Hi this is Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
how to make this soap. It's scented with Rose Gold from Bramble Berry's new
Soirée collection. I made this in a slab mold so that we could keep most of the
design on the larger surface area instead of just having it on a little
top sliver. First we are mixing our lye solution. I always do that first. It heats up
quite a bit and it's better to get that cooling first. I'm using Tussah silk
fibers. These give the soap a really nice silkiness when you use it, and they are
cruelty free and these fibers are collected from cocoons after the
silkworms have emerged so they're not harming the silkworms
in any way. I cut this up in little pieces and add it to the water before I
add the lye and it gives it more of a chance to dissolve because it's there at
the beginning when the water heats up. I still strain my lye water before I put
it into the oils just to get any of those little fibers out that are not
dissolved. Okay now our sodium hydroxide is added to our water and now
I'm getting ready my sodium lactate it's used at a rate of one teaspoon per pound
of oils and it's a natural hardener the soap it makes the soap release from the
molds a little easier.
Okay here we've already added our coconut oil and now we
add our sustainable palm oil this sustainable palm oil comes from any
supplier that's part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. So it's
responsibly sourced. I melt these ingredients in the microwave and in the
meantime, I measure my liquid oils. Right here you can see that I use a little
squeeze button to top off my olive oil so I don't pour in too much since I've
already measured the other ingredients. Now I'm adding my cocoa butter.
These pastilles are really easy to add. They're easy to measure and they're
also easy to stir in without having to re-microwave your mixture. When I use
coconut butter I usually try not to get it too hot but if it doesn't completely
melt from stirring I will microwave it a little bit.
Okay, now I'm adding in the liquid oils that I measured before. Next, I add
champagne Extract. This is also part of Bramble Berry's new Soiree Collection. I
read later that you only need to add a few drops to add something special to
your handmade. I added more than just a few drops, but it should be a really
good soap. The reason why it's added is it adds moisture to the soap. Okay now
I'm going to show you how I mix my colorants. This is Fired Up Fuchsia and
I squeezed a little olive oil into it. Just enough to get it wet. And I use my
palette knife in a Plexiglas sheet to mix it all in. And I just keep mixing it to
make sure I got all the clumps out. And this is used at a rate of one teaspoon
per pound oils. Since I have a little time here I just
want to thank everybody for being so encouraging and some of you are so funny.
I had a comment just a little bit ago that someone said I'm a detail-oriented
freak and it just cracked me up because I kind of am.
It just is how I am, so that's just funny they said they are like that too. So
thank you! :)
And this is Burgundy Pigment and I just showed that color sample. That was
used at a rate of one teaspoon per pound of oils. So we are only using this at a
half teaspoon per pound of oils. With red oxides you have to be
careful about how much you use because they're pretty strong. Because sometimes
red oxides can tint your bubbles or even tint your washcloths if you're not
careful, so I wanted a little bit of a darker color like a
burgundy so I'm going to just darken this up with a little bit of activated
charcoal.
And here's the activated charcoal and I just use the fourth of a teaspoon and
I'm just going to add that when I add it to my batter, just to get the color I want.
All these colorants are from Bramble Berry except for the next current,
Gold Rush, It's from Elements Bath and Body. And I'm using one teaspoon, and
I'm putting in some castor oil and some olive oil. Castor oil is a little thicker
than olive oil and I wanted it to be somewhat thick but still able to drizzle
it over the top, and what I like about drizzling is it gives that little indent
once the soap is saponified. It kind of reabsorbs the oils and leaves
like a divot where the oils were and it has that gold, and I think it just looks
really cool. Okay now our colorants are all prepared and we'll just get ready to
make soap. So I'm adding my sodium lactate to my lye water and now I'm
straining. This gets out any of the silk leftover and also any clumps of sodium
hydroxide that didn't get dissolved. Okay now I'm going to add the lye water to
the melted oils. And then once I get that in there I'm
going to measure the weight of the bowl and oils in lye water. And then I will
subtract out the weight of the bowl afterwards and get the weight of the
batter. Then I'll figure my percentages that I'm going to divide it
up into to. For this tutorial I'm going to use fifteen percent for the Fired Up
Fuschia, twenty five percent for the Burgundy
Pigment and the rest will be the sixty percent of white, which will be the
Titanium Dioxide. And just stick blend this until emulsion has reached, that way
you'll have time to divide your batter and color it. Emulsion is just when you
don't have any more oils floating on top they've all combined and they're gonna
stay combined. If you don't know if it's emulsified you can let it sit for a
little while and see if it separates again and just hand stir it after that.
