Thank you very much for watching my video. I didn't know it was a year ago that I made this soap. I guess I should make them again, LOL! I appreciate your gracious compliment, and always enjoy hearing from you. :) ione
I saw this again today. Love this soap. I only do a saltbar in smaller mold. Then I don't think when to cutting them. Your collar in this soap is very lovely.
Hi Turid ~ Thanks for watching this video again and for your lovely compliment. Since cutting salt bars is so tricky, I'm using a silicone individual cavity mold now. :) ione
Hi Natalie ~ thank you for watching my video and the nice comment. I know what you mean about being hooked on making soap. I've been addicted for several years, LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Adelinn ~ thank you for the sweet comment. I appreciate it very much. Making salt bars in a loaf mold is always tricky. I guess I like a little danger once in a while, LOL! I just got a new fragrance I want to try making salt bars with. It's called Mediterranean Sea Salt, so I may walk the wire again soon! :) ione eve
I love watching your videos, Ione. I love making salt soap and yours turned out so beautifully! Thank you so much for sharing your process and congratulations on your beautiful soaps.
I love watching every one of your videos. You’re always so encouraging to me as a new soaper that accidents can still turn out beautifully. You’re so talented and creative. I hope to be even a little bit as good as you one day! Happy soaping! ☺️
Hi Elizabeth ~ Thank you for watching my videos and taking the time to leave such a thoughtful comment. You put a big smile on my face! Best wishes for great success in all your soapy endeavors. :) ione eve
I'm so glad I made you smile! :) I heard in one of your videos that you sold to a shop in Port Townsend (I think that's what you said). Does that mean you're local to me? I live in Oak Harbor. If you are, that's awesome! I'm working on getting my business off the ground and soaping is just one aspect of it. But, I have to admit it's the one that I enjoy the most and poses that most challenges to me as well. It's the journey, right? :)
Hi again! Yes, it's the journey, LOL! And, making soap is quite an adventurous one. I did supply soap to a store in Port Orchard, WA a few years ago. You must be on Whidbey Island, just a ferry ride away! I've only visited there one time, and it was lovely. I live in Bremerton and only sell soap online now. It is mainly to help with the cost of this hobby that I love. I wish you all the best in your new business. Let me know how you fare if you have the time and inclination. It's always a pleasure hearing from soaping buddies in Washington! :) ione eve
EvesGardenSoaps Hi Ione! You’re practically a neighbor! Another Navy town. And I love Bremerton. It’s a nice town too. It is so nice to know you live nearby. It’s a great hobby of it can pay for itself! That’s my main goal but if I can make more of it I certainly will. I am really loving making soap. It’s so much fun and so so much to learn! I’d love to let you know how it’s going for me. It’s so nice to know there’s other soapers in the area. Thanks for the encouragement! Some times I think I’m nuts because I’ve had a few disaster batches. But it’s a learning process every time. I promised myself I wouldn’t give up until I really gave it my all. So here goes nothing! Lol. Keep in touch and I’ll keep watching your lovely soap videos to stay inspired!! 😊
Hi Robin ~ thank you! I've been procrastinating about the lighting in my apartment. It's not really great for making videos, but now I'm like "what the heck" LOL!
Hi Ione if your the one I asked about tdi and clear melt n pour yes it'll work but you have to keep stirring it cuz it will settle on the bottom but it did work my inbeds came out fine
Hi Michelle ~ I didn't receive your comment about using TD to color clear m&p soap base. Someone else is missing your advice. I hope you can recall who it is. :) ione
EvesGardenSoaps I did it's lady bug lanes I think her name is Marnie she told me to try it because I ran outta goat's milk soap and needed white and she told me to try it and it does work
Hi Michelle ~ Thank you for watching my video and taking the time to leave a comment. I'm with you! I love the ocean breezy scents too. I had a winner with a blend I made from Asian Sandalwood and Ocean fragrances from Peak Candle. Now, they are out of business and I'm trying other blends. I haven't settled on one yet, LOL! I did get an interesting sample from Oregon Trails called Mediterraean Sea Salt. I'll be trying it soon! :) ione eve
I think your unplanned for green chunks "made" your bars - They're gorgeous! Thank You for sharing and teaching me. One day I hope to challenge myself on this specific bar by you.
