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Hello, i'm a beginning soapmaker and i am confused about the coconut oil and cleansing number in the soapcalc. I'm wondering how your soap feels on the skin and if it is really drying or just mild. I see you used 40% coconut oil and not the max of 25%/30%? what other soapmakers recommend, in combination with a standard 5-7% overfat. Or does the added milk and oats (what is not included in the soapcalc) does make the cleansing number goes down? Can you please help me out. Thank you so much!
Great question! When people talk about maximums, it isn’t a strict rule. It doesn’t account for other factors like what the superfat is, or which other oils and butters you’re using. For example, we superfat 5% in all our soaps, and we also use cocoa butter in our recipe (though perhaps at this point, we were still using our old recipe with palm-I can’t recall). The milks also contain fats that help consume a bit of the lye. So even though we’re using higher coconut than we “should”, the soap is still nourishing due to the extra fats left over after saponification. Our bars are nice and bubbly but also good and firm so they last a long time, so we’re very pleased with where our recipe is. ☺️ Thanks for watching!! Edited to add: looks like this was after our switch to cocoa butter, which also helps because a high portion of the fats in cocoa butter can’t turn into soap, so they just stay as nourishment for the skin. 🙂
Thanks for your info! I think I just had glycerin rivers on my second batch of soap. It looks like fine white lines on my charcoal tea tree soap. Is it really glycerin rivers?
It sounds like it might be! The glycerin rivers are typically translucent and they turn up most often if you’re using full water (ie. you don’t use a water discount). 🙂
Ours was from Windy Point Soap Supplies in Calgary, but if you're not from Canada, you might need to look for a soap supplier closer to you. Usually any good one will have things like colouring clays. 😊 Thanks for watching!
Hi! I'm a beginner here...could you please let me know the exact amount of each one of the ingredients? Or even the total amount so I could try to calculate it with the %.. Thank you! 🙂
My best advice is to use your mold capacity and start from there. I believe this mold I used holds about 900g worth of oil so that’s what I did, but your mold will be different. If you Google something like “how to calculate soap mold capacity” you’ll find a helpful formula that I used forever ago to calculate each mold capacity so now I just know the molds I have. It’ll be super helpful to do for your own molds! Hope that helps, and thanks so much for watching! ☺️
This is a much easier demonstration than what I have been seeing. Thank you for such an easy demo. Now I can get cheap wood boxes from a craft store(which I also got from someone on RU-vid) and parchment paper!😊
Oh my gosh I have a question! Would you be willing to do an episode showing how you're able to charge that much for your product? I checked your website and was surprised.
Are you also a soap maker? If so, I'd really recommend making sure that you're charging enough for your soaps, as we sometimes see folks charging so little that they hardly cover their costs (let alone their time). Our prices are pretty standard for handmade soap, and in fact, a lot of local soapers in Ottawa are charging more than we are with the recent spike in ingredient costs. Customers are happy to pay what soap is worth if it's a good-quality bar that lasts a long time and doesn't dry their skin out. Ours fits the bill for customers, so we're pleased to say that many of them are repeat customers as well. 😊
@TubbyTabbySoaps I'm putting together my own operation right now,yes. I always start my research backwards from end user to production, I've been seeing ma y many people selling soap for half this price, so I thought it was about close to market standard. What would you consider high-end product pricing? Thank you so much for answering!
@@driftaway2806 The question about what high-end pricing is, that's difficult to answer. We feel that the best starting point is the cost of production. Calculating based on that will take guesswork out of it, and makes sure you still get paid for your labour. There are a lot of resources online (including on RU-vid) around how to price your handmade products, and most of them are something along the lines of starting with cost of production (including labour, utilities, packaging, etc.), and then marking it up for wholesale, then marking that up for retail. I'd recommend checking them out, and using that as a guideline. Good luck!
With clays in soap, there is a certain a mount that works best, and we're really happy with how this soap performs with the amount we used. Thank you for the idea, though!
2:30 i though it was not possible until i found the soap That “microwaving”it, it really would puffs up, and look like a Cloud! But It only happens to the “ivory” soap and it’s not for a few seconds, in the microwaves. It takes time it’s almost minutes, but on high temperature it literally gets just like that. And once it’s puffed up, you can’t just open the door of the microwave. You must allow it to cool down, and it will dry like it was in a mold or something. And you can’t use the microwave for food in about hours cause there will be left overs of the soap inside de microwave, plus the scent, won’t be easy to remove. But REMEMBER: - Only the IVORY WHITE SOAP, that I am aware, does this trick. Now you know: IVORY WHITE SOAP.
I wondered about that! When I was a kid, the only kind of soap my mother bought was the Ivory one and it looked like that. So now we know! But I still think it's a waste to use a chunk when you can just lather it on your hands. Oh well! *shrugs*
@@TubbyTabbySoaps I agree with you, it is literally a waste of soap cause it doesn’t last long. I made a few times at my daughter’s request , specifically when she gets some friends for pijamas party and she thinks it’s funny to have a cloud soap in the WC, and like I said, it’s just for the fun. Cause if you get a pice of the soap it’s filled with air bubbles trapped inside and it melts/dissolves pretty fast with warm water.
