Making Soap in Appalachia
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Corie has been making the soap we use for years. Watch this video to see her process and learn more about why she makes it.
Here's the ingrediants she uses:
32 oz of cold water
32 oz palm oil
32 oz coconut oil
48 oz olive oil
15 oz lye
Makes 35 bars of average size soap
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We’re looking at a natural-borne teacher, folks! 💯 even though she’s trying to sort of hurry along, she speaks quickly, yet articulately and is very knowledgeable. Her mannerisms and syntax puts you at ease.
Thank you 😀 Hope you have a good week!
At 18:58, Corie: I can’t do anything today.” Corie, you are amazing. You’re so natural in front of the camera, so good-hearted, and you speak so articulately, I believe you could do on any given day about anything you set your mind to. Super interesting demonstration, young lady.
Thank you so much!!
"Appalachian Chemistry" Soap Making 101 Now we need to learn "Distillations".
😀 Thank you Richard!
Great job Corie! She’s a wonderful teacher and she’s a natural beauty!!
Thank you so much!
I’ve watched many demos on soap making, and by far, this was the most comprehensive one I’ve seen. Excellent job explaining this whole process, Corie! And many thanks for sharing! God love you.
Glad it was helpful!
I agree! This was so professional. Makes me want to make soap for the first time!
Don't "sloch" the lye, it'll "burn the tar out of you".
I love this channel. There is a difference between mountain folk and people from other rural regions.
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@@Marcel_Audubon yes, you are correct
Anyone else think Corie is the coolest? 🙂
She is for sure
I love her voice. I could sit listening to her yodeling heavy metal music and be happy for hours. 😁 She sounds so much like one of the old Carter family.
I don’t know if it’s an Appalachian saying, but she’s the cats meow. The whole family is actually. I need neighbors like this.
She could give Keira Knightly a run for her money!
I learn a lot from her
I've watched lots of RUclips videos regarding many different subjects. But, this has been the most informative by far! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for including us all as we Celebrate Appalachia.
Wow, thank you! Hope you. have a good week 😀
Corie is a sweetheart! I loved her show-and-tell, reminded me of my mother and her soap-making days when I was a child. I can't wait to see my momma again!
This was very informative and would love to see a video of the next step how you cut and store for the curing process! Great job👍
Thank you! I'll try to add the cutting and the curing to our next My Life in Appalachia video 😀
Your daughter did a spot on job, she should be proud! Watching her a few times a body wouldn't need to go to a class. Enjoyed the chat & demo thank you for sharing.....ATB
Wow, thank you!
Whatever guy gets cories hand in marriage is going to be the luckyest guy 👀😉🤷
She has a pretty nice beau 😀
I bet she can catch a chicken, too! 😃😄😃😄
Celebrating Appalachia , what is a beau? Grtz 🇳🇱
@@francoisdunord7169 Boyfriend.
@@francoisdunord7169 a boyfriend 😀
I never watched my grandmothers making soap, but I remember them telling me how they did it. They used a porcelain dishpan and a large porcelain soup pot. They even could make their own lye from wood ashes out of the stove. Both used tallow and bacon grease. We used it mostly in doing laundry so there were no fragrances added. I just remember how it would clean work overalls and get out stains. One grandpa was a mechanic and the other was a blacksmith. They both got pretty dirty. Thanks Corie for a great demonstration.
My
Grandma used to make all our soap,but she used the hot soap method. We used it for everything!:)
My Davis grandparents, from Southern Illinois, married in 1897. My daddy was the youngest of 6 children was born in 1918. They have been gone since 1960 and 1961…my daddy has been gone since 1996 so I don’t have anyone left to ask about some of the things I remember my grandparents doing when I was little like my Grandma Davis making soap in a huge cast iron kettle out in their back yard. Making soap is one of the “homemade” things that I have never done and I would like to try it. Well, now, come to think of it, my husband and I did make clothes washing soap last fall nut, I have not used it yet. There are just the two of us now so a jug of soap lasts us a good long while. That soap was just a bar of Fels-Naptha and a bar o Pfizer Zote Soap that are grated together with water added…I can’t even remember the recipe but it was very simple. I would like to try Corie’s soap. BTW, Corie, do you sell your soap?
Thats how my grandmother made soap,,,great video,,,I've never been in a Wal-Mart....
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
You can grate this kind of soap to use in the clothes washer. It will melt in hot water. It makes your whites VERY white and lye soap makes your clothes smell a special kind of clean. This was a lovely presentation, excellent. My grandmother made soap too. Her recipe is in our family cookbook. Thank you.