Thank you for watching my video and your thoughtful compliment. I appreciate it very much! Have fun making your salt bars. They are a wonderful product. The next challenge for myself is making Dead Sea mud soap. When I get a nice result, I'm hoping to make a video of that too. Fingers crossed, LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Carol, Thank you for watching my video and you lovely compliment. To answer your question, I mix powdered mineral colorants with extra light olive oil before adding to the soap. I hope this helps and happy soaping! :) ione
I'm a new subbie, but I love, love, love your videos! So informative and very relaxing to watch. Your voice is easy to listen to as is the music. Thank you for sharing with us. :)
Thank you for the sweet compliments. I appreciate it very much. Hearing from nice people, like you, is what makes doing these videos worthwhile! :) ione eve
Beautiful! I love the blue color. I looks awesome and I do wish RUclips would hurry up and find a way to get smell-a-vision! lol... Have an great day! Hugs~ Donna
Hi Manny ~ thanks for watching and the nice comment. You just never know what soap is going to do. I guess that's what makes it so much fun, LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Silke ~ Thank you for watching my videos and for taking the time to write such a thoughtful comment. Your kind words put a big smile on my face! :) ione
Thank you for watching my video! I buy cosmetic-grade powdered minerals from Brambleberry.com and mix them with extra-light olive oil before using. I hope this helps and happy soaping! :) ione eve
Beautiful as always, Ione! I love the globules of green throughout the blue. It reminds me of small pieces of kelp floating in the water. Thank you for sharing, even though I'm a few months behind on watching vids. ;)
Hi Rebecca ~ thank you for watching and the thoughtful comment. I'm the same way when it comes to watching videos. I get too busy for a while, and then binge, LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Missy ~ Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, the sea salt is the last thing that goes in before putting soap in the mold. Happy soaping! :) ione
Hi Deborah ~ thank you for watching and the sweet compliment. I get cosmetic minerals (powdered) and pre-mix them with extra light olive oil. :) ione eve
were do you get your bottles for your micas? do they come that way or do you mix them yourself and put the mica and oil in the bottles??? this soap is sooooo pretty...great job..
Hello MaeMarie ~ thank you for watching my videos and the lovely compliment. To answer your question, I use little bottles that I get at Dollar Tree. They come with glitter glue in them, 3 to a package. I empty the glitter glue and wash the bottles. It's easy since the glue is water soluble. 3 bottles for $1 is not a bad deal, eh? LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Donna ~ To answer your question, the colors I use are powdered, cosmetic-grade minerals from Brambleberry. I mix them with extra-light olive oil. The oxides and colorants shake-up well. They are the ones in the little squirt bottles, and the ratio is 1 part color to 5 parts oil. I mix the colors with a frothier before putting in the squirt bottles. Mica doesn’t shake-up very good, so I put them in little containers, and stir. The ratio for mica is 1 part color to 2 parts oil. I reduce the amount of liquid oil in the recipe according to what I expect to add when coloring, usually around half an ounce.
Ione, thanks for sharing this! I know this is a older video, but I bet you couldn't get that colorant in its lid again if you tried! Plus now you know what fragrance to use for salt bars. I wonder if there is something to that? Hum. Maybe misbehaving fragrances when mixed with the salt work better. That would be interesting to try some different ones that are trouble makers! They looked great!
Hi Jamie ~ It has been a while since I made these salt bars. In fact, I need to watch this video again to refresh what changes to make in the next batch. I got some Himalayan pink sea salt I'm going to use. I'm still pondering what fragrance might be good since I want to retain a spa-like essence. Scratching head . . .
Ione, I don't think you really said what was fragranced with what, but whatever that blue one was seemed to slow down trace and work better and the green one was naughty! Lol so I would stay away from it if you remember what it was. Good luck.
Hi Anastasia ~ Thank you for watching my video! I used Neon Blue Raspberry colorant from Brambleberry for the aqua color in this soap. The sheen from using mica as well shows a little in the finished product. :) ione
They are lovely Ione! I made an hp (dont know what possesed me to hp) salt batch...the minute I lifted the lid it went rock solid on me! I have an ice cream pail of wonderfully scented grit now lol. I don't suppose you'd have any ideas on how to use it? Feels awesome, but pretty useless in the state it's in :(
Hi Camille ~ Thank you for the nice compliment. Sorry to hear what happened with your salt bars. I tried rebatching some one time. I'll never do it again. I ended up making a little new soap and mashing the salt bar crumbles into it ~ molded and cut. The resulting soaps were scratchy to use. In your position, I would put the "grit" into jars and use a couple tablespoons for a salt-bath ~ great for relaxing, aroma therapy and sluffing off dead skin cells. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. :) ione eve
You are very welcome, Donna. About the Dollar Store, what's the old saying? Necessity is the mother of invention. LOL! Have a wonderful day. :) ione eve
Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, coconut oil in soap produces a rich lather, the top reason for using it. Also, coconut oil has many benefits for skin. You can research online to find all of those. In soap, the standard measurement for coconut oil is 20% of the oil in the recipe. With that comes a 5% superfat calculation, which means 5% of the oils are not turned into soap. Unfortunately, without this calculation coconut oil, after saponification, is drying to skin. So, it's important this superfat oil remains in the soap for moisturizing skin. A balanced recipe will include many oils that nurture and moisturize skin, because any selection of oils can become the superfat. For the salt bars, 75% of the oil is coconut, so the superfat % is much higher. I do a 20% calculation. In this case, it's most likely the superfat will be coconut oil, but I also use other skin nutrient-rich oils in my recipe. The main reason for using salt bars is a weekly or monthly regime of removing dead skin cells. I want these salt bars leaving skin baby-soft and healthy. I hope this information helps, and happy soaping! :) ione
@@EvesGardenSoaps Thanks for your quick response and for taking the time as you have. I think I should have been clearer in my question as I wanted to know how the (softer) fractionated coconut oil might differ from the non-fractionated type (that gets hard). Will the results be comparable?
