On one of the zillions of soap making videos I've watched, one of the people said if you have a little soap leftover and you have a flat top cook stove, smear the leftover soap evenly in a thin layer over the cook top and let it set up. I use a widget (razor blade with a handle) at a very shallow angle and scrape it off. Wash and dry the cook top. I agree with them, it's as good as the store bought cleaner.
I love the sound of your voice and you’re so informed and teach us so well with easy to follow instructions. Thank you for creating these videos for us!
I love watching your videos! Using Azul coconut milk is my favorite in milk soaps since it doesn’t have guar or Xanthan gum to speed up the batters trace. Bonus is that it has the most cream or fat that I’ve found out of all the coconut milk brands I’ve tried so far.
APRIL BABY it contains guar gum that accelerates trace in my recipes. Azul is the only one that I’ve found that doesn’t contain guar or xanthan gum as a thickening agent.
Can you smell the coffee and mocha? I’m going to use this recipe with friend tomorrow who has never made soap. She always watching me do it but she’s never made it! I made her a list and so she’s picking up our ingredients. It should be fun. Every time she brings on of my fancy bars home, her family always takes her soap! So she’s going to learn tomorrow and she will be making and crafting with me so we can work on getting Christmas out of the week. 💜💜💜 thank for the newbie help! She’s super excited!
Thanks, Kathy! I never would've thought to use chocolate pudding!! Now I know what to do with some pudding powder that's gone stale! 😝 And there's always instant coffee in my kitchen. ☕ A mocha latte soap sounds glorious. 😍
Since this was a year ago, youve prob already done this, but melt and pour would be too juvenile. Using fatty acids balanced by the basic lye would be a perfect chemistry lab demonstration! Just adding lye to water and the heat it creates is a good demonstration as well as lab safety!
Oh god, please tell me you didn’t actually do this recipe? It’s terrible and doesn’t account for the sugar in the pudding (shouldn’t teach ppl to add pudding mix to soap..) or the fact the instant coffee will absorb some of the water. Lots of unaccounted for variables that could result in a bad batch, not to mention it looks very unappealing
One of the first soaps I made was a coffee bar! I still make them. I used a plastic bag when I started soaping and I have a couple box molds that I still use with a clear plastic lining to not get the bag imprint on soap. That happened to me me once. Lesson learned. Thanks for a great tutorial
Ty so much for this video. I hope my dollar tree has all the ingredients I would like to try it. Just gotta get some lye, scale, stick blender plus all the rest. I love how you use inexpensive ingredients and break down the cost and explain each step with measurements. Ty so much!
I'm a disabled senior and the winter months are tough - I have worked my whole life - I found your FB page and this channel and I headed to the Dollar Tree today - thank you thank you soooo much for freely giving what you have learned - I have my little tray of soap sitting in the laundry room - because of my Fibro I am a little slow in following the instructions so I have to restart the video multiple times so mine probably took ten times longer but she looks pretty I used long gloves but I have an itchy feeling on one arm I'm thinking it may be a splash back I am extremely sensitive so it could have just been an air pore and it would have found me - is it true just wash with a little vinegar - again I can't wait to watch more of your work I'm hoping these cure in time to use as a couple of Christmas presents
Love this and the great part is that J Iiterally have the ingredients at home except for the coconut milk. Quick question can I add 1/8 more of the cocoa powder (I want it darker) or with that alter the recipe?
Great video. This was the first soap I made and love it. How can I double the recipe? Can I just double the ingredients? I'm having a having time plugging into a calculator because of the Soybean and Olive Oil blend... I need help please.
Whaaat?? I haven't been able to afford to make soap in a year..boy was I wrong..i can And will try this recipe out! Thank you kind soul for sharing this..i miss making soaps soooo much honey! Sweeeeet!!💕🛀🛁🚿
I just discovered your channel, and your videos are simply amazing and very easy to follow especially for a beginner. I was wondering if you might possibly do a video on making soap using menthol crystals. I buy mint oil based soaps which are very nice in the summer to use, but l have read that a soap based on extracting menthol crystals is very cooling on the skin.
