hey everyone it's so good to be back here with you it's been so long since i did a soap recipe video
so i'm really keen to share this one with you today if you're interested in hearing a little
bit of an update video from me i shared one just recently that i filmed this morning but i'll share
it before i share this one so head back and have a look at that if you're interested in a little
bit of an update on what i've been up to and all the news but anyway today i really want to
share this recipe this is my recipe for shaving soap now this recipe is based on somebody else's
recipe i got the idea for this and actually most of the ingredients ideas from veronica fole she
shared this recipe on modern modernsoapmaking.com veronica is an australian soap maker in tasmania
she's very experienced i remember reading about her soap making recipes in various places when
i first was learning how to make soap myself so she's been doing it for a long time this recipe is
based on her shaving soap recipe i've just tweaked it a little bit to make it a little bit easier
for my purposes but it's an excellent recipe the difference between this one and veronica's is that
she uses jewel lye in her shaving soap recipe so she uses potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide
whereas i'm just making a sodium hydroxide soap with this just made it easier for me and it still
is a great soap veronica also uses a hot processed version whereas i use a cold process version
i find the cold process version pretty easy it's nice and easy to pour and with a few tweaks like
i don't use a stick blender i just mix it by hand with a whisk um yeah it's it's really easy to make
the key ingredient to this soap recipe is actually soy wax so i use golden wax 464 so this
is hydrogenated soy oil or soy wax that is used in candle making and this one doesn't have any nasty
additives or anything it's fine to use in soap but soy wax is really high in stearic acid which is
what makes this soap have such an amazing lather and it makes it really unique and perfect for
shaving it's got that long lasting really tight close little kind of creamy lather which we want
in a shaving soap this recipe also has coconut oil cocoa butter and castor oil so you'll need
those ingredients i also add bentonite clay which adds a bit more slip to the soap and it's a lovely
natural ingredient and i fragrance this soap with a combination of rosemary and cedar essential oils
which is a really nice combination that seems to have quite a wide appeal i make this soap in
muffin silicon muffin molds because it's a very hard soap it sets up very quickly and it's very
hard to cut so it's much better if you can pour it into individual moulds and then you can pop
them out and that works really well it's also a good size and shape to put in a little bowl
for shaving or a cup or whatever it is so i'll share the link to veronica's original recipe
in the description box below the video and also the link to my recipe this one that i'm going to
make today and without further ado let's make the soap so i start off this recipe by weighing out
my fats and my oils into a container to make the soap in so that was the soy wax
340 grams i follow that with coconut oil 204 grams all of the recipe details for this are
on my website i'll put a link to that full recipe below then i put in cocoa butter 68 grams
yeah so you don't have to worry about writing anything down it's all on my website
and finally castor oil also 68 grams so there's just the four fats that go into this soap
once they're all in i just melt that in the microwave if you don't have or don't want to use a
microwave that's okay you can melt it just really gently on the stove top as well i just find the
microwave really easy i can melt it and make it all in the same bowl or jug or whatever i'm using
as long as it's polypropylene plastic number five plastic it's fine so i'm just stirring it halfway
through it took about two minutes in my microwave um and there it is at the end there's still a few
little solid bits but they melt really easily once the overall temperature is up high enough
you can see there it's about 60 degrees celsius or 140 fahrenheit and that's perfect because
that's hotter than we need but by the time i go to make the soap it'll be it'll come down to the
temperature we're looking for which is about 45 celsius next i make my lye solution so i'm using
237 grams of cold water and make sure you've got your safety gear on when you do this and please
make sure you understand everything about soap making safety before you attempt any soap recipe
i have links to all that information below that was my sodium hydroxide going in
94 grams and now i gently add my sodium hydroxide into my water stir it through slowly and that will
dissolve to make my lye solution this does get hot and i'm using cold water from the fridge
but it's not cold enough to really stop all the fumes so make sure you're wearing a mask
or you're doing it in a really well ventilated area it does generate heat too so i put a little
cork mat underneath just to stop my plastic bench cover from getting warped from the heat
so i just set that aside somewhere really safe while you get everything else ready
also into this recipe goes bentonite clay 20 grams which is about three percent
of the total oil amount that's a really nice amount to use and also get my essential oils
ready i'm using 10 grams each of rosemary and cedar which is really nice but you can leave this
fragrance free as well if you want to there's no requirement to add any fragrant frey fragrance
to your shaving soap i also get my molds ready at this point because this soap sets up pretty fast
and you want to have everything ready you don't want to be fiddling around getting
your molds out you want to have everything absolutely ready to go before you start
because sometimes they move a bit faster than others depending on the temperature
you can see now it's about 47 degrees celsius which is great 116 fahrenheit that's just fine
you know that you could wait till it got a little bit cooler but by the time i mix my clay in and
everything and get ready it will have come down to about 45 which is a good temperature to make
this soap because the melting temperature of the soy wax is 45 you wouldn't want to let it get
too much cooler than that so i put my clay in and really thoroughly whisk that through
i'm not going to use a stick blender for this recipe it's brilliant you don't need one you just
whisk it and it it traces really easily by itself with a whisk and that's thanks to all the stearic
acid in the soy wax i also put my essential oils in now before i mix the the soap just
mix those into the oils and that way everything's all in there it's ready to go
