hello everybody this is Ariane from La Fille de la Mer
handmade soap shop in the Magdalen
Islands, Quebec, Canada. Today i'm going to
demonstrate a soap that doesn't have a name yet!
It's a new formula called
temporarily "Smooth & Creamy Green Clay Soap"
A couple of days ago I received
some samples from Paris fragrances USA
and they are a supplier supporter of my
patreon campaign and they sent me some
brazilian clays of many colors i'm going
to be testing out the green today. They
also send me some exotic oils and
butters which they specialize in so if
you're looking for great exotic oils
and butters for your soaps or other cosmetics
you can find the link to their website just
below my video. Without having you
waiting further more, let's jump into
soapmaking!
Before I get started I just wanted to
give you a quick overview of a software
that i'm using it's called Soapmaker3
It's specially designed for soap makers.
You can put all your data in there and
all your ingredients, your costs
everything and then you create your
formulas of soap or other types of
cosmetics and then you can print your
formulas and and you have all of your
ingredients listed. You have all the
amounst and percentage and then you have
also all the ingredients from the the
biggest amount of the smaller so it's
really great for labels and things like
that.
Paris fragrances have been a supporter
of my Patreon campaign from the very
start and I'm very happy to finally have
some samples
to be able to show you! The first
ingredients from their store that I'm
going to use in my formula is cocoa
butter unrefined. I really like this
smell of unrefined cocoa butter it
smells just like chocolate
it's great to use in lotions or creams
to give a natural white chocolate smell.
But in the soap smell won't retain but
it will give amazing bubbles and
hardness to the soap. And in goes to cocoa butter!
If you would like to have the complete
recipe for this formula it is now
available to my patreon campaign. It is
part of the reward levels so click the
link below this video and see if you'd like to join!
Now is the time to add Paris Fragrances'
Brazilian green clay
to the distilled water.
This is the same distilled water that I'm
going to use as the lye water.
The reason I do this right now is
because it allows me to fully
incorporate the Brazilian green clay to
have a uniform and solid green color
in my soap.
Now if i were to make a soap with swirls
and different colors i wouldn't use the
technique, I would add the clay to
another part of the colour of the batter
later on in the process, but i'm using
and I'm making a solid colored soap, i'm
adding it to the water right now. I'm
going to mix it in very well and then I
will add the lye in the mixture, just as
if I was doing a regular lye
solution. Once my hard oils and
butters are melted, the final step is to
add the olive oil.
If you watch my videos often you
probably know that i love using
essential oils in soap. So I chose Lavendin
Grosso and Lemongrass to incorporate to
this formula and they are also from
Paris Fragrances. Ok so the lye water
is here with the clay already mixed in and
I'm going to pass this through a sieve just to
make sure that the clay particles are
of small sizes so if there is anything clumpy
in there it won't get through. I want my
soap to feel nice and smooth to the touch!
I'm just going to take a spatula to get every last bit of
lye water in.
The soap has now reached light trace.
It is kind of a trail that is left behind when
you drop some soap batter on the surface.
Now I'm going to add my lemongrass and
lavendin grosso essential oil blend
I had a couple of soap molds lined up right
here, because I have others soaps to make
and I'm going to go ahead and pour this
soap into one of them's!
The batter of this soap is pretty
thick so I'm going to bang it a little bit,
just to make sure that there's no
air bubbles trapped in there. Now is the
fun part where I get to take a spoon and
texture the top as I wish.
One last step I like to take when I
want to insulate my textured top soaps is
to pop them in the oven.
I just leave the light turned on,
there's no other heat applied and I just leave
them there for a couple hours and then
before i go to bed I'll switch the light off
and then the soap will have the time to
finish the saponification process and then
to cool down overnight and tomorrow it
will be back and unmolding it!
Here is the soap I made yesterday!
First I'm going to remove the wooden
mold from silicone liner and then
before releasing the soap from the liner
I will rinse it through really hot water.
This way it will eliminate any soda ash
and make the soap really shiny on top!
You can see that the top of the soap
is still very shiny and it will remain this
way even after it is completely dries.
I'm just removing the silicone liner.
This soap is very easy to unmold using
these silicone liners and also because of
the fact that it contains a lot of cocoa butter.
And it makes it easier
to unmold because the soap gets
hard faster than for example
a soap that would be high in soft oils!
I'm pretty happy with the color of this
clay is very nice and green. Some green
clays sometimes turn little grayish.
This one seems really nice.
Let's look at the inside of the soap.
Ah! Pretty nice solid green so you can see
that the color is very well dispersed
and we have one nice fine clay soap bar
that will be curing for 4 to 6 weeks
before they can be sold.