I was checking my soaps I have been in the cure process. I am going to start after I cut weight them then check every week to see if they stay at the same weight. For a period of time.
I love that you said don't eat the soap! My granddaughter and I are learning the science of soap making together. I really appreciate your channel and your informative videos. We are using soapmaking as science class for her homeschool. So many channels focus on the art but I really love the science too.
The microphone thing, I would totally do that too😂. The cabinets are awesome! I don’t get why some people are so afraid of big colour in kitchens. Im currently readying Kevin Dunns book. Sooooo good!
Nice to know 🥰. I have noticed using essential oils they un mold faster using lye 1:1.3 water. Covered. I have been using oatmeal as I’m allergic to clays. They do get to rest by the wood stove. I need to weigh them out weekly. Thats a good homeschool math day. As a kid my gramps always said to unwrap soap and stick them in the linen closet to dry out. The bar will last longer. Everyone thought we were crazy. Guess he knew what he was talking about.
Castile 38% water. I didn't want to wait to use my first bar. I waited 4 weeks then brought a bar into my living room and put it on top of my DVR which is warm with a fan inside. I compared them for 4 weeks and it did shrink much faster. It still hit the slime phases but a great bar in my opinion. And love the cabinets
It’s also about the molecular structure forming. That requires time. Like Castile soap requires 6-12 months for those molecules to form well. At a 1:1 ratio it was done with water loss at 2 weeks BUT was nasty af to use. It didn’t hit good until 6 months and amazing at 12 months. Love the cabinets!
Interestingly, the molecular structure forms during the initial stages - during saponification, and the only real tried and true way to alter that is through the insertion of detergents. Something the soap community has been trying to eliminate over the years. Cure doesn’t really change those initial bonds!
Watching you stamp is like a visual ASMR, I can listen and not have to watch. This way I can edit and not get distracted by the lovelies. I love the blue cabinets! Think about showing a pic of the finished kitchen in a video. I haven't redone my kitchen in almost 20 years. I'm long past due.
Ok so I know this video is a year old but I had to say good choice on the kitchen cabinets!! I had mine done almost a year ago- in the same colour- and they are beautiful. Hope yours are beautiful too 🥰 sending you love and thanks from the uk 🇬🇧 xxx
The cabinet color is BEAUTIFUL!!! My kitchen island is navy and I was afraid at first but now LOVE it! Also love your channel and all the soapy information.
Lol, in a Spanish facebook forum I got scolded for saying exactly this.... That they would not buy any of my stuff because they wouldnt be safe.... I was like... Darn it!!!! Read woman, read!!!!! Anyways.... Since I dont live in spain... I really dont care much. My costumers here love my products, so, thats what matters to me. I usually use a 35% lye concentration for my decorated bars, but the plain ones go at. 50%, as does my bastille soap
Love the science! I like the color of your blue cabinets, they’re different than the usual and the color is perfect. Thanks for the info it reinforced what I believe to be true. I also have Kevin Dunn’s book, it’s a good one and is about the only one out there that scientifically and accurately explains the soap making process. Keep up the good work, I like your spunky personality
The matte blue cabinets are DEFINITELY bold. Depending on the rest of the kitchen design elements, it's going to look anywhere from good to jaw dropping! And it's a wonderful thing that you took the chance. It means the space is yours. Your vision. Your home. You aren't letting a designer or decorator dictate what you should like; you're dictating it to yourself. You should embrace it and love it the same way you love doing your own thing with your soap. It comes from the same place. "That is bullshit!" "The lather is shit, right after you cut it." I appreciate the blunt way you said these. And the frank discussion on the topic of cure. Hypothetically would a humidity controlled environment, for a low humidity, mean cure happens faster? Would a high humidity space draw the process out further?
So soaps do cure in lower humidity! And I appreciate the words of encouragement for the kitchen - fingers crossed that it works with my VERY geeky and just off of the kitchen library. ❤️
I LOVE the cabinets. They will really pop with the right counter top and back splash, and you have such a great eye, I'm sure you chose them. Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to the tour!
I love the kitchen cabinet color and that they’re matte! It’s modern yet different and to me isn’t super bold/in your face. Most of my house that I’ve had repainted is in shades of blue or grey. Still a few places plagued by the peach menace that was the original owners. I’m excited to see your kitchen once it’s completely done, because I’m betting it will look amazing!
First, I love the way you talk! A chic after my own heart ;-) Secondly, I adore your color choice for your cabinets. Lastly, I truly appreciate all the info you provide here. I learned quite a lot, actually.