@@Skylightatdusk LOL! Sorry for misunderstanding your question. I've never used liquid coconut oil for making soap, so don't know what properties would manifest. One reason I use coconut oil is because it is hard and helps with making soap that way. If replacing a portion of the hard oils with liquid, the result will most likely be a soft soap. If you find out the answer, I would love to know too! The rest of this writing is FYI or me, babbling about soap making. ;) Several years ago I experimented, making several batches of soap using just 1 oil in each. I wanted to see what kind of soap each oil would make. 4 of them were done with liquid oils, olive, soybean, canola and grape seed. Only the canola oil made a hard, long lasting bar. The olive oil (Castile) initially was hard, but when water was introduced it turned mushy, even after a 6 month cure time. The grape seed oil didn't even get hard, but had the consistency of Vaseline. The soybean oil made a soft soap that didn't last long. Now, to ensure a hard bar I use a 50/50 ratio of hard/liquid oils in my recipes. Sometimes even a 60/40 ratio. It's much harder finding good hard oils to use than liquid ones.
@@EvesGardenSoaps Thanks again for the response. My reasoning is that, the fact that salt makes soap much harder than otherwise might mean that it does not matter if the coconut oil is fractionated. ... When going through your experiment, I wondered whether it would have been possible to make the hardness of the 100% olive oil soap consistent by adding a small amount of salt, about 1 tsp per lb, to the batter just before pouring. On a slightly different note, I wish I could figure whether fractionated c'oil has transfats or not. I am also confused re whether it is the same thing as hydrogenated c'oil. Would be happy for clarification on this point. I say this because I might not want to use fractionated oil if it has trans fats. My interest in fractionated oil is the fact that it is often considerably cheaper than the virgin or other non-fractionated oil (which can be prohibitively expensive in some places). Happy for your thoughts.
@@Skylightatdusk In researching the main differences (apart from hard vs liquid form) the fractionation process removes lauric acid and chained fatty acids, both considered nutrients in coconut oil. I asked my daughter, who is a microbiologist, your questions and she says fractionated and hydrogenated are 2 different processes. All oils contain natural trans fats. Whether the fractionation process adds more trans fats is a question for the manufacturer. I do use sea salt as a hardener in my soap recipes. I've found that adding more than 1 teasp. to a 5 lb. batch of soap (3.75 lbs oils) results in grainy soap, even when the salt is completely dissolved before adding. The saponification process uses all the salt needed to turn the oil into soap, then hardens the rest into grains. Remember that sodium hydroxide is salt too. It may be possible to use sodium lactate for a harder bar, but it can cause crumbly soap if too much is used. In my first olive oil experiment, the set up soap was extremely hard, even a bit crumbly at the edges. I didn't use any extra salt in the experiment. I was very impressed with how nice it was until I used it. The outside 1/8 inch (sometimes more) would turn to mush and stay that way, sort of like soap that sat in a dish of water. It never hardened again. When I found out that Castile soap took 6 months to cure, I figured that was the problem. I only cured it 6 weeks. So, I tried the experiment again with a 6 month cure time, but unfortunately got the same results. :(
Hi Deborah ~ I appreciate you watching my video! The colors in the little squirt bottles are pre-mixed with extra light olive oil. If you want more details let me know. :) ione
EvesGardenSoaps I would like to know where to get/how to pre mix in the little squirt bottles I’ve just been buying mica powder packets...new soap maker here!
