hi everyone today i want to share with you how to make a sugar syrup for your soap making for your
soap recipes why would you want a sugar syrup well sugar added to soap recipes handmade cold process
or hot process boosts the lather of the soap and why make a syrup instead of just using plain old
sugar well a syrup is much easier to mix into your soap recipe you can mix a syrup in at any point
whereas if you just use the sugar in the granular form like this is just some white sugar
if you use it like that you have to dissolve it in your lye water before you make the lye solution
and you know you can do that and that's fine but i find it a lot easier to pre-make a sugar syrup
then you've got a liquid in a jar ready to go that you can just add into your oils or
your soap butter or add it at any stage that you like so this is easy peasy all you do is measure
two parts sugar so i'm gonna do two cups of sugar and it doesn't have to be exact
two cups of sugar this is just white cane sugar just the cheap stuff from the supermarket
two cups of sugar and to that i'm going to add
one cup of water this is water that was boiled earlier but as long as it's clean
drink you know what am i trying to say as long as it's clean drinking water that will be fine
because we're going to heat it so one cup of water just add that in with the sugar
and then we're just going to heat that up and dissolve the sugar into the water
so just do this on a low medium heat we don't want to really
heat this and caramelize it and turn it into toffee or anything we just want to melt the sugar
in the water and that is all if you cook it too high for too long it will start to get a caramelly
toffee color to it which we don't want we want to keep this nice and clear so that
it doesn't discolor our soap and while that's melting i'll just explain a little bit about
how you use this um generally with sugar i like to add sugars to soap batters at about one to
two percent of the base oils like the oil batch amount for the soap recipe so if you're using
say if you're making a castile soap and it's got a thousand grams of olive oil as the base oils
for the recipe then for two percent sugar of that thousand oils that would be 20 grams of sugar now
obviously this has got some water mixed in with it so it's a little bit more dilute than straight
sugar but i would still use this at one to two percent you do get a little bit of evaporation
when you're melting this through and it's still strong enough to i find it's still quite strong
and it it does boost the lather years ago when i was making a lot more soap than i do these days
i put sugar syrup in nearly every soap batch i ever made but then i kind of got into making
really simple soaps um when this youtube youtube channel started and got going so i haven't used
it actually for years and this is the first time i'll be using it in any of my soap recipe videos
so that is just about dissolved just in the short amount of time i've been talking to you about it
all you want to do is just make sure there's
no little granules of sugar left in there just keep stirring and heating
until it's all dissolved
lots of soap making resources from america say that you should use one to two teaspoons
of sugar per pound of oils in your soap recipes so you could use probably two to three teaspoons
of this per pound of oils but all of my soap recipes are in grams so i tend to to go in grams
and i weigh this you know two to two to three or one to three percent just depending on the recipe
um that is completely dissolved now so i'm going to turn that off it's completely clear
there's no little granules of sugar left at all in that the only thing that you have to
watch out for with this is that any sugar added to a cold process soap recipe with hot process
it doesn't matter because you're heating the soap anyway and you're really accelerating the
saponification reaction but with cold process any sugar and that includes sugars and other types of
sugary substances like honey even fruit purees and things like that that might have sugar in them
they will accelerate that saponification so if you add too much it will really speed up
it can speed up the trace and speed up the the reaction of your soap from the from the batter
into the hardened soap so just beware of that and if you add way too much sugar you can get
you know your soap might crack it might overheat it could even volcano out of the
mold so stick to that one to three percent of sugar syrup or sugar in your soap recipe and
that will serve you pretty well but you know you can experiment with it depends on the oils
that you use too if you're using oils in your recipe that are very slow moving like making an
olive oil soap or castile soap then you could get away with using more sugar in your recipe
all i do then is i get a clean glass jar you could use a bottle too if you wanted to
and just pour that sugar syrup into the jar oops i made more and i can fit in that jar that's all
right i'll find another jar for the rest of that so that's still quite hot i'll just leave that
lid off for a while and then i just store this in my fridge this jar will last me a very very very
long time in the fridge um that's it so i hope you enjoyed that and you found it helpful um yeah make
up some sugar syrup obviously if you use darker colored sugars you're going to have darker colored
syrup so if you want a nice clear uncolored sugar syrup that won't discolor your soap batches
um then use white sugar but also beware that if you add too much sugar syrup or sugar into
your soap recipes that in itself can discolor your soap if it overheats so it's a bit of a
balancing act but keep the amount low and you'll be fine i'll put those details in the description
box of this video as well in case you missed it thanks everyone see you in the next video bye