LOVE the blue cabinets. My son just bought a dog house with dark blue cabinets and they are gorgeous. We have been talking about changing up our color too, to something darker just haven't gotten up the nerve to do it yet. Haha. Tired of the stained wood that's been there for 18 years. It's time! Think my fab soap you stood is Blackhawk. 2 of my fav marvels
Love the cabinet colour!!!! I am boldly repainting my timber dining suite in a similar Blue and grey wash top! Good choice! Great instalment today...Cure in soap, like "cure" in refinishing furniture, the time it takes for the wax to harden. 😘😘😘
Love the cabinets. I redid mine and painted then grey with a dark look. Also nice to see your smile. I have been making soap and trying to grow my Buisness so trying to catch up. Thank you for what you do. I love you how honest you are. Was kinda half hoping we were going to hear how you love the band. Also most relaxing part of soap making is the pouring and cutting.
I'm loving this discussion (and also all the pretty soaps- yes, I love the soap stamping). My 5yo daughter aspires to soapmaking and the discussions we're having as we watch, listen, and pause the video are great. She's designed a bar that we're making together today as a reward for her good behavior. Thanks for all the "kidlet" videos in year one, it's super helpful to me as a soaping mom.
LOVE THE CABINET!!! I know cure as being a loss of water weight, such as when when you cure meat. My soap cures really quick where I live because we have like 0% humidity all the time.
Those are awesome! The blue is pretty! I guess as long as it goes with the whole kitchen it awesome. Picasso was different and now all his painting are everywhere 😆! Adds character : )
You’re SO AMAZING!! I absolutely love your soaps! Most absolutely appreciate the time you take to educate all interested in learning! ❤ I’m learning so much from you! Thank you
I bought a soap at a framers market the other day. Saying I'm being supportive. The bar was $15. It hasn't even been 2 full weeks and the soap is finished. It disappeared. I think she used melt and pour.
BLUE. My favorite. Sometimes you just gotta do something risky that you think will be fun ;) I'm sure that they will look absolutely beautiful and I'm sure that you will love them for years to come! :)
Love the cabinet color!! My sis in law has a slightly lighter blue cabinetry in there home and we love it and are considering a more colorful option when we remodel our kitchen....whenever...who knows if it’ll ever happen...we do it.... Love and embrace the colors!!!
I absolutely love love love them. So gorgeous and such a great choice. So to make Mrs. Soap and Clay laught....eons ago when I was a kids...my very eccentric father painted the kitchen pepto bismal pink. You literally needed sunglasses in the morning.
Ha! I had one of those pepto pink bathrooms growing up. My mom could never decide what to do with it when she bought the house, so it just stayed. Pink toilet, pink tub…it was wild.
@@MrsSoapAndClay love it. You are the first person ever that could relate. My father also painted his business the same pink. The city council just about died!!!!
Those cabinets will be beautiful! Especially if there is a bit of brighter color somewhere in or close to the kitchen, but you know that already. As for "cure", fortunately I learned early on from listening to you what that meant. However I'm realizing that most people who want, but don't make soap don't get it, nor do they really care what it means. I'm going to start using the word "ready" when I post my soaps on social media. And ya...I know I need a website. But first I need my biz license, but first I need my biz name, etc, etc and yadda yadda yadda. I'll get there. And this would be a great topic for a bizzy type chit chat. ;)
I LOVE blue cabinets!!!!! Green is amazing too! Also did you do your uppers in that blue too? I’m really digging the two tone kitchens lately. Where the uppers are a lighter color sometimes white even and the lowers are this bold amazing color!
Hey! We ended up going with blue all over. After installing, I decided that I didn’t like the blue cabinets over the ovens/surrounding the cooktop, so we removed them and replaced them with open shelving with an acacia finish and installed a giant copper hood between the shelves and over the cooktop. We built a kitchen table and bench into the island, all with an acacia finish, so essentially what we ended up with is a navy kitchen with the island a different color. We put a giant window over the main sink area and the kitchen gets loads of natural light from three sources, so thankfully the dark color of the cabinets doesn’t make the room feel small.
I started adding one of those moisture absorber things. It’s called “Damp Rid”. I put it in the cabinet with my soaps, hoping it helps draw the moisture out. I should experiment with weighing the soap. Thank you for your helpful videos👍🏼
Hello Love, I think the cabinets will be beautiful and no you are NOT crazy for choosing them, not at all!!! If I could I would use purple that is MY color doesn't matter what anyone likes. Do and use what makes you happy!!!
OHHHH I love that blue! Good choice and good luck with the renos! I seriously think all soapers are closet designers so that so fits in! LOL ;) OH and thank you so much for the Cure and Saponify explanations. I swear I got so clobbered in a soaping group for saying a soap is safe within a day or two of making it and the cure was really only the "drying" time needed to make it hard. Well OMG you'd swear I told someone it was totally safe to jump off a freakin bridge! ugggggg
I just ordered Kevin dunns book. I have been making soap for a little while, but I want to learn the actual fatty acid profiles and what they do, not just what people in the soap forums say they do.