Hi Ettenio ~ I've never had salt bars sweat. The only time I've had any soaps sweat was during warm and rainy outdoor markets. I don't do those anymore. Since weather conditions seem to play a big part, I would say keep soap bars in a cool dry place. In hot and humid parts of the country this may entail creating a special area with environment controls like air conditioning, fan and dehumidifier. Hope this give you some ideas! :) ione eve
They are nice. You lost the ocean blue color in the mix. I thought that would have been a beautiful touch in this soap but you were right, the green did take center stage. I like them. 😊
Hi Maple ~ thank you for watching and the nice comment. I was a little disappointed the blue didn't come through too. Next time I will use a fragrance that doesn't accellerate trace, LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Amanda ~ Thank you for watching my video. I appreciate it very much. I always appreciate hearing from soap making enthusiasts. I don’t think of myself as an instructor, but do enjoy sharing design ideas and little tips. Recipe development is a big part of becoming a good soap maker, and each person is expected to do their own work. Even the design should be something a little different from mine. For help with creating a salt bar, I recommend Cathy McGinnis of Soaping 101 and Anne Marie of Soap Queen TV. They both have wonderful soap making tutorials and recipes. I’ll leave links for you along with best wishes for having fun making a wonderful soap! www.soapqueen.com/ www.soaping101.com/
Hi Doreen ~ Salt bars require sea salt, not regular table salt. I always use finely ground sea salt, I think it makes a much nicer soap than coarse ground. I'm getting ready to make some new ones using Himalayan Sea Salt that is a peach color. Can't wait! :) ione eve
Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, these salt bars weighed 6.5 ounces. I just got a new fragrance called Mediterranean Sea Salt and hope to make some more using it this time. Happy soaping! :) ione eve
I loved the video as usual. However, I have made salt bars and I don't know what good they are. They were pretty, tho not as pretty as yours, but I don't understand the salt part. I get they are very hard bars, but??
Hi Shelby ~ thank you for watching my video and the lovely comment. Salt bars are great for removing dead skin cells. Sea salt is the best exfoliate, but isn't ebrasive. It leaves skin feeling baby soft. I use a salt bar once a week and love it. :) ione eve
Hello Pooja Rai ~ thank you for watching my video. Unfortunately these salt bars are all sold. I will be making some similar ones, but don't know when. You can visit my website, where soaps I have available and prices are listed. If you live outside the United States, I would need to research the shipping cost, so contact me from the website. Thank you for your interest and I'll leave a link to my Online Store. :) ione eve www.evesgardenhandmadesoaps.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Hi Kayla, thanks for watching and the suggestion. I thought about that, but since I have male customers that like salt bars too, I decided not to. :) ione eve
Awesome Ocean Breeze Salt Bars and I notice this is a 1 yr anniversary for this video! Great video! Much Love!
Thank you very much for watching my video. I didn't know it was a year ago that I made this soap. I guess I should make them again, LOL! I appreciate your gracious compliment, and always enjoy hearing from you. :) ione
I saw this again today. Love this soap. I only do a saltbar in smaller mold. Then I don't think when to cutting them. Your collar in this soap is very lovely.
Hi Turid ~ Thanks for watching this video again and for your lovely compliment. Since cutting salt bars is so tricky, I'm using a silicone individual cavity mold now. :) ione
I am in awe each time I watch you create soap ! Absolutely Beautiful soaps, and the wisdom that you share with everyone is priceless ! Thank-You !
You are very sweet, Pattie. I appreciate you watching my videos and taking the time to leave such a thoughtful comment. Thank you! :) ione eve
I love the scent of ocean breeze and in a salt bar great combo
Hi Michelle ~ Thanks for watching my video and your great comment. I appreciate it very much. :) ione
EvesGardenSoaps your welcome
The bars are lovely. I can imagine the scent is so soothing. Wonderfully done video.
Hi Lisa ~ I appreciate you watching my video and taking the time to leave such a thoughtful comment. Thank you!
:) ione
Iv watched tons of soap videos but you truly have a gift. Gorgeous soaps!
Hi Pat ~ What a kind thing to say! I appreciate you watching my video and your thoughtful comment. Thank you!
:) ione
ione I love how the green darkened resulting in a marbled effect, a truly lovely soap!
Thank you, Cathleen. I appreciate you watching and the sweet compliment. :) ione eve
Please keep up the great works almost like visiting an art show.
Love them Ione! They came out so beautiful. You sure are brave doing all the different colors and scents with a salt bar. Great job!
Thank you for watching and the lovely compliment. I've already got ideas for improvements next time, LOL!
thank you for getting me hooked on making soap, it's now my favorite hobby
Hi Natalie ~ thank you for watching my video and the nice comment. I know what you mean about being hooked on making soap. I've been addicted for several years, LOL! :) ione eve
+EvesGardenSoaps it's an amazing joy to do! I want to do a color changing soap from these colors lol
Wow ~ that sounds interesting. Please let me know how it goes? :)
+EvesGardenSoaps I will, thank you so much
They look really good! Salt bars are so hard to cut when in log form and yet yours cut so easy. Geat job! Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed day.
Hi Adelinn ~ thank you for the sweet comment. I appreciate it very much. Making salt bars in a loaf mold is always tricky. I guess I like a little danger once in a while, LOL! I just got a new fragrance I want to try making salt bars with. It's called Mediterranean Sea Salt, so I may walk the wire again soon! :) ione eve
I love watching your videos, Ione. I love making salt soap and yours turned out so beautifully! Thank you so much for sharing your process and congratulations on your beautiful soaps.
