Thanks for watching! You can read more about formulating cold process soap recipes on our website here: bberry.studio/FormulatingCP Video Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Saponification 02:23 - Choosing Oils: Firm vs. Soft 03:56 - Soft Oils 04:22 - Choosing Oils: Properties of Oils 07:12 - Soap Made with One Oil 10:16 - INS Numbers 11:36 - Soap Recipes to Start 12:53 - Tweaking Recipes 14:52 - Choosing Oils: Design Elements 16:26 - Bloopers If you have any questions, feel free to contact our customer service team at info@brambleberry.com or 877-627-7883 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday. You can also live chat with customer service on BrambleBerry.com from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST, Monday-Friday. Shop Bramble Berry: bberry.studio/_ShopBrambleBerry Recipes, Tips & Inspiration: bberry.studio/IntheStudio_Projects Facebook: facebook.com/BrambleBerry Instagram: instagram.com/brambleberry/ Twitter: twitter.com/brambleberry TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@brambleberry Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/brambleberry/
I've been ordering from Bramble Berry since 1998 when I started my business. So I've been making soap for over 20 years, and I always enjoy reviewing the basics. It all comes down to the fundamentals. You have wonderful raw materials and tutorials.
Thanks for this I am a person that likes a one stop shop . If it works y try try to fix it. I’m going to start my soap business and will be ordering everything from here.
This was a great video! It took me a year to perfect what I think is the perfect bar of soap, it has sunflower oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter. It is moisturizing, cleansing, great bubbles and rinses away quickly and cleanly. Thumbs up!
This is a great video for beginners who actually want to learn to make soap from scratch and formulate to their own likes. I hope to see more of this type of video from BB in the future
For those of you looking into this and worry about how fast your recipe sets up, it's also good to note that fragrances you add definitely can also affect the speed at which the soap sets up. Some can seize your batter, making it soap on a stick in literally seconds, other can actually slow down your trace and make it take longer to set up. If you're looking to do designs, keep this in mind when using the same recipe for different designs. The temperature of your oils and lye when making the soap can determine speed of set up as well!
I have watched so many video's on soap making, have made two batches and was thinking of trying next for some colour twirls etc. I've learned the basics but I needed to review a handful of various soap makers video's to gather some notes before I made my next batch but your video today was DAMN good!! You have given me all the info I needed to proceed!! Thank you SO SO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is the only video that I have found on this platform, easy to understand for a beginner. The clear, practical explanation, especially bluntly. I love it. Thank YOU! 🙋🏻♀️🇺🇲🇲🇽
Thank you for making this video. I was very informative. I want to try to make the soaps in Lemon verbena, rose, lavender, eucalyptus and peppermint. I'll always be a baker first but I'm pretty excited to try this new craft. Thanks again for posting.
Good video, thank you, I am just making soap for personal use. I've learned a lot here on your channel🙌. Now everyone I know wants to try the soap I make.💓
Thank you really good information but especially the part on replacing palm oil which I do not want to use having seen what happens in parts of Asiatic countries. I am at the stage now of trying different oils so again thank you
This was amazing!!! I have a couple books on soapmaking, including some from the Soap Queen herself! I am planning a recipe for some soap for a friend who is allergic to coconut oil , but he's not sure just how reactive he is to it in soap because a lot of commercial soap is made with tallow. As such, one of these recipes with 25% coconut oil sounds like it might hit the good spot for me!
When i was looking for yhe properties if oil to use in my soap, vum! This video came up. Thanks very kindly Blam berry, im rich with these information. Youre the best.
This video answered so many of my questions. I loved the examples of the different types of lather and the explanations of how trace can help or hinder your designs, and how choosing your oils are an important factor in you design concept ❤ So far, I have been noting fragments of information from several different videos from several different soap makers too. It's nice to be able to find so much info in one video 😁 *I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good Katie's (from Royalty Soaps) explanations are in her videos too*
This is just a perfect video to motivate! I'm motivated! I'm going to begin with the basics. I am going to dry up my goats, so I will freeze my goat milk in ice trays and wait for this goat milk project! Thank you Ann Marie 🥰
Great video for every soapmakers out there. We love Brambleberry products. Living in Washington state you are our to go place for most of our soaping supplies for our small business. Thank you for sharing!❤️
I started making cold process soap almost a year ago and I am finally getting the courage to formulate my own recipes rather than just copy recipes I find online, thanks for this video!
Thanks for this video. Very lucid. It makes one to be innovative in creating one's recipe of soap based on the intended characteristics of the soap. I love it. I am a beginner in soap making.
Thank you for this helpful video! I’ve been making my layer soaps and swirl soaps with the same recipe- which has been quite the challenge! This info will help me to change up those recipes.