I dunno?!? 😂 White marble (faux) that we are making with an epoxy pour and the hardware will likely be copper, but those things always tend to work themselves out based on price point. We started with the idea of “modern farmhouse” for the house, but I’ve thrown in so many nautical and Lord Of The Rings things that there really is no theme anymore. This is a disaster. 😂
OMG... that new cabinet is TO DIE FOR!!! I would totally LOVE, ok no, wait, I would DIE to have those cabinets in my kitchen!!!! But I rent, so I get no say in replacing the God awful FUGLY disfunctional cabinets I have. I hate mine with the most hate you can ever conjure!!! I have one of those "Slum Lords" that know it's in disrepair and yet won't fix it... so I get to have my drawers that when you open one, three open, and the doors under my sink are barely hanging on. I tried to fix it, but the wood is rotting and the building is older than me. It seriously need new cabinets, new flooring or reinforced floors, but they're in no hurry to fix it, lol. BUT if any injuries come from this, trust me, I will pursue legal action at my fullest potential, especially since it's on file of the work required. BUT this video is AGAIN another huge information source for us!!! THANK SO MUCH!!!! I go by the water loss as you say for my "cure" time. I weigh them weekly as well.
So smart for the cure time - well done! For the renting, I was the renter that would fix and update stuff and it ended up biting me in the booty on the last house we rented, so I would not encourage fixing stuff that the slumlords are supposed to take care of.
Late to this discussion for sure having only found your channel a few weeks ago, but when my sis and I were diligently weighing our soaps weekly, we had two that actually went UP in weight. Only by a teeny bit, but after week four they were officially weighin' in at .3-.4 oz heavier than when they were first cut.. no idea how that even happened
@@MrsSoapAndClay oh Goddess, you know that never occurred to me. We're in Salem (yay neighbors!) So it's almost always humid. Thank you so much for getting back to me on such an old post :)
Personally I would have done the doors in high gloss but that's just me. And no you are not crazy. My kitchen in in grey and white. Love all the info once again.
OMG I know - I’m nervous about the matte. Back when I was a professional paint slinger in college, scrubbable matte paint was just becoming a thing, and it wasn’t super scrubbable. We tested these cabinets in the Pontoon for the last several months and they’ve held up, so I hope that works for a kitchen with wildly more traffic than the pontoon.
Hello thank you for this video, I'm new on soap making and always wondering how people can stay from 4 weeks to one year to use their soap????? What are the risks of using a soap after demoulding from 6 to 12 hours, because I have unmolded my bar after 12 hours or less and I tested it it lather very well, but I wonder if I will have skin problems despite not waiting 24 hours of end of saponification
Thanks! Yup, they’ll all be the same color. I don’t have a ton of uppers and a few floor to ceiling height cabinets, so there wasn’t a good place to make the upper to lower transition!
Lovvvve the cabinets! Ty for responding to a previous question. I received the response in my email, so I could not remember which video I asked it in, so could not go back and say thank you. Love the vids! Very informative & entertaining. I’ve been making soap for 2.5 years and still learning stuff! Yes, I too am in a lot of FB soaping groups and there sometimes conflicting advice given, so I prefer to do my own investigating. Did you say in a previous video that you are a chemist? If so, I’d love to pick your brain 🤪 Flaunt that info more frequently! Love to know where you got the stamp. I love the flat top. The ones with tall handles kill my carpal tunnel.
There are a lot of videos about, so I get it! 😂 My background is in chemistry, yes, so it’s fun to have been able to build a soap business (that’s been around for SO LONG at this point - when did that happen?!?) around the sciencey stuff I’m interested in. Thanks for watching and always feel free to ask questions! ❤️
@@MrsSoapAndClay Thank you so much! Flaunt that science/Chen degree info! If you wouldn’t mind sharing where you got the soap stamp, my old hands would be grateful. I would love to be able to share one of my best recipes with you.
Hi! Great content! I have a question though, I've been weighing my soaps once a week with a scale that can weigh up to 0.01 gram. 3 months into the cure or dry period, it's still losing weight (about 0.15 to 0.25 g each week). I use 30% of coconut oil and canola oil, 5% castor, and 35% palm oil with 35% lye concentration. I also use 3 heaping tbsp (25g) for a 1 kg of oil. So does that mean that my soap is not yet "cured"? Also, I live in humid country. Not hot humid, but damp cold humid. Is that a factor for my soaps not finally losing weight? Also, if you haven't already, can you make a content about effects of glycerin dew on soaps? Will it make the soap softer in the long run? The rain has not let up for weeks now and has left my curing soaps drenched with glycerin dew (more like glycerin shower). I don't know if this is the proper forum for my question, but I hope you'll still answer. Thank you so much!
