I FINALLY understand!!! I can't thank you enough! Between you and Lisa from "I Dream In Soap", I finally understand! I'm so humbled and grateful to you ladies and all of you FANTASTIC soap makers! My hope is to be at your caliber in the future! May God Bless you all 10 fold!
Went back and watched how to learn the size of your mold on your video and with that and this I know now how to make a batch of soap in correct amounts. So thank you to you and the person who made this video.
I absolutely love your scientific approach to everything. Your so specific on everything you teach. For people like me, I just don't retain something if it doesn't have details to explain. I've been making soap going on 5 years now, and while I'm incredibly familiar with soapcalc, I've never found someone to explain the inc/sat values. I came across this video and almost scrolled past until I seen your name. So happy I took the time to watch. I truly hope you realize how important your tutorials are to the soaping world. Thank you truly!
I have been soaping for almost 3 yrs. and I learned more from this video about recipe formulating especially on soap calc, than I have in this whole time 😅 Thank you so much!
Hi. She mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Did she meant on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Thank you for helping me understand SOAPCAL., I just retired from working at a VA Hospital and now feel more comfortable understanding the process of making soap. Thanks again Dan.
Hi. She mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Did she meant on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Came back for a refresher course on fragrance amount. Lately the scent isn’t as strong in my soaps. I was reading some articles that said to use the % of fragrance oil based on the total oil ounces not the total soap weight and I changed to that method of calculating FO. So came back to your video to double check and will change back to your method. Thanks again.
Do You know what I like most about this video.... I can feel you were literally teaching me ...... So detailed and elaborated video... I did not got bored at all.... Seriously....
This is the best tutorial I have ever seen on soapcalc. I'm sure I will refer to this often! If you have a tutorial on basic oils vs butters, that would help me. I use coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil and castor oil. I'm going to try this today. Not sure if that is not enough hard oil. Thank you again!!!
Thank you for making this valuable video. I learnt something new just by watching this after coming from another video that mentioned you. I know this is almost 3 years old but thank you for helping me understand Soap Calc.
Thanks for the detailed tutorial. One question - by not including your fragrance in SoapCalc's calculation, are you essentially increasing the superfat?
No, superfat is only based off of your base oils and not your water, fragrances or essential oils. Water or whatever liquid you use is just a way to introduce your lye to your oils. You can vary that amount and not affect the other calculations. Lye calculations are just figuring the amount of lye to turn each of those oils into soap. The superfat is what is left over after that.
This was super helpful. I never knew about the numbers on the side that tell about saturated and unsaturated and whether or not that would tell you if the soap recipe is good for swirling. I learned a lot and I have been soap making for many, many years. Thank you for all of your knowledge! It really is much appreciated!😘
I've been looking high and low for someone to go over this with me and decipher soap calc....you sure make it simple!! Thanks a million!! Is there a tips and tricks #1?
Glad it was helpful! My Tips and Tricks #1 is how to fit a silicone mat into any mold. I do have another Soapcalc video I made for Elements Bath and Body. th-cam.com/video/LQbNd2ohRt8/w-d-xo.html Here's a list of my vidoes: th-cam.com/users/TreeMarieSoapworksvideos
learning a lot, thanks for explaining. I am new to soap making, most soaps are coming out pretty good. I am trying to create the perfect white bar soap beautiful classic white, I keep running into glycerin rivers. I was using the water at 38, most books I read keep saying to use 35 and 38, do you think I can lessen the water to maybe 30-33. please advice
Hi in the water to % of oils I've been putting 30 and finding that my batter is getting to trace very fast. I can't do and good swirls because of this. Do you think it's because my water to oil ratio is too low? Should I try soaping at the default rate of 38%? Will that give me more time to work with the batter before thickening up? Please advise because I've made several batches and all have gotten to a thick trace before I wanted it to even with minimal stick blending.
I'm new to soap making and I am a little confused still on soapcalc. Is it better to hit water as a percent instead of the lye option? Do you know if there is a chart explaining how much of ingredients you could add and shouldn't add too much of?
Gees 2yrs! I'm late, but thank you sooo much!! A lot of this was review cause I already started making soap this week for x-mas presents! I have been doing so much trial and error and have a bit of a pile of soap stacked up now. Each one is getting better and I'm slowly figuring it out. However, those tips of water, when you unmold, and esp the INS number was so great!
Thank you for this. It was very helpful. I tried to formulate a new soap roday and got very frustrated! you explained everything perfectly! BTW I love your voice. It is so calming.
I know you made this over a year ago, I have just watch this and wanted to tell you how informative it was. I would love to learn more about the different fats & oils. e.g. by adding shea butter and coconut butter how does this change the bar of soap. What fats make a hard bar and what fats make a soft bar with lots of bubbles or a conditioning bar. So a video on this would be so helpful to those who have just started making soap. Thanks again.