I will add my 2 cents: if you use oils/fats that take a while to get to trace, you will appreciate having a stick blender. When I made the first 2 batches in El Salvador, I used a whisk with a Bastille recipe from soaping101's site and it took me HOURS until it came to trace. I even put it in a double boiler (no crockpot either) and it didn't help much. Save yourself some agony, if you're gonna soap, get a stick blender!
Another question, can you use Dollar Tree vanilla as a fragrance? Their vanilla doesn’t have alcohol and since the color doesn’t matter the vanilla can turn it brown without an issue
@@relax9286 - thank you. I have Palm Fruit Oil, the orange type. Was using the Calc, but the closest oil there was only Palm Oil. Sooo, my soap was hardening for a week in molds, still was quite gooey when I un-molded it. Hope it will mature nicely, but would like to find out what was my mistake.
Impossible to find something easier but what about the smell ? Can I add some essential oil? If yes please let me know how many ounces or drops. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I do have a question, one that I have asked on a different soap making video (not your channel). I saw a video that used a '100% Lye' Drain cleaner for the lye, it worked for them, but would you recommend for the starter soap maker??
If I may add: if you use anything less than 100% lye, those extra additives (sometimes it's color, sometimes a scent) you won't be able to predict how your soap will turn out, if at all. ALL lye calculators, and soap recipes in general, assume you're using 100% lye, so only use lye (drain cleaner) that says on its label, "100% sodium hydroxide". Oh, and have fun!
Nope. Rancid oil makes rancid soap. It will likely smell bad and that smell will linger on the skin. The soap can also develop ugly orange-brown spots.
Great video, back to basics. I have a question... vegetable oils can be mixed with animal fats? Everytime i mix both my SOAP DOESNT work.. Can u help me out please? thanks in Advance..
Juio Hhkd hi, I make soaps from mixed vegetable oils and animal fats (lard and beef tallow). I’m not sure why yours don’t work, but I’ve done many versions and all are good. Could it have something to do with the animal fat not being rendered properly?
@@unconventionalMi i do treat the beef tollow, AND mix IT with coconut oil, but for some reason my SOAP ends quite unfirm UP, can u share a simple recepe using both oil AND tallow please? Thanks
@@juiohhkd3447I like 40% pomace olive oil, 30% coconut, 25% beef tallow and 5% castor oil. I add essential oils and natural colorants, but that's obviously optional. I've done it with full water and discounted, and it has dried nicely either way. I don't have to render the tallow, as in the UK I buy it already treated. I hope that's of some help!
Are you reaching trace? It is where the soap batter is the consistency of pudding. It will take 3-5 minutes to achieve or up to an hour if using a hand whisk.
I’ve already made a batch of the oatmeal, honey and milk soap! Im definitely going to make this one too! I’m also wondering. If I wanted to make different kinds of soap can I use the same base and just add additives? Is there a chart I should follow for how much I add ?
shyrose01 does each fragrance have one ? I made the same base but I replaced the cocoa butter with Shea butter and I added charcoal and tea tree. I’m going to remove it from the mold today.
Michelle Patino I mostly buy my fragrance oils from brambleberry and they have a fragrance calculator on their site. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but some fragrances or eo have different usage rates depending on how strong they are and how they react in soap. I’m still fairly new at soap making too.
@@michellealejo104 I sure hope you put the changed recipe through the lye calculator! Cocoa butter and Shea butter have different SAP values so different amount of lye will change each into soap.
The only reason ppl use castor oil in their soaps is to stabilize the suds in it. However, 1) you don't "need" it, 2) if you add some kind of sugar (honey, milk, sugar (of any sort like brown, raw, or plain white), or fruits) you'll get plenty of suds that way, 3) if you use coconut oil, of any kind, it will add suds to your recipe. As you can see, there's plenty of ways to get a soap with suds without having to add any castor oil.
Two of my favorite things...a video from Soaping 101 andtge Dollar Tree. Thank you for a great video.
On one of the zillions of soap making videos I've watched, one of the people said if you have a little soap leftover and you have a flat top cook stove, smear the leftover soap evenly in a thin layer over the cook top and let it set up. I use a widget (razor blade with a handle) at a very shallow angle and scrape it off. Wash and dry the cook top. I agree with them, it's as good as the store bought cleaner.
I cant believe all this time, that container could be used as a soap mold! Thank you SO MUCH!