Hello Marsha ~ thank you for watching my videos, and for the lovely compliments. I appreciate it very much. :) ione eve
I love watching every one of your videos. You’re always so encouraging to me as a new soaper that accidents can still turn out beautifully. You’re so talented and creative. I hope to be even a little bit as good as you one day! Happy soaping! ☺️
Hi Elizabeth ~ Thank you for watching my videos and taking the time to leave such a thoughtful comment. You put a big smile on my face! Best wishes for great success in all your soapy endeavors. :) ione eve
I'm so glad I made you smile! :) I heard in one of your videos that you sold to a shop in Port Townsend (I think that's what you said). Does that mean you're local to me? I live in Oak Harbor. If you are, that's awesome! I'm working on getting my business off the ground and soaping is just one aspect of it. But, I have to admit it's the one that I enjoy the most and poses that most challenges to me as well. It's the journey, right? :)
Hi again! Yes, it's the journey, LOL! And, making soap is quite an adventurous one. I did supply soap to a store in Port Orchard, WA a few years ago. You must be on Whidbey Island, just a ferry ride away! I've only visited there one time, and it was lovely. I live in Bremerton and only sell soap online now. It is mainly to help with the cost of this hobby that I love. I wish you all the best in your new business. Let me know how you fare if you have the time and inclination. It's always a pleasure hearing from soaping buddies in Washington! :) ione eve
EvesGardenSoaps Hi Ione! You’re practically a neighbor! Another Navy town. And I love Bremerton. It’s a nice town too. It is so nice to know you live nearby. It’s a great hobby of it can pay for itself! That’s my main goal but if I can make more of it I certainly will. I am really loving making soap. It’s so much fun and so so much to learn! I’d love to let you know how it’s going for me. It’s so nice to know there’s other soapers in the area. Thanks for the encouragement! Some times I think I’m nuts because I’ve had a few disaster batches. But it’s a learning process every time. I promised myself I wouldn’t give up until I really gave it my all. So here goes nothing! Lol. Keep in touch and I’ll keep watching your lovely soap videos to stay inspired!! 😊
Always enjoy watching and listening to your soap making, thank you from the UK x
Hi Salli ~ I appreciate you watching, and the lovely comment ~ thank you! :) ione eve
WONDERED WHERE YOU WERE - HAVEN'T SEEN YOU FOR AWHILE....GOOD TO SEE YOU POSTING AGAIN
Hi Robin ~ thank you! I've been procrastinating about the lighting in my apartment. It's not really great for making videos, but now I'm like "what the heck" LOL!
Your so sweet I love you
Thank you, Yanna ~ I appreciate your kind words. :) ione eve
No problem
Hi Ione if your the one I asked about tdi and clear melt n pour yes it'll work but you have to keep stirring it cuz it will settle on the bottom but it did work my inbeds came out fine
Hi Michelle ~ I didn't receive your comment about using TD to color clear m&p soap base. Someone else is missing your advice. I hope you can recall who it is. :) ione
EvesGardenSoaps I did it's lady bug lanes I think her name is Marnie she told me to try it because I ran outta goat's milk soap and needed white and she told me to try it and it does work
I love ocean breeze scent it smells so clean and crisp
Hi Michelle ~ Thank you for watching my video and taking the time to leave a comment. I'm with you! I love the ocean breezy scents too. I had a winner with a blend I made from Asian Sandalwood and Ocean fragrances from Peak Candle. Now, they are out of business and I'm trying other blends. I haven't settled on one yet, LOL! I did get an interesting sample from Oregon Trails called Mediterraean Sea Salt. I'll be trying it soon! :) ione eve
I think your unplanned for green chunks "made" your bars - They're gorgeous!
Thank You for sharing and teaching me.
One day I hope to challenge myself on this specific bar by you.
Thank you for watching my video and your thoughtful compliment. I appreciate it very much! Have fun making your salt bars. They are a wonderful product. The next challenge for myself is making Dead Sea mud soap. When I get a nice result, I'm hoping to make a video of that too. Fingers crossed, LOL! :) ione eve
Hello Eve, Your colors are beautiful. What do you mix your colors with before adding to your batter? Thanks
Hi Carol, Thank you for watching my video and you lovely compliment. To answer your question, I mix powdered mineral colorants with extra light olive oil before adding to the soap. I hope this helps and happy soaping! :) ione
I'm a new subbie, but I love, love, love your videos! So informative and very relaxing to watch. Your voice is easy to listen to as is the music. Thank you for sharing with us. :)
Thank you for the sweet compliments. I appreciate it very much. Hearing from nice people, like you, is what makes doing these videos worthwhile! :) ione eve
Love your tutorial’s ! The music is wonderful, too! Soap turned out lovely!
Hi Cj ~ I'm happy you enjoyed the video. Thank you for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment! :) ione
Love your colors! Your soaps are all so beautiful 💕
Thank you, Katherine ~ what a sweet thing to say! :) ione eve
Such beautiful soap. Love the music, also.