OMG!!! Thank you soooo much. I'm starting back up again making CP Soap and of course, I've watched your videos millions of times, but I finally understood the FO calculation. I always just added a little extra, lol. Love Your videos and soaps.
Another wonderfully informative video! One point of confusion I have is calculating your mold size. I do the length x height x width x .04 to get the capacity of the mold. You input that number as the desired weight of the oils, right? When you put in the water % you want to use, doesn't that add volume that can create an overflow of your mold? How is mold capacity factored into oils, plus lye, plus liquid? Thanks for all you do for this community.
You will have to adjust it depending on you water amount, but that is a starting point. I use 25% "water as a percent of oil weight" for my water amount. It works out to be l x w x h x 0.42. If you use more water use .38. Another way is to fill your mold with water and weigh the water and use approximately 67% of that for the oil weight. Calculate your recipe and look at the "Soap weight before CP cure or HP cook" Make sure and add fragrance to amount and see how close that is to the water that you weighed. Adjust the oils as needed to get the proper batch weight.
This was of great help . Just a question as my city is high on humidity and heat . Should I incubate my soap as everytime I do it's cracking . And when I leave it just like that nothing happens . Also how much water to use for soap making in humid hot climate ?
Thank you so much for making this! I was trying to learn that calc yesterday (I'm beyond a brand new soap newbie lol) and it seemed more complicated than it really is! I had several Ah-Ha moments during this video, so thank you so much! love your channel and your soaps!
Thank you, I am so glad it helped! 💕 If you are interested, I made a soapcalc video for Elements too. It's a little different. th-cam.com/video/LQbNd2ohRt8/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!! I'm getting ready to try soap making for the first time. This is really helpful. So I heard you say in another video that you waited 48 hours before cutting. I'm wondering how long is too long to wait to cut?
Thank you so much for doing this video and sharing!! This answered so many of my questions about the lye calculator! I'm still a newbie and figuring things out and this helped me understand what all those fields are in the calculator! Again, thank you!!!!
Hi. You mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50 on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Need advice for designing 1.2 kg mold. I have customized my design mold- L (37.11cm) * W (5.50cm)* H (8.50cm) - inch(14.61*2.17*3.35). Math behind the building the mold - inch(14.61*2.17*3.35) * 0.4 (convert into oz) = 42.36 oz and then multiplied with 28.375 (42.36*28.375) for converting into grams; is that right way to get grams ? I would seek your expert opinion, how to build 1.2kg / 3.6 kg wooden mold. Soap Size that I thinking to make (8.5*5.5*3) cm; 12 bars 100gm. What should be the inner dimensions ? . I have taken - Water as percent of oil weight 21.81 % : Super Fat/Discount 4 % :Lye Concentration 40.0000 % : Water : Lye Ratio 1.5000:1.
Very helpful. Thank you so much! I am a newbie to cp soap making and your video is super awesome. Only thing confuse me is what should be done differently if you have very humid environment. Tia.
I have better luck using a water discount along with covering for 2 days and putting through gel. It helps not to get soda ash. So, I use 25% "Water as percent of oil weight."
Hello! Thanks for this video. I read through the all the comments and saw this one w/o an answer. I have the same question. For swirling, you mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Both numbers? Please clarify. Thank you! 1
Thank you so much for this. Very helpful. Quick question. I'm just playing around with the soap calculator before I dive in. I have a recipe that has 0% cleansing. Is that bad. What does that mean. Thx for your time.
All soap cleans. Your bar must be very moisturizing. So does it have a lot of olive oil and not much coconut oil in it? No, not necessarily. Have you joined my Facebook group? You could share your recipe there and ask questions. facebook.com/groups/treemariesoapworks/
Thank you for the video. I have one question. If I'm making 2 kilograms of a batch of oils and want to add 60 Gr fragrance weight, shall I discount this from the 2 kg or add the 60 Gr to the 2 kg. In other words, should the total weight be 2 kg with the fragrance weight? Or should the total weight be 2 kg and 60 Gr all together?
Thank you so much for this explanation! I’m new to this and everything seems random when I’m looking up recipes. Now at least I can have a place to help me get started!
Thank you so much for this video @_@ I'm about to start making soap, and will probably end up making a bunch of really tiny batches to experiment with what I like, and this video was super helpful about understanding and maybe lightly modifying the basic recipes i found online. You rock!
Thank you so very much! I was so intimidated by this Soapcalc until I watched your video, you explained it so thoroughly thank you for taking the time to do this I am more confident in making my first batch soon
This is such a great video thank you!! I made a recipe using 15% Lye discount. Was trying to figure out how to convert it to superfat in soap calc. It's been a full week and I can not get it out of my mold.