I like the dark slate grey/blue ... it will hide the paw prints ... it will work well if you have a lot of light in your kitchen, but it will pull the room in and make it feel smaller ... of course not always a bad thing if you have a large kitchen ... a nice light worktop should counter that ... never really understood the confusion with the word 'cure' in soap making as there are so many cooking/baking terms afterall ... cured meat is dried meat for the most part ... people seem to have difficulty in joining the dots between a concept for one thing ie drying meat is called curing and curing soap ie drying soap out of whatever liquid content it holds ... weird ... but then life would be dull if you didn't have stoopid people to laugh at (quietly and in the privacy of one's own home in case the snowdrops get offended - obvs)
That blue is very chic and elegant, I love it, it will be a beautiful kitchen I bet! I prefer the darker cabinets than the white ones because white is very "noisy"? (I don't know how to translate it, when you have white if there is a spot it, it will shine and make a fuss and be like "look at me, Imma spot in this white cabinet!!). And OMG I bet you will get a lot of heat of people saying "HOW DARE YOU messing with the old terms and dare to question the ways of yore? You young people and their science!!!" LOL I'm just laughing because you already have a dislike and I'm like... but why??? p.s. did you catch my Friends reference??? ;p
Hi! I’ve done a few solid shavers on the channel - one as a dual lye, for sure. I do need to make my fall shavers though, so I will get it on the list!
Blue!!! The video probably doesn’t do it justice. Go girl! I wanted mine seafoam green but got outvoted this time. Next house he won’t have kids w a vote since they’d be all moved out 😂
Luckily my kids don’t get a vote because they’re too young and still want everything mermaid colored. I will let them help pick out the micas for the counters though. Should be a good time!
Love the matte blue!! That's my ideal vibe too! You going bare or using any hardware? Kinda wanna see your hardware. 😂 Okay this sounds wrong. No puns intended.
It’s a lot of blue. Also: SOAP SCIENCE IS FUN!!!
I was checking my soaps I have been in the cure process. I am going to start after I cut weight them then check every week to see if they stay at the same weight. For a period of time.
Go for it! blue is a good color
I love science 🥰
Science Rocks my soapy socks off
I love that you said don't eat the soap! My granddaughter and I are learning the science of soap making together. I really appreciate your channel and your informative videos. We are using soapmaking as science class for her homeschool. So many channels focus on the art but I really love the science too.
I’m so grateful to have found you and especially this video. You have cleared up a ton of gray areas for me with so many of your video. thank you!!
So if we don't call it "cure" should we call it "dry" hmm. I'll just say it has to set a spell lol.
That works!
Love this! I’m from the south so this is perfect lol
@@BodyandSpaCreations Lol same 😁
Terrified blue cabinets !!!!!!! I just love that colour you go girl , Rock that kitchen hope we get to see it when it’s done 😸
The microphone thing, I would totally do that too😂. The cabinets are awesome! I don’t get why some people are so afraid of big colour in kitchens. Im currently readying Kevin Dunns book. Sooooo good!
I LOVE that you read the screen! 😂❤️
Nice to know 🥰. I have noticed using essential oils they un mold faster using lye 1:1.3 water. Covered. I have been using oatmeal as I’m allergic to clays. They do get to rest by the wood stove. I need to weigh them out weekly. Thats a good homeschool math day. As a kid my gramps always said to unwrap soap and stick them in the linen closet to dry out. The bar will last longer. Everyone thought we were crazy. Guess he knew what he was talking about.
Castile 38% water. I didn't want to wait to use my first bar. I waited 4 weeks then brought a bar into my living room and put it on top of my DVR which is warm with a fan inside. I compared them for 4 weeks and it did shrink much faster. It still hit the slime phases but a great bar in my opinion. And love the cabinets
It’s also about the molecular structure forming. That requires time. Like Castile soap requires 6-12 months for those molecules to form well. At a 1:1 ratio it was done with water loss at 2 weeks BUT was nasty af to use. It didn’t hit good until 6 months and amazing at 12 months.
Love the cabinets!
Interestingly, the molecular structure forms during the initial stages - during saponification, and the only real tried and true way to alter that is through the insertion of detergents. Something the soap community has been trying to eliminate over the years. Cure doesn’t really change those initial bonds!
Watching you stamp is like a visual ASMR, I can listen and not have to watch. This way I can edit and not get distracted by the lovelies. I love the blue cabinets! Think about showing a pic of the finished kitchen in a video. I haven't redone my kitchen in almost 20 years. I'm long past due.
Thank you for clarifying some of the terminology. Kevin Dunn's book is a must read.
Agreed!
Those cabinets would look lovely with gold accents.....Thanks for all the soapy knowledge!
Ok so I know this video is a year old but I had to say good choice on the kitchen cabinets!! I had mine done almost a year ago- in the same colour- and they are beautiful. Hope yours are beautiful too 🥰 sending you love and thanks from the uk 🇬🇧 xxx
Thank you so much . This has been crazy trying to figure out for sure.
Your cabinets will be great
I actually really like those kitchen cabinet colors
The cabinet color is BEAUTIFUL!!! My kitchen island is navy and I was afraid at first but now LOVE it! Also love your channel and all the soapy information.
