Dumb Dumb Moments: Zany's Faux Seawater Recipe

[Zany_in_CO]

I fill a quart jar with distilled water and heat it in the microwave until it's boiling hot, then stir in both the sea salt (or canning/pickling salt) and baking soda.

Actually, it's better to add the salt and baking soda to cold water, and give it a good stir, before nuking.

I reheat it in the microwave again until it goes clear.

Yes! If it's cloudy or yellowish, I nuke it for 20 seconds more, stir, let it settle, and it clears right up. This is just me, but I make 32 oz. at a time and store it in the fridge until I need it. I use it for some other soaps as well, if and when the mood strikes me.

It's a good thing.

 

[AliOop]

I reheat it in the microwave again until it goes clear. Add kid, cool on the counter until room temp, then refrigerate

please explain!!

 

[KiwiMoose]

please explain!!

Haha - isn't it @cmzaha that says "no kids in the soaping area"?

 

[Servant4Christ]

Actually, it's better to add the salt and baking soda to cold water, and give it a good stir, before nuking.

Yes! If it's cloudy or yellowish, I nuke it for 20 seconds more, stir, let it settle, and it clears right up. This is just me, but I make 32 oz. at a time and store it in the fridge until I need it. I use it for some other soaps as well, if and when the mood strikes me.

It's a good thing.

Unbelievable! I mixed up my process for dissolving borax for Earlene's blacksmith soap. Seems I've got mechanic soap on the brain.
I went back and updated this.

please explain!!

Autocorrect.
I went back and corrected this, too!

 

[AliOop]

I fill a quart jar with distilled water and heat it in the microwave until it's boiling hot, then stir in both the sea salt (or canning/pickling salt) and baking soda. If the solution is still cloudy after it starts cooling down, I reheat it in the microwave again until it goes clear. Add lid, cool on the counter until room temp, then refrigerate.

UPDATE: Please disregard my above post. I mixed up my process for dissolving borax in water fir Earlene's blacksmith soap! For faux sea water, I add both the salt and baking soda to room temp distilled water in a quart jar and heat in microwave until boiling point, stir, and allow to cool on the counter. I reheat if it's not dissolved and totally clear and then store in the fridge.

It really doesn't matter whether you add those ingredients to cold water which is then heated, or to preheated water. They will dissolve either way.

 

[CLMP]

So I got the stuff to make the fake sea water but I for got to ask what Olive Oil should I use right now all I have is Extra Virgin Olive Oil will that work nice? Also wondering what the SB stands for in the recipe. Something about blending it. Also wondering if I should make this a natural soap or should I add color and Fragrance or should I use Essential oil and clay. I have bentonite clay would this color my soap pink? Many Questions lol. Sorry lol. What would everybody like to see me try? @Zany_in_CO and @AliOop I would of liked to order some dead Sea clay to try it but I don't have the patience to wait till it gets here lol so I'm going to use what I have already.

 

[AliOop]

EVOO is fine to use; I normally don't due to cost, and also because it usually has a greenish tinge to it.

SB = stickblending

You can add FO, EO, clays, colors - whatever you like! I tend not to use bentonite in soap because it is so absorbent that it sucks up a lot of the batch water.

My good friend's favorite soap is ZNSB:
80% OO
20% CO or PKO or blend. Sometimes I use 5% castor and reduce the CO/PKO.
1 Tbsp PPO goat milk powder
1% oil weight sorbitol (sugar is fine) dissolved in the faux sea water before adding lye.

Good luck, have fun!

 

[CLMP]

EVOO is fine to use; I normally don't due to cost, and also because it usually has a greenish tinge to it.

SB = stickblending

You can add FO, EO, clays, colors - whatever you like! I tend not to use bentonite in soap because it is so absorbent that it sucks up a lot of the batch water.

My good friend's favorite soap is ZNSB:
80% OO
20% CO or PKO or blend. Sometimes I use 5% castor and reduce the CO/PKO.
1 Tbsp PPO goat milk powder
1% oil weight sorbitol (sugar is fine) dissolved in the faux sea water before adding lye.

Good luck, have fun!

SB lol sticking blending ha ha I should have thought of that

 

[CLMP]

EVOO is fine to use; I normally don't due to cost, and also because it usually has a greenish tinge to it.

SB = stickblending

You can add FO, EO, clays, colors - whatever you like! I tend not to use bentonite in soap because it is so absorbent that it sucks up a lot of the batch water.

My good friend's favorite soap is ZNSB:
80% OO
20% CO or PKO or blend. Sometimes I use 5% castor and reduce the CO/PKO.
1 Tbsp PPO goat milk powder
1% oil weight sorbitol (sugar is fine) dissolved in the faux sea water before adding lye.

Good luck, have fun!

Thanks so much for the info I will skip the bentonite clay maybe I will use my kaolin clay I will think about it.

 

[AliOop]

Yes, kaolin clay would be quite nice in that recipe!