Thanks for the info!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Great video....great presentation! I'm going to try my first batch using Corie's video. Can you please give me the source for the two wooden molds? I'm getting the wire cutter from Bud's Workshop.....again, great informative video! God Bless you all!
@@stephenkearney6146 Glad you enjoyed it! She got them from Nurture Soap Molds.
My mother talked about using the wood stove ash to make to make soap.
Very awesome video. I’ve never made that kind of soap before. I really like Grampas Pine Tar Soap, when washing my face. I’ve used it for years. I bet your homemade soap is wonderful ❤️
Kat-thank you! I'll have to try that pine tar soap-never heard of that brand 😀
Hi, Kat in the North, this is Kathleen in New Hampshire, and I like Grampa"s Pine Tar Soap too! I use it to bathe my dogs and found it in their dog grooming case yesterday; they are in Heaven now, where they don't need a bath. I bought it in the health food store. Didn't Corie do a great job on this; she really is a natural teacher. She holds your attention.
@@kathleena.callahan8511 Thank you Kathleen, she sure did. I’ve never been brave enough to use lye. She did an awesome job with it. I used to order my Grandpas Pine Tree Soap from Lehman’s, and now here in Maine they have been selling it at our local Hannaford grocery store. Thank you for replying 🙂
This child needs to be a teacher!!! She’s soooo good at instructing!! You go cori!!!
I noticed this has already been said in some comments below, if she isn’t going to be a teacher, she should really think about it. She has a great way of communicating and calm presents. Great video! Thank you for sharing!
So nice to watch! You have the most lovely tone and accent to your voice, wanted to tell you that...Great job! I also took a class some years ago to make soap..I was hooked for a number of years, I made soap, gifted soap, sold a little soap and then stopped several years ago..Now, I am getting the itch again.. Soaping served as a mental therapy for me too, after my Mom passed..Our teacher had us all in the class to take turns hand stirring the soap batter till reaching trace..I believe she did her soaps all by hand, but once I discovered the stick blender, no more hand mixing for me, lol..She also had us do our own calculations of the SAP values for the recipes..Yikes, not good for a math challenged person like me! First time I tried my own recipe that way, I ruined a batch, something was off...I definitely think it is crucial especially for beginners to use a lye calculator online, I use soap calc.net which is fool proof..And a stick blender, like you said! One question, did that essential oil come through for that large batch? I tend to like stronger fragrances soap so I use about .7 oz per pond of oils or up to an ounce per pound depending...Would love to see the soap cut! Thanks for helping to inspire me to soap again! I plan on making a high olive recipe with some coconut and castor oil, with milk and maybe some honey, ground oats and some blend of Essential Oils...Take care and thanks again!!
So glad you enjoyed Corie's video! Thank you for sharing your soap making experiences. Corie's soaps aren't overly fragrant, more of a hint of the essential oil scent. Your ground oats plan sounds good 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thanks for your kind response! If Corie so desires, would love to see her make some more soap, in maybe a different recipes, additives, etc.
Allyson wants to see the final result!! She loved this video. As always, a great job Tipper (and Corie)!
Yay! Thank you! We'll try to show the cutting and the finished product in our next My Life in Appalachia video 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thanks, Tipper!
My grandmother made homemade dish soap in a large iron kettle. If l remember correctly she used lard that she couldn't use for cooking any longer. I do remember washing dishes with it.
Interesting!
Old folks made their soap from lard. My daughter uses lard in her soap. Restaurants sell their used oil to soap companies.
I Loved this video...I have always wanted to make soap but intimidated. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Super fascinating, Corie, thank you! We've only ever done the hot process and I'm keen to try this!
Born in the Appalachians of WV and raised in the mountains of northern California,....what's soap? 😂
Sustainable palm oil means....They deforest the rainforest to plant more palm trees. Sustainable means it's coming from trees that weren't the product of deforestation.
Thank you so much girls! You took the fear out of this for me!!!♥️ 👏🏼
This is so interesting!
Lye is alkaline and vinegar is acidic so vinegar will neutralize the lye depending on the PH Of the two
Does Cory make homemade shampoo and conditioner too. The store bought is so bad for your hair. I was hoping she knew of a homemade that is better for hair
She doesn't, but she does like to use Dr. Brommer's mixed with some oil 😀
This is a lot of fun! My husband and I made tallow soap (we got beef fat scraps from the butcher and rendered it) and then we made lye from our fireplace ashes. It wasn’t too pretty 😂 but it’s not drying so I love it! And the cost? It was free
I remember my mom and aunts making soap with lard and ashes to use in the washing machines. Smelled nasty when making it but got clothes really clean.
