okay so part one i'm just going to show you everything that you need this is to make my shea butter bar which i've only just created the recipe for in the last few weeks here's some of the finished product here these are two different versions this one is i have to remember lime and patchouli or peppermint patchouli actually and this one is lime and sweet orange oil and the mixture for the bar the oil mix i should say is 600 ml of olive oil 200 ml of rice bran oil 100 ml of castor oil and 100 grams of shea butter okay now i'll just move all of this out of the way because we don't start with our oils the first thing we want to do let's get those out of the way a little bit so you can see obviously i'm going to need my mold you can do this with silicone molds i have a bunch of those up there but i have not found that they're what people want people just want a good nice lathering bar of soap that they're familiar with looks good it seems like good value i think it's large this comes into two pieces very simple most people make their own i did buy this from a soap supply store and i haven't really looked back since doing so it doesn't matter how it looks because you line the whole thing with waxed baking paper so that's what your soap your oils your saponifying soap actually touches it doesn't actually touch the inside of the mold okay so step one you will need a good set of kitchen scales and some good thermometers to do this absolutely essential i'm using a saucepan today because we used my usual bowl for doing my live solution for paper mache with the kids the other day so it's still got goop in it all right so i'm going to turn that on and then i'm going to put this into it and tear because i need to weigh out my plastic soda first now this is just creating a live solution for this bar i want 150 grams exactly now more no less of sodium hydroxide now i've got 156 if you watch me do a few videos of these you'll see i weigh out a little bit too much or a little bit too little almost every time and then have to correct it it's all part of the process there we go so now we take that out tear this again and now i need 380 ml of water just tap water doesn't matter you don't need to warm it the only golden rule with caustic soda is always add the caustic soda to the water and not the other way around most people do use well a lot of people use gloves and goggles when they're working with caustic soda i don't i probably should i tend to just stir it and step back so yeah they're exactly 380. so now we'll put the scales aside turn them off for when we get to the oil component so for this all i need is my silicon spatula i've got this put them together and you do need to mix it because otherwise the caustic soda will stick to the bottom and you can feel a little bit sticking there do stand a little ways back this does fume up you might even be able to see fuming up it does work better usually in the bowl that i use but those of you with children will know about paper mache and craft projects and how they take precedence okay so that's mixed now all i need to do is let that cool it'll be around 70 degrees at the moment so all i'm doing now the caustic soda is mixed as i just showed you i'm just going to pop my thermometer in there we want it to get down to about 45 degrees before i start mixing my oils yeah it's flying up to 70. it's very very hot when you first mix it which is why you really want to take a lot of precaution when you're mixing this you don't it's not something you want on your skin its main job in the process of saponification which is what happens when we add it to our oil mix is to dehydrate the oils and you don't want it doing that to your body it will burn your skin if you've never done this before or you're working with children it's a good idea to wear gloves and goggles and a lot of soap making kits do come with those okay so i'm going to wait for that to cool down probably take about 15 minutes with the weather we have here today and then i'll come back and show you how to mix the oils okay hi again so this has dropped down to about 49 degrees so what we want to do now is mix our oils so once again just i do it in the microwave because what i find what i find here is we have a wood burning stove when i put it on the stove i tend to forget about it or the stove is too hot and it heats way up and then i have to cool everything down in the sink major pain the microwave does it faster and it's simpler and i can do it when this is ready so as long as i've got one minute to spare i quickly nuke it and they're ready to mix main rule in getting the best result or a result at all really is you have to have your lyre solution and your oil solution at almost exactly the same temperature between 40 and 45 degrees 45 is pretty much perfect so as this is just below yeah let's get down to 58 now so i need to get on with it so olive oil let's turn this on that'll help yep zero so i'm just gonna pour in 600 mils of this pouring pouring 500 and yep 603. this in this stage it doesn't matter if it's over by 10 15. that doesn't matter so much so next rice bran oil this is a new bottle so i'll have to pull that tab thingy so we want to get up to 800 with the rice bran one thing i love about making my own products like this is i know exactly what's in them you know i have rice bran oil in the house you could actually do this with just those two oils i'm making a more complicated bar at the moment because i'm really into this bar it works really well it's a beautiful hard bar with wonderful moisturizing properties so i love it can't talk highly of it highly enough of it losing the ability to speak so i want 100 this wonderful shea butter i sourced this from different places this batch came from almost perfect this patch came from a wonderful company in western australia called range products they have a great range of products and their delivery costs costs are very reasonable and i've found their products are excellent but my i've ordered some more from the sydney essential oil company they're very good beautiful and all of most of their products you have an organic option i've gone for the organic options there castor oil i've ordered a much larger quantity of this because i'm using it a bit another 100 of this i'm gonna get that up just around a thousand perfect so we've got a kilo of oils now last the first time i did this i should say with the shea butter the shea butter took a long time to melt so what i've done since is i just bar mix it in before i heat it so it's broken down as it's getting cooler it's now taking longer to do this than it was in summer okay that's pretty well mixed now i just go and pop this in the microwave for about one minute and 20 seconds that's what it needs for this particular mix of oils back in a sec okay so i've got my oils out of the oven i'm just waiting for the thermometer to tell me to be sure that they're at the right temperature i'm just going to show you how to line up your log mold so we're a nice long piece like this you see that yet and just fold it into the corners what you don't want is for your oils to be able to seep out of the corners of the mold so you really want it lined well so don't be too stingy with the gladwrap glad bake multix baked cooking paper whatever you call it wherever you're watching from nice long piece along the center so two end pieces and a