hi everyone welcome to my honey and oat hot process soap video I wanted to show you this
soap recipe to show how I make hot process soap it's a really good easy method of soap making it
especially if you want to add hard oils waxes and butters into your soap recipes so I start
off by making my lye solution which is 135 grams of sodium hydroxide mixed into 250 grams of water
I like to do this first that way it's just done it doesn't matter what temperature your lye solution
is because everything's going to be hot with this method just mix that until it's dissolved
and put it somewhere safe then you need to get a crock-pot or a slow cooker and add your oils
to that so I'm adding 600 grams of olive oil 80 grams of castor oil you can see that my crock
pots a bit stained because I have used it for cooking but I'm only using it for soap making
these days I'm also adding a hundred grams of coconut oil make sure you get all of the oils
out of your containers 100 grams of almond oil now I'm adding a hundred grams of cocoa butter
which is one of my latest favorite ingredients I have played around with this in cold process
soap recipes but it's a bit harder to work with and finally 20 grams of beeswax you'll
see that my beeswax is quite dark brown color it's a very natural raw beeswax that I got from
a honey seller in a local market it does make this this these oils quite dark so I do add a
little bit of coloring later on so basically just mix those turn your crock-pot on high and and I'm
especially using high you don't have to use high heat you can use low but I wanted to get those
waxes and things melted as quickly as possible so just let it sit for a while it took about half an
hour in total I just keep coming back every now and then to give it a stir you can see now that
it's just beeswax left that is undissolved and here it is with everybody everything's finally
melted so you can see there it is quite a dark oil mixture so I'm going to add some colorings
to this soap just to lighten it up a bit I'm just using some kale and clay which is a lovely natural
white clay ingredient and titanium dioxide which is another natural colorant to make your soaps
whiter if you want to these won't make my soap white they'll just make it a little bit lighter
so I'm just mixing those in with my stick blender just to make sure that they're all thoroughly
incorporated into the oil and then when you're ready you can pour your lye solution into the
hot oils and we can start making the soap so make sure you've got your safety gear on I'm wearing
gloves glasses and I was wearing a mask when I mixed my lye solution before as well so safety
is always really important with soap making soap or your lye solution in and give it a stir and
start blending at this point thus the the method is very similar to cold process soap making you'll
start to see the differences soon though because there's beeswax and cocoa butter in this recipe
this soap comes to trace really really quickly which is really quite normal especially when
there are our waxes in your recipe there's only a small amount of beeswax in this recipe only 2%
but it is enough to really speed up that trace you see that's got become a really thick batter
really quickly I keep I kept stick blending that way beyond what I needed to as long as you reach
a trace that's all you need to do I just kept doing it just for fun it did get really really
thick I kind of wanted to see how thick it would get with me blending it this is the first time
I've tried this recipe so clean off your stick blender as best as you can I like to give mine
a bit of a buzz in some just to clean the soap out of the inside of the end part and then cover
the pot and this is where we start to leave it for the soap to cook so now we start a process
of just checking it and stirring it every now and then this is after about 15-20 minutes of cooking
you can see the edges are getting a little bit fluffy the middle has gone really hard like it's
set up almost like a cold process so would you don't have to do all this mixing that I do here
I'm just doing this because I can't help myself I tend to mix it it makes everything just for fun I
just saw eyes want to know what's happening with it I like checking on things and giving them a
stir but you don't have to mix this there are hot process soap makers who cover this up and
just leave it on low for a whole hour without touching it at all so here I am after another
15 minutes or so and you can see it's really froth up now this is what they call the mashed
potato stage so it's really frothy I can actually stir it now it's well and truly started to cook if
the soap is starting to saponify and go through its different stages so just give it a stir and
put the lid back on and just keep leaving it and stirring it and checking it every now and then
Here I am giving it another little check and another little stir it's still nice and fluid
it's starting to lose its fluffiness and moving to the next stage it's got a little bit to go
though and here it is after another 15 minutes or so it's probably took about an hour all up so
this is what they call the Vaseline stage the soap has lost its fluffiness it's definitely not fluffy
like it was before and it's a bit hard to describe but it's definitely past that mashed potato stage
and at this point your soap is normally cooked by now so I'm using my pH test strips these are just
