Doing it right now, so I'll be adding to the post as I go...
Liquid Soap Recipe:
Olive oil - 350 g
Safflower Oil - 170 g
Coconut Oil - 115 g
Castor Oil - 170 g
Palm Oil - 50 g
KOH - 181 g (+8% excess)
Distilled Water - 543 g
Step 1: Make the lye solution
Mix KOH with water. I set my under the vent-a-hood so it sucks up the fumes.
Step 2: Measure out your oils. I go ahead a measure out everything- solid + liquid - and melt all in the microwave until melted. I want to heat everything up...I find it helps trace faster.
Step 3: Add your lye solution to your melted oil.
Step 4: Stick blend the heck out of it. I started stick blending at 5:00 pm and was done at 5:20. So it took about 20 minutes. Sometimes it seems to take longer although I didn't go to that thick of a trace.
And I'm done.
Trace is tricky in liquid soap. Depending on your oils, initial water and so on...you'll have different results. I'm happy with this trace. It's similar to a CP type of trace...like thick pudding. You'll read some tutorials and watch some youTube videos that tell you to go alot further and get a much thicker trace. As long as this doesn't seperate...I'm happy. So pour it into your pot...turn your crockpot on high and set to cook. Be sure to put your lid on...you don't want alot of water to evaporate out. (5:20 pm)
WARNING: For the first 30 minutes you really want to stick close and make sure of two things:
1. It doesn't seperate
2. It doesn't rise up out of the pot (which happens quite often!)
If it does seperate at any point simply stick blend it back together. If it rises up...stir like crazy until it goes back down.
So after 30 minutes of cooking on high...here is what I have. (5:50 pm) So separation and no rising. We're doing good. You can see it start to gel a bit on the sides. It will usually start turning over and turning to a gel.
So we've been cooking for 30 minutes and all looks good. You can stir it or not...I usually don't. I'm going to check on it in 30 minutes and that's when I'll probably stir.
Okay...so it's been 30 minutes and here's how it looks now. (6:20 pm)
The pool of liquid you see in the middle is condensated water that has fallen off of the inside of the lid onto the soap. It's not oil. Go ahead and give it a good stir. Now it looks like this....
It's been thirty more minutes. (6:50 pm)
Go ahead and give it another stir. It should be thickening up quite a bit. You might end up doing more glopping, smooshing and folding than stirring...do the best you can.
Then we have this. Keep cooking.
To be continued...
Liquid Soap Recipe:
Olive oil - 350 g
Safflower Oil - 170 g
Coconut Oil - 115 g
Castor Oil - 170 g
Palm Oil - 50 g
KOH - 181 g (+8% excess)
Distilled Water - 543 g
Step 1: Make the lye solution
Mix KOH with water. I set my under the vent-a-hood so it sucks up the fumes.
Step 2: Measure out your oils. I go ahead a measure out everything- solid + liquid - and melt all in the microwave until melted. I want to heat everything up...I find it helps trace faster.
Step 3: Add your lye solution to your melted oil.
Step 4: Stick blend the heck out of it. I started stick blending at 5:00 pm and was done at 5:20. So it took about 20 minutes. Sometimes it seems to take longer although I didn't go to that thick of a trace.
And I'm done.
Trace is tricky in liquid soap. Depending on your oils, initial water and so on...you'll have different results. I'm happy with this trace. It's similar to a CP type of trace...like thick pudding. You'll read some tutorials and watch some youTube videos that tell you to go alot further and get a much thicker trace. As long as this doesn't seperate...I'm happy. So pour it into your pot...turn your crockpot on high and set to cook. Be sure to put your lid on...you don't want alot of water to evaporate out. (5:20 pm)
WARNING: For the first 30 minutes you really want to stick close and make sure of two things:
1. It doesn't seperate
2. It doesn't rise up out of the pot (which happens quite often!)
If it does seperate at any point simply stick blend it back together. If it rises up...stir like crazy until it goes back down.
So after 30 minutes of cooking on high...here is what I have. (5:50 pm) So separation and no rising. We're doing good. You can see it start to gel a bit on the sides. It will usually start turning over and turning to a gel.
So we've been cooking for 30 minutes and all looks good. You can stir it or not...I usually don't. I'm going to check on it in 30 minutes and that's when I'll probably stir.
Okay...so it's been 30 minutes and here's how it looks now. (6:20 pm)
The pool of liquid you see in the middle is condensated water that has fallen off of the inside of the lid onto the soap. It's not oil. Go ahead and give it a good stir. Now it looks like this....
It's been thirty more minutes. (6:50 pm)
Go ahead and give it another stir. It should be thickening up quite a bit. You might end up doing more glopping, smooshing and folding than stirring...do the best you can.
Then we have this. Keep cooking.
To be continued...
