Hi . I am a professor of chemistry. I really liked your honesty on detailed recipes and source of raw materials and detailed procedures. I wish you a good luck and more and more success. Thank you
I have been watching soap tutorials for a while now, and when I searched DIY soap, I don't think your videos ever came up. You came up in my feed yesterday. It's funny how RU-vid's algorithm is because of all the videos that I've watched, yours are the best by far. I wish you had come up in my first search months ago, because this is the first time I've felt, "I can do this." The scents, the ingredients, the suppliers, your way of explaining - Top Notch. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful products, recipes & processing tips for your soaps! Am subscribing today, I'm so new to soap making, I'm doing my homework first before I try my hand at it. But I do have a history in creating hand & body oils, as well as balms made from locally sourced herbal plants, flowers, barks & fungi that contain incredible benefits for the skin, hair & nails. Some, if not most are all are safe to ingest, which we've done in teas, broths & dried or mixed whole into other foods for millennia here in Alaska. (I happen to be Alaskan Native, so perhaps I'm your first Eskimo subscriber?) My ultimate plan is to incorporate various types of crafts, hobbies, & possibilities of creative activities that include soap making, lotions, body butters, oils, candles, etc for a battered women's support group center I'm spear heading with other people I've lived with at a women's & children's shelter because of my extremely abusive exbf. So, we plan on revisiting alternatives for therapeutic treatments to refocus the mind. I apologize unreservedly for this comment being so long. Thanks for sharing & have a great day today!
I love it! my only complaint is that it's not edible😋. I started making soap 16 years ago, before people started getting really creative with their recipes. I'm back and excited to get back into the suds game. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I've been subscribed to your channel for a couple of years, was going to make candles then covid sidelined my plans. So here I still am 🤗
This the firs time I see your video, I love it. Mostly I’m locking for ideas to teach kids at the orphanage how to create income once they turn 18 and be on their own. I’ll look for the basic soap recipe.
That's awesome of you! I'm looking to do something similar with a support group center project for battered women at a shelter I once was at. It's incredibly soothing & centers the mind, bonus of the ability to make a living off of it if they so choose to. Good luck with your endeavors!
Banana is one of my favorite soap additives. Instead of putting them in the freezer when we get too many, I dry them in the oven for soapmaking. You can dry it or use it fresh. Fresh is amazing in melt and pour. Nicely done and beautiful soap :)Jen
Hi Jen. I've read that fresh fruit goes off in melt and pour as it doesn't have the lye reaction to prevent that from happening. How long does your banana melt and pour last?
Hey Jen!! I caught ya here! Lol Remember when we were talking about other soaper's using fresh ingredients...she made me think back to our conversation. It was a different soaper that I still haven't come across again though. These kinds of soaps are so amazing. I saw where you said we can use fresh banana in M&P?! Really, never thought we could. That would be a super neat video to do! Wink wink ; ) I would love to see more idea's with M&P. Ttyl Hun!! Big ((Hugs) xo
Hi! Love your videos and I love the way you formulate and the way you think about skin care products. I’m a soaper too and I can’t relate to most of the RU-vid soapers in terms of recipes. They use tons of artificial fragrance oils to tons of artificial colors that look almost toxic. I don’t mind using micas most of the time but my goals when I formulate my own soap are for skin benefits so, I love your formulas. This was inspirational to use cocoa powder and banana purée. I’ll give this a try in the next few days (I have my own formula but thank you for offering some recipes.) Please make more of all natural lines without artificial fragrance oils but more essential oils please. Muted mica colors are acceptable to most people who don’t mind a use of colors but I really don’t like artificial fragrance oils as I’m allergic to some ingredients (who knows what they put in fragrance oils..and it’s petrochemical..ugh.) Thank you for inspirational videos and I subscribed to your channel! ✨
This is an awesome video and a challenge to take on! I love the choices you made and it turned out beautiful! I think you should do a strawberry and cream recipe and a papaya and coconut milk version to see if it works! I hope as your new soap cures it turns out perfect!
