Welcome back, Mrs. Ellen. We miss you! don't mind both. But Unscented is best for me. Your soaps are special, "loaded" with vitamins and minerals. For the 1st time, I don't feel nausea when I use your soaps with fragrance. The green color is beautiful. Love it 💕
Since I only make hot process soap, it is more fun and new to see the technique or mechanism of CP soap. And I'm very curious about what a naked bar made of CP soap would be like. Usually, when soap makers add fragrance to soap, it is not only to add a nice fragrance but also to cover the smell of oil. Of course, skilled makers like you can minimize the smell of soap by perfectly saponifying it! I use salt to get rid of any residual oil smell in the soap. anyway! Your videos always make me study more and love soap more. From the first time I saw your video many years ago until now, there has never been a moment where you haven't improved!💖
I’m a gel girl too (I use CPOP) and prefer using essential oils but still love a naked bar. My favourite is using foraged weeds dried and infused into my oils and adding some kaolin. This is such a beautiful soap, Ellen. Your videos are my ASMR. Have a lovely day 🥰
Good to see you and I hope you had some good time with family. I like unscented and scented. I generally have both in the shower. I have always gelled my soap…never tried any other way. I do not sell soap- just make it for family and friends. Beautiful soap Ellen!
Awesome! I've missed your videos over the last week or so. I enjoy watching your creative process with soap. It's pretty awesome to watch. How you explain things is great too! Thanks for sharing your process.
Lovely Ellen,love the colour green in the soap and your swirls are lovely .I do like a fragrance soap but I do like to have a soap with out fragrance in the bathroom ,as some people just like a pure soap xx
It's funny because for personal use, I prefer the unscented soaps or essential oil soaps. I do love creating scented soaps though, there are so many fun scents I enjoy using.
Amazing. I personally use only essential oil soaps, though making other fragrances is not so bad for others lol. Unscented is so very next level, great if people understand it soon.
When using goat milk in my soaps, my experience has been that my soap overheats and cracks. I don't know if it's because I live in a warm climate. I soap around the same temperatures that you do. Needless to say, in the fridge my soap goes. I like learning about others' experiences though. Helps me learn on this soap-making journey. Love all your videos.
I love an unscented bar when i plan on using an expensive perfume. Or if the lotion I’m using has a fragrance. Definitely keep an unscented bar on hand. ❤❤❤
These are gorgeous! I love soap that is unscented or lightly scented. I live essential oil scents. I no longer trust fragrances unless maybe it’s phthalate free fragrance. Also try nettle leaf powder with French green clay. It’s a beautiful green if you don’t want to use mica with French clay
As usual these are purely gorgeous! I prefer EO’s over no scent, but there are folks who don’t want any. We have people at our church who can’t handle scent, so we’re asked not to wear perfume or cologne out of respect. I’ve been several places where that’s the case, so having a fragrance free soap certainly has an audience. I haven’t tried gel phase yet because I’m so afraid of the whole lava thing happening.
Years ago when we lived in CA, our church had a "scent free" service because folks can be so sensitive to it. When I have a soap that I'm afraid might overheat, I just keep an eye on it by peeking every hour or so. And if it starts to feel too hot or looks like it's rising, I pop it in the fridge.
So good to see your videos again! I recently ordered one of each kind of your conditioner bars and I love them! I have 3 little girls so they work great to rub a little in their hair after a bath and just leave it in, it really cut down on the tangles! We couldn't decide which scent we liked best, when they came we were sniffing them and I said well lets put them away and my 7 year old daughter, who was sniffing the heavenly one, was like wait mom I want to smell it longer. 😂 Also they were so excited to get something from Ellen Ruth on you tube! Thank you and happy new year!
