Today we are making shaving soap. The
technique I'm going to be using is a
dual lye hot process method in the
crockpot and I will be featuring
Paris Fragrances USA as they are sponsoring
this episode! On their website you will
find ethically sourced exotic oils and
butters as well as other soap supplies
that help create a sustainable and
environmentally friendly economy with
the communities living in the Amazon
forest. This recipe will be made into a
crockpot. I will measure out my
ingredients and then place them in here.
I have stearic acid, always taring the
scale before adding any new ingredient.
Stearic acid is a very important
ingredient in shaving soap. I have Tucuma
butter and Pracachy oil unrefined.
This oil is solid at room temperature if
it's a little chilly, you can see that
it's a little thick, so it's an oil
but it looks like a butter! This has a
very nutty and earthy scent, it smells
really good!
Now Pracachy oil
In my stockpot I combined stearic acid
coconut oil, mango butter,
Tucuma butter, Pracachy oil and I will go
ahead and put this on low in the
crockpot and then I will add castor oil
once it's all melted. If you would like
the complete formula for this shaving soap
you can access it through my
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peeks, tutorial, recipes and early access
to all my YouTube videos! A dual lye solution
consists of a lye solution of distilled
water with sodium hydroxide and
potassium hydroxide which are two
different types of lyes. Sodium hydroxide
which I use in many many of my soaps is
to make a solid bar of soap, while
potassium hydroxide is commonly used to
make liquid soap. Now this is a
combination of these two and the end
result will be a semi solid soap. Since
I'm using a high amount of butters in
this recipe and stearic acid it will
make a pretty solid shaving soap that
will be molded directly into the shaving bowls!
Here are my shaving bowls I
have them designed and made by a local
Potter and he makes these little fishies
and starfish on my bowls they're really cute.
Now that the butters, the oil and stearic
acid are melted, is the time to weigh out
the castor oil and add it to the slow
cooker. It needs to be very well
incorporated and stirred so everything
is evenly distributed before preparing
and adding the lye solution. I will
maintain this on high, I will be soaping
at around 150 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit
and I'm going to mix my dual lye water
solution and add it while hot into my
crock-pot. Here I have my sodium
hydroxide and make sure to always use
stainless steel or HDPE plastic or lye
resistant containers! Never use aluminum
or copper when making lye solution as
this would react strongly to the lye and
could create hydrogen, which is very
highly explosive! Work in a
well-ventilated area and just back up a
bit so you don't inhale the fumes of the
sodium hydroxide. Usually I stir it out
and I leave the room! I am done with the
sodium hydroxide, I will now be adding
the potassium hydroxide
Now that everything is well combined I
will have to set the whisk aside as I
need more power and I will use the stick
blender to continue the process.
This has gone through the applesauce
phase and then the mashed-potato like
texture! It is now back to being fluid
again and this is the time where I will put
the lid of the slow cooker back on, turn
the heat to high and cook it
for about 20 minutes.
I will then come back to stir it and
cook an additional 40 minutes on low,
stirring every 15 to 20 minutes. The cook
time may vary depending on the batch
size and your formula.
After this second 20 minutes cook time
the soap is starting to look a little
translucent around the edges of the slow
cooker: that is completely normal. That is
what hot process does, it cooks the soap
throughly so that it is completely
saponified and ready to use after
it was made!
The soap has been cooking for a full
hour now, I will turn the heat off and
add my glycerin, my essential oils and my
white kaolin clay. My essential oil blend
is a mix of Litsea Cubeba which
smells like citrus and Lemongrass
essential oil. I will put the kaolin white clay and
into my essential oil and blend
them very well together before adding
them to the soap.
The soap is now completely cooked but
very hot. I will turn the heat off of the
slow cooker and add the liquid glycerin
that acts as a humectant on the skin
as it helps to retain moisture.
I will incorporate it and wait a
little longer until the soap cools
enough to add the essential oils to it.
Here the soap is at a 180
degrees Fahrenheit which is still too
hot so I'm going to let it cool some more.
And there we go, a little later I'm
adding the essential oil blend that I
combined with the white clay to easily
disperse it in the soap and I will just
hand stir it in until everything is
combined and my soap is nice and smooth!
Now all that is left to be done is to
take the soap while still warm and put
it into the shaving soap containers.
I'm using these handmade pottery bowls that
are made locally here because I really
appreciate to support local businesses.
You could also use a widemouth jar
container that is heat resistant and
soap resistant. If you do that make sure
that you use a wide mouth jar! Let me
show you an example: you can use wide
mouth jars as this one, to put your
shaving soap in, but don't put the lid on
right away as these are still warm and
you don't want any condensation to
happen. I personally prefer to use my
little bowls.
I will be using my scale to
put the same quantity of soap into each bowl.
This needs to be done pretty
quickly because the soap will start to
harden up once it starts cooling into
the bowls. Each jar is just a little
over 150 grams. There was a little bit
of evaporation in the process: water loss.
This is why this one isn't 150 grams but
that's okay, it'll be my tester. Now I'm
simply going to take a spoon and just
evenly spread the soap into each jar so
that it stays nice and neat into each bowl.
Using a damp clean rag I will wipe it
around the edges of each bowl so that
everything looks nice and neat
Et voilà!
The shaving soaps are now ready to be
used and just for the fun of it
let's leather one up right about now!
Once cooled. I like to add water and
just... you know... Let it drip off and you
just got to twirl in the bowl and what
makes a quality lather when shaving: you
want to have a stable lather that is
slick and will have the blade slip on
the skin without injuring or cutting the
skin. I have had the lather on my hand
for a good 5 minutes and it is still
very thick, it's stable, it's not going
anywhere! I am thrilled about this new
formula using Paris Fragrances exotic
oils and butters. You will find a link
below to their webstore and you will
find the recipe for this formula through
my patreon campaign! Now all that is left
to do is to find some man to try to
shave with the shaving soap! I will most
likely be giving one to my dad as he
loves my shaving soaps and fathers days
just around the corner! So it's going to be
a perfect gift for him this year!
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