Hiya, I am very new to soap making. Infact I haven't made anything I am learning. My question is, how do I know how much, that is the amount I will need to fill my molds? Do I for instance fill my mold with water and weigh it? Thank you.
Hello how about the iodine number? Do you recommend to use the calculation method of water as a percent or oil? and keep 25% for faster soap curing? thank you.
Is Soapcalc a free program or downloaded or payed for.....I went on and it has a bunch of ads showing...it doesn't on yours? Thank you for your help :)
Hello, thank you so much for the info. You mention about the lye that we have to predict the ammount. If i use for my recepi Olive oil -90 gr. Coconut oil 78 gr. Almond oil - 36 gr. Castor oil - 36 gr. Fragrance - 10 gr. If the water is 33 %, how much grames is Lye?
You have to put those oil weights (not including fragrance) into the calculator and the superfat you are using, and then you hit 'calculate recipe,' and it will give you the weight of lye to use. Lye is only figured by the base oils used (fragrance is not a base oil). The water amount doesn't figure into the lye calculations. Water is only the vehicle to introduce the lye to the oils. The water amount can vary, which doesn't change the lye amount. (You cannot use less than a 1:1 ratio of water to lye, meaning your water weight should always be at least equal to or greater than the lye weight used. I use around 1.8:1.) The lye amount is figured by SAP numbers to turn each of the oils used into soap, and then the super fat percent is discounted from that weight. So if you use a 7% superfat, the calculator will figure 93% of the weight needed to turn all the oils into soap.
Hi Teri, I’m OUT OF SOAP😬😩!! How do I get ahold of you to pick some up?? (I went to the farmers market in Decatur last week-😔) do you have a farm store??
I am not familiar with adding sodium lactate. I new at soap making and I havent had a recipe where that is in the ingredients. Can you expand on that? Thank you!!
Can you or someone please help me? I made an 82% lard / 18% coconut oil soap with a 5% superfat at 34% water as percentage of oil weight. Anyways the soap looks nice but when I took a bath, afterwards my skin felt burnt/ irritated for about 24 hours or so.. I did the zap test (licking the soap) and it tastes good and I did not run into a 'zap'.. I don't know what that would feel like but I imagine you know it when you feel it.. Any help would be great. I'm just not sure if I should have just gone with a 38% water by oil weight dilution since I discovered these hard oils/fats setup quite fast once trace was reached.
Thank you! But I have a question about coconut oil. In Republic of Korea, coconut oil is called two types. Refined coconut oil and extra virgin coconut oil. But if you look at the soap calculator you have introduced, there are three kinds of coconut oil. 1.cocut oil 76 deg, 2.coconut oil 96 deg, 3.coconut oil, fractionated. What is the difference between 76deg and 96deg? Are these the differences between refined and unrefined? And coconut oil, fractionated is oil that is not hardened even in cold temperature?
Yes, fractionated is liquid at room temperature. The other two are the melting point in Fahrenheit. I am guessing the refined coconut oil and extra virgin coconut oil are the 76/24 degree. You can just test the melting point.
This is very helpful with using the calculator. I might've missed it, but are you using the same FO as the recipe? I thought I saw Tierra use one that could only use 1% but some usage rates are over 5%. I could be absolutely wrong, but I can't learn if I don't ask, right?
I usually use 5-6% fragrance, but it does depend on the fragrance. I am not sure which fragrance you are talking about. You have to check the IFRA rate that is recommended for a wash-off product (Category 9) for each fragrance. If your supplier doesn't list it, make sure and ask.
Great video. I have a question, when adding sodium lactate to cp recipe it doesnt give you that option on soap calc. I know its not an oil, you add to cooled lye water however how are you supposed to know what final numbers will be regarding, cleansing, conditioning, creamy, bubbly, etc
Hi, I would just like to say that you are a wonderful teacher and I enjoy watching your videos. They are very detailed and easy to follow. I am new to soap making. I have been doing research for almost a year and I'm ready to get started. However, I would like to attend a live or Skype class. Do you teach beginner soap classes? If so, are you ever in the Dallas-Fort Worth area or have ever thought about teaching a class by Skype? I would love to to attend. Thanks, Audrey
Hello Audrey!!! How are you doing? I identify so much with your speech, I also have been studying and just about to start making soap, but an easy way, I am starting slowly. How has your work been? Is it going well, are you enjoying it? Well thanks for sharing your post and good look!!! Greetings from Brazil, Juliana
@@TreeMarieSoapworks Thank you so much for your videos Tree Marie, you are a VERY VERY GOOD teacher, just love your videos, and congratulations!!!!! Thank you!!! Best wishes, Juliana
50/50 is a 1:1 ratio (equal weights of water and NaOH). A 33% lye concentration = 2 parts water and 1 part NaOH. The amounts are always a weight measurement, not fluid ounces. I use the weights in grams from the soapcalc.net printout because grams are more accurate. Does that answer your question?
