and not really the optional additives actually.
I wish I would of known about your shop when this was still out! I’m dying to smell that avocado scent
LOVING the combination, YES!!! I honestly prefer the low tops also, simplicity.
I love the soaps with the decorating but I wouldn't want to use those types of bars. The fancy curly ones like this are great but I would actually use those
The top layer turned into such a lovely green color :D
Yo. That little puff of powdered colorant that happens when you slowly dunk the stick blender in is so nice??? Like, why though?
Spencer Holmes 6:51
Because it's a very fine powder so the motion of the blender stick going into it makes it puff up in the air
Soooo perfect!!! Yes more green tea in soaps!!!!
Ohhhhh my goodness 😍 Two amazing things together ❤ I hope I get one!!
A green tea lemonade soap for a summer release would be so good!
I second this!!
I would love to see a soap with inbeds INSIDE the frosting 😍
That bottom layer looks so good!
FR E SH
A VOCA DO
Honestly, my favorite soap you’ve ever made.
i was a little disappointed when the green got lighter after drying
it looked like a perfect avocado color before that
Same, I don't like the green it turned into at the end. I was surprised she didn't mention the color change.
How can it stay a little darker what could make this darker
Scents with vanillin in it tend to discolor
Fresh avocado in soap is one of my favorites! A really nice soap and pretty too.
At 14:10 you can see a little 2 in the Micah on top of the soap
I love watching you make soap. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. I would love to see a dirt pudding soap with gummy worms or a gummy bear soap.
How about an orange juice soap?
Not a great idea, the juice is too acid; makes the soap mushy.
But you could use the zest of the oranges/lemons; gives a nice yellow/orange colour too.
You can add the zest to the lye water.
The finished look 👀 has me drooling !!!!! Awesome
Who else watches this vids
with no intention of making soap ....
(silence)
Just me ok
-awkward laughter-
Me too, although everyone says I watch these to much to not be making soap!😂
Same
That was me for a year or two. Well, I've been making soap for a month now (yep, quarantine) and I've made 11 batches and run out of surfaces in the guest bedroom to cure my soap!
Meeee I wanna make soap though 😞
I love the colors together. So pretty!
This reminded me of something that my grandma used to say (only because of the avocado, nothing else): if you can eat avocado without salt, you can eat poop. That’s a censored translation, since my grandma used to say it with more... colorful words. She also used to throw pee to the kids that used to smoke weed under her balcony. She was an interesting lady, to say the least.
Edit: the day of her funeral, the same weed smoking kids that she would throw the pee at gathered one last time under my grandma’s balcony, and cried together, saying how they would miss “that old crazy hag”.
Throw pee as in urine???? I mean I can't think of what else it could be but I still have to ask
I think I’d like your Grandma 😂
That’s disgusting and so unsafe! No one should ever throw bodily fluids at another person (or animal really).
stephanie m yep, urine. Her own urine. She was healthy in her head btw, just a very unique old lady
Carolyne Thrasher probably. Sadly, I didn’t got to know her that well, since she passed away when I was 8
The swirly in the middle of the soap reminds me of wax seals on envelopes. Which made me think that you should definitely do a victorian love letter inspired soap with wax seals on top!
you think matcha may have been a good choice too for the tea? its already like THE MOST fine powder green tea. its meant to mix in stuff really
Yeah but that means it wouldn’t be great for exfoliation, which is what I think she was going for. You wouldn’t see as much speckling, if any, if she used Matcha.
@@catthhay8813 yeah I totally had commented before she mentioned exfoliating lol. Just use both! ;)
I think this is my favorite soap out of ALL the soaps.
Still loving the idea of a Mickey/Minnie mouse themed soap!! 💖 😍
On the reveal of your cut soap I "Oohed" Out loud! So beautiful!! Your swirls look like petite roses. Thanks for sharing!
I love the idea of using avocado since it’s so nourishing. But I’m allergic to avocado topically and Internally. So I’d have to avoid.
You're always so excited and engaging! Such a treat to watch her videos
Can u make a white and purple zebra style soap?
With glitter!
Ooh like a very simple hanger swirl maybe?! Yesss
You can use dried herbs like rose petal and chamomile the same way as the green tea, if you want your speckles to be in different colors. So many herbs, actually. I love these more natural soaps you do, the simplicity is always so gorgeous! (But I Love all your soaps soooo).
I hate avocados but this soap is so pretty. Is the scent a bit more easy for everyone to like?