Thank you for watching and the lovely comment, Cheryl. I appreciate it very much. :) ione eve
Beautiful! I love the blue color. I looks awesome and I do wish RUclips would hurry up and find a way to get smell-a-vision! lol... Have an great day! Hugs~ Donna
LOL! "smell-a-vision" ~ that would be great. Thank you for the gracious comment, Donna. I appreciate you watching my videos. :) ione eve
Lovely video you made me LOL when the misbehaved color was the easiest to pour
Hi Manny ~ thanks for watching and the nice comment. You just never know what soap is going to do. I guess that's what makes it so much fun, LOL! :) ione eve
Thank you for your lovely videos, I enjoy them so much! And the aqua soap is adorable! ❤️ Greetings from Black Forrest, South Germany 💦🧼
Hi Silke ~ Thank you for watching my videos and for taking the time to write such a thoughtful comment. Your kind words put a big smile on my face! :) ione
Where do you purchase your colorants from?
Thank you for watching my video! I buy cosmetic-grade powdered minerals from Brambleberry.com and mix them with extra-light olive oil before using. I hope this helps and happy soaping! :) ione eve
Nurture soap is the best I have found.
@Hen Sitter do you’ve an answer? I’m wondering the same thing 😤
Wonderful! Love the design and colors💛
Thank you Shinno ~ I appreciate you watching and the sweet comment. :) ione eve
Beautiful as always, Ione! I love the globules of green throughout the blue. It reminds me of small pieces of kelp floating in the water. Thank you for sharing, even though I'm a few months behind on watching vids. ;)
Hi Rebecca ~ thank you for watching and the thoughtful comment. I'm the same way when it comes to watching videos. I get too busy for a while, and then binge, LOL! :) ione eve
did you mix the sea salt into the oils before you added the lye?
Hi Missy ~ Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, the sea salt is the last thing that goes in before putting soap in the mold. Happy soaping! :) ione
I love all your soaps.....they are so beautiful. Do you buy your colorants that way or premix them?
Hi Deborah ~ thank you for watching and the sweet compliment. I get cosmetic minerals (powdered) and pre-mix them with extra light olive oil. :) ione eve
Gorgeous colors! The soap turned out so beautiful! 😍😘😉 xoxo
Hi Susan ~ thank you very much for the lovely compliments! :) ione eve
were do you get your bottles for your micas? do they come that way or do you mix them yourself and put the mica and oil in the bottles??? this soap is sooooo pretty...great job..
Thank you, my sister and I were wondering where you got the bottles. I just started watching your videos and all your soaps are beautiful.
Hello MaeMarie ~ thank you for watching my videos and the lovely compliment. To answer your question, I use little bottles that I get at Dollar Tree. They come with glitter glue in them, 3 to a package. I empty the glitter glue and wash the bottles. It's easy since the glue is water soluble. 3 bottles for $1 is not a bad deal, eh? LOL! :) ione eve
Hi Donna ~ To answer your question, the colors I use are powdered, cosmetic-grade minerals from Brambleberry. I mix them with extra-light olive oil. The oxides and colorants shake-up well. They are the ones in the little squirt bottles, and the ratio is 1 part color to 5 parts oil. I mix the colors with a frothier before putting in the squirt bottles.
Mica doesn’t shake-up very good, so I put them in little containers, and stir. The ratio for mica is 1 part color to 2 parts oil. I reduce the amount of liquid oil in the recipe according to what I expect to add when coloring, usually around half an ounce.
Ione, thanks for sharing this! I know this is a older video, but I bet you couldn't get that colorant in its lid again if you tried! Plus now you know what fragrance to use for salt bars. I wonder if there is something to that? Hum. Maybe misbehaving fragrances when mixed with the salt work better. That would be interesting to try some different ones that are trouble makers! They looked great!
Hi Jamie ~ It has been a while since I made these salt bars. In fact, I need to watch this video again to refresh what changes to make in the next batch. I got some Himalayan pink sea salt I'm going to use. I'm still pondering what fragrance might be good since I want to retain a spa-like essence. Scratching head . . .
Ione, I don't think you really said what was fragranced with what, but whatever that blue one was seemed to slow down trace and work better and the green one was naughty! Lol so I would stay away from it if you remember what it was. Good luck.
does the pearlyness survive the soap making process ?