I am new to this but have been doing a lot of research. what happens if you use goat milk instead of water. where does that first in on the calcultor or does it simply replace the water?
im new at this but is the oz. (30)of olive oil the same weight as (850.49) in grams or is gram more? in other words, the total for oz 66.00 the same as in weight 1871.07.
Hi I’m on your Facebook page....new to soap making. Can you explain water to our ratio? For example 1.3:1 I understand it’s 1.3 of water to 1 lye but what conversion? I’m stuck on that. Thanks in advance
It is just a proportion. (You could think of it as water is 130% of the lye weight.) It is just the water weight divided by the lye weight and then proportioned to one. So if you manually figure your recipe, you would multiply the lye weight by 1.3 to get your water weight.
Thank you very much :) I have a question: if you wanna substitute water by coconut milk (for example), is it the same weight? Or does the weight vary depending on the liquid you use? Thanks! :)
You just add the oils and put the % in section 6. In the Water section (section 3), select Lye Concentration and add the percentage. Next, all you need to know is your oil weight. You can find this by this formula: length x width x height x 0.40. That is a good estimate of your oils, so put that into the 2nd section for "Weight of Oils." Try that and see if you can figure it out. 😊
Thanks for the video. I had no idea it was safe to use that much of a water discount? 25%? I am new to soap making, just took a class, and it mentioned never to go beyond 36% water discount. I guess this was not true? Thanks for any feedback.
Under the 92° coconut oil in soap calc is the fractionated coconut oil, so that's different. For the 92° coconut oil they have taken off some of the oleate portion, (which is what fractionated CO is) making it have a higher melting point.
I prefer soapcalc. Seeing all the qualities of the oils and the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids is handy information. It is helpful to learn and understand these numbers. Do what works for you, Glaucia.
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I FINALLY understand!!! I can't thank you enough! Between you and Lisa from "I Dream In Soap", I finally understand! I'm so humbled and grateful to you ladies and all of you FANTASTIC soap makers! My hope is to be at your caliber in the future! May God Bless you all 10 fold!
Great, so many people seem confused with soapcalc. This is really useful
Went back and watched how to learn the size of your mold on your video and with that and this I know now how to make a batch of soap in correct amounts. So thank you to you and the person who made this video.
I absolutely love your scientific approach to everything. Your so specific on everything you teach. For people like me, I just don't retain something if it doesn't have details to explain. I've been making soap going on 5 years now, and while I'm incredibly familiar with soapcalc, I've never found someone to explain the inc/sat values. I came across this video and almost scrolled past until I seen your name. So happy I took the time to watch. I truly hope you realize how important your tutorials are to the soaping world. Thank you truly!
Best video I've watched on how to use soapcalc.
Thank you so much! 💖✨
I have been soaping for almost 3 yrs. and I learned more from this video about recipe formulating especially on soap calc, than I have in this whole time 😅 Thank you so much!
Hi. She mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Did she meant on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Thank you for helping me understand SOAPCAL., I just retired from working at a VA Hospital and now feel more comfortable understanding the process of making soap. Thanks again Dan.
Enjoy your retirement.
I use soap calc a lot, but still learned some new things! Thank you so much for making this video!
Great to hear! Thank you! 💚
Hi. She mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Did she meant on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge with us! I have enjoyed every video I watched.
this is by far the best soap related video i've seen on youtube. thank you so much!
Aww...wow, thank you so much, Ella! 😊💕
Came back for a refresher course on fragrance amount. Lately the scent isn’t as strong in my soaps. I was reading some articles that said to use the % of fragrance oil based on the total oil ounces not the total soap weight and I changed to that method of calculating FO. So came back to your video to double check and will change back to your method. Thanks again.
Do You know what I like most about this video.... I can feel you were literally teaching me ...... So detailed and elaborated video... I did not got bored at all.... Seriously....
Wow, thanks so much!
This is the best tutorial I have ever seen on soapcalc. I'm sure I will refer to this often! If you have a tutorial on basic oils vs butters, that would help me. I use coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil and castor oil. I'm going to try this today. Not sure if that is not enough hard oil. Thank you again!!!
Thank you for making this valuable video. I learnt something new just by watching this after coming from another video that mentioned you. I know this is almost 3 years old but thank you for helping me understand Soap Calc.
Thanks for the detailed tutorial. One question - by not including your fragrance in SoapCalc's calculation, are you essentially increasing the superfat?