This soap is gorgeous!!! I love the way the tea looks in the bottom layer, and the smoothness of the avocado layer.
This might be a "stupid" question but wouldn't it be easier to add avocado oil instead of mushing the avocados? or is that done with the purpose of getting the color as well? no hate, just curious :3
Yes it would! 😁 No chance of mold either.
The purpose of this soap was to use fresh fruit though.
Almost all botanical colours fade away (cucumber peel e.g.) or turn brown. You need to add a mica or an oxide to get a green soap that stays green over time.
Can I just say.. I stumbled across your channel and have been binge watching all your videos. I've never made soap before but have always had a curiosity and interested in learning. You make it so interesting and educational and I live it! And however small it may seem, the perfect timing for your "commercial break" just as the ad rolls, is actually refreshing for some reason. I dont feel like it was interrupted so much lol like ok she let us know it was coming and she will be right back. Seems so much better than a mid sentence cut off by an ad. Gah I just rambled on about the tiniest little thing but I just had to say I noticed and didnt know how much I appreciate that u til now hahah
Welcome to the soapy sisterhood!! We're happy to have you here :)
(Brothers are also welcome)
And it's okay to make long comments, we all do the same thing around here. Katie has that affect on us. She just makes everyone feel safe enough to open up and talk.
Aguacate that's the name in Spanish and here in Puerto Rico we eat it with everything 😍🇵🇷
OMG!! I actually gasped when you cut that soap!! I'm going to buy some avocados and just ordered that green tea from Amazon! Love those tea flecks in the bottom! Thank you for another fabulous video!!
Hate avocado 🥑 but love this soap
In one day that top green brightens perfectly!
Does anyone else get a little shook hearing Caleb's voice say "would you rather..." now? 😂
(also wow this is a soap I'm really excited to buy!!)
Love the way you textured the top. Reminded me of a cable knit sweater or a crocheted blanket.
Everytime you say Kermit I can't help but think of Jenna Marble's dog. 😂
KORMIIIIIIIIIIIIT LOOKIT THE SOAP MOMMY MADE FOR YOUUUUU
Oh my goodness Katie .. I think for my first ever soap to make is this made with real avocados... seems pretty simple .. ty for sharing ..
I'm feeling inspired to make a similar soap! I have some expired looseleaf green tea and green tea fragrance oil. I can throw in some fresh avocado and maybe swap avocado oil for almond oil. Well that's my project for tonight!
Update: Okay, it took 3 days, but I did it! Modified Katie's recipe to include 15% avocado oil!
Guys it turned out really pretty! It was my first time making soap with a real design!
Oh, great to hear it worked well - I'm just considering trying my hand at soap-making, and this design and recipe seemed very tempting to me. :) Perhaps after some practice with simpler loaves.
I love how this turned out, what lovely shades of green. I think it would have been great with a tea power line inbetween the layers.
5:30 “looks like a lava lamp” it looks blurry 😂 I can’t wait for this soap though
So glad you have been going down the natural path lately, now I'm inspired 😍
i love your soaps!
Love the color! You keep doing so good on your soaps. Keep on keeping on being awesome and encouraging! I like that in a person.
Katie, at some point: "now we're gonna weigh the avacado."
My brain for the rest of the day: 🎶weigh the avacado, weigh the avacado. Weigh the avacado weigh the avacaaadooo🎶
Why? Why must you curse me?
Wow this one turned out great Katie ! I love it.
*who else are obsessed with these?* 😍🥑
- Also a diy youtuber btw✂️
Pastel Julia :*:・゚ subbed
shookbang over it Ahw Thanks!! Welcome😊
I subbed 😊😊
Kanniyah Witherow Omg Thank u so much!!💓
@@PastelJulia no problem 😊💖
Beautiful green ! 💚💚💚 Love Avocado 🌱
Oh man speaking of baby hands you should do the baby hands challenge and try to make soap!! 🤣🤣
I love the colour blocking!
"and look when I pour this in, it looks kinda like a lava lamp." *Camera blurs* ...REEEEEEEEEEEE! >:0
Nice colors!! They totally go together and are perfect for this bar!
has anyone else noticed that in older videos she says “emulsification” and now she says “emulsion”
Yes another fav. Loved the simplicity in this soap and the video. Well done guys
I have such tiny hands as it is, double the size might be normal lol
Love it!! Would love to see more soaps like this!