How to Calculate Liquid Soap Recipes using the Zero-Low Superfat Method (with SoapCalc demo)
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- In this video I demonstrate my simple approach to calculating liquid soap recipes using the easy zero-low superfat method. This method has worked very well for me in the basic liquid soap making I do at home for personal use. I hope it's helpful to my fellow hobby liquid soap makers! :)
Topics covered:
* What's unique about this approach compared to the recommended methods found in most liquid soap making books.
* A look at an example recipe from my soap making notebook to show how I record and formulate my liquid soap recipes.
* A demonstration of how I enter my liquid soap recipe specifications into SoapCalc to finalise my recipe with the correct oil, water and lye amounts.
VIDEOS and other links mentioned:
Liquid Soap Making Tutorial - Complete Process and Easy Beginner Recipe (same recipe as shown in this video) • Liquid Soap Making Tut...
Soap Making Safety Essentials - Detailed Lye Safety Video - ESSENTIAL Viewing for ALL Soap Makers • Soap Making Safety Ess...
Choosing Oils for Soap Making - Oil types and fatty acids, balancing recipes and Soapcalc explained • Choosing Oils for Soap...
How to Calculate Your Own Soap Recipes (bar soap) • How to Formulate and C...
Calculating Water in Soap Recipes and Clarifying 'Lye Concentration' • Calculating Water in S...
Jackie Thompson's book 'Liquid Soapmaking' and other recommended reading
www.amazon.com/shop/ellysevery...
(as an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases)
Recommended soap calculators (including link to SoapCalc) www.ellyseveryday.com/soap-ca...
Soap making suppliers in Australia (for KOH/potassium hydroxide) www.ellyseveryday.com/soap-ma...
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Important Safety Information
Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide (lyes) used in soap making, in granular or flake form or in solution with water/other liquids, as well as raw soap batter, are highly corrosive and require careful and attentive handling and the proper use of personal protective equipment. Please watch this video to learn more about essential soap making safety precautions: • Soap Making Safety Ess...
Disclaimer
The information provided in my videos and website is based on my own personal research and experience and is provided for informational purposes only. While I take the utmost care to ensure that the recipes and information I provide are accurate and calculated without error, I am not a professional soap manufacturer, nor do I have formal qualifications in chemistry or skincare formulation (or any other related field) and I make no guarantees about the correctness of the information presented. I am not responsible for the consequences of the application or misapplication of any of the information I provide. Use the information in my videos and on my website at your own risk.
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Hi Elly, I'm always glad to see another of your videos. Thanks!
I've been waiting for a video like this. Thank you so much for sharing it. I look forward to one that goes into detail about the oils and their uses in liquid soap.
Thanks Jill!
Great video, good information. I can attest to the 0-2% Superfat working really well in liquid soap. There is definitely no separation and makes a nice liquid soap. That is a nice gentle recipe also 🙏🙏
Thanks George! Not as nice as your lovely ones with glycerin added, but as a basic LS recipe it's a good all rounder. Appreciate your feedback :)
Ive been watching you for a few yrs now and have made your castile soap recipies.. i love that you took the time to explain how to run this through soap calc ive been using it for bar soap so you explained it in a simple way that most soaper can understand i wanted more bubbles so i wanted to add castor oil so thank you sooooo much i appreciate all you do
You are amazing. This video answer ed my question in the liquid soap making. Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you ❤️
Hi there! I love watching your videos. I'm excited about starting to make soaps.
Wooow! Thank you so much. Now I have a very good idea on how to use the SOAPCALC. I tried many times but I always fail. Now I will save your video for my future reference in making liquid soap. Thank you so much really very easy and most of all useful. So kind of you ma’am to share your video. Warm regards💗
You're welcome! Thanks for your feedback.
Thank you. Very informative.