No, superfat is only based off of your base oils and not your water, fragrances or essential oils. Water or whatever liquid you use is just a way to introduce your lye to your oils. You can vary that amount and not affect the other calculations.
Lye calculations are just figuring the amount of lye to turn each of those oils into soap. The superfat is what is left over after that.
This was super helpful. I never knew about the numbers on the side that tell about saturated and unsaturated and whether or not that would tell you if the soap recipe is good for swirling. I learned a lot and I have been soap making for many, many years. Thank you for all of your knowledge! It really is much appreciated!😘
I've been looking high and low for someone to go over this with me and decipher soap calc....you sure make it simple!! Thanks a million!! Is there a tips and tricks #1?
Glad it was helpful! My Tips and Tricks #1 is how to fit a silicone mat into any mold. I do have another Soapcalc video I made for Elements Bath and Body. th-cam.com/video/LQbNd2ohRt8/w-d-xo.html
Here's a list of my vidoes: th-cam.com/users/TreeMarieSoapworksvideos
@@TreeMarieSoapworks Perfect!! Thank you! You and Elly at Elly's Everyday and Royalty Soaps are some of my fave teachers. You are so appreciated!!
learning a lot, thanks for explaining. I am new to soap making, most soaps are coming out pretty good. I am trying to create the perfect white bar soap beautiful classic white, I keep running into glycerin rivers. I was using the water at 38, most books I read keep saying to use 35 and 38, do you think I can lessen the water to maybe 30-33. please advice
Hi in the water to % of oils I've been putting 30 and finding that my batter is getting to trace very fast. I can't do and good swirls because of this. Do you think it's because my water to oil ratio is too low? Should I try soaping at the default rate of 38%? Will that give me more time to work with the batter before thickening up? Please advise because I've made several batches and all have gotten to a thick trace before I wanted it to even with minimal stick blending.
This video offers the best soapcalc explanation I have come across. Thank you!
Thanks for letting me know, so glad it was helpful!
I'm new to soap making and I am a little confused still on soapcalc. Is it better to hit water as a percent instead of the lye option? Do you know if there is a chart explaining how much of ingredients you could add and shouldn't add too much of?
Gees 2yrs! I'm late, but thank you sooo much!! A lot of this was review cause I already started making soap this week for x-mas presents! I have been doing so much trial and error and have a bit of a pile of soap stacked up now. Each one is getting better and I'm slowly figuring it out. However, those tips of water, when you unmold, and esp the INS number was so great!
Thank you for this. It was very helpful. I tried to formulate a new
soap roday and got very frustrated! you explained everything
perfectly! BTW I love your voice. It is so calming.
I know you made this over a year ago, I have just watch this and wanted to tell you how informative it was. I would love to learn more about the different fats & oils. e.g. by adding shea butter and coconut butter how does this change the bar of soap. What fats make a hard bar and what fats make a soft bar with lots of bubbles or a conditioning bar. So a video on this would be so helpful to those who have just started making soap. Thanks again.
Great video, question why would a soap make my skin itchy. I make my soaps for personal use. Thanks for sharing.
OMG!!! Thank you soooo much. I'm starting back up again making CP Soap and of course, I've watched your videos millions of times, but I finally understood the FO calculation. I always just added a little extra, lol. Love Your videos and soaps.
This was very informative! Can you adjust your recipe for the size of your mold?
Another wonderfully informative video! One point of confusion I have is calculating your mold size. I do the length x height x width x .04 to get the capacity of the mold. You input that number as the desired weight of the oils, right? When you put in the water % you want to use, doesn't that add volume that can create an overflow of your mold? How is mold capacity factored into oils, plus lye, plus liquid? Thanks for all you do for this community.
You will have to adjust it depending on you water amount, but that is a starting point. I use 25% "water as a percent of oil weight" for my water amount. It works out to be l x w x h x 0.42. If you use more water use .38.
Another way is to fill your mold with water and weigh the water and use approximately 67% of that for the oil weight. Calculate your recipe and look at the "Soap weight before CP cure or HP cook" Make sure and add fragrance to amount and see how close that is to the water that you weighed. Adjust the oils as needed to get the proper batch weight.
This was of great help . Just a question as my city is high on humidity and heat . Should I incubate my soap as everytime I do it's cracking . And when I leave it just like that nothing happens . Also how much water to use for soap making in humid hot climate ?
Thank you so much for making this! I was trying to learn that calc yesterday (I'm beyond a brand new soap newbie lol) and it seemed more complicated than it really is! I had several Ah-Ha moments during this video, so thank you so much! love your channel and your soaps!
Thank you, I am so glad it helped! 💕 If you are interested, I made a soapcalc video for Elements too. It's a little different. th-cam.com/video/LQbNd2ohRt8/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!! I'm getting ready to try soap making for the first time. This is really helpful. So I heard you say in another video that you waited 48 hours before cutting. I'm wondering how long is too long to wait to cut?