Very resourceful. The next wild pig we get I want to render the lard And make soap!
Sustainable palm oil means that it was harvested from an area that doesn't contribute to the deforestation of the rain forests. So many acres are cleared for monoculture palm trees for palm oil. If anyone does use palm oil, try to find a reputable sustainably harvested brand.
Always liked the goat milk with oatmeal or grits soap. Thanks for the video!
Well well my eyesight is great I read that as making soup lol!!
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Loved the video! Awesome job! My grandma made soap and I’m so thankful that you’re keeping the tradition alive.
I love the way she says "Tare" a lot of my family says it like that, but we are Ozark hill folk not the Appalachian hill folk... One of the things I love so much about this channel is a lot of the words you folks use we do too, some of them with little to no definition change
Yes - though I've noticed that folks from the east side of the mountains tend to have a somewhat softer accent. I'm a native East Tennessean and it seems that our high mountain accent is a fair bit sharper than what I hear from folks from NC or VA. We seem to have a lot of hard R's, and our accent sounds more akin to what I've heard when speaking to people from the highlands in Oklahoma or Missouri. Same words, just different stress on certain vowels, usually.
Got to love how varied branches of the same spoken language can become over time!
I remember hearing my mom and grandma talking about making soap. I enjoyed seeing this.
Thank you Jill 😀
That’s awesome!!! I am so tickled when people make their own body products!! I started making soap over 25 years ago, I’ve made all my own body products (including hair) for years!! Did you know the chemical composition of store bought soap is actually detergent? True story. 🤓
I love seeing the kids in your videos ❤️they are multi talented singing gardening making soap etc you’re blessed mom🙏🏾
Thank you so much Shawn 😀
Wonderful demonstration of soap making, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
You are so welcome!
For YEARS, I waited on temperatures to match, lye water, and heated fats....for YEARS! Now I add weighed, solid fats and hot lye water, whisk to melt, then EVOO, stir to trace, add goodies, and done...less than an hour....I learned from you that over incubation is not necessary, thanks everso!
Very good demo, Corie. I've made homemade soap using the hot method (in a heavy pot on stove top), and sometimes add one cup of uncooked oatmeal for every dozen regular size soap bars, for exfoliating purposes.
Oatmeal soap is so soothing for a person with Psoriasis!
That's a great idea!
I have to say that this is the most interesting how to video I’ve ever seen. She held my attention thru the whole video. She’s a good teacher. Thank you for sharing
First Time Watching. Ioved it. 😊
this was fun to watch never thought about where soap comes from
is there anything the girls can't do? I wouldn't be surprised if the next video was on how to rebuild a jet engine lol. Will Corie put any of the soap on Etsy for sale? I want to buy some.
Thomas-😀 contact Corie about the soap at thepressleygirls@gmail.com
I have never have made soap. I grew up hearing the old saying "uglier than homemade soap. My mama knew how to make lots of different soaps. Some were very strong for heavy cleaning, some were wonderful & mild. She made soap for us kids to use to help with acne. She'd use the same recipe & use fine ground corn meal for exfoliation. She made a stronger soap with a coarser ground corn meal for grimey, greasy hard working hands. I love jojoba oil. It works with the DNA in human skin. Bringing your skin to it's own pH level. Great for your hair too.
Do you sell your soap, I know you make it for your family, but I would really be interested in buying some.
Lucy-Corie used to sell it on Etsy. I'll see if she might put some in her shop again. You can also email her at thepressleygirls@gmail.com
Better living through organic chemistry 🤣. Thank you Corrie!!!
Corie,
Thanks for the lesson!
Great information. Super presentation!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this. Very through. On the scale its tear like in tear a rag, not "tar". Didn't change a thing. Thanks again.
Kori did an awesome job teaching. I’m sure your very proud of her! Blessings🙏🏻💖
Very nicely done Corie. Thanks for sharing. Have never used homemade soap.
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Is there anything your family can't do??!! So many talents. I really enjoyed watching the whole soap making process. Thank you to Corie for sharing her skill. Hope y'all have a blessed week. 💞
You are so kind! Hope your week is good to Mary!
Thank you for explaining in such detail how to make soap! I've always been afraid of trying because I thought it would be more expensive than it's worth. I'm extremely frugal. However, now I feel like I can do this & I will do this! I can't wait to try it! My whole family has super sensitive skin & this will really help! ❤🙏
Glad it was helpful!
@@CelebratingAppalachia my people are from Knox county btw... and we named our son Knox. We live on Mobile Bay, but usually we get up there at least once a year!❤ We love your channel!
That's wonderful she knows how to make soap!! I'd like to some day. She did a wonderful job!!👍👏 God bless y'all!