Happy New Year Ellen 🎊 Since I've recently come back to soaping, I've decided I'm partial to unscented soaps myself, the scent doesn't stay after using anyway, but that's just me. I've only ever used gel method, and it works fine for me so I'll stick to it. Thanks for sharing your methods, tips and tricks, look forward to learning more from you. Cheers💕
Most of the soaps I've made have been unscented; I've been experimenting with different things like oats, coffee, honey, colloidal, etc and a few colors. I have done several scents, and I'm going to be doing a lot of different scents here shortly! As far as gel goes, I guess I'm kind of middle-of-the-road ;) I've only ever done goat milk soap, using 100% goat milk instead of water: I'm always a little worried about overheating so I've never done CPOP or wrapped in blankets, but I've never put them in the fridge either. I just spray the tops with alcohol, cover with cardboard or parchment, and set on a baker's rack, and unmold the next day. My soap studio is pretty cold most of the time. So far it's worked for me. Sometimes I see that ring that I guess means partial gel, but after the bars are cut and cured I don't see that anyway. I've been learning that forcing gel will make colors more vibrant so I've been wondering if I should force gel once I start using more colors. I have lots more experimenting to do! Thanks for the video, I love the swirls in these pretty bars!
I can’t say I’m a fan of soap without a scent because they still smell like something…you describe as soapy but hard to describe it. But I’m sure yours are nice and I love watching you make soaps
When you do your goats milk, you said in oil. Do you mean powder mixed in oils? And if so, how do you do it? To add to this, I used your triple butter bar recipe. And I fell in love with it. Going to try it unscented. I'm still learning about essential oils and natural coloring. But I really like fragrance oil. I got the swirling tool you had suggested.
Hi Ellen I love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Can I ask do you find any differences on the goat milk oil method vs goat milk in lye method? If I missed the video talking about that I’m sorry and could you point me in right direction please.
Thanks so much Ellen, wonderful tutorial. Can I please ask does putting cane sugar in before the lye help harden the bar? As I was using salt to does this. Thanks 😊
Hi Ellen, good to have you back…I have a question…when you are adding the clays and colloidal oats, is that figured into the recipe calculation or do you just add them in?
Hi Ellen, I LOVE your videos. I haven't made cold process soap yet, only melt & pour. I want to try this recipe, but I'm wary of overheating as some people have mentioned. Can I use powdered goats milk instead? Would just adding powder reduce the risk of overheating?
You can absolutely use powder milk👍 It won't make that great a difference in the heating process, just keep an eye on it and pop it in the fridge if it gets too hot.
Hey Ellen, beautiful soap. I'm team either or, I really don't like facial soaps with fragrance oils, I would rather use soaps with essential oils for my face. Question, when you make soaps for friends and family, do you charge them 🤔, and if so is it full price or discounted?
Oh boy, that's a good question and one I've struggled with my whole soap journey.. I've made gifts out of my products for friends, and I've also had friends shop on my website just to support me.. If one of them requests a whole batch of soap, I'll usually give them my cost pricing, but it gets tricky.
I really enjoy your videos and work :) when working with milk do you prefer doing the oil method better then putting milk into the lye? And what’s the con of doing the 50/50 lye solution? Thank you for your help
I prefer the milk in oil method. So far the only down side for me with the 50/50 lye solution is I can't melt my silk fibers in there... But you can always use liquid silk aminos or just leave them out.
Beautiful! What is your lye concentration amount? Mine is a 33% i am finding the soap is so thick before i can even get into a mold. I would like to do swirls but finding i have to scoop soap batter into my loaf mold. How to you get the soap batter so fluid. Made my first ever goats milk, oat and honey with some buttermilk i put into the fridge now have to 6 weeks!
Omgsh so cute! I wanted to ask you.. do you use palm oil in your soap? I wanted to know your opinion about it. I like Palm oil but there's a lot of mixed opinions out there
I purchased some powder goats milk. When using do you recommend mixing in liquid first and adding it to the oils or just using as a powder. If using as a powder how much per lb of soap? I hope I’m asking this correctly, lol.
Love your videos! I love unscented! But when I do use EOs, I find they fade off so I've been refrigerating my EOs soaps to help preserve scent. Unfortunately I sometimes end up with a partial gel but I've learned to like the perfect circle in the center. What is your thought on EO soaps? Gel? Refrigerate? Does refrigerating actually help preserve the EO scent?