24 hours
This is so great. I had been soaping about 4 years before I discovered water discounting would help so many issues!!! Sooooo helpful for newbies. 💗
Thank you Tara! Your are right! It is the answer to many issues and will help the look of your soap. ✨
Thank you so much! It sounds silly but this seemed a bit intimidating at first..so relieved after watching this
This tutorial was really helpful. I still need to research the fragrance quantities.
Thank you so much for doing this video and sharing!! This answered so many of my questions about the lye calculator! I'm still a newbie and figuring things out and this helped me understand what all those fields are in the calculator! Again, thank you!!!!
Hi. You mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50 on both numbers? Or just on the saturated? Or both the sat and unsat no bigger then 50? Please reply🙏🏽❤
Saturated
Need advice for designing 1.2 kg mold. I have customized my design mold- L (37.11cm) * W (5.50cm)* H (8.50cm) - inch(14.61*2.17*3.35).
Math behind the building the mold - inch(14.61*2.17*3.35) * 0.4 (convert into oz) = 42.36 oz and then multiplied with 28.375 (42.36*28.375) for converting into grams; is that right way to get grams ? I would seek your expert opinion, how to build 1.2kg / 3.6 kg wooden mold. Soap Size that I thinking to make (8.5*5.5*3) cm; 12 bars 100gm. What should be the inner dimensions ? . I have taken - Water as percent of oil weight 21.81 % : Super Fat/Discount 4 % :Lye Concentration 40.0000 % : Water : Lye Ratio 1.5000:1.
Very helpful. Thank you so much! I am a newbie to cp soap making and your video is super awesome.
Only thing confuse me is what should be done differently if you have very humid environment.
Tia.
I have better luck using a water discount along with covering for 2 days and putting through gel. It helps not to get soda ash. So, I use 25% "Water as percent of oil weight."
Hi, Is this for one loaf? Thank you so very much!!
Bless you. you explained how to resize so well
Thank you so much! 💟
The best video on SoapCalc ever!!!
Aww...thank you Cindy! 💝
Hello! Thanks for this video. I read through the all the comments and saw this one w/o an answer. I have the same question. For swirling, you mentioned that the saturated : unsat ratio should not be above 50. Both numbers? Please clarify. Thank you!
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This was very helpful, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome! 💖
Thank you so much for this. Very helpful. Quick question. I'm just playing around with the soap calculator before I dive in. I have a recipe that has 0% cleansing. Is that bad. What does that mean. Thx for your time.
All soap cleans. Your bar must be very moisturizing. So does it have a lot of olive oil and not much coconut oil in it? No, not necessarily. Have you joined my Facebook group? You could share your recipe there and ask questions. facebook.com/groups/treemariesoapworks/
Can I join too? Kate Cuebillas Dacillo the name of my facebook account.
THANK YOU! I've kinda been winging it. SO helpful!
So glad to help!
Thank you so much for this amazing explanation.
Your welcome!
Thank you for the video. I have one question. If I'm making 2 kilograms of a batch of oils and want to add 60 Gr fragrance weight, shall I discount this from the 2 kg or add the 60 Gr to the 2 kg. In other words, should the total weight be 2 kg with the fragrance weight? Or should the total weight be 2 kg and 60 Gr all together?
Fragrance is not included in the oil total. It is different and does not saponify.
Thank you so much for this explanation!
I’m new to this and everything seems random when I’m looking up recipes.
Now at least I can have a place to help me get started!
Thanks for all the amazing information. I learned so much. You were wonderful 😊
Thank you so much for this video @_@ I'm about to start making soap, and will probably end up making a bunch of really tiny batches to experiment with what I like, and this video was super helpful about understanding and maybe lightly modifying the basic recipes i found online. You rock!
Thank you very much,Teri, for your clear explanation.
Welcome!
Thank you so very much! I was so intimidated by this Soapcalc until I watched your video, you explained it so thoroughly thank you for taking the time to do this I am more confident in making my first batch soon
I'm so glad! Thank you! Best of luck on your soap making journey!
This is such a great video thank you!! I made a recipe using 15% Lye discount. Was trying to figure out how to convert it to superfat in soap calc. It's been a full week and I can not get it out of my mold.
Did you get it out of the mold? You can rebatch it. Let me know if you need help with the math.
Excellent tutorial have a good 2022
Hiya, I am very new to soap making. Infact I haven't made anything I am learning. My question is, how do I know how much, that is the amount I will need to fill my molds? Do I for instance fill my mold with water and weigh it? Thank you.
Hello how about the iodine number? Do you recommend to use the calculation method of water as a percent or oil? and keep 25% for faster soap curing? thank you.