And yes to the cabinets! You're going to love them, I'm sure. Beautiful shade of deep blue for years of cozy kitchen time.
Lol, in a Spanish facebook forum I got scolded for saying exactly this.... That they would not buy any of my stuff because they wouldnt be safe.... I was like... Darn it!!!! Read woman, read!!!!! Anyways.... Since I dont live in spain... I really dont care much. My costumers here love my products, so, thats what matters to me. I usually use a 35% lye concentration for my decorated bars, but the plain ones go at. 50%, as does my bastille soap
Love the science! I like the color of your blue cabinets, they’re different than the usual and the color is perfect. Thanks for the info it reinforced what I believe to be true. I also have Kevin Dunn’s book, it’s a good one and is about the only one out there that scientifically and accurately explains the soap making process.
Keep up the good work, I like your spunky personality
This is such great information. I've seen lots of debate on the soap forums about this subject. Thank you for the book suggestion 😊
The matte blue cabinets are DEFINITELY bold. Depending on the rest of the kitchen design elements, it's going to look anywhere from good to jaw dropping! And it's a wonderful thing that you took the chance. It means the space is yours. Your vision. Your home. You aren't letting a designer or decorator dictate what you should like; you're dictating it to yourself. You should embrace it and love it the same way you love doing your own thing with your soap. It comes from the same place.
"That is bullshit!" "The lather is shit, right after you cut it." I appreciate the blunt way you said these. And the frank discussion on the topic of cure. Hypothetically would a humidity controlled environment, for a low humidity, mean cure happens faster? Would a high humidity space draw the process out further?
So soaps do cure in lower humidity! And I appreciate the words of encouragement for the kitchen - fingers crossed that it works with my VERY geeky and just off of the kitchen library. ❤️
As someone who make soap in FL, I’ve found it does take a slightly longer time than other people’s. And I use anywhere from 1.1 or 1.5 lye mix.
@@sarahconklin2881 I love the idea someone else had about a dehumidifier- sounds like a fun experiment in high humidity environments!
@@MrsSoapAndClay I want one so bad 😂
I LOVE the cabinets. They will really pop with the right counter top and back splash, and you have such a great eye, I'm sure you chose them. Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to the tour!
I love the kitchen cabinet color and that they’re matte! It’s modern yet different and to me isn’t super bold/in your face. Most of my house that I’ve had repainted is in shades of blue or grey. Still a few places plagued by the peach menace that was the original owners. I’m excited to see your kitchen once it’s completely done, because I’m betting it will look amazing!
First, I love the way you talk! A chic after my own heart ;-) Secondly, I adore your color choice for your cabinets. Lastly, I truly appreciate all the info you provide here. I learned quite a lot, actually.
The cabinets are gorgeous! That blue is absolutely beautiful!
❤Paddington, is a favorite ❤
Oooh my shirt! Me too! ❤️
I know I am very late to this discussion but i LOVE the cabinet colour/style!!! I would do exactly the same in my kitchen.
They ended up looking soooo pretty. I still haven’t decided on pulls, though. 😂
When you said "ok, go off", I laughed so hard. I absolutely love your personality!
LOVE the blue cabinets. My son just bought a dog house with dark blue cabinets and they are gorgeous. We have been talking about changing up our color too, to something darker just haven't gotten up the nerve to do it yet. Haha. Tired of the stained wood that's been there for 18 years. It's time! Think my fab soap you stood is Blackhawk. 2 of my fav marvels
Love the cabinet colour!!!! I am boldly repainting my timber dining suite in a similar Blue and grey wash top! Good choice!
Great instalment today...Cure in soap, like "cure" in refinishing furniture, the time it takes for the wax to harden.
😘😘😘
100%
Love the cabinets. I redid mine and painted then grey with a dark look. Also nice to see your smile. I have been making soap and trying to grow my Buisness so trying to catch up. Thank you for what you do. I love you how honest you are.
Was kinda half hoping we were going to hear how you love the band.
Also most relaxing part of soap making is the pouring and cutting.
I'm loving this discussion (and also all the pretty soaps- yes, I love the soap stamping). My 5yo daughter aspires to soapmaking and the discussions we're having as we watch, listen, and pause the video are great.
She's designed a bar that we're making together today as a reward for her good behavior. Thanks for all the "kidlet" videos in year one, it's super helpful to me as a soaping mom.
The kidlets haven’t made soap on the channel yet this year - thanks for the reminder!
Can't wait to see your finished kitchen, if you decide to share. You are correct. Bold! Go Girl!
LOVE THE CABINET!!! I know cure as being a loss of water weight, such as when when you cure meat. My soap cures really quick where I live because we have like 0% humidity all the time.
Cabnets are lovely!! If it ever get to dark for you just add more white to kitchen!!