I love the sound of your voice and you’re so informed and teach us so well with easy to follow instructions. Thank you for creating these videos for us!
I love watching your videos! Using Azul coconut milk is my favorite in milk soaps since it doesn’t have guar or Xanthan gum to speed up the batters trace. Bonus is that it has the most cream or fat that I’ve found out of all the coconut milk brands I’ve tried so far.
Poet DeHart
Try thai
APRIL BABY it contains guar gum that accelerates trace in my recipes. Azul is the only one that I’ve found that doesn’t contain guar or xanthan gum as a thickening agent.
Can you smell the coffee and mocha? I’m going to use this recipe with friend tomorrow who has never made soap. She always watching me do it but she’s never made it! I made her a list and so she’s picking up our ingredients. It should be fun. Every time she brings on of my fancy bars home, her family always takes her soap! So she’s going to learn tomorrow and she will be making and crafting with me so we can work on getting Christmas out of the week. 💜💜💜 thank for the newbie help! She’s super excited!
Nope
I love your videos! Even though I don't make soap, I think it's cool that you do cost breakdowns in some of your videos.
I've been wanting to try soap making for years, now with your budget friendly video, I'll give it a try. Thank you, I'll subscribing.
I admire you for figuring out all these balances fron Dollar Tree products.
i truly love your voice and your tutorials , the ingredients i can always change, you make it so simple its great!
Thanks, Kathy! I never would've thought to use chocolate pudding!! Now I know what to do with some pudding powder that's gone stale! 😝 And there's always instant coffee in my kitchen. ☕ A mocha latte soap sounds glorious. 😍
Or make a pudding candle
My kid's homeschool co-op keeps trying to get me to do a soap making class with the high schoolers. This would be perfect!
Since it’s for kids, I’d recommend Melt & Pour
Since this was a year ago, youve prob already done this, but melt and pour would be too juvenile. Using fatty acids balanced by the basic lye would be a perfect chemistry lab demonstration! Just adding lye to water and the heat it creates is a good demonstration as well as lab safety!
Oh god, please tell me you didn’t actually do this recipe? It’s terrible and doesn’t account for the sugar in the pudding (shouldn’t teach ppl to add pudding mix to soap..) or the fact the instant coffee will absorb some of the water. Lots of unaccounted for variables that could result in a bad batch, not to mention it looks very unappealing
One of the first soaps I made was a coffee bar! I still make them. I used a plastic bag when I started soaping and I have a couple box molds that I still use with a clear plastic lining to not get the bag imprint on soap. That happened to me me once. Lesson learned. Thanks for a great tutorial
I love this. Thank you. I want to start making soap but don’t want to break the bank. Thank you!
Just yesterday I made Cafe Mocha soap .... Amazing soap.... I love using coffee and chocolate to my soap
did you make this same recipe?
Ty so much for this video. I hope my dollar tree has all the ingredients I would like to try it. Just gotta get some lye, scale, stick blender plus all the rest. I love how you use inexpensive ingredients and break down the cost and explain each step with measurements. Ty so much!
You'll be surprised how many of the other supplies you can find at your local thrift store.
I bought my stick blender from Walmart for 16 and I saw a scale for 8. The lye I got online was 12. The rest of from the dollar tree!
Thank you Sooo much mamyou are really a blessing to us ...keep sharing love thru your soap recipes ...May God bless us all!!!
Very creative and budget friendly
Awesome tutorial TFS💛
I enjoyed watching this! Might have to try this recipe!!! The peeler to clean up the soaps is a good idea! Beats a exacto knife...
I love you reusing bags your so efficient and cost effective !
so simple , so classy , soo very good... not to much bla-bla , a perfect teaching !
I love your videos. I don't care much for coffee but I like some of your other soap recipes. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve always loved watching your videos, Teach!
I'm a disabled senior and the winter months are tough - I have worked my whole life - I found your FB page and this channel and I headed to the Dollar Tree today - thank you thank you soooo much for freely giving what you have learned - I have my little tray of soap sitting in the laundry room - because of my Fibro I am a little slow in following the instructions so I have to restart the video multiple times so mine probably took ten times longer but she looks pretty I used long gloves but I have an itchy feeling on one arm I'm thinking it may be a splash back I am extremely sensitive so it could have just been an air pore and it would have found me - is it true just wash with a little vinegar - again I can't wait to watch more of your work I'm hoping these cure in time to use as a couple of Christmas presents
Please don't use vinegar just rinse with water.