Amazing I truly am learning a lot. I greatly appreciate your input. Thank you 😊
What a great teacher you are,. Thank you
You are very welcome, thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing it. 😍
Hi Ellie ! Great video as usual! It it certainly is quite an excellent book too! Thanks for all your videos too ! Merry Christmas ..Mike
Thanks Mike! Merry Christmas to you too. Looking forward to getting into some more recipe vids in the new year :)
Thanks! amazing video!❤❤❤
Hi Elly's from so far of Australia (I am on the Caribbean) I love your way to make soap. Thanks a lot
Mrs. elly's, I love your soap making recipe. thanks for sharing knowledge about it. I hope your channel is always growing and there is new knowledge. good luck for you, be happiness and success always everyday.
Thank you so much!
Wow, that was a great help. THANKS.
I have been wanting to make some liquid soap. I will give your method a try. After the first of the year.
Good for you Tony, thanks! It's a nice, simple way to approach it. I always use the hot process. Cold process has always been hit and miss for me.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thank you for taking the time out of your very busy day and respond to me, Thank you 🙏 so very much.
I have lots more research to go, I want to be very well versed in soap making before starting. But my goal is to start making organic, eco sustainable (so no palm oil) pine tar bar soap. Gearing it for people with eczema (i have it) so I want it to be very moisturizing along with a good concentration of pine tar to help reduce need for steroid. Going to keep learning until I feel I have a good grasp on the concept as well as have developed a potential recipe fitting my needs.
Hi Ella, I’m in a loophole, binge watching your amazing videos! I live in the countryside (Italy) and I’d love to make soap using wood ash. We make our own olive oil, and we have wood and ash in abundance 😁
There are some videos on RUclips, one very interesting about using ash lye to make the paste for liquid soap then keep cooking it and make bars too but they’re quite vague about measurements. I’d love to see you trying this ingredient because you’re so precise and clear when explaining 🙏🏻
It's extremely difficult to make soap precisely with wood ash (I've seen all the videos too). I've never tried it! Would like to experiment with it one day. I could probably figure it out, but would take quite some research :)
DO YOU KNOW I MADE THIS and ONLY because of YOU ❤ you are amazing Elly ... this was an amazing calculation tutorial for liquid soap and made it by following your latest video to the T ❤❤❤❤ this is the first time making liquid soap for me and i cant believe my eyes i got 2.5 litres of liquid castile soap ... used grapefruit fragrance oil... its heavenly .. wish i could share a botte of this beauty with you ❤❤❤❤ Thank YOU Elly ... love you and love all your videos!!! i still ant believe it i actually played out right with KOH 😂 am sooooper happppy and on top of the world now ❤❤❤c
Well done! Very happy for you :)
Thanks much for this!!!!
Dear Ellie.. You are such an angel.. God bless 🙌
Thank you!
Fantastic
Elly, thank you so very much for this video. I was gifted 32 lbs of potash to start my journey into soap making and this has really helped me tremendously.
Just one question, where on this table from soapcalc does it give the amount of water to add at the end of the cook?
I see the water to add to the lye is 21.15 ounces.
Soap calc doesn't tell you that. It's something you have to work out by yourself/test out :)
Down with COVID... N watching you in quarantine is so calming... I dint sneeze once during the whole video 🙂 ... Thank you this is so informative... My sense of taste and smell is gone ... Hope it comes back soon as without the sense of taste i am fine but w/o smell.. it will be so hard for me to formulate the fragrances for my soaps... On steroids now so shud get better soon ❤️
Oh Papia, I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish you a speedy recovery and a return of all your senses! What a difficult thing to go through. Take care x
Get well soon.. Prayers
@@shanthinandakumar thank you ... Steroids seems to be working.. day 8 and counting! Thank you for your prayers ❤️
Hi Elly, your vedios are so beautiful and so useful and so much informative. Plz make more vedios of shampoo and conditioner bars. I would really appreciate that. Thank u.
Thanks Elly😊
You're welcome Majo :)
I hope you enjoy this demonstration of my simple approach to calculating liquid soap recipes!