My intuition keeps bringing me back to your channel for motivation....I believe it is time I get serious with myself and began cold process soapmaking! I let the fear of the lye keep me from beginning, but I'm going to start... Could you recommend the best place to obtain my lye solution...I had a hard time sourcing it in NC where I soap...thanks a bunch! I love using bananas in my facial products as it is perfect for those with sensitive skin🌻 I would say you send me some lye I'll send you some of my Bet on Me Banana Facial Scrubs as a thank you 😁 Great video!
I have not added food products to myself in the past. I am curious about how well the soap keeps and stores after it is made with food products such as bananas and milk?
New sub to your channel. I have been thinking about starting my own candle/soap business. I've made candles and soap for a few years now and family and friends tell me all the time to stop playing and start my business but I'm just a little uneasy about it. You make it look very easy. I will get there soon. 😉
Work isn't work if you love what you do! I finally talked my brother into opening up his restaurant & he's a phenomenal chef, always had loved cooking & playing around with different flavor combos or even different ingredients that make no sense together & turn out fantastic! I bet you'll succeed & surprise yourself! What's to lose, if you already make it? Try it out at your local farmer's market for a season & have fun!!!
Love your soaps... If I were going to increase the recipe say to a 5 lb loaf would I increase the bananas to 2.5 ozs? And Coco to about 1 1/2 teas.? Thank you
thank you! Yes, exactly, for five pounds of soap I would increase the bananas to 2.5 oz milk to around 2 oz and cocoa to 2 to 2.5 tsp. Make sure and decrease the base liquid when you resize this recipe to account for the milk, if you are using it. :)
Nice video. Iam new to soap making. can pour raw milk or puree at trace with water discount.. and can use explain about the iodine,ins,Linoleic,Linolenic,Myristic,Oleic,Palmitic
Great recipe :) could you please tell me how to wash all equipments after , I have tried before to make soap but couldn't wash plastic containers properly, it was very oily ,thank you
Love Animals I’m a soaper too and it’s best to let the soap residue in your equipment saponify for a day so the oily stuff will turn into soap after 24 hrs. Then you can just soak in hot water and rinse them off like regular soap. That’s what most experienced soapers do. Or you can wipe off the most residue with paper towels right after making your soap (do not let this go down your drain or you would be calling a plumber soon!). Then just hand wash them in hot water with detergent like dawn. Make sure you wear gloves when touching raw soap batter. Good luck!
Um if i did not know this was soap , just going off looks alone I would have assumed this to be cheesecake brownie ... that is dangerous LOL .... try putting that in front of someone who is hungry with no label ..... you did an awesome job
Hello. You wrote 5.26 oz distilled water discounted from 7.26 and said lye and liquid weight 10.40. How much should we add water? 5.26 or 7.26? thanks. :)
Hi, thank you! I have made shampoo from scratch using a cold process method, and like you, I am not a huge fan of how it came out. This year, I am working on solid shampoo and conditioner bars.
Hi .. I'm new to soap making, and am wondering how long would this kind of soap that using raw fruit and milk will expire ? I am thinking to make one of these too. Hope you'll answer, thx
@@SunshineSoapandCandleCompany Thank you :-) think I will try this on the weekend. Probably won't come out like yours. Your soaps are beautiful and so natural.
Elizabeth Mccarthy hi there, believe it or not soap is not actual soap without the combination of fats (oils) and lye (sodium hydroxide) and it is completely natural :) once the chemical process of the two compounds combine (saponification) you have soap. There is no lye present in the finished product. Lye all by itself is a caustic chemical. Most of the soap you buy in the store cannot be called soap because they are not made with lye. They are made with chemicals like detergents and foaming agents which can be irritating the skin.
Sunshine Soap and Candle Company thanks for the reply. Makes sense. Can you clarify what's in the 'melt and pour' soap bases that we get in soap making kits? Like 'melt and pour' goats soap please? Thanks!
This is to prevent soda ash or baking soda from forming on the top of the soap as it sets up. Sometimes this happens and it leaves a white film on the top of your soap, its not very attractive, though it is harmless.