I've had good success with anchoring the EO's with kaolin clay first. Some folks like to aviod gel with EO's, but at the end of the day, they do fade quicker than FO's.
When I cut 8 bars, I'm also getting 1/4 size bars for my bundles and sample size bars. I cut most of my soaps in 8, but when it's a simple design I'll cut the full 9 bars.
I have been trying the milk & oil method lately and the bars are great but I do notice that it heats up a lot quicker as soon as I mix in the water/lye and sometimes leaving me with deep marked gel circles 😣 sometimes after a few days you can’t tell the difference but is it safe to gel phase soap at a smaller rate use of milk? For this particular recipe I was using 10.50oz water 7.0oz goat milk. Would gel phase scorch the 7.00oz milk ruining the entire soap?
You need to write a soaping book.
Still special and beautiful hand made soap. I really appreciate that you show total transparency when things don’t go to plan. We are all human.
Love your soaps always Ellen. You are truly a beautiful soap maker.
Thank you so much!
I made a plain honey, OATS and goats milk but man it still smells so good! This one is so pretty though!
Hello Ellen! Beautiful I love that French clay !🙃😉👍
Thanks so much 😊
My son loves this soap
Welcome back, Mrs. Ellen. We miss you! don't mind both. But Unscented is best for me. Your soaps are special, "loaded" with vitamins and minerals. For the 1st time, I don't feel nausea when I use your soaps with fragrance. The green color is beautiful. Love it 💕
Oh thank you!💕
Since I only make hot process soap, it is more fun and new to see the technique or mechanism of CP soap. And I'm very curious about what a naked bar made of CP soap would be like. Usually, when soap makers add fragrance to soap, it is not only to add a nice fragrance but also to cover the smell of oil. Of course, skilled makers like you can minimize the smell of soap by perfectly saponifying it! I use salt to get rid of any residual oil smell in the soap. anyway! Your videos always make me study more and love soap more. From the first time I saw your video many years ago until now, there has never been a moment where you haven't improved!💖
Thank you so much🥰
Lovely soap Ellen! I think it’s important to have an unscented one in the inventory. People do like them!
Yes, I have several folks that just can’t handle any scents at all💕
Very nice👏👏👏
Love it!!!!
The Goodspeed shop is no longer on Etsy.
Good morning Ms. Ellen this is a beautiful batch of soap...thanks for sharing! 😊😊😊
Thanks for watching 💕
Beautiful natural soaps. I’m a fan of your soaps
Thank you so much!
I like the top and the swirl is beautiful.
Thank you! 😊
Really love the green, thanks Ellen
Glad you like it!💚
I’m a gel girl too (I use CPOP) and prefer using essential oils but still love a naked bar. My favourite is using foraged weeds dried and infused into my oils and adding some kaolin.
This is such a beautiful soap, Ellen. Your videos are my ASMR. Have a lovely day 🥰
Ooooo, I love herb infused oils❣️
I love both, but do prefer the natural scent of soap. These are beautiful.
Natural
Gorgeous.
Thank you! 😊
Glad to see you back in action. I missed your uploads. You've taught me so much and your soaps feel amazing on the skin. TFS 🤗
Thank you so much! I’m happy to be back❣️
Luscious and luxurious on your skin. Green clay is so wonderful for cleaning and smoothing your face and body. 😍 😍
I totally agree! Love green clay❣️
Gorgeous. Thank you
Thank you! Cheers!
I love unscented soap.Ellen. One can make the Plain Jane soaps look beautiful, too. 😊💖
I totally agree!❣️
Elegant, lovely soaps 👌💕
Thank you! 😊
Good to see you and I hope you had some good time with family. I like unscented and scented. I generally have both in the shower. I have always gelled my soap…never tried any other way. I do not sell soap- just make it for family and friends. Beautiful soap Ellen!
🤣 yours sounds like my shower, with several soaps to choose from in there❣️
Awesome! I've missed your videos over the last week or so. I enjoy watching your creative process with soap. It's pretty awesome to watch. How you explain things is great too! Thanks for sharing your process.