If you would like to learn how I make my liquid soap (using this same recipe) you can find my full tutorial here ruclips.net/video/_WPIMsLk1P8/видео.html
All of the other links mentioned are in the video description box :)
Mam i don't have stick blender nd crock-pot also olive oil so what can i do😔😐
Please reply me mam😕😌😔
Thanks for the helpful advice so much. Could you tell me what would be the good ratio of KOH and NaOH and also the lye concentration if I want to make cold process liquid soap from 50% hard butter and 50 % oil.
thnx for the information
You're welcome
Thank you so much for sharing your experience, you didn't mention the glycerin in the calculation.
Hi Elly Very nice video series I watched that liquid soap making video too. I had a question. Can we make cold process soap with palm oil or does it need heating. I had a recipe of 33% lye concentration, 60% palm oil, 25 % coconut oil and 15% castor oil with cold process soap bar. Bar is just made slightly soft with 5% super fat. Just is curing process. What is your opinion on this.
Hi Elly, thank you for the video. Are you enjoying Spring? We are suffering autumn here in Europe. I wondered if there are also recipes for bubble bath and the like in the book?
Hi, thank you, it's quite hot here, and very rainy! We're having a very 'tropical' feeling spring this year. Lots of storms and the humidity is high! There are recipes for soap gels and different things like that in the book, but they are all soap recipes so none would perform like a regular bubble bath.
Hi Elly, for this recipe if I want to use glycerin in the lye solution , how much water and glycerin will be divided to be equal to 599.68 gram of water in your original recipe? Thank you
Hi Elly, thanks for this video! I was not coming up with the same numbers you did, even though I was using the same percentages, etc. The difference was clicking the 90% KOH box. Once I did that, my numbers matched yours. I did want to ask if you can add silk to the lye water for liquid soap. Will the KOH dissolve silk and make a nice liquid soap like it does for bar soap?
That's great Janie. I've never used silk to be honest! I'm sure someone out there has though if you search that topic.
Hello Elly. Thank you for this super instructional video. I would like to submit a question, please. All the liquid soaps I made yet are super soft on the skin as hand soap. But none has been effective for dishes that always stay a bit greasy of fatty. Could a dual lye help, or what oils would you recommand ?
Thank you very much.
I can't see why a LS would leave a fatty residue, as all the fats are saponified. But perhaps try a recipe with lots of coconut oil for a higher cleansing effect?
Where did you get the pot you used for wand mixing the solution?
Buna ,Elly !In sapun lichid se pune conservant ,vit E ?atunci cand dizolvam toata pasta gatita ?
Hello Elly! I love your videos. they are very helpful. Iam a beginer and I have a question for you, if you please to answer to it, will it change anything if i would have 60% olive oil, 30% castor oil and 10% coconut oil? I would like to use the liquid soap like shampoo. Or if you maybe have any suggestion for me, i would be glad to hear it. Thank you!
Yes, you'd need to recalculate the recipe for that combo ruclips.net/video/dBPmh4UpoHk/видео.html
Great stuff. My first soap was your hot process liquid soap recipe and then I went straight "off-piste" and started experimenting with superfat and other oils.
I fancy trying bar soap next so I can increase the superfat (1% in my first soap left my hands super dry feeling, 3% in my second soap was good but it then won't hold a fragrance oil) but I have a question... why would I choose hot process over cold process for bar soap?
I watched your video from a while back and there doesn't seem to be much advantage with hot process for bars, I wonder if you have discovered more since?
Thank you, that's such a great question. I've never had much luck with CP liquid soap, but for bars there are some definite advantages for both methods. I must do a video on this! A bit long to explain here. I'm starting some 'viewer questions' videos soon - you're top of my list!!
Thank you Elly. I made my first (& only batch) of this in July this year, and it worked exactly as you demonstrated. I tried 'washing dishes' with it too, but not so happy with the result. Maybe there's a way to 'tweek' it??? I didn't use fragrance.