Is Soapcalc a free program or downloaded or payed for.....I went on and it has a bunch of ads showing...it doesn't on yours? Thank you for your help :)
Hello, thank you so much for the info. You mention about the lye that we have to predict the ammount. If i use for my recepi
Olive oil -90 gr.
Coconut oil 78 gr.
Almond oil - 36 gr.
Castor oil - 36 gr.
Fragrance - 10 gr. If the water is 33 %, how much grames is Lye?
You have to put those oil weights (not including fragrance) into the calculator and the superfat you are using, and then you hit 'calculate recipe,' and it will give you the weight of lye to use. Lye is only figured by the base oils used (fragrance is not a base oil).
The water amount doesn't figure into the lye calculations. Water is only the vehicle to introduce the lye to the oils. The water amount can vary, which doesn't change the lye amount. (You cannot use less than a 1:1 ratio of water to lye, meaning your water weight should always be at least equal to or greater than the lye weight used. I use around 1.8:1.)
The lye amount is figured by SAP numbers to turn each of the oils used into soap, and then the super fat percent is discounted from that weight. So if you use a 7% superfat, the calculator will figure 93% of the weight needed to turn all the oils into soap.
Hi Teri,
I’m OUT OF SOAP😬😩!!
How do I get ahold of you to pick some up?? (I went to the farmers market in Decatur last week-😔) do you have a farm store??
I am not familiar with adding sodium lactate. I new at soap making and I havent had a recipe where that is in the ingredients. Can you expand on that? Thank you!!
I'm still confused and how to make it the right amount for my size molds. I just started making soap
Me as well I have the same problem I want to begin to make soap but I have a problem with measuring please how did you learn how to do it
This was SUPER helpfull thank you so much for this!
So glad!
Can you or someone please help me? I made an 82% lard / 18% coconut oil soap with a 5% superfat at 34% water as percentage of oil weight. Anyways the soap looks nice but when I took a bath, afterwards my skin felt burnt/ irritated for about 24 hours or so.. I did the zap test (licking the soap) and it tastes good and I did not run into a 'zap'.. I don't know what that would feel like but I imagine you know it when you feel it.. Any help would be great. I'm just not sure if I should have just gone with a 38% water by oil weight dilution since I discovered these hard oils/fats setup quite fast once trace was reached.
Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been using it already but still learnt new things ;)
Thank you! But I have a question about coconut oil. In Republic of Korea, coconut oil is called two types. Refined coconut oil and extra virgin coconut oil. But if you look at the soap calculator you have introduced, there are three kinds of coconut oil. 1.cocut oil 76 deg, 2.coconut oil 96 deg, 3.coconut oil, fractionated. What is the difference between 76deg and 96deg? Are these the differences between refined and unrefined? And coconut oil, fractionated is oil that is not hardened even in cold temperature?
Yes, fractionated is liquid at room temperature. The other two are the melting point in Fahrenheit. I am guessing the refined coconut oil and extra virgin coconut oil are the 76/24 degree. You can just test the melting point.
This is very helpful with using the calculator. I might've missed it, but are you using the same FO as the recipe? I thought I saw Tierra use one that could only use 1% but some usage rates are over 5%. I could be absolutely wrong, but I can't learn if I don't ask, right?
I usually use 5-6% fragrance, but it does depend on the fragrance. I am not sure which fragrance you are talking about. You have to check the IFRA rate that is recommended for a wash-off product (Category 9) for each fragrance. If your supplier doesn't list it, make sure and ask.
Great video. I have a question, when adding sodium lactate to cp recipe it doesnt give you that option on soap calc. I know its not an oil, you add to cooled lye water however how are you supposed to know what final numbers will be regarding, cleansing, conditioning, creamy, bubbly, etc
Its an additive. You manually calculate that at and amount of 1teaspoon per pound of oil.
Thank you...👍👍 You re an excellent teacher🥰
Hi, I would just like to say that you are a wonderful teacher and I enjoy watching your videos. They are very detailed and easy to follow. I am new to soap making. I have been doing research for almost a year and I'm ready to get started. However, I would like to attend a live or Skype class. Do you teach beginner soap classes? If so, are you ever in the Dallas-Fort Worth area or have ever thought about teaching a class by Skype? I would love to to attend.
Thanks, Audrey
Thank you so much, Audrey! I don't have any classes. I just make TH-cam videos.
Hello Audrey!!! How are you doing? I identify so much with your speech, I also have been studying and just about to start making soap, but an easy way, I am starting slowly. How has your work been? Is it going well, are you enjoying it? Well thanks for sharing your post and good look!!! Greetings from Brazil, Juliana
@@TreeMarieSoapworks Thank you so much for your videos Tree Marie, you are a VERY VERY GOOD teacher, just love your videos, and congratulations!!!!! Thank you!!! Best wishes, Juliana
try call a lg craft store like Michaels they have classes in everything
I have a question , if your using g a 50/50 lye water do you add both amounts as oz or combine oz as water plus lye ?