 

[Servant4Christ]

I make this recipe with 80 olive, 15 coconut, and 5 castor. No scent or colorants, just plain, and it is the only soap I have found that I can use on my super sensitive face. It is lovely and snow white. I plan to add goat milk and raw honey to my next batch to try.

 

[Georgeandstella]

I make this recipe with 80 olive, 15 coconut, and 5 castor. No scent or colorants, just plain, and it is the only soap I have found that I can use on my super sensitive face. It is lovely and snow white. I plan to add goat milk and raw honey to my next batch to try.

Hello, is that light olive oil to result in a snow white bar, or any olive oil? Thank you

 

[CLMP]

I make this recipe with 80 olive, 15 coconut, and 5 castor. No scent or colorants, just plain, and it is the only soap I have found that I can use on my super sensitive face. It is lovely and snow white. I plan to add goat milk and raw honey to my next batch to try.

Oh I can't wait to try it. My face is pretty sensitive to ever since I've had rosacea everything makes my face brake out. When I put Licorice root and Aloe Vera on my face it clears up so I made a soap with licorice root and Aloe Vera I was so excited too try it and when I did my face broke out really bad so it was a bummer for me. But it works good for my son's adolescent acne Lol. Someday I'm going to learn how to make lotion so I can try the Aloe Vera and licorice root in it. But for now I'm hoping this soap will be nice and mild for my face. I might make it today I made the faux sea water last night. I will let everyone know how it goes. And thank you so much @BirchandTallow for making this link and @Zany_in_CO for lending this recipe to us I going to go plan my soap now lol

 

[Servant4Christ]

Hello, is that light olive oil to result in a snow white bar, or any olive oil? Thank you

I usually use the golden colored regular olive oil from the grocery store, but the light olive works, too. I'll be making more tonight or tomorrow. I think the faux seawater is the reason it turns so beautifully white. I won't have any goats milk until after the fourth, so that batch (which obviously won't be white due to the sugars) will have to wait.

 

[Servant4Christ]

Oh I can't wait to try it. My face is pretty sensitive to ever since I've had rosacea everything makes my face brake out. When I put Licorice root and Aloe Vera on my face it clears up so I made a soap with licorice root and Aloe Vera I was so excited too try it and when I did my face broke out really bad so it was a bummer for me. But it works good for my son's adolescent acne Lol. Someday I'm going to learn how to make lotion so I can try the Aloe Vera and licorice root in it. But for now I'm hoping this soap will be nice and mild for my face. I might make it today I made the faux sea water last night. I will let everyone know how it goes. And thank you so much @BirchandTallow for making this link and @Zany_in_CO for lending this recipe to us I going to go plan my soap now lol

You may want to start with only 10% coconut. I cannot wash my face every day with this at 15% coconut or my face gets too dry. No break outs or allergic reaction like with colorants, scent, or excess oil (superfat), though. I've learned that when it comes to my face, less is better.

 

[Georgeandstella]

I usually use the golden colored regular olive oil from the grocery store, but the light olive works, too. I'll be making more tonight or tomorrow. I think the faux seawater is the reason it turns so beautifully white. I won't have any goats milk until after the fourth, so that batch (which obviously won't be white due to the sugars) will have to wait.

 

[Georgeandstella]

Thank you so much!

 

[CLMP]

You may want to start with only 10% coconut. I cannot wash my face every day with this at 15% coconut or my face gets too dry. No break outs or allergic reaction like with colorants, scent, or excess oil (superfat), though. I've learned that when it comes to my face, less is better.

Thanks I was just about to start measuring my Oils I'm going to try that 10% coconut oil and also the 5% caster oil. I was thinking of putting some peppermint EO with a little bit of pink or green because I don't have any clays for coloring my soap yet. Well I'm going to go measure now.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

You may want to start with only 10% coconut. I cannot wash my face every day with this at 15% coconut or my face gets too dry. No break outs or allergic reaction like with colorants, scent, or excess oil (superfat), though. I've learned that when it comes to my face, less is better.

I really like the recipe with 10% coconut and 5% castor and so do a lot of my friends.

 

[CLMP]

Well it's 11 o'clock at night I have had along day because every time I went to measure out my ingredients someone came over Or I had to run over to my son's school to fix his schedule for next year today was the last day of school so I had to go. Anyways I have everything ready and measured out to start soaping and now my lye will not dissolve into the faux sea water I don't understand what's happening. The other problem I have never thought of is how will I dispose of this lye now we have a septic tank and we aren't supposed to put lye down the drain what should I do? Oh I was so excited this morning to make this soap and now I feel tired and bummed right out we only have one kinda lye intown the kind that is in pebbles. So I don't know if buying a new batch of lye will help. Well I will have to figure this out tomorrow. Could mixing my lye to slow with really small amounts of lye at a time to cut back on fumes be the problem I usually do this but never had a problem before.