I make Sarah's Amish lie so a lot of you've asked about this this is a
vintage old-fashioned soup saver I have wanted one of these for about 10 years
and I got it on eBay but the soup inside is what I used to wash my dishes this is
Sarah's Amish soap recipe recipe is old-fashioned live soap
we're going to be working with old-fashioned lye and working with all
kinds of soft fats this is quite a large project and I would not ever suggest you
do this if you have children around because you really need to give it your
full attention this is caustic soda so this is
something that you want to be very careful with I don't wear gloves which
most people should wear gloves I've been doing this for so many years that I
really don't need to wear gloves but I do have apple cider vinegar so what
apple cider vinegar does is if you would splash this lie on your skin and you put
this on it will stop the burn immediately but one thing that I do
always use and that is the glasses I will always use the glasses when I'm
working with lye I'm going to share with you step-by-step how to make this this
is something that maybe a lot of people wouldn't want to try but I enjoy making
this and this is part of our heritage and part of our ancestry long ago so I'm
going to share with you the recipe and then we're gonna work on it step by step
this is the third video I have made on this recipe in the years it costs for
three cups of cold water 17 ounces of my two pounds of coconut oil 2 pounds of
shortening and two pounds of oil 2 cups of lemon juice and 3 tablespoons of
powdered milk so follow along with me as I make this and I think you will be
surprised and how it turns out this is a recipe that is tried and true and it
always turns out perfect put part of being safe
when we add the lye to the water it will become very hot and it's very caustic
once we start adding a soft soap to the lye water it will start neutralizing it
so it's very important when we add the lye to the water that we take full focus
on what we're doing so get the glasses on safety always comes first now it's
going to produce some fumes not too many but I usually do it outside but every
once in a while I will make my soap inside and today it's snowing so I can't
really do it outside all right we got our glasses on let's get started thing
ready and this is our scale
but we have our scale calibrated now we're going to go ahead and we're going
to go to 17 ounces when we're done using this we throw this away because whatever
lye touches you don't want to reuse it
alright so now we're going to go ahead and we're going to put her light into
our water it's going to get very very hot we want to use a wooden spoon that
we don't use for anything else we're going to slowly add the lye to the water
be careful not to splash
once the lye is dissolved into the water it's going to get to about 200 degrees
this is the chemical process you want to stand back a little bit because there's
going to be some fumes it's all dissolved now we can start adding our
fat the first thing we're gonna add is we're going to add our shortening you
want to be very careful when you do this that you don't splash so we're just
going to add little bits at a time the shortening is what takes the longest to
melt
all right now we're gonna go ahead and we're going to mount the shortening it
will take a few minutes
ask the shortening mounts we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna use our coconut
oil as you know coconut oil gets as you know coconut oil melts really quickly
all of this will melt this is such an easy recipe because you don't have to be
cooking stuff over the stove now we're going to go ahead and we're going to
melt all this up before we start adding our other oil now this can take anywhere
from 5 to 15 minutes
all right now all the ingredients that I am using are expired ingredients so the
shortening was expired the coconut oil was expired and the oil was expired so
we're using a really old ingredients which is perfect for something like this
now we're going to go ahead and we're going to add our two pounds of oil 32
ounces now some of the shortening hasn't quite melted yet which is fine it will
melt now the lye and the fat are starting to neutralize but still it's
very caustic you don't want to put your hands in it it's hard to believe that
soap is made from lye no matter what kind of soup you have most likely if
it's a bar soup it's made with lye all right so now what we're going to do is
we are going to add our two cups of lemon juice
go ahead and add 3 tbsp of powdered milk
add two tablespoons of dried lemon peelings this is something that I add
this is not part of the recipe now we're going to add essential oils but not
until it's really thick now comes the part where we have to take our stick
blender and we're going to just keep mixing this until it gets the
consistency of honey which can take quite a while sometimes it goes pretty
quickly and other times it can take a while so I'm going to thik we add an
essential oil which I always add lemon because this is what I used for my
cleaning products this soap you can use as bar soap you can use this for any
other soap but I do use this for cleaning and I use this for washing my
dishes we're gonna clean everything up we're gonna mix this until it gets the
consistency of honey then we're gonna pour it into our molds some days they
had to do this by hand and it would take a long time but with this thick blender
if you go pretty quick so you know it's finished when you can go like this and
you can draw on it so you can make lines and you can make things like this
alright so now we're gonna go ahead and we're going to pour it into our molds
and there it's gonna sit for about 48 hours and then we take them out of the
molds and it's going to take another 6 to 8 weeks before it's cured
all right everybody so here is the soap now we're going to sit for about 24
hours then we will take them out of their molds and let them dry so I have
bar soap gingerbreadmen so all kinds of different soap molds this makes a large
batch of soap like I said this will ask me all year all right it's been 24 hours
and here's some of the soap I took out the molds and as you can see my soap is
not perfection I make my soup for me to have on the homestead and so it's not
perfect and it's not something that you would buy in the store but I really
enjoy making them now as you see the soap is still very active so we cannot
use it for another six to eight weeks this is homemade lye soap so you still
don't want to use it until six to eight weeks and then I'll show you when it's
time to use it's very soft so you've got to be very careful as you see I'm not
wearing gloves I have very thick skin and so this doesn't affect me but for
people who have very sensitive skin I would recommend you wearing gloves so
it's still those soft so we can actually form it a little better as we work on it
now these molds are not made for soap but I like to use it for soup and as you
see there's some blemishes
and that's what looks like I make it once a year and I don't really enjoy
making soup it's not one of my favorite hobbies like some people but I make it
because it's something that I really use and I can make it so much cheaper than
buying it now I was given this two years ago for a Christmas gift and these
turned out really nice so this is a soap mold here and they turn out really nice
compared to some of the others
so I'm just gonna go around now I'm going to put these out in the out porch
out of the way until they can cure I usually let mine cure even longer but
this is a very mild soap when it's finished I have a couple more
gingerbread men and then we can be finished so these are the last two
pieces and this was what was left and I used one of these baking I'll just throw
this away when I'm done now these are just random pieces that I'm gonna cut
and that is normally how I make my soap is like this but I decided to use some
molds this time and now you're gonna recognize the little squares that I use
for washing my dishes so I probably won't have to use this to about six
months I still have enough for about six months of my cured soap from last year
now I'm going to go ahead and make it into little blocks that I use for soap
for washing dishes a lot of people through the years have used this recipe
and everybody says it's such a winner for them because they can never go wrong
but this is lye soap and this is something not everybody's going to want
to try and I totally understand that because it is something that you really
have to study on and you really have to take good safety precautions for it
life wasn't easy in grandma's day and we're starting to see that when we do
all the projects that our grandma's had to do years ago and that's why they did
projects like this only about once or twice a year because it was so much work