50/50 is a 1:1 ratio (equal weights of water and NaOH).
A 33% lye concentration = 2 parts water and 1 part NaOH.
The amounts are always a weight measurement, not fluid ounces. I use the weights in grams from the soapcalc.net printout because grams are more accurate.
Does that answer your question?
This is so helpful. Thanks for the very thorough tutorial.
You're very welcome!
Thanks alot dear you are so helpful 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹
Thank you Rawa! 😊
Can we use used (cooked)oil in laundry soap and which oil is better for laundry soap.
I am new to this but have been doing a lot of research. what happens if you use goat milk instead of water. where does that first in on the calcultor or does it simply replace the water?
This helped so much even tho I don’t understand everything about soaps
im new at this but is the oz. (30)of olive oil the same weight as (850.49) in grams or is gram more? in other words, the total for oz 66.00 the same as in weight 1871.07.
Yes, that's correct.
Do you know what I should put in Soap Calc for "Water as a % to Oils" for Liquid Soap (using KOH) ? Thanks you
So when entering in the weight of oils does that actually mean the amount of soap you want to make?…not including the lye and water??
Thanks - always wondered about INS and how to find that info - well done!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you, Lisa! 💕
Hi I’m on your Facebook page....new to soap making. Can you explain water to our ratio? For example 1.3:1 I understand it’s 1.3 of water to 1 lye but what conversion? I’m stuck on that. Thanks in advance
It is just a proportion. (You could think of it as water is 130% of the lye weight.) It is just the water weight divided by the lye weight and then proportioned to one. So if you manually figure your recipe, you would multiply the lye weight by 1.3 to get your water weight.
Thank you very much :) I have a question: if you wanna substitute water by coconut milk (for example), is it the same weight? Or does the weight vary depending on the liquid you use? Thanks! :)
It is the same weight. 👍
Thank you!!! I had no idea how to do this!!!
Hi! So when I get a recipe offline and they only give you percentages of the oils and lye concentration, what do I do? I’m so lost!
You just add the oils and put the % in section 6. In the Water section (section 3), select Lye Concentration and add the percentage. Next, all you need to know is your oil weight. You can find this by this formula: length x width x height x 0.40. That is a good estimate of your oils, so put that into the 2nd section for "Weight of Oils." Try that and see if you can figure it out. 😊
Tree Marie Soapworks I really appreciate u!!
Great explanation!>!!! thank you I am from Costa Rica !
Glad it was helpful!
Thank so much for this video! I learned a lot!
Great! Thank you, Stephanie!
so do you just use a 1tsp to each pound of oil for the sodium lactate?
also, I live in AZ. we don't have a lot of humidity at all. do you think I'd be one of those who could cut at 6hrs?
Thank you for video really helpfull for a beginner.
Thank you. Your video was very helpful.
I'm so glad!
Thanks for the video. I had no idea it was safe to use that much of a water discount? 25%? I am new to soap making, just took a class, and it mentioned never to go beyond 36% water discount. I guess this was not true? Thanks for any feedback.
You just can't go below a 1:1 ratio of water to lye.
Thanks for talking the time, very easy explanation.
You're welcome! 😊💗
This is such a useful tutorial .. thanks Tree
You're very welcome! 💕😊
Thank you, very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Is the water the same water used to dissolve the lye??
Yes it is.
Thank you so much for this video
you said you needed 35 ox for your mold then end up with 46? how will that fit and not overflow? thanks !
35 oz oils
Is the soap cal free? I use to use it years ago. I don't sell soaps but give it and it's a small hobby.
I don't use the app. I use the website. That is free. soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp
Oh, love your video on calculating your soap, but I do too much stuff. I’ll just let you make my soap lol
At 7:55, the 92° coconut oil is fractionated, so that's the one that's liquid at room temperature. Its also got a higher melting point.
Under the 92° coconut oil in soap calc is the fractionated coconut oil, so that's different. For the 92° coconut oil they have taken off some of the oleate portion, (which is what fractionated CO is) making it have a higher melting point.
@@TreeMarieSoapworks Everywhere ive read says that the 92° is hydrogenated, so i just assumed that was fractionated.
I think the Bramble Berry calculator is more simple and easy. All those numbers tangled up my brain lol I appreciate the video tough.
I prefer soapcalc. Seeing all the qualities of the oils and the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids is handy information. It is helpful to learn and understand these numbers. Do what works for you, Glaucia.
Is there a way to copy and paste the ingredient list for labels?