Thank you so much!🥰
Lovely Ellen,love the colour green in the soap and your swirls are lovely .I do like a fragrance soap but I do like to have a soap with out fragrance in the bathroom ,as some people just like a pure soap xx
A little something for everyone 😉❣️
i love this soap.. swirls came out so beautiful 😍
Thank you so much!
It's funny because for personal use, I prefer the unscented soaps or essential oil soaps. I do love creating scented soaps though, there are so many fun scents I enjoy using.
Amazing. I personally use only essential oil soaps, though making other fragrances is not so bad for others lol. Unscented is so very next level, great if people understand it soon.
love the natural soaps will use scented but i grab the unscented goat milk more often
Beautiful soap 💚
Thank you!❣️
When using goat milk in my soaps, my experience has been that my soap overheats and cracks. I don't know if it's because I live in a warm climate. I soap around the same temperatures that you do. Needless to say, in the fridge my soap goes. I like learning about others' experiences though. Helps me learn on this soap-making journey. Love all your videos.
I have had a few overheat on me too, so I do try to keep an eye on it when they are gelling just to make sure they don't go too far...😉
Been awhile since I said……Hi Ellen!
Hi 👋❣️
Always enjoy your videos 😊 Beautiful soap!! 😍
Thank you so much!💕
I love an unscented bar when i plan on using an expensive perfume. Or if the lotion I’m using has a fragrance. Definitely keep an unscented bar on hand. ❤❤❤
I totally agree!❣️
Loving the natural. Shame you don't ship to the UK. I'd love to have tried this one out for myself.
These are gorgeous! I love soap that is unscented or lightly scented. I live essential oil scents. I no longer trust fragrances unless maybe it’s phthalate free fragrance. Also try nettle leaf powder with French green clay. It’s a beautiful green if you don’t want to use mica with French clay
Love the nettle leaf idea, I bet it's pretty! Thanks
Beautiful soap! I like both fragranced and un-fragranced soaps.
Just got this one and the Milk & Honey from you. Love your videos and soaps!
Yay! Thank you!💕
soooooo pretty, the color combination ist amazing!!
Thank you! 😊
As usual these are purely gorgeous! I prefer EO’s over no scent, but there are folks who don’t want any. We have people at our church who can’t handle scent, so we’re asked not to wear perfume or cologne out of respect. I’ve been several places where that’s the case, so having a fragrance free soap certainly has an audience. I haven’t tried gel phase yet because I’m so afraid of the whole lava thing happening.
Years ago when we lived in CA, our church had a "scent free" service because folks can be so sensitive to it. When I have a soap that I'm afraid might overheat, I just keep an eye on it by peeking every hour or so. And if it starts to feel too hot or looks like it's rising, I pop it in the fridge.
Thank you, I’ve never thought to do that. Okay, I’ll give it a try with my next batch! Fingers Crossed!
Beautiful soap! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! Cheers!
So good to see your videos again! I recently ordered one of each kind of your conditioner bars and I love them! I have 3 little girls so they work great to rub a little in their hair after a bath and just leave it in, it really cut down on the tangles! We couldn't decide which scent we liked best, when they came we were sniffing them and I said well lets put them away and my 7 year old daughter, who was sniffing the heavenly one, was like wait mom I want to smell it longer. 😂 Also they were so excited to get something from Ellen Ruth on you tube! Thank you and happy new year!