I love this. I might have to go to dollar tree to try this. I always wondered how to separate the soy olive. Hugs 🤗 Teach
Love this and the great part is that J Iiterally have the ingredients at home except for the coconut milk. Quick question can I add 1/8 more of the cocoa powder (I want it darker) or with that alter the recipe?
Beautiful. Quite fancy this. Thank you.
I'll have to keep my eye out for that double end spatula. Great video
What a fun challenge! LOVE it! Great beginner tutorial using economical yet quality soaping ingredients. 🛀Jen
Your videos always have something to offer.
Great video. This was the first soap I made and love it. How can I double the recipe? Can I just double the ingredients? I'm having a having time plugging into a calculator because of the Soybean and Olive Oil blend... I need help please.
Awesome vid. Could also use parchment paper from dollar tree to line mold.
Very helpful, thank you for sharing x
I'm so happy to find you!! Royal soaps mentioned you yaaathank you for sharing
Awesome!!You did it again. Another great soap using $🌲 ingredients!!❤ do you think you can do a lather test with these soaps?
Whaaat?? I haven't been able to afford to make soap in a year..boy was I wrong..i can And will try this recipe out! Thank you kind soul for sharing this..i miss making soaps soooo much honey! Sweeeeet!!💕🛀🛁🚿
I just discovered your channel, and your videos are simply amazing and very easy to follow especially for a beginner. I was wondering if you might possibly do a video on making soap using menthol crystals.
I buy mint oil based soaps which are very nice in the summer to use, but l have read that a soap based on extracting menthol crystals is very cooling on the skin.
Love This!!!! I Love the Dollar Tree!!!!
I do my soaps with a wire whisk and they turn out great. Dont feel like you have to buy a stick blender.
I will add my 2 cents: if you use oils/fats that take a while to get to trace, you will appreciate having a stick blender.
When I made the first 2 batches in El Salvador, I used a whisk with a Bastille recipe from soaping101's site and it took me HOURS until it came to trace. I even put it in a double boiler (no crockpot either) and it didn't help much.
Save yourself some agony, if you're gonna soap, get a stick blender!
I bought a used stick blender at a resale shop for $4. U can find some under $20 at other shops
Thank you so much! I have been racking my brains around this! I was so happy to see your comment.
Dollar tree soaps are my favorite!
Could I substitute safflower oil or palm oil for the soybean oil? I am allergic to soy. Thank you.
Love it! Tyvm! I asked in another video from awhile ago, but what is that container you’re using for the soap mold?
Another question, can you use Dollar Tree vanilla as a fragrance? Their vanilla doesn’t have alcohol and since the color doesn’t matter the vanilla can turn it brown without an issue
this is a another great tutorial! thank you
I made your liquid and bar Castille soaps.
Loved ur video, sure will make
do you absolutely need a stick blender, or will it form just find without one?
Wonderful, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Love this one
Thank you so much.
Wow I love this, could you do other combinations, could you put avacodo in one part and crushed dried basil in one? I'd love to have more ideas.
Does the soybean oil make the soap go rancid fairly quickly?
Great video! Thank you!
Very helpful!❤❤
Great job as always!
Awesome demo!
Creative!
Nice and easy...
Thank you very much for the video! I love the Dollar Tree series. Could you pls tell what online soap calculator have you used?
Probably soapcalc
@@relax9286 - thank you. I have Palm Fruit Oil, the orange type. Was using the Calc, but the closest oil there was only Palm Oil. Sooo, my soap was hardening for a week in molds, still was quite gooey when I un-molded it. Hope it will mature nicely, but would like to find out what was my mistake.
@@IrynaBoehland idk I'm pretty new to soap making.
Great for beginners.
Impossible to find something easier but what about the smell ? Can I add some essential oil? If yes please let me know how many ounces or drops. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thank you
Thank you!
