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.

 

[AliOop]

Here is a much better video and recipe. Just know that making transparent soap from scratch is a rather involved process with lots of ingredients - much harder than making regular CP soap.

Speaking of which, have you checked out this thread? It explains the basic soapmaking process.

 

[DeeAnna]

This is not a melt and pour soap, since it has alcohol in it. Melt and pour soap is able to be melted because it contains solvents that will not evaporate when the soap is re-heated. Alcohol doesn't qualify.

Recipe also isn't safe as written -- it has -10% excess lye at 100% NaOH purity. At 95% purity the excess lye is still -4%. The only way this soap is going to be skin safe is if the author adds more fatty acid or fat later to neutralize the excess NaOH. I didn't watch the video to know if they do that.

There are better recipes and methods out there for making transparent soap. And if you actually want true melt and pour soap, this is not it.

This isn't a good choice for first time soap making. Give some thought to making a simple regular type soap -- build skills without the added challenge of also working with solvents.

Sugar is highly soluble in water. You can make sugar syrup using as much as 2 parts sugar to 1 part water.

 

[squidstings]

Sugar is highly soluble in water. You can make sugar syrup using as much as 2 parts sugar to 1 part water.

Learned something today Thank you for the correction! Now that I've actually looked (bakers/cooks told me 1/1), You can actually go above 4:1 with heat. https://www.researchgate.net/figure...-of-sucrose-per-100-g-of-water_tbl1_335671474


Wouldn't the bar be more sugar, than soap (hyperbole)? Anything you add beyond saponification is will occupy the cleaning efforts of the soap as well. Making a bar of soap that has to clean itself off your skin before it can attack any dirt? Just what makes sense to me. I always wonder about some of the recipes I've seen with large amounts of additives (something soap molecules will attach to) added.