Oh, this makes my day! So glad you're loving the conditioner bars, my grandkids love them too🥰
Happy New Year Ellen 🎊 Since I've recently come back to soaping, I've decided I'm partial to unscented soaps myself, the scent doesn't stay after using anyway, but that's just me. I've only ever used gel method, and it works fine for me so I'll stick to it. Thanks for sharing your methods, tips and tricks, look forward to learning more from you. Cheers💕
Welcome back to soaping! Yup, I'm a gel girl too❣️
Most of the soaps I've made have been unscented; I've been experimenting with different things like oats, coffee, honey, colloidal, etc and a few colors. I have done several scents, and I'm going to be doing a lot of different scents here shortly! As far as gel goes, I guess I'm kind of middle-of-the-road ;) I've only ever done goat milk soap, using 100% goat milk instead of water: I'm always a little worried about overheating so I've never done CPOP or wrapped in blankets, but I've never put them in the fridge either. I just spray the tops with alcohol, cover with cardboard or parchment, and set on a baker's rack, and unmold the next day. My soap studio is pretty cold most of the time. So far it's worked for me. Sometimes I see that ring that I guess means partial gel, but after the bars are cut and cured I don't see that anyway. I've been learning that forcing gel will make colors more vibrant so I've been wondering if I should force gel once I start using more colors. I have lots more experimenting to do! Thanks for the video, I love the swirls in these pretty bars!
Personally I love gel, and will throw a blanket over my molds to ensure I get a full gel phase going.
@@EllenRuthSoap I'm going to intentionally gel my next few batches and see how they come out :)
BEAUTIFUL!!
Thank you!!
I can’t say I’m a fan of soap without a scent because they still smell like something…you describe as soapy but hard to describe it. But I’m sure yours are nice and I love watching you make soaps
Thanks for watching 💕
Happy New Year, Ellen. Hope your Holidays were great! I love unscented soaps. Always flooded with nice clays. The swirls look great!
Cheers 👍🤗
Happy new year! We had a wonderful Christmas with family. I hope yours was great as well❣️
When you do your goats milk, you said in oil. Do you mean powder mixed in oils? And if so, how do you do it? To add to this, I used your triple butter bar recipe. And I fell in love with it. Going to try it unscented. I'm still learning about essential oils and natural coloring. But I really like fragrance oil. I got the swirling tool you had suggested.
For this, I used regular liquid goat milk (that was discounted from the lye solution) and added it to the oils.
Hi Ellen I love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Can I ask do you find any differences on the goat milk oil method vs goat milk in lye method? If I missed the video talking about that I’m sorry and could you point me in right direction please.
I find the finished bars to be very similar. The milk in oil method is just a bit easier for making purposes...
Thanks so much Ellen, wonderful tutorial. Can I please ask does putting cane sugar in before the lye help harden the bar? As I was using salt to does this. Thanks 😊
The sugar is a lather booster, salt is a hardener.
Hi Ellen, good to have you back…I have a question…when you are adding the clays and colloidal oats, is that figured into the recipe calculation or do you just add them in?
They are not included in the basic recipe, they're just "extra"😉
@@EllenRuthSoap Thanks so much for answering....now, I know what to do...🤣
Hi Ellen, I LOVE your videos. I haven't made cold process soap yet, only melt & pour. I want to try this recipe, but I'm wary of overheating as some people have mentioned. Can I use powdered goats milk instead? Would just adding powder reduce the risk of overheating?
You can absolutely use powder milk👍 It won't make that great a difference in the heating process, just keep an eye on it and pop it in the fridge if it gets too hot.
Ellen muito muito obrigada pelas explicações e também pela legenda em português gostaria das suas receitas nossa seria incrível tentar faze-las 🇧🇷
Here is a video where I share 4 soap recipes to try: th-cam.com/video/SO5n4uWEVO0/w-d-xo.html
Hey Ellen, beautiful soap. I'm team either or, I really don't like facial soaps with fragrance oils, I would rather use soaps with essential oils for my face.
Question, when you make soaps for friends and family, do you charge them 🤔, and if so is it full price or discounted?
Oh boy, that's a good question and one I've struggled with my whole soap journey.. I've made gifts out of my products for friends, and I've also had friends shop on my website just to support me.. If one of them requests a whole batch of soap, I'll usually give them my cost pricing, but it gets tricky.
I really enjoy your videos and work :) when working with milk do you prefer doing the oil method better then putting milk into the lye? And what’s the con of doing the 50/50 lye solution? Thank you for your help
I prefer the milk in oil method. So far the only down side for me with the 50/50 lye solution is I can't melt my silk fibers in there... But you can always use liquid silk aminos or just leave them out.