nice long piece which fits this mold perfectly oh it's even behaving itself today sometimes it turns itself in right that is at 43 degrees and this is at 43 degrees you do this enough times and it does become easier you get the feel for the timing of things just move my mould a little bit so you can see what i'm going to do here this is my oils okay you can see that's melted there all i do with this that's annoying i just pour this into here and use my bar mix you don't have to have a bar mix but you do need a stick blender a hand blender whatever you want to call it it needs to be whipped i don't know if you can see that it's already starting to change slightly yep very much going yellow now it's not that oily i shouldn't talk over the bar make sorry you can probably see it's already gone quite yellow it's very runny still though trace has just begun okay that is starting to thicken up now i find if i usually with a mix like olive oil and coconut oil a 60 40 coconut um sort of 60 of 600 of olive and 400 of coconut to get two kilo it usually takes a couple of bursts with the bar mix to get it to thicken up this i find one good ten how many seconds that was probably you can see on the video it does start to thicken up by itself i don't find i need to do this more than once before it starts yep see that's already so i can run the spoon through it and it's holding the shape so that's trace and i just got soap all over my spoon so really that's already turning into soap really is now at this point like i said with other mixtures you would have to wait longer for it for it to be becoming thick like this but this is already this is not runny feels a little bit like a loose cake batter so what i want to do is any colors or scents i want to add at this point i add them now so into this one i'm going to put two of my favorites patchouli and ylang ylang so it just adds so much body to your soaps just the smell i added to most of my body creams it's just glorious now you can blitz this in again with the handheld blender but it's just as easy to mix it at the stage two and if we want to add a color which i probably should do i'll go grab that now and i'll show you how to add a color okay so because we've used patchouli and ylang ylang i kind of think of those as earthy but still sensual colors so i've i've got this red pearl mica iron oxide these are cosmetic grade colors but what i'm going to do because i don't want the whole soap colored i'm going to try to find a little bowl somewhere here and i'll scoop out some of the soap just a little bit and you can see how thick it is here when it's popping out okay so i just want about that much it does get messy doing this but it all wipes off your bench very easily okay now i'm going to add the lids back on these rather expensive little jars here and add my mineral mic you can see because i do a lot of soaps you know it's my my business i buy massive packets most of your soap making supplies will sell you little tiny packs and if you're just making a little bit that's all you need i don't want too much color i just had about that was about a flat dessert spoon just mix mixing that through the reason i don't want it through the whole bar because you know not everyone wants a bar that's entirely one color and bars that do have a lot of color in them it depends on the color i find blues particularly can actually leak down so you know if they get a bit wet on the bath they can seep down into the bath and yeah just adding a bit of color is a great thing sometimes too much is too much so what i'm going to do now is i hope this works it often schlops around as i said this shea butter mix is much thicker than a lot of the other ones i use so normally with other mixers it's simple with uh yeah less thick mixes this pours in it's a little bit simpler but this one it's a bit thicker as you can see but i love the consistency and the end result is just marvelous obviously the shea nut butter helps this solidification to be a little bit speedier than usual okay now i've got that in there this bit i'm not sure if you're going to be able to see exactly what i'm doing here but what i'll do is get this mix and just plop it along the top nothing too delicate needs to happen here because i'm going to swirl it through okay yeah from that angle you probably can't see basically at the moment just looks like that and now i'm going to just take my spatula and swirl it through it will look like there's a lot more red on top then once i show you cutting the bar and the colors fade through saponification as well so you won't have this extremely dark color on top there we go that's all there is to it now when that's set i'll show you cutting it and you'll be able to see how far the color's gone down how much it's changed and you'll have your bar of soap you need to leave it for four weeks to set to make sure there's no sodium hydroxide left that that's evaporated out and all you have left is your beautiful saponified oils so we'll come back in probably about with this mix i find i only need to leave it a couple of hours before i cut it so we'll come back soon probably this evening and i'll cut it and you can see okay thank you very much okay so we're back for the final little section here as you can see i'm ready to pull my soap i've taken the bottom piece off already let's come off by itself and this will just slide out like that and peel down the paper i might just bring you a little bit closer to see this okay okay so you can see what i was talking about earlier well it probably seems like a few seconds ago for you but hours ago for me i don't use any specialty cutting equipment so now this normally often you would leave it at least 24 hours before you cut it but this being as i said um quite a solid bark with the shea butter in it you can see i can't really even make an impression on that which means oh yes beautiful often these bits of paper get stuck in the end pieces but that just means you and your family get to enjoy the end pieces so there we go you can see the rest of the bar there and it'll have a slightly different pattern as we cut through i like to cut a good oh at least an inch thick i just think it's important that they're nice thick bars you know i have two children and a husband we go through a lot of soup especially living on a farm so you can see in there if you look closely all the different oils saponifying together and in the color let me see if i can find an obvious piece often with the shea butter you can see some you see some slightly darker colors in there that's the shea butter because it is a slightly different consistency just drying at a different rate to the rest now i can just go through and continue slicing this and then you just pop it on a table on a rack in a box anywhere and it'll dry i'd really like to thank everyone for tuning in for this my inaugural tutorial video there will be many more to come lots of more recipes to share if you like me have been inspired to make your own soap if you love doing it you love soap then good luck to you i hope you've learned something today and follow this channel we will be making a lot more soap here if on the other hand you'd like to try some of my soaps then head across to the website which will be in the comments it's the glamorous milkmaid.com thanks very much and we'll see you next time at the glamorous milkmaid bye