Hello everybody this is Ariane Arsenault from La Fille de la Mer in the Magdalen Islands,
Quebec, Canada! Today I am going to present to you the making of one of the
soaps that I make in my shop that is very very simple. it's called Pure Olive
and there are only two ingredients in this soap besides the lye water.
My stock pot is right now filled with extra virgin olive oil and here will go some
lavender essential oil. And that's it! It is a castile soap meaning that the base
oil is 100% olive oil and it will need to dry for a long time
before it's ready to be sold because olive oil will make a soap that will
kind of go mushy really quickly once you use it if it's not dried properly.
Usually you would dry these soaps from six to twelve months. Mine goes on the
six month drying period because I cut back in some of the water from my
lye water so that I can have it ready on time for summer. Let's take a look at
the making of this soap. Here's my stockpot I'm putting it on the stove top
and I'm gonna slightly warm the base oil just so that my lye water and my base
oil are nearly the same temperature when they meet each other. This will be
only warmed slightly. Oh then check this out! This is a KitchenAid commercial
series immersion blender that was sent to me by KitchenAid it was given to me
as a gift! These are just like the small ones except they're bigger and
commercial. This this is my small KitchenAid that I have. We can
compare the size. The shaft here is also removable let me try and remove it
There we go it's removable so I can wash the bottom part of it and I'm gonna
have to put it back on. I need something to protect my hands to do this!
it's very metallic! it is really sharp here. Yeah this is gonna be the first
time that I'm trying out this new stick blender so if I put it right beside my
stockpot no longer will I have the edge of my stick blender kind of dipping in
the raw soap and whenever I make my big big batches in my new pot tipper it's
also gonna be much easier to work with so I'm gonna plug this baby in and we're
gonna make some soap okay I'm all ready to make this soap first thing I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna add my essential oil into the mix and I'm gonna make sure
that this is well dispersed within the oil and there's a safety switch on top
so if I try to press it it won't work so I need to unlock choose my speed setting
and I want it to be on low right now is it on low it wasn't low so even low is
pretty high I'm gonna show you worth it and so this is the slow setting
and here fast-setting okay so you know go get my lye water and add it to this
oil and lavender mixture make sure this is unload because the high sitting is
pretty high I think I'm gonna keep the high setting for when I use my big pot
tipper but no I'm going to add my lye water which has cooled down I'm gonna
try to pour this down the shaft of my stick blender just like I usually do
this immersion blender is so powerful that whenever I press the button to make
it go on it kind of pulls to the bottom like when I make a castile soap I like
to tour at a medium to fit trace otherwise like the next day when I
unmold and cut myself it's kind of crumbly so here you can see that the
texture is really nice and thickly this is what I'm looking for I'm gonna turn
it off blenders wait can't go on anymore
and I'm gonna remove the excess from the stick blender and make sure it goes all
into my part
tap tap cuz you never want to go into a stick blender with a spatula when it is
plugged in even though you know that you turned it off
because this soap is a little thick I'm gonna kind of smooth out the top you
guys are late hi Joyce hmm I'm gonna take a little spatula and try and smooth
out the top of my soup
I have cut the soaps once and the final bar soap that I want to be and creating
is this sighs this is actually one of my pure olive soaps from last year and it's
really hard and rock solid and still smells awesome all right let's put these
back in the cutter
I would like to thank KitchenAid Canada for giving me this amazing and huge
immersion blender and I did like using it it was the first time the only
difference with my regular tiny KitchenAid stick blenders is that it
really is strong so it does cause the soap to accelerate and trace faster so
next time rather than just like blending all the way in I think it will pulse but
this will be an amazing tool like any new tool I need to learn how to work
with it but soon it'll be my new best friend thank you so much for watching
the making of this lavender castile soap in our shop we call it pure olive it is
such a nice and lovely soap it doesn't lather much but it's really
moisturizing olive oil will create soaps that have really tight and little
bubbles but it's so nice and a different feeling on the skin you should totally
try a castile soap if you've never done so if you liked the video please give it
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