For any soapers who are looking for a soap frosting recipe, I'd like to share a tip on making soap frosting that worked very well for me. After many failed recipes, and many failed soap frosting methods, I tried the Brambleberry Lots of Lather Quick Mix, (Don't forget to use Brambleberry's lye calculator). I mixed my pre dispersed titanium dioxide directly into my melted oils and blended them up. My lye water and melted oils were around 80 to 90° which is much cooler than I normally soap with but this temperature worked. After adding my lye water to my oils, I stick blended to a very light trace, taking care not to overmix. I hand stirred in my fragrance oil and gave it a another quick mix with the stick blender again being careful not to over mix. My piping bag and tip was already prepared and ready to fill, now I just had to gently stir my soap to watch for it to thicken up to a light pudding consistency. Once I was able to spoon it into my piping bag, it was the perfect consistency to pipe my swirled frosting on my soap cupcakes. While the frosting was still wet, I dusted lightly with Brambleberry's eco-friendly glitter. This Lots of Lather Quick Mix will be my new go-to for soap frosting. I would like to also mention, I piped this frosting on about 10 to 12 bars of cold process soap that had been cut and curing for a couple of days as well as 6 cupcakes that were made with melt and pour a few days earlier. I used a small knife to cut some criss-cross cuts into the top and sprayed each bar with 99% alcohol before piping and I had no problem with any frosting coming off after it hardened. This method has been a lifesaver for me because not only did I get the perfect frosting, but now I don't have to make the soap and the frosting on the same day. I can have all my soaps that need to be piped prepared a few days in advance. If you try this method I hope you have as much success as I did. 😊🎉
These are all great tips for working with soap frosting! We really like the way we did the frosting for our moonchild cupcake recipe as well. www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/moon-child-soap-cupcakes-project/PS000256.html
Thank you Anne-Marie for explaining the formulation of cold process soap. This makes so much sense. I was looking at all the oils offered here in Taiwan and wonder how I am supposed to substitute with oils we don't see here. Thank you again. But, I was hoping if you can go into details about how humidity and temperature can affect saponification.
I think you have the BEST videos on RU-vid! So thank you!!! I looked into ordering a soap kit, however, by the time I pay shipping to Canada and add the exchange on top of the kit cost, it is bit too rich for a young creative boy's 10th birthday gift. I will however keep your business in mind for future and if I EVER can use your services for gifts etc I will absolutely try Brambleberry FIRST! I was wondering, if I were to try the 34% Olive Oil and the 33% Coconut and 33% palm oil for the video you have recommended for beginners, you state it makes about three pounds of soap and thus would add 3 tsp of sodium lactate. How many grams are you using of each of the oils? I did look to order the 7lbs of palm oil and have it shipped to Canada as I wasn't sure what to order on the typical on line ordering platform that starts with an "A" and ends in "on". Lol. UPS was going to cost me $240 in USD to ship this. So sorry, that is ridiculous besides unaffordable.
Thank you so much! The Simple and Gentle Soap Project instructions are available here: www.brambleberry.com/articles-and-projects/projects/cold-process/simple-and-gentle-soap-project/PS000211.html, it can be easily converted to grams for your recipe.
My very first soap was 100% coconut oil, and it's still one of my favorites. It lathers very well and lasts, does not dry my skin but is very cleansing, and is so hard the edges are sharp! Each bar lasts a very long time. I used oil from the grocery store, I don't know if that made a difference.
Thank you for making such comprehensive videos ! I am just starting my soap making journey (literally just at the research phase) and videos like this help so much ! 2 quick questions: what are typical thoughts on using lard as an oil? Is it not used as much as nut and seed oils for ethical reasons? And on that note, are there any tried and true alternatives to the palm oil? I want to avoid it if I can for ethical reasons as well but love the descriptor of how it adds to a well balanced soap . Thank you , wish me luck on my new venture!! 😄✨️
We're so excited for you and your soap-making journey! A lot of folks use lard in their soaps, but it isn't something we sell so we haven't done much testing with it. Lard can easily be substituted for palm oil. A couple good substitutes for palm oil would be babassu oil or palm kernel flakes. We have a great article all about substitutions that can be found here: www.brambleberry.com/how-to/soap/art0074-how-to-substitute-oil-in-cold-process-recipes.html
Fantastic video!!! Thanks so much! I learned so much! The only question I had was ingredients like Shea butter or cocoa butter, I presume it has to be pure 100% Shea or 100% Cocoa butter, right? Where does one find this stuff?
In order to properly calculate the lye it would need to be 100% of that oil. We sell those butters at 100% purity on our website, www.brambleberry.com!