The ducks are too gosh darn adorable!
Love the blue cabinets! We redid our bathroom in navy, burgandy, and hunter. Turned out beautifully.
Those are awesome! The blue is pretty! I guess as long as it goes with the whole kitchen it awesome. Picasso was different and now all his painting are everywhere 😆! Adds character : )
You’re SO AMAZING!! I absolutely love your soaps! Most absolutely appreciate the time you take to educate all interested in learning! ❤ I’m learning so much from you! Thank you
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the vids and the making of the soapy things!
I bought a soap at a framers market the other day. Saying I'm being supportive. The bar was $15. It hasn't even been 2 full weeks and the soap is finished. It disappeared. I think she used melt and pour.
BLUE. My favorite. Sometimes you just gotta do something risky that you think will be fun ;) I'm sure that they will look absolutely beautiful and I'm sure that you will love them for years to come! :)
Brilliant video.. Thank you
Absolutely on the cabinets! It's a dark enough blue that I would never get bored with it.
Thank you so much for explaining this!
Love the cabinet color!! My sis in law has a slightly lighter blue cabinetry in there home and we love it and are considering a more colorful option when we remodel our kitchen....whenever...who knows if it’ll ever happen...we do it....
Love and embrace the colors!!!
Why does everything have to be neutral? This is my thinking. ❤️
I absolutely love love love them. So gorgeous and such a great choice. So to make Mrs. Soap and Clay laught....eons ago when I was a kids...my very eccentric father painted the kitchen pepto bismal pink. You literally needed sunglasses in the morning.
Ha! I had one of those pepto pink bathrooms growing up. My mom could never decide what to do with it when she bought the house, so it just stayed. Pink toilet, pink tub…it was wild.
@@MrsSoapAndClay love it. You are the first person ever that could relate. My father also painted his business the same pink. The city council just about died!!!!
Oh I bet! I’m on the HOA board now, and these people are big concerned with colours. 😂
Love Love Love.... going to look great. I have a similar colour in my kitchen and it looks beautiful.
Mahalo, this really helped. Timo
Those cabinets will be beautiful! Especially if there is a bit of brighter color somewhere in or close to the kitchen, but you know that already.
As for "cure", fortunately I learned early on from listening to you what that meant. However I'm realizing that most people who want, but don't make soap don't get it, nor do they really care what it means. I'm going to start using the word "ready" when I post my soaps on social media. And ya...I know I need a website. But first I need my biz license, but first I need my biz name, etc, etc and yadda yadda yadda. I'll get there. And this would be a great topic for a bizzy type chit chat. ;)
So many things to prep for selling soap!
Blue in a grey or white kitchen would look perfect.. ❤️❤️❤️
I love the blue kitchen cabinets.
I LOVE blue cabinets!!!!! Green is amazing too! Also did you do your uppers in that blue too? I’m really digging the two tone kitchens lately. Where the uppers are a lighter color sometimes white even and the lowers are this bold amazing color!
Hey! We ended up going with blue all over. After installing, I decided that I didn’t like the blue cabinets over the ovens/surrounding the cooktop, so we removed them and replaced them with open shelving with an acacia finish and installed a giant copper hood between the shelves and over the cooktop. We built a kitchen table and bench into the island, all with an acacia finish, so essentially what we ended up with is a navy kitchen with the island a different color. We put a giant window over the main sink area and the kitchen gets loads of natural light from three sources, so thankfully the dark color of the cabinets doesn’t make the room feel small.
@@MrsSoapAndClay that’s awesome! Acacia wood is gorgeous. Bet it looks amazing with the blue
Fully enjoyed this vid
Thank you for the info and made alot of sense to me 👏👏👏👏🌹
I started adding one of those moisture absorber things. It’s called “Damp Rid”.
I put it in the cabinet with my soaps, hoping it helps draw the moisture out. I should experiment with weighing the soap.
Thank you for your helpful videos👍🏼
Hello Love,
I think the cabinets will be beautiful and no you are NOT crazy for choosing them, not at all!!!
If I could I would use purple that is MY color doesn't matter what anyone likes.
Do and use what makes you happy!!!
I always learn from listening to you. Thank You!
Wow, I love that colour it will look amazing 👏
OHHHH I love that blue! Good choice and good luck with the renos! I seriously think all soapers are closet designers so that so fits in! LOL ;) OH and thank you so much for the Cure and Saponify explanations. I swear I got so clobbered in a soaping group for saying a soap is safe within a day or two of making it and the cure was really only the "drying" time needed to make it hard. Well OMG you'd swear I told someone it was totally safe to jump off a freakin bridge! ugggggg
oh i love those cabinets, genuinely. good choice!!
Holy WOW. After the cut when do you stamp your bars and where did you get that stamp please? Hi by the way. You are awesome.