Okay this is the fifteen percent for the Fired Up Fuchsia.
And the 20% for the burgundy, and the last is the 60% for the white.
And this is where I'm just adding a little bit of the activated charcoal
just to make it a little darker.
Okay, next is the titanium dioxide and I already have that pre-mixed in a big
squeeze bottle. Because I use more of that than I use of anything else. So it's just
ready to go. This titanium dioxide is one of the hardest ones to mix and get the
clumps out of, so I dilute it at a rate of one part titanium dioxide to three
parts oil, and I usually use olive oil when I'm diluting it. The fragrance I'm
using for this is Rose Gold is the new fragrance from Bramble Berry's Soirée
collection. I'm happy to report it did really well in cold process it didn't
accelerate at all. Here I already figured out the percentages of the 15, 25, and 60%,
so I'm just taking that much out of the bottle each time and resetting/zeroing
the scale. This fragrance is supposed to be tan and cold process soap.
That's why I use the white to whiten it. It does seem like it's turning a
little bit off-white but it's not going to tan yet
so I think it's gonna be okay. And to me it doesn't smell like roses it smells
floral, and it smells a little fruity, and also I think, comfort, and pleasant and I
think that part of it is the cashmere, vanilla, and amber whenever I smell those,
I think of "pleasant," so if you're wondering what the notes are it's a sweet soft mix
of coconut ,candy apple, raspberry, red currant, tulip, freesia, heliotrope, rose,
cashmere, musk, vanilla, and amber. And here we just stick blend into a
light trace. Because we want the colors not to mix together when they're too
thin they'll just kind of get muddy.
Ok this next part is pretty self-explanatory it's just, you pour most
of the white in and then you kind of Jackson Pollock the top.
If I had to do this again, I probably would pour from just a little bit higher
to get the colors to go a little deeper.
That's why it's kind of good to video your soap-making, because you learn
things from yourself.
This design would be good for a soap top as well. When you just have a little bit
of soap left over, just spatter it on there and and just make it really uneven.
it seems like the more white space you have, kind of the better, and and you can
do the lines, go back and forth across the loaf in this short way and then you
make the lines down the long way and it looks really nice. Just make sure you
don't get your skewer too deep or you will interrupt your design that's
underneath.
Okay when you get all the color on, the last thing you do is you drizzle the
gold on. Okay and I tap down the mold to release any air bubbles. And now it's
time to swirl. And I used a tongue depressor for this one, and I think if I
had to do it over again, I actually would have used a chopstick, because these
little squiggly lines are so close together that I don't think the tongue
depressor was the best tool to use in this instance, but I'm gonna try the
tongue depressor the next time I do Taiwan Circling Swirl. If you've seen
my other videos I've been experimenting on them different wideness of my
swirling tool. Last time I use a popsicle stick and the time before he used
a wide stick that was about an eighth of an inch wide. Both of them turned out
really well I was really pleased so I said next time that I'm gonna use the
tongue depressor on the Taiwan Circling Swirl. So when I'm swirling this in the
other direction, I use this glass stirring stick. I've seen some of the
other people using them, and they are really nice. They slide across the bottom
really nice.
I just banged down the mold again to release any trapped bubbles and fill in
any of those spaces on the edge that were displaced. And I just put this
through gel and let it stay covered up for two days, and here I am
unmolding it. This is how I got rid of the little edges that were kind of up on
the sides. Just use a palette knife. There's so many uses for a palette knife!
And I didn't want to show you all the beveling of this one I figured you see
at my other videos; you're probably tired of it. So I just showed the very end.
And here's how the final bars came out and thank you for watching, and thank you
you for spreading the word, and I appreciated all of you! And have a great day! :)