Can this be done without the coconut milk? Locally the only coconut milk available has guar or gum
Thank you for this video and for teaching me how to make soap. How much coconut milk to add
2 ounces
@@soaping101 thank you I haven't made any yet I'm trying to learn as much as possible before I attempt too
I do have a question, one that I have asked on a different soap making video (not your channel). I saw a video that used a '100% Lye' Drain cleaner for the lye, it worked for them, but would you recommend for the starter soap maker??
As long as it is 100% sodium hydroxide/lye with no other ingredients, it is fine to use for soapmaking.
If I may add: if you use anything less than 100% lye, those extra additives (sometimes it's color, sometimes a scent) you won't be able to predict how your soap will turn out, if at all. ALL lye calculators, and soap recipes in general, assume you're using 100% lye, so only use lye (drain cleaner) that says on its label, "100% sodium hydroxide".
Oh, and have fun!
@@iluminameluna , thanks for your reply, I wasn't getting much from the other videos in regards to that!.
Ok please don't come at me for this question but can a traditional handheld blender be used to make soap?
Can I use Bidistilled water to make soap?? Is all can find in my area
Hope to see you back soon
Me encanto, gracias por compartir 🌸
Wonder if you can make soap with old peanut oil that gone ransid?
Nope. Rancid oil makes rancid soap. It will likely smell bad and that smell will linger on the skin. The soap can also develop ugly orange-brown spots.
Dollar Tree comes through again.
Hi. I think u forgot to mention about the oils&lye temps while mixing!!!!
Pls ma do u add any soap base to it
Great video, back to basics.
I have a question... vegetable oils can be mixed with animal fats? Everytime i mix both my SOAP DOESNT work..
Can u help me out please? thanks in Advance..
Juio Hhkd hi, I make soaps from mixed vegetable oils and animal fats (lard and beef tallow). I’m not sure why yours don’t work, but I’ve done many versions and all are good. Could it have something to do with the animal fat not being rendered properly?
@@unconventionalMi i do treat the beef tollow, AND mix IT with coconut oil, but for some reason my SOAP ends quite unfirm UP, can u share a simple recepe using both oil AND tallow please? Thanks
@@juiohhkd3447I like 40% pomace olive oil, 30% coconut, 25% beef tallow and 5% castor oil. I add essential oils and natural colorants, but that's obviously optional. I've done it with full water and discounted, and it has dried nicely either way. I don't have to render the tallow, as in the UK I buy it already treated. I hope that's of some help!
Are you reaching trace? It is where the soap batter is the consistency of pudding. It will take 3-5 minutes to achieve or up to an hour if using a hand whisk.
I’ve already made a batch of the oatmeal, honey and milk soap! Im definitely going to make this one too! I’m also wondering. If I wanted to make different kinds of soap can I use the same base and just add additives? Is there a chart I should follow for how much I add ?
Michelle Patino I love the oatmeal milk and honey soap. I do add a fragrance oil but follow the recommendation from the fragrance oil company.
shyrose01 does each fragrance have one ? I made the same base but I replaced the cocoa butter with Shea butter and I added charcoal and tea tree. I’m going to remove it from the mold today.
Michelle Patino I mostly buy my fragrance oils from brambleberry and they have a fragrance calculator on their site. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but some fragrances or eo have different usage rates depending on how strong they are and how they react in soap. I’m still fairly new at soap making too.
@@michellealejo104 I sure hope you put the changed recipe through the lye calculator! Cocoa butter and Shea butter have different SAP values so different amount of lye will change each into soap.
Is it possible to make soap without castor oil
The only reason ppl use castor oil in their soaps is to stabilize the suds in it. However, 1) you don't "need" it, 2) if you add some kind of sugar (honey, milk, sugar (of any sort like brown, raw, or plain white), or fruits) you'll get plenty of suds that way, 3) if you use coconut oil, of any kind, it will add suds to your recipe.
As you can see, there's plenty of ways to get a soap with suds without having to add any castor oil.
@@iluminameluna tysm
Does this smell like cocoa or coffee?
I'm watching to learn before I try Cold Process, how do you figure out your super fat %. I see it's typically 5%, where do you get that number?
Probably with just cocoa would have look better. Still very nice.
Where did you go? 1 year since a video. :(
I wonder who came up with the idea to add Lye to the soap
Need new videos!
That is NOT a two way mixer! I wondered what you were talking about!