I just ordered Kevin dunns book. I have been making soap for a little while, but I want to learn the actual fatty acid profiles and what they do, not just what people in the soap forums say they do.
Love the matte blue! I agree with the “cure” explanation but there are definitely some who would not 🤷♀️
All beautiful soaps!love it.
I love the science videos! My degree is in Chemistry so I love learning about this!
I love the colour you chose for your cabinets. But I'm not afraid of colour. My kitchen is turquoise, lol 😂 It looks great too!
Love The Blue! If there is lots of windows it will be awesome
Absolutely love how you put all the soaping myths to a rest..
Ohhhhh Ahhhhhhh! I love your cabinets! What type of hardware? What is the style of your kitchen?
I dunno?!? 😂 White marble (faux) that we are making with an epoxy pour and the hardware will likely be copper, but those things always tend to work themselves out based on price point. We started with the idea of “modern farmhouse” for the house, but I’ve thrown in so many nautical and Lord Of The Rings things that there really is no theme anymore. This is a disaster. 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay 😂 1 kitchen to rule them all. I love it!! 😍
BTW love the color of the cabinets...
OMG... that new cabinet is TO DIE FOR!!! I would totally LOVE, ok no, wait, I would DIE to have those cabinets in my kitchen!!!! But I rent, so I get no say in replacing the God awful FUGLY disfunctional cabinets I have. I hate mine with the most hate you can ever conjure!!! I have one of those "Slum Lords" that know it's in disrepair and yet won't fix it... so I get to have my drawers that when you open one, three open, and the doors under my sink are barely hanging on. I tried to fix it, but the wood is rotting and the building is older than me. It seriously need new cabinets, new flooring or reinforced floors, but they're in no hurry to fix it, lol. BUT if any injuries come from this, trust me, I will pursue legal action at my fullest potential, especially since it's on file of the work required.
BUT this video is AGAIN another huge information source for us!!! THANK SO MUCH!!!! I go by the water loss as you say for my "cure" time. I weigh them weekly as well.
So smart for the cure time - well done! For the renting, I was the renter that would fix and update stuff and it ended up biting me in the booty on the last house we rented, so I would not encourage fixing stuff that the slumlords are supposed to take care of.
Love the cabinets cause that’s what colour I have, looks great with aged brass knobs
I LOVE the matte blue, I am redoing my kitchen in the spring and I want matte black. So nervous!
It’s so much dark in the room! Super nerve wracking, for sure!
@@MrsSoapAndClay I'm sure it will look stunning. I love bold colors used in a classy way.
Late to this discussion for sure having only found your channel a few weeks ago, but when my sis and I were diligently weighing our soaps weekly, we had two that actually went UP in weight. Only by a teeny bit, but after week four they were officially weighin' in at .3-.4 oz heavier than when they were first cut.. no idea how that even happened
In humid conditions the glycerin in the soap can actually take on water from the air, so it’s totally a possibility, albeit rare!
@@MrsSoapAndClay oh Goddess, you know that never occurred to me. We're in Salem (yay neighbors!) So it's almost always humid. Thank you so much for getting back to me on such an old post :)
I like the matte blue cabinets.
Love the Blue!!
Beautiful colour blue for your kitchen.
Love the cabinets
Your cabinets are going to be great! I love that! I really do
Personally I would have done the doors in high gloss but that's just me. And no you are not crazy. My kitchen in in grey and white.
Love all the info once again.
OMG I know - I’m nervous about the matte. Back when I was a professional paint slinger in college, scrubbable matte paint was just becoming a thing, and it wasn’t super scrubbable. We tested these cabinets in the Pontoon for the last several months and they’ve held up, so I hope that works for a kitchen with wildly more traffic than the pontoon.
@@MrsSoapAndClay I wish you luck. I just prefer high gloss for everything. I think it just makes the room brighter
If you don't love the blue you can always paint them. But they look cool
Hello thank you for this video, I'm new on soap making and always wondering how people can stay from 4 weeks to one year to use their soap????? What are the risks of using a soap after demoulding from 6 to 12 hours, because I have unmolded my bar after 12 hours or less and I tested it it lather very well, but I wonder if I will have skin problems despite not waiting 24 hours of end of saponification
Love the cabinets…are the upper @ lower cabinets going to be the same Color?
Thanks! Yup, they’ll all be the same color. I don’t have a ton of uppers and a few floor to ceiling height cabinets, so there wasn’t a good place to make the upper to lower transition!
Lovvvve the cabinets! Ty for responding to a previous question. I received the response in my email, so I could not remember which video I asked it in, so could not go back and say thank you. Love the vids! Very informative & entertaining. I’ve been making soap for 2.5 years and still learning stuff! Yes, I too am in a lot of FB soaping groups and there sometimes conflicting advice given, so I prefer to do my own investigating. Did you say in a previous video that you are a chemist? If so, I’d love to pick your brain 🤪 Flaunt that info more frequently! Love to know where you got the stamp. I love the flat top. The ones with tall handles kill my carpal tunnel.