Hi Anastasia ~ Thank you for watching my video! I used Neon Blue Raspberry colorant from Brambleberry for the aqua color in this soap. The sheen from using mica as well shows a little in the finished product. :) ione
They are lovely Ione! I made an hp (dont know what possesed me to hp) salt batch...the minute I lifted the lid it went rock solid on me! I have an ice cream pail of wonderfully scented grit now lol. I don't suppose you'd have any ideas on how to use it? Feels awesome, but pretty useless in the state it's in :(
Hi Camille ~ Thank you for the nice compliment. Sorry to hear what happened with your salt bars. I tried rebatching some one time. I'll never do it again. I ended up making a little new soap and mashing the salt bar crumbles into it ~ molded and cut. The resulting soaps were scratchy to use. In your position, I would put the "grit" into jars and use a couple tablespoons for a salt-bath ~ great for relaxing, aroma therapy and sluffing off dead skin cells. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. :) ione eve
EvesGardenSoaps Good idea! So glad you told me about your attempt at rebatching....will NOT try that lol. Thanks Ione :)
You're welcome. I like to use what doesn't turn out right for something. It's such a waste otherwise, and our soap ingredients are not cheap, LOL!
Hi Ione!! I really think you make soap nicely
You are so sweet, Poppy! Thank you for the lovely comment. :) ione eve
wow!!! thank you so much...gotta love the dollar store:))) your so smart and incredibly creative.
You are very welcome, Donna. About the Dollar Store, what's the old saying? Necessity is the mother of invention. LOL! Have a wonderful day. :) ione eve
What effect will fractionated coconut oil have please?
Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, coconut oil in soap produces a rich lather, the top reason for using it. Also, coconut oil has many benefits for skin. You can research online to find all of those. In soap, the standard measurement for coconut oil is 20% of the oil in the recipe. With that comes a 5% superfat calculation, which means 5% of the oils are not turned into soap. Unfortunately, without this calculation coconut oil, after saponification, is drying to skin. So, it's important this superfat oil remains in the soap for moisturizing skin. A balanced recipe will include many oils that nurture and moisturize skin, because any selection of oils can become the superfat.
For the salt bars, 75% of the oil is coconut, so the superfat % is much higher. I do a 20% calculation. In this case, it's most likely the superfat will be coconut oil, but I also use other skin nutrient-rich oils in my recipe. The main reason for using salt bars is a weekly or monthly regime of removing dead skin cells. I want these salt bars leaving skin baby-soft and healthy. I hope this information helps, and happy soaping! :) ione
@@EvesGardenSoaps Thanks for your quick response and for taking the time as you have. I think I should have been clearer in my question as I wanted to know how the (softer) fractionated coconut oil might differ from the non-fractionated type (that gets hard). Will the results be comparable?
@@Skylightatdusk LOL! Sorry for misunderstanding your question. I've never used liquid coconut oil for making soap, so don't know what properties would manifest. One reason I use coconut oil is because it is hard and helps with making soap that way. If replacing a portion of the hard oils with liquid, the result will most likely be a soft soap. If you find out the answer, I would love to know too! The rest of this writing is FYI or me, babbling about soap making. ;)
Several years ago I experimented, making several batches of soap using just 1 oil in each. I wanted to see what kind of soap each oil would make. 4 of them were done with liquid oils, olive, soybean, canola and grape seed. Only the canola oil made a hard, long lasting bar. The olive oil (Castile) initially was hard, but when water was introduced it turned mushy, even after a 6 month cure time. The grape seed oil didn't even get hard, but had the consistency of Vaseline. The soybean oil made a soft soap that didn't last long.
Now, to ensure a hard bar I use a 50/50 ratio of hard/liquid oils in my recipes. Sometimes even a 60/40 ratio. It's much harder finding good hard oils to use than liquid ones.
@@EvesGardenSoaps Thanks again for the response. My reasoning is that, the fact that salt makes soap much harder than otherwise might mean that it does not matter if the coconut oil is fractionated. ... When going through your experiment, I wondered whether it would have been possible to make the hardness of the 100% olive oil soap consistent by adding a small amount of salt, about 1 tsp per lb, to the batter just before pouring.
On a slightly different note, I wish I could figure whether fractionated c'oil has transfats or not. I am also confused re whether it is the same thing as hydrogenated c'oil. Would be happy for clarification on this point. I say this because I might not want to use fractionated oil if it has trans fats.
My interest in fractionated oil is the fact that it is often considerably cheaper than the virgin or other non-fractionated oil (which can be prohibitively expensive in some places).
Happy for your thoughts.
@@Skylightatdusk In researching the main differences (apart from hard vs liquid form) the fractionation process removes lauric acid and chained fatty acids, both considered nutrients in coconut oil. I asked my daughter, who is a microbiologist, your questions and she says fractionated and hydrogenated are 2 different processes. All oils contain natural trans fats. Whether the fractionation process adds more trans fats is a question for the manufacturer.
I do use sea salt as a hardener in my soap recipes. I've found that adding more than 1 teasp. to a 5 lb. batch of soap (3.75 lbs oils) results in grainy soap, even when the salt is completely dissolved before adding. The saponification process uses all the salt needed to turn the oil into soap, then hardens the rest into grains. Remember that sodium hydroxide is salt too. It may be possible to use sodium lactate for a harder bar, but it can cause crumbly soap if too much is used.