A lot of people use a coconut oil liquid soap for dishwashing, it has a high cleansing factor and more bubbles. I find it a bit drying on the hands though.
good evening madam, I make homemade toilet soap. Just with palm oil, just before pouring into the mold, the fragrance is not lasting! I will give you my recipe if you want?
Hello Elly, thanks so much for the detailed information. So, with the batch that you reserved for later, how long can one reserve before diluting? Thanks
I keep mine in the fridge for up to a couple of years!
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thanks so much. You have really inspired me. I will take pictures and videos of all the soaps I've made and send it to you. God bless you
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking so Elly, the distilled water used to dissolve the sarponified soap, do you measure? How's that measurement? Thanks
hello elly. Is is method for cps also?
Thnx elly...u made this phase very easy..
But 1 have 2 question...
1.. can 1 use 4% or supperfat as a essensial oil?
2..what if i use extrects instead of water..
Plz guide me
First to comment.. thank you so much
I’ve been doing cold process bar soaps and would like to start LS. 2 questions, how can I make sure my soap is thicker more like a bath gel and also, what’s the shelf life of the LS and are there any preservatives that should/could be used?
Hi Robert, it really depends on the oils you use. Fragrance oils and essential oils can really thicken liquid soap too! It's a bit challenging, but it can be done. I can highly recommend the Jackie Thompson book I have linked in the description box. It has shower gel soap recipes.
The shelf life varies on lots of things, but my LS lasts for years. I have never used a preservative for my personal use batches.
Thanks for all those great videos!
My soap is seizing without fragrance
Few seconds after putting my lye solution in the olive oil (40°c)
I m using soap calc
Can you help me pls.
There could be many reasons for that, but if it's not the fragrance or high temps I'd say it's the oils you are using!
Would love to see a soft version great for shampoo base.
Can you use citric acid in liquid soapmaking? I've made 2 batches so far of liquid soap using the glycerin HTLS method (takes more than the advertised 30 minutes but it's still very fast) for hand soap, but I'd like to try one that would be good for dishes. I have very hard water and use citric acid in all my bar soaps. I haven't seen anyone address this issue. Thank you for all your tutorials!
You can, but it's a bit complicated. I highly recommend Jackie Thompson's book! I talk about it here: www.ellyseveryday.com/soap-making-faqs
Hi. Do you have a video on basic supplies and tool we need to have as a beginner?
No, but that's a great idea! I do cover it all in this video though ruclips.net/video/EZTsW9UvNmU/видео.html and on this page on my website: www.ellyseveryday.com/the-what-and-how-of-soap-making
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking thank you 👍 I'll check them out.
Could you please do a video about Stearic Acid? I think is pretty important to upgrade soaps in my opinion but difficult to use it properly. THAKN YOU
I've never used it!
How do you make your salt solution that you add to your liquid soap recipe
Hello. Can you please tell me Clear Glycerin soap base recipe plz.. plz reply as soon as possible. Thank you. ❤
What's the ideal ratio of coconut oil in the recipe.when I used 80% coconut oil 20% palm oil for cleaning bathroom the tile started white casting.what other oils can be added for cleaning purpose
I think the ratio you have used would make a good cleaning soap. Personally I prefer bar soap for cleaning though, it's more concentrated.
Hi……I would like to add citric acid to my soap but I am having a hard time calculating how much to use. I was wondering if u could help ? My total oils would be 898.8 grams and my lye would be 133.244 grams and my water would be 340.194 grams…..I know this is high water but how much citric acid would I use in this recipe if I wanted to use 1.5% citric acid and what would be the amount of lye I would use for this recipe when using citric acid?
Thank you so much
Hi Kelly, I've never used citric acid in my liquid soaps, so can't advise unfortunately!
What is the best way to calculate the oils if I want to produce 320 ounces of finished soap?
What is the preservative we can use it.. for long time stable good condition of liquid soap
I don't use a preservative in my home made soap.