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Great question! There is a general consensus that Aleppo isn't Aleppo unless it's got a little laurel oil mixed in with the olive oil, although castile is just the olive typically. But castile seems to be a descendent of Aleppo, in a way, because the ancient Syrians were making soap long before Europeans (who gave castile soap its name). We know that Aleppo, Syria, is where some of the oldest soap recipes originated, making the Middle East a rich basin of scientific and cultural ingenuity yet again! Hope this helps! ☺
Sorry, Flores, this is our own secret recipe! But for a full list of ingredients, you can check out our website: tubbytabby.com/product/bay-rum-shave-soap/
It helps to harden the soap faster so we don’t have to wait as long to unfold the soap. If you don’t mind letting it sit for a few days, you could omit this ingredient. Thanks for your question! ☺️
Love it, that looks simpler than the other video I was watching. I tried to fold the paper like she showed but couldn't figure it out. I'm going to try your way. Thanks for the video.
what happens if you just stop at the mashed potato stage and put in mold? I would still think it goes faster than cold process right just obviously not as fast as HP?
Possibly so! I can't say from experience, though, as I've never tried it! If you give it a try, let us know how it goes, yeah? And thanks for watching! :)
Anytime you change the oils you're using, you'll need to run the recipe through a lye calculator to be sure it's safe. There's more about this in our Q+A video on the Tubby Tabby Soaps channel, actually! But we love to use the Soapee calculator ourselves, as it has a really wide range of oils to choose from. Since each type of oil takes a different amount of lye and it's hard to keep track, the calculator makes it much easier. Hope that helps, and thanks for watching!
Our shampoo bars don’t need a rinse. We don’t make hair soap anymore-I believe your original question was on the ACV video. We’ve discontinued making that, but if folks decide to use that recipe to make their own, we still recommend the rinse. You can check out our updated shampoo bars at tubbytabby.com if you’re looking to purchase a bar that doesn’t require a rinse. Our current selection of shampoo bars is totally safe to use on your hair without a rinse afterwards, as they’re all PH balanced. 🙂
Great question! Because the chemistry of soap completely transforms the ingredients into a new substance (ie. soap!), the original properties of the ingredients change somewhat. For example, ACV is slightly acidic on its own, but because we’re adding a super alkaline substance (ie. lye!) to it, the PH completely changes by the end. The finished soap is alkaline, which opens up the hair follicle and leaves the hair shaft very vulnerable and susceptible to breakage and other damage. Hair needs a slightly acidic PH to close the follicle again to protect and smooth our hair. Unfortunately, there is no way to make soap slightly acidic so that our hair likes it and it closes the follicles. This is because soap is by definition alkaline (PH 8-9 minimum), and if it gets to a lower PH it kind of…falls apart? (Like it isn’t soap anymore, just a blob of mess. I’m not sure how to describe it better than that, I’m afraid!) So while this soap will clean your hair, you’ll want to make sure to follow it up with something a little acidic, like an ACV rinse, so that your hair follicles close and your locks are protected. 🙂 For more info on this, we do have a Q+A on the channel where we answer this question because we get it a lot! Feel free to check it out! And thanks for watching! ☺️
Ευχαριστώ για την συνταγή . Με τι λάδι θα αντικαταστήσω το canola oil ? Στην χώρα μου δεν χρημοποιήται και δεν υπάρχει στην αγορά .Ευχαριστώ που μοιράζεσαι μαζί μας τις εμπειρίες σου Μαρίνα από Κρήτη
Hi Marina! Canola oil is also called "rapeseed oil", so maybe this will help. If you can't find any canola or rapeseed oil, you must use a lye calculator because each oil consumes a different amount of lye. You can choose another oil and calculate the correct amounts using the lye calculator. I hope this helps, and thank you for watching our video!
We don’t find that it does, not much anyway. We typically pour our soaps at a medium trace because we love swirls and things, but even at a lighter trace, the tiny bit that seeps behind is caught by the double layer that we wrap around the back. Know what I mean? I’ve also seen folks fold, not cut, like Jerika Zimmerman has a tutorial like that. But I find the paper gets too bulky like that and kind of “digs” into the soap at each end. So you have to pick your battle, for sure!! But thanks for your question and for watching our video! Hope you enjoyed it! ❤️
I had the same reactions as you. The aloe was one😂🤣😂 I’m surprised they didn’t toss in the roots, too! The honey soap had me gasp & shout out NOOOOO! The glow in the dark soap does work in M&P. I got green & blue glow in the dark micas from Nurture Soap. Booty’s will be burning if they use that cinnamon soap😂
Right?! They will definitely think twice about using cinnamon next time! 😄 That's good to know on the glow-in-the-dark soap! We've never tried it ourselves, but since the soap is clear, it seems like letting light pass through is letting light pass through...if that makes sense? But thank you for confirming! And for watching-glad you enjoyed it! ☺
Completely agree with your opinion! And also about the Aloe Vera going to the liquifier i can’t stop thinking, how the spikes must hurt pretty bad on your skin.
Thanks for watching our first react video! Let us know in the comments what you'd like us to react to in the next one, and if you'd like another at all! ☺
