Questions about a video I found for tranparent soap

[gutreactor]

I'm a new, new newbie. Never made soap. This is the easiest recipe I've seen. Looks like a good recipe for a first attempt so I think I can do this.
This is where I'm unclear.
It what order do you put in the ingredients in the lye, water & glycerin mixture?
Do I wait for it to cool to a certain temperature before adding it to the bowl?
What exactly is cocos? I know there are different kinds of coconut for soap.
I would really appreaciate any tips from experienced soapmakers too.
Thank you

 

[squidstings]

Isn't this a Melt and pour base? Maybe better for melt and pour community.

I haven't attempted making one, yet. However... I have a couple issues with the video.

Last I heard, chemically, water could only hold sugar at 1:1. Especially "without cook" Recipe calls for twice as much sugar to water and achieves clear, colourless and nothing like a saturated sugar syrup.

Spraying a few squirts of alcohol, then suddenly a pourable liquid of roughly the same volume as the solid to pour in molds?!? At best, this recipe is not as simple as the video makes it look. But that's a click bait edit.

There's some great info on youtube if you're good at connecting the dots, but a lot of click bait. And youtube doesn't care about sending them $$ for your views.

 

[bookworm42]

If you're looking for an easy recipe you can definitely try melt and pour. You can buy it at just about and craft store or off of Amazon. It's easy just cut up, melt down, add fragrance or color as desired, pour into molds and let cool. Then you have soap.

Any other method is going to require NaOH and oils. Recipes for that are boundless and YouTube has some great videos to help. I recommend bramble berry, Elly's everyday soapmaking, and royalty soaps. There are more but these are great starter channels. Jus remember to take everything with a grain of salt and do your own research.