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking ok mam in any reference book is there any preservative for liquid soap please suggest..
Please tell me about natural and safe pigments used to make handmade soaps?
Hi, yes I'd like to do a video on that soon :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thanks
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Thanks
I did a one to one dilution and my liquid soap keeps hardening back up as it cools down. What am I doing wrong?
Check out my update in the comments/description box.
How-to determine the ratio? And how go know how to dilute it after it's cook?
That is all covered in the liquid soap tutorial where I made this recipe ruclips.net/video/_WPIMsLk1P8/видео.html
Hai can you share a dishwash soap bar to use in Indian kitchens
This is my favourite recipe for dishwash bar soap (makes great laundry soap too - check out the links in the description box) ruclips.net/video/GU81ycnFgEU/видео.html
Good Morning Ella, can you record a sea moss soap video? Thanks in advance
Hi Lisa, I am not very experienced with sea moss. Somebody sent me some once but I checked it recently and it had gone bad/mouldy. I'd have to do a bit more research on that topic!
Did send you sea moss soap or sea moss alone??
They sent me dried sea moss. It was nice but I may not have stored it in a dry enough place.
I've seen video from Brazil. Their soap must be very expensive, so they home cook soap in each household. Very interesting, but they use 1 liter of oil, mix it with 1 liter of alcohol, pour there 350g of caustic soda mixed with 350ml of water, 100g of sugar instead of glycerine, mix it by spatula for 30 min until the mixture becomes like a thick white paste. Then adding 2l of boiling water, then adding slowly about 10liters of tap water, mixing it all. In the end they add 1 cup of chlorine solution for clear soap. What can you say about it?
Can you do it in the slow cooker? X
Yes, definitely! I make these other two LS recipes in a crock pot :)
Liquid Castile Soap Making - 100% olive oil liquid soap recipe ruclips.net/video/Q-Ul8NNQZqg/видео.html
Easy Liquid Soap Recipe using all Rice Bran Oil ruclips.net/video/0Kv-ObTjLHw/видео.html
Hi I have a question; if I want to add breast milk to a soap how can I do it in order to don’t make it grow bacteria thank you in advance I really enjoy your videos!
Hi, I'm not sure about liquid soap made with milk, but with bar soap it's fine. Plenty of people make bar soap with other mammal's milk with no preservative and they keep very well. Soap is high pH and is naturally preserving.
Could you use Beef Tallow in liquid soap?
Sure can Sue! I made a batch recently with a friend of mine. The smell is not great, but I put lavender EO in mine and it's ok. It doesn't come out perfectly clear, but it's a good soap!
Somehow this time my soap turn milkysomehow, I follow the instruction and use distilled water, help ☹️
Usually it's clear I don't know what happen
Do you make shampoo?
No. This page explains www.ellyseveryday.com/soap-making-faqs
Any shaving soap vids on your channel?
Not yet! I'll be doing that one soon though :)
@@EllysEverydaySoapMaking Super, looking forward to it!
Elly can you pls show us a video of liquid soap without using cooking method
I only use the cooking method Kareemah. I've tried cold process liquid soap method but it never works very well for me. It's too hit and miss for me!
Have you considered making liquid goat milk soap?
I don't use any animal milks in my soap :)
Would you be willing to read something for me & give your opinion on the addition of animal milk in liquid soap? I respect your knowledge of the calculation procedure and I am wanting to know if my theory could be sound. I mean no offense, I am looking for your opinion on what I believe to be correct but I do not have enough experience with the subject and you are the most knowledgeable individual I have ever found.
Hello Elly, can you share me the book Liquid Soapmaking.
In the description box :)
Hello Eily, I want a member of buycoffee but i do not have money because i am from the poor country ethiopia. Please, help me.
Indonesian subtitles please
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not really worth watching. does not give recipy amounts.
This video is to show you how to calculate your own recipes Jeff, please check my other liquid soap videos - they all have full recipe links in the description box.
Thank you!
You're welcome!