Very interesting and informative., enjoyed watching her video...
Excellent instructional video. I learned a lot. You make me miss home, I grew up in western NC way back at the end of a holler. Hope to see the cutting of the soap. Do you sell any or do mail order? I'm in TN now.
Thank you Sherry! Corie used to sell soap on Etsy. You can reach her at thepressleygirls@gmail.com
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank-you, I will later tonight...have a PT appt to go to now.
I’m believing my mother-in-law made lye soap using lard after hog killing time. Of course oil purchased is a lot better. Thanks for the demo.
Vinegar WILL neutralize LYE. Vinegar is an acid, Lye is basic. The problem is HOW MUCH of each. If the vinegar is only 5% it might take quite a bit. But start with that if the spill on your skin is small. FLUSH WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WATER. ALWAYS use the goggles you absolutely do not want the LYE in your eyes. You can look up on line what is called an MSDS a Material Safety Data Sheet for more information on lye or any other chemical you are using that concerns you (or should). Use lye in a well ventilated area as well. I used to have my high school students practice with these. They are and should be by law available in your work place and easily accessible. If they are not, STATE LAWS REQUIRE THEM, contact your state health department to get the place you work for to comply. My generation WORKED HARD to get those laws in place. PEOPLE DIED without that information in work places. PLEASE use the information, especially about cleaning products in fast food joints, box stores, MINES or any location where chemicals/solutions are poured out of a bottle.
You are off to a good start,
Ellen Ruth soap- check out her all natural fluid hot process soap with a swirl. My first soap experience was with my grandmother on Nealy Ridge, Va. when I was around 6 years old. She used to make soap to scrub the cloths with. And 67 years later I thought I would give it a try, but it’s nothing like the washtub sitting over the fire boiling. Good luck my soapy friend, you will do fine👍🌹
Corie, You explained the process perfectly. I've been making soap for years and I couldn't even begin to tell anyone the how to do it even half as well as you did. You are amazing.
Wow thank you Patty!
Thank you little sister for teaching me roots..
That is really interesting, I always wondered. Woo boy my skin is sensitive & I've had it with itchin! I'm going for really natural minimal ingredient EVERYTHING.
Good instructions! But no lavender! I'm a fruit/citrus person.....lavender gives me a headache!!
Remember granny from “Beverly Hillbillies” talk about “Lye” soap making by cement pond...
She awesome ! 👍🏼Such a grounded person and confident in all the right ways! 💁🏻☀️💕
Have you ever made goats milk soap?? I think i could make this kind of soap. Thank you for showing us.. God bless🇺🇸🌹❤️
Awesome Video! Corie, You did great! I remember myself Great Grandmaw making Lye Soap! I was around 5 yrs old so its been 62 years since I saw it made! Thank you God Bless. 🙏🙏❤❤
Have you tried making your soap with lye made from hardwood ashes?
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No Corie hasn't, but would love to learn the process. Have you? I wonder how hard it is to accomplish.
@@CelebratingAppalachia I was hoping you knew how. All I can remember is You run rain water thru hardwood ashes to get the lye. You can't use tap water with the chemicals added.It's ready to use when a chicken feather dunked in starts to disolve. My family made our soap when I was young.
What are you talking about young Lady? To me, you are the Professional.
From Appalachia, with Love.
I found your video very informative very helpful and I enjoyed it. Thank you so much for making it.
You did great sweety !... I have been making soap for years and I love it... the most fun is cutting it...I have 20 different soaps 🧼 being used in the bathroom, lol.. my grand daughter love trying out all my soaps .different colors different shapes..all have to be tried..happy shaping everyone..and thank you for sharing your recipe..
I wonder. Remember how your Ma did the puple violet remedy for tea? Could we use that purple water for the water in your recipe to get purple soap?
What a great idea! I'll have to ask Corie to try it 😀
Your soap making process is very Informative
and Interesting.
I like how You add the essential oils.
I Enjoyed Your Video.😊
I buy my essential oils from Mountain Rose Herbs. All their oils are made by them, from organic plants. A little more expensive yes, but I like they’re made from “organic” plant materials. 😍
Fantastic and thank u honey for showing us how to make Soap. I had never seen how to make Soap. U did a Wonderful Job!!!!!!!!
I have vague memories of my granny, great-grandmother and great aunt making soap. They did it outdoors as well. I was a wee child then and don't remember much about the process. We lived near Edmonton, Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 at that time.
Thank y’all for a great video! I just made my first purchase of lye 😊I can’t wait to make some soap. I’ve been wanting to for a while!