all you need to do is add the lye solution then and pour the soap
so get your molds ready and when you're ready i didn't even take the temperature of the lye
solution it was just still fairly warm but i knew it wasn't going to be a problem i've made this
soap so many times before so yeah pour your lye solution in and you can see it starting to kind
of emulsify straight away see that color change i just whisk it through it doesn't take long at all
probably under a minute to reach a trace and i like to pour this at quite a light trace
you definitely want it to be thoroughly emulsified and tracing
just to make sure it's really really well mixed given that you're not using a stick blender
so i just whisk it really really well until i get a trace and then i pour it straight away
you can see with my silicon molds i've got these little pieces of core flute it's like election
sign plastic stuff i always put something rigid underneath my silicone molds like that because
once they're filled with soap they're impossible to lift up unless you've got something solid
under them so that's a really good tip too and i just pour it into the molds this is the easiest
soap to make as long as you can get the soy wax it's pretty easy and it just makes the best
lathery soap it's unreal so just pour that in i like to pour mine just before
they reach the top i find i get a really nice perfect finish if i do that and this recipe
is the perfect size to fit exactly 12 of these muffins and these are wheelchair
silicon muffin molds you can get them in australia i'll also put a link to that in the recipe on
my website i'm just spraying the top with some alcohol it's just some isopropanol um alcohol and
that's just to help prevent soda ash this recipe will ash up pretty strongly if you if you leave
it uncovered and you don't spray it so i like to spray it with alcohol actually this is the first
time i tried it but it worked really well spray it with alcohol and then cover them up and just leave
them on their own for like 18 24 hours and they set up beautifully with with no soda ash that way
so i put them in my cooler which is just an insulated cooler but you don't have to do that you
could just put them anywhere on a table or on the floor and just cover them with a bit of a blanket
i think the insulation does help a bit and i just leave them there so just put them in there and
forget about it you know you could leave them there for a couple of days it really wouldn't
matter and that's it hey everyone well it's 9 30 a.m the next day i made this soap more about
i know around lunchtime yesterday and it turned out perfect i am so happy with it i'm really glad
i did the alcohol spray because i got no soda ash on it's on this batch and i did get a bit
of ash last time i'm just going to do a quick little ph test on one of these bars just to see
where we're at it may not be fully saponified yet i'm not sure sometimes it takes a couple of days
that's green okay we have got saponified soap so
when the ph has um come down to about eight or nine and you your paper like goes green
like that that means it's safe to test but like any other soap this will benefit from
a cure so i will cure this for about probably about a month would be enough
just gonna dry that off and yeah so i'll cure it for about a month just to make it nice and hard
and extra gentle i will pop it out of the molds now and see what they're like on the other side
wow oh perfect i love the nice pale creamy color
so if you put too much clay in you get a darker color but that's all right you can
probably add a bit more clay if you want i think i added three percent clay of the oil weight
you hear the train in the background the train
gets in a lot of my videos there's not much i can do about it so i've learned to just go with it
these are great oh my gosh my friends are going to love me for this
i get requests for this soap all the time
i just give it to my friends or sell it to them just for a few dollars each
just to cover my costs it's not something i do commercially but this is a great shaving soap
oops uh-oh damaged that one you can see it's still a bit soft
okay so there is our 12 bars of beautiful bentonite clay shaving soap
we'll give it a little lather test i've got my husband jim's shaving brush from the bathroom
i might put this bar that's a little bit damaged this is how we do it or jim does it you just put
the um but obviously you want to cure this first i'm just doing this to show you how
it works so just wet your shaving brush a bit obviously if you're shaving other parts of your
body you would just you know rub the soap you know on your legs or wherever and then just lather away
after a while just take this out to make it quicker
check that out um after a while once you use it a couple of times the the soap bar sticks
in the bowl and you don't have to worry about it slipping and sliding around um
ah try and get this lather to come up there we go there's the leather it's obviously you know
the more you lather it up the more you can get it to lather but this soap has a lava like no other
of my soap recipes and it's that soy wax that does it so there you go there's the leather
um i'm not very experienced with the shaving brush
so my example's not that great but i hope you get the idea there we go
it's pretty good it's a nice tight foam
and i've probably used a bit too much water and it does last a while so um my friends who've used
this and their husbands you know and they're shaving their faces uh it lasts quite well
so it stays on the face and you can just shave away and it's pretty gentle it's not too drying
there you go shaving soap i've made a bit of a mess here um but you get the idea
so you can see this soap has got a really really good lava it is perfect for shaving and everybody
i've ever made this for raves about it i'll put some links in the description box about the soy
wax the specific type it is um this is the little cup that the little bowl that jim puts his shaving
soap in and like i said once you've used this a couple of times just put a little bit of water
on the brush and then and then swirl it around and after one or two uses the soap
don't don't make you know don't leave it too wet in the bottom there but a little bit of moisture
will fall naturally fall to the bottom and the soap will stick to the bottom of the bowl or the
cup or whatever you use and it will stay in there and then as you wear it down it will kind of just
become part of the bowl so you have your little shaving bowl works brilliantly anyway thanks
everyone i hope you enjoyed that and found that interesting i've been wanting to share that one
for yonks thanks for watching everyone take care of yourselves i'll see you in the next video bye
you