Thank you so much:)
The whole point of handmade is to shun what’s not natural. Expectations should be adjusted accordingly.
Beautiful! What is your lye concentration amount? Mine is a 33% i am finding the soap is so thick before i can even get into a mold. I would like to do swirls but finding i have to scoop soap batter into my loaf mold. How to you get the soap batter so fluid. Made my first ever goats milk, oat and honey with some buttermilk i put into the fridge now have to 6 weeks!
I like to soap with a steep water discount, so it's about 1 part lye to 1.5 water (or liquid), sometimes a bit less..
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you! I will try this and see what happens.
Omgsh so cute!
I wanted to ask you.. do you use palm oil in your soap? I wanted to know your opinion about it. I like Palm oil but there's a lot of mixed opinions out there
Yes, I use sustainable palm oil. It's a hot topic for some, but I'm fine with the "sustainable" ones.😉
@@EllenRuthSoap that's great! I'm want to try using it on cold process soap. I'm trying to make a recipe. Thanks
How many pounds of each batch? Ty love your videos. Trying to learn 😊
They're approx 7 lb each
I purchased some powder goats milk. When using do you recommend mixing in liquid first and adding it to the oils or just using as a powder. If using as a powder how much per lb of soap? I hope I’m asking this correctly, lol.
You could either add it to the oils ( 1 tsp per lb of oils) and blend really well, or reconstitute it and do the "milk in oil method".
I have a curiosity: For a "milk & honey" soap, can honey replace the sugar in the lye water? Or is honey added to the oils?
Add honey to the oils😉 I actually have a Milk & Honey video coming in Feb❣️
@@EllenRuthSoap oh fabulous!! I've been meaning to learn about it. Thank you 😊!
Loveeeee it! I just made a creamy aloe cp soap 🥰😍
Love aloe soaps❣️
Love your videos! I love unscented! But when I do use EOs, I find they fade off so I've been refrigerating my EOs soaps to help preserve scent. Unfortunately I sometimes end up with a partial gel but I've learned to like the perfect circle in the center. What is your thought on EO soaps? Gel? Refrigerate? Does refrigerating actually help preserve the EO scent?
I've had good success with anchoring the EO's with kaolin clay first. Some folks like to aviod gel with EO's, but at the end of the day, they do fade quicker than FO's.
Hi Ellen, why do you sometimes get 8 bars a loaf and then sometimes 9?
When I cut 8 bars, I'm also getting 1/4 size bars for my bundles and sample size bars. I cut most of my soaps in 8, but when it's a simple design I'll cut the full 9 bars.
What size mold are you using? Thank you
I'm using the tall triple skinny
I have been trying the milk & oil method lately and the bars are great but I do notice that it heats up a lot quicker as soon as I mix in the water/lye and sometimes leaving me with deep marked gel circles 😣 sometimes after a few days you can’t tell the difference but is it safe to gel phase soap at a smaller rate use of milk? For this particular recipe I was using 10.50oz water 7.0oz goat milk. Would gel phase scorch the 7.00oz milk ruining the entire soap?
I'm a gel phase gal, I'll even gel my full milk soaps... So I would say yes, you can gel at that %😉
@@EllenRuthSoap wow 🤩 thank you so much. I’m gonna give it a try tonight. Thank you for all your wisdom. 🙏🏼
I like natural and I want to do essential oils but want them to not be chemical but natural only! Any tips?
I've found that mixing your essential oils with kaolin clay can help anchor them in the soap.
@@EllenRuthSoap but how do you know when it’s quality EO if you buy in bulk?
@@bethadams5013 The only real way to know is to do research on the company.
looks like leaves on top the design you did. yes unfortunately i roll like that too.
I’m hopeless with out my timer🤣
What immersion blender do you use?
It's a sencor, but I don't think they make them anymore... I have a kitchenaid on stand by when this one goes..
If I cover my milk soaps, they over heat and crack. 😢
I have had that happen a few times, and it's such a bummer...
I don’t care for the tops. - too tall on the scoops. Otherwise, very nice looking soap.
Both smells but nothing strong, I like natural better.