Thankyou for the video..alot of soaps I am allergic to and I have to buy old fashioned soap to wash with..I will definitely try this out!!!👍👍🙏🙏✝️✝️
I love this lifestyle. You guys are great! Thanks for all the videos. Keep makin cool homemade items and being creative. ❤
You can hear the Appalachian accent where she pronounces the zeroing of the scale "Tare"! ("Hit the Tar button" @ 9:35) Brings back great memories!
I too have been making soap since maybe 1997? Stone age.... Any way, I do about the same thing except I weigh out everything. I don't mix volume with weight. My dad was a chemist and he got that under my noggin. I also , because I keep bees and have a lots of wax, add that to the soap. But I heat the olive oil so it melts and mixes in the bees wax. Maybe 10% maximum by weight of all the oil combined. And because I use weight I use ice to add the lye to. The ice melts as the reaction occurs but it doesn't get as hot. I love how you use a stick mixer! I will do that. I use a standing mixer and it takes for ever. I made a recipe with dried lavender flowers added at trace. I decided it added an extra scrubbing 'thing". Who knows.... It was just fun to tell my wife that it had them in it. Like you I started soap making because I couldn't find a soap that didn't take my skin clear off. And maybe because my dad being a chemist, it was a family nod to him. He got me interested in the science of everything. I'm glad you found sustainable palm oil. The horror on the orangutans was too much for me to bear. So I stopped using it. But maybe I'll start again. Thank you!!
This is so cool !!! I have always wanted to make my own soap but just haven't ever gotten around to it due to time constraints (24/7 caregiver) Anytime I go out of town and we happen to visit speciality shops I always pick up a bar of soap 😊
I remember my grandma making Lye soap in her cast iron wash pot. Wonderful memories!
So articulate! Joy to listen too! Great job! I’ve considered making my own so I appreciated learning. Patty
Hey just FYI! Vinegar (acetic acid/ethanoic acid) is a weak acid which may help to prevent itches by reacting to form sodium ethanoate and water. This is a weak reaction though, and the equilibrium will quickly revert the reaction back to the separate acetic acid and sodium hydroxide, which is why it's best to wash the area with water and dilute the solution and prevent reaction entirely. :)
What! Aren't you going to call it Bigfoot Bubble Bars? LOL! Wonderful presentation. Thank You.
Vinegar - it’s absolutely scientific. Vinegar (dilute acetic acid), like any acid, will neutralize any alkaline solution (sodium hydroxide solution is basically the most alkaline substance).
Funny, I just talked about making soap with someone a few days ago. After watching this I feel a little more courageous and might try! Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you for being so detailed about making soap. I am going to make some but I didn’t know about using the blender and pot for other stuff and you are the only one who has said not to use them for anything else due to the lye cross contamination! Thank you, thank you.m8 can5 wait 5o make my first batch. Hugs and love from Texas!
I am a professional Soap maker 😀 vinegar does neutralize the lye because it is acidic, where lye is basic. The pH of each will neutralize the other. But if you get lye in your skin you should rinse with water, then vinegar, then water again because straight vinegar can burn you too since it is an acid. Just FYI!
since you have made both types of soap using the heat method and the cold method, do you see any difference in the finished product? When I made soap years ago, I used the heat method, because I was following instructions from the old ways of making lye soap. Even to the point of using pork lard as my fat. The lye I got at the grocery store in the drain cleaner section. It was the red devil lye brand, because it was 100% lye. I don't think you can even buy pure lye in the grocery now. I have not seen red devil lye in many years. Anyway, I was just wondering if you could tell a difference in these two methods of making soap. I know the soap I used to make with heat, would last a long time. Longer than store bought soap.
Your so sweet with explaining the process. I make soap to for the same reason as you, its a beautiful soap for your skin with lovey oils. I think your soap molds are super cool, where did you get them and what size? I'd like to get a couple, I've been using the ice cube box things for the freezer and they're ok but a pain to line them. I love you and your sister's channel and your mom's too ❤️
You did a great job of explaining how to make soap. Makes me want to try. However, I probably won't.
I was privileged once many years ago to watch Ma Bailey make homemade soap. Chi didn't use the wood ashes leegwater threat to Mike Kerr lie she did you store about lie. But she used the fat saved from cooking in the kitchen. I saved a bar of this for many years but before a move, I threw it away because I was afraid somebody might think it was dope and not soap.
Excellent class. Exe military and tech Institute instructor rules: teach to the level of the class and K.I.S.S - keep it simple stupid. Very well done.
Definitely going to try this! First introduction to natural soap was from "Dr.Squatch" as a gift. But at almost $10 a bar it's not worth it so I'll make my own!