There are a lot of videos about, so I get it! 😂 My background is in chemistry, yes, so it’s fun to have been able to build a soap business (that’s been around for SO LONG at this point - when did that happen?!?) around the sciencey stuff I’m interested in. Thanks for watching and always feel free to ask questions! ❤️
@@MrsSoapAndClay Thank you so much! Flaunt that science/Chen degree info! If you wouldn’t mind sharing where you got the soap stamp, my old hands would be grateful. I would love to be able to share one of my best recipes with you.
I LOVE sharing things! Soap stamp is from Alex’s custom stamps on Etsy - I get all of my acrylic stamps from him, and he’s amazing.
@@MrsSoapAndClay Thank you!!
Uuuuhhh did I miss Phoebe and Joey bars? What the crap? I can't find them!
Oh they’re not released! This is a weird sneak peek!
Hi! Great content! I have a question though, I've been weighing my soaps once a week with a scale that can weigh up to 0.01 gram. 3 months into the cure or dry period, it's still losing weight (about 0.15 to 0.25 g each week). I use 30% of coconut oil and canola oil, 5% castor, and 35% palm oil with 35% lye concentration. I also use 3 heaping tbsp (25g) for a 1 kg of oil. So does that mean that my soap is not yet "cured"? Also, I live in humid country. Not hot humid, but damp cold humid. Is that a factor for my soaps not finally losing weight? Also, if you haven't already, can you make a content about effects of glycerin dew on soaps? Will it make the soap softer in the long run? The rain has not let up for weeks now and has left my curing soaps drenched with glycerin dew (more like glycerin shower). I don't know if this is the proper forum for my question, but I hope you'll still answer. Thank you so much!
I like the dark slate grey/blue ... it will hide the paw prints ... it will work well if you have a lot of light in your kitchen, but it will pull the room in and make it feel smaller ... of course not always a bad thing if you have a large kitchen ... a nice light worktop should counter that ... never really understood the confusion with the word 'cure' in soap making as there are so many cooking/baking terms afterall ... cured meat is dried meat for the most part ... people seem to have difficulty in joining the dots between a concept for one thing ie drying meat is called curing and curing soap ie drying soap out of whatever liquid content it holds ... weird ... but then life would be dull if you didn't have stoopid people to laugh at (quietly and in the privacy of one's own home in case the snowdrops get offended - obvs)
Like, SO MUCH of soaping is JUST LIKE cooking. Same concepts. People like to make things difficult. 😂
Beautiful color choice
That blue is very chic and elegant, I love it, it will be a beautiful kitchen I bet! I prefer the darker cabinets than the white ones because white is very "noisy"? (I don't know how to translate it, when you have white if there is a spot it, it will shine and make a fuss and be like "look at me, Imma spot in this white cabinet!!).
And OMG I bet you will get a lot of heat of people saying "HOW DARE YOU messing with the old terms and dare to question the ways of yore? You young people and their science!!!" LOL I'm just laughing because you already have a dislike and I'm like... but why???
p.s. did you catch my Friends reference??? ;p
Cabinet color is gorgeous. But, what color is the countertop and floor? That’s the thing.
Ooh I do have that info! Counter is white granite ish and the floor is light grey.
@@MrsSoapAndClay the contrast will be very nice! Excellent combo!
Okay anything blue is amazing great choice
Love the color
Hi
Is there a chance to see you making solid saving soap?
Hi! I’ve done a few solid shavers on the channel - one as a dual lye, for sure. I do need to make my fall shavers though, so I will get it on the list!
Just published and already a dislike. Someone doesn’t like truth bombs.
Or doesn’t like me. Which is fine. I still get that engagement. 😂
Blue!!! The video probably doesn’t do it justice. Go girl! I wanted mine seafoam green but got outvoted this time. Next house he won’t have kids w a vote since they’d be all moved out 😂
Luckily my kids don’t get a vote because they’re too young and still want everything mermaid colored. I will let them help pick out the micas for the counters though. Should be a good time!
Love the blue
Love the matte blue!! That's my ideal vibe too! You going bare or using any hardware? Kinda wanna see your hardware. 😂 Okay this sounds wrong. No puns intended.
Ha! Hardware hasn’t been selected yet - probably something in the copper realm.
love these videos! i giggle every time u cuss lmao i have no idea why
I need to stop doing that shit. 😂
@@MrsSoapAndClay lmao please DONT
I always thought of cure as hardest the bar can get. Nothing to do with safety.
Well I’m glad you think that way! Tell all your soaper friends so they’re not confused! ❤️
@@MrsSoapAndClay Honestly... I don't know any other soapers personally. LOL
you make me laugh, love it!
But do you like my cabinets?!?!
I love that color😍😍😍😍
That blue is going to be great.