In my first olive oil experiment, the set up soap was extremely hard, even a bit crumbly at the edges. I didn't use any extra salt in the experiment. I was very impressed with how nice it was until I used it. The outside 1/8 inch (sometimes more) would turn to mush and stay that way, sort of like soap that sat in a dish of water. It never hardened again. When I found out that Castile soap took 6 months to cure, I figured that was the problem. I only cured it 6 weeks. So, I tried the experiment again with a 6 month cure time, but unfortunately got the same results. :(
Hi, do you pre-mix your colours or do they come already mixed? Thanks x
Hi Deborah ~ I appreciate you watching my video! The colors in the little squirt bottles are pre-mixed with extra light olive oil. If you want more details let me know. :) ione
EvesGardenSoaps I would like to know where to get/how to pre mix in the little squirt bottles I’ve just been buying mica powder packets...new soap maker here!
do your salt bars sweat? and if so what do you use to prevent them from sweating?
Hi Ettenio ~ I've never had salt bars sweat. The only time I've had any soaps sweat was during warm and rainy outdoor markets. I don't do those anymore. Since weather conditions seem to play a big part, I would say keep soap bars in a cool dry place. In hot and humid parts of the country this may entail creating a special area with environment controls like air conditioning, fan and dehumidifier. Hope this give you some ideas! :) ione eve
+EvesGardenSoaps thank you Eve! your advise surely did help!
You are very welcome. Happy soaping! :)
Ettenio Jamaica
They are nice. You lost the ocean blue color in the mix. I thought that would have been a beautiful touch in this soap but you were right, the green did take center stage. I like them. 😊
Hi Maple ~ thank you for watching and the nice comment. I was a little disappointed the blue didn't come through too. Next time I will use a fragrance that doesn't accellerate trace, LOL! :) ione eve
Hello. Could you please give quantities and fragrance info ??
Hi Amanda ~ Thank you for watching my video. I appreciate it very much.
I always appreciate hearing from soap making enthusiasts. I don’t think of myself as an instructor, but do enjoy sharing design ideas and little tips. Recipe development is a big part of becoming a good soap maker, and each person is expected to do their own work. Even the design should be something a little different from mine.
For help with creating a salt bar, I recommend Cathy McGinnis of Soaping 101 and Anne Marie of Soap Queen TV. They both have wonderful soap making tutorials and recipes. I’ll leave links for you along with best wishes for having fun making a wonderful soap!
www.soapqueen.com/
www.soaping101.com/
Awesome video!
Thank you, Ettenio ~ I appreciate you watching! :) ione eve
so was that just regular salt with iodine?
Hi Doreen ~ Salt bars require sea salt, not regular table salt. I always use finely ground sea salt, I think it makes a much nicer soap than coarse ground. I'm getting ready to make some new ones using Himalayan Sea Salt that is a peach color. Can't wait! :) ione eve
Ok thank you. I need to read more about it and watch more videos on how to add it because I'm a beginner still!
how much do your bars weigh?
Thank you for watching my video! To answer your question, these salt bars weighed 6.5 ounces. I just got a new fragrance called Mediterranean Sea Salt and hope to make some more using it this time. Happy soaping! :) ione eve
I loved the video as usual. However, I have made salt bars and I don't know what good they are. They were pretty, tho not as pretty as yours, but I don't understand the salt part. I get they are very hard bars, but??
Hi Shelby ~ thank you for watching my video and the lovely comment. Salt bars are great for removing dead skin cells. Sea salt is the best exfoliate, but isn't ebrasive. It leaves skin feeling baby soft. I use a salt bar once a week and love it. :) ione eve
This helped my TREMENDOUSLY!!!!!
Lovely
Thank you for watching and the sweet comment. :) ione eve
am dear may I know as to how much do you charge if we directly order from you please let me know as soon as you get this mail thank you dear
Hello Pooja Rai ~ thank you for watching my video. Unfortunately these salt bars are all sold. I will be making some similar ones, but don't know when. You can visit my website, where soaps I have available and prices are listed. If you live outside the United States, I would need to research the shipping cost, so contact me from the website. Thank you for your interest and I'll leave a link to my Online Store. :) ione eve
www.evesgardenhandmadesoaps.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
thx dear for replying as i wouĺd love to buy your soaps in the coming week
So impatient, but that's how i am when i am super excited.
LOL! I can relate ~ I'm very impatient too. Thank you for watching, Sarah.:) ione eve
I'm thinking of buying ROCK CANDY from your website
you should add a lot of glitter
Hi Kayla, thanks for watching and the suggestion. I thought about that, but since I have male customers that like salt bars too, I decided not to. :) ione eve
You sound so dang sweet, I love watching you.
What a kind thing to say! I appreciate you watching my video and the thoughtful comment. Thank you, Missyka! :) ione