cheap little ones I bought off eBay but I've been using them for years and they work pretty well
well enough for soap testing anyway I just dip my finger into a bit of water touch that on the soap
and then touch the strip onto that wet soap and it gives me a good indication straight away so I
can see that my strip is green which means it's about between 8 and 9 on the pH scale which is
perfect that's exactly where it should be so the soap is fully cooked now it's fully saponified now
I'm just adding some oat flour this is just some oat flour that I ground up in my meal I use this
for my bread making and also for my breakfast so I had it on hand I thought that would add to the
nice oat enos of the soap it just adds a little bit of texture to it as well and a bit of a bit
of interest mix that in really well you can see the soap is starting to get thicker again now so
at this point I'm getting everything in so mixing in a tablespoon of honey and a tablespoon of water
you don't have to add any of these ingredients you could put this soap in the moulds as it was but
I'm adding the honey because it is a honey soap I wanted to add some honey mix that through adding
in some liquid ingredients at this stage can actually really help with hot process so because
it does thicken up and it gets quite stiff mixing in a little bit of added liquid at the end can
just help loosen it up a bit which makes it a bit easier to get to the mold some people start with a
lot more water to begin with but I like to reduce the water that had a little bit at the end this
is my fragrance oil this is just some honey and lemon fragrance oil that I had I don't normally
use fragrance oils in my soap but this is an old one that I wanted to use up so I thought I'd give
it a try it turned out really quite lovely just 20 grams of that which is reasonably low amount
I find fragrance is a bit too overpowering if I put too much in so mix that through really really
well it's looking good and now I get my mold which I prepared before and I start to fill up the mold
the trick with molding hot process soap is to bang it down all the time you'll watch me doing this
I'm just constantly tapping it down it's really important to do that otherwise you'll get air
bubbles and you won't get a nice even texture in the final soap so just scoop it in just glop it
in it's it's a really different method to cold process soap making but if you tap it down like
that you'll get a really nice smooth bar of soap in the end I just sped this up because
it's bit tedious the other thing I should say too is don't bother about getting the final scrapings
out of your crock pot get as much of the hot soft soap out as you can but you'll have all these dry
crusty bits around the edges don't try and add them on to the top of your soap because they won't
mix on very well they won't stick very well you can get them out later just scrape a knife around
and then just make a little ball of soap into your hands out of those little bits but don't try and
mix them in they just don't stick once they're getting dry so I just leave that for now and just
get the rest of that out later so tap it down look I'm not an expert in hot process soap making I'm
not really experienced with it I have made a fair bit over the years but not a lot I tend to prefer
for a Duke help cold process soap making more regularly so I don't know what all the tricks
are for making the tops beautiful they do tend to not look as nice as cold process soap tops do but
today I just got a fork out and sprayed the top with a bit of water - so the fork wouldn't stick
and I'm just texturing it a little bit just to give it a bit of texture and not make it look sort
of so globby for one of a better word and now I'm just sprinkling some of more of the oats on the
top these are just ground oats like oat flour but if you don't have ground oats you can get rolled
oats and just chop them up and there it is there's the final soap it's a really lovely soap it's got
a beautiful lava leave it at this point for about 6 to 12 hours just enough till it's cooled and
hard enough to cut this is the same day as when I made the soap just later on in the afternoon it's
still a little bit warm in the middle but it's well and truly hard enough for me to cut it's
probably only about four hours after I made it but it was a reasonably cool ish day for where I
live so it cooled off ok you don't have to wrap up your soaps either with hot process because I don't
go through any gel phase or anything like that they've already gelled they're completely cooked
having said that though they still do benefit from a probably about three to four weeks drying time
just to make them nice and hard but that depends on how much water you added to it as well it's
a really lovely really lovely batch of soap this one I'm kind of inspired to make more hot process
soap sand do a bit more research and learn some more tricks on how to make them look a bit nicer
and do colors and things like that but this is a really good introductory method you can use
any recipe with this you don't have to follow my recipe this I I'll give you the recipe in
the description box but this is just a bit of a guide to show you how you do it but you can use
any recipe with this thanks for watching everyone I hope you enjoyed the video see you next time