How to Make Super Thick Lathering Dual Lye 🪒 SHAVING SOAP🪒 w/ Recipe & Tutorial | Ellen Ruth Soap 

Oh this looks great Ms. Ellen! Thank you for sharing!!!

I've always heard of duel lye making and was curious. You gave us a great tutorial! Thanks!

Wow!! These are great!

Thank you Ellen 🙏 Once again you’ve shared a wonderful recipe 🤩 I can’t wait to try it 😃

Thanks, that is great recipe. Tried and got very good shaving results - soap foam is as good as I can imagine.

Thank you for sharing this! This is my next project, so glad to watch you do this! 🪒🧼😊

Thank you. I plan to try this today. Appreciate your tutorial and recipe 😊

Wonderful!!! ❤️

Thanks Ellen for showing this really yummy soap!!

I love those mugs for the shave soap! I'm definitely intrigued by this recipe! Thanks for sharing ☺️

I have been wanting to make shave soap, you gave me encouragement.

Wow this has been a big inspiration. Thank you!

I have been wanting to try a dual lye soap for years now, but have always talked myself out of it for one reason or another. You have inspired me to dive in and give it a try!

I don't make shaving soap, but watching your videos is a fun way to start the week. Thanks for a great demonstration.

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my significant other!!! So excited for him to use

Just made this because my stearic finally came in. It was sooo easy! Thank you so much for the recipe!

I made this for a friend who usually buys his shave soaps on the Oregon coast at a specialty shop. He liked this recipe so much that he wants more! Thank you Ellen❤. I love your videos…you’re a great inspiration!

Just gorgeous 😍, I never would have thought to do so.

Thank you so much for sharing your technique and your recipe!

Love this ❤️❤️❤️

Another great product from you Ellen Ruth:)

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. You always make your videos so easy to follow. I plan on making these. Again, thank you @

Sooooo cool! Plus i love a good lather test

Love watching this thank you so much!

I want some! It looks so lovely Ellen. 🪒

I always enjoy your videos Ellen.They are very informative.Thank you very much.God Bless you. From Puerto Rico island.

thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us! i would definitely give it a try

Ellen, I believe the correct pronunciation is Shay. Thank you for always being so upbeat and cheerful, watching your videos always brightens my day. Also thank you for sharing your amazing recipes with us. Sending love from Canada

Oгромное вам спасибо! Мыло удалось шикарно, хотя я изменила рецепт. Результат великолепный. Элин вы чудо !!!

I make dual lye shave soap. Im excited to see this video!! Tip #1 - add NAOH first. Then add KOH slowly. KOH sounds like a volcano. Tip #2 - wear a mask when measuring KOH. The powder will beat up your lungs. I cook my dual lye soap in crock pots.

Очень благодарна за рецепт и видео!

I usually make my dual shaving soap my crock pot. I think I'm going to try this, it looks fun! Thank you Ellen for sharing this nice video!❤️

Love this receipe.

Very nice, good looking lather. I will try it! Thank you for sharing

Nice job Ellen! I have never had it volcano on me- but I do think when people soap hotter then the chances are greater~

I didn't make yet shaving soap, but I will give a try your recipe. Thank you! you right it's look a like hp soap!

Great lather, love those containers! Very cute 🙏

Wow it came out so good. It really does lather like shaving cream. But in a bar/cup form. I love it. Beautiful. *chefs kiss*!

Very nice!

Thanks for sharing I will be definitely trying this shaving soap .👍

Wow! You are awesome, girl!

Thank you

That is an incredible lather, I love it. I am definitely trying this recipe. For what it’s worth, I’ve always pronounced shea like chez in French. 🧼🪒❤️😊

Definitely a try!! You inspire me!! I just made some soap right now for my husband and son, with Sandalwood, Patchouli and Bergamot. I can't wait to try this recipe, and the cups, SO ADORABLE!!

I love it

Loved this video... Thank you Ellen! As always you rock ❤️ I did watch Holly make this in her channel... 🙂 Thank you for mentioning her 👍 love the packaging idea... I mean how cute are those cups ❤️❤️❤️

I've been wanting to make a shave soap, but kept putting it off. This video gave me the push to make some for Christmas. Thanks for bravely filming your first try!

Amazing recipe, my father wil enjoyed his shaving 😎

A couple points to note.... When using the fragrance oils....its best to use no more than 3% (oil weight) (make sure you look at the IFRA data) lower then 3% and the fragrance will be very light. Keep you lye water and your oils within 10-15 degrees of each other....your oils will work best at 160-170 degrees....when the lye gets too cool and you add it to the hotter oils, it has a faster chance of "curdling" (kind of like seizing up) You can use Aloe Vera Juice in place of the water at the same amount....30-35% aloe water is ideal. Some KOH lye (potassium hydroxide) is less than 90% purity. If your KOH isnt 90% it will affect the outcome of your soap. Clays....doesn't matter if if its kaolin or bentonite or french....dont use it! Clays dull a shave razor and also makes the razor build up under the blades faster..especially with multi-blade disposal razors. Key oils and fats to use are those that have a high stearic SAP value. Key fats to use are tallow, lard, shea, mango butter, cocoa butter, and palm. The higher the stearic value the better the lather. Superfat...be careful with this....dont go to high on the SF (at most 5% is best) the higher you go, the softer the soap is. You WANT a semi firm soap...not as hard as a bar soap, but you dont want a soft soap that you can push your finger into easily....the softer it is, the less lather it is. Shave mugs/bowls.....these are designed to fit a shave puck...there are many commercial makers that make these pucks...porasso, williams, clubman, and others. Those pucks are anywhere from 3/4 to 1 inch thick. They are made to set down inside the shave bowl/cup so that the brush has room to build the lather....if you are going to prefill a shave bowl....fill it up half way....3-4 oz is pretty close to half way mark on most shave bowls. I also developed and formulated a shave soap ( I actually have two types...one is vegan and the other is animal fat based) The pucks I make are made in a PVC pipe and I also prefill shave cups too. A few fragrance oils to consider...Depending on who you buy from For the masculine side Mahogany Teakwood....manly, musky, bold Black Sea...Fresh and light Shave and a haircut...old fashioned barbershop smell Sandalwood....earthy and bold but not over powered Bergamot Waters....fresh and light Noir....this is a BBW fragrance....(top notes..{Coriander, rosemary, sage, bergamot}....middle...{Lavender, cardamom, orange flower} bottom..{Musk, vanilla, amber, woods, vetiver}) Enjoy!...Happy Soaping and Shaving!

Thank you awesome video

Oh wow!! Gorgeous! I just tried a dual lye shaving soap hot process last Friday. It was my first hot process and I wanted to make sure I could mold it into my bowls but I think I overlooked it. My recipe was very similar without the silk and instead of coconut oil I used beef tallow. My husband tried it today and the lather was gorgeous just looked too rustic!! To sell anyway. Will definitely love to try your method next time!

I like this way better than the crock pot way! I made a cold process shave soap and while the bentonite made it silky, it’s more like a shave lotion 😑

Hi Ellen! I can't wait to try this, it looks like an amazing recipe! Have you ever made a beard wash bar?

This is a lovely recipe, love the cups so much. Also it’s pronounced Shay 😀

I say shay for shea oil, but if you google it, she says 'she' ! Thanks for the video, love watching you and listening to you chatting!

Thanks for sharing your recipe, and for making me giggle every time you say VANillin. 😂

Ellen I LOVE making shaving soaps and I use them myself as well, dual lye is just amazing!! I include lanolin and beef tallow on the non vegan version of mine’s and honestly the lather is superior, just restocked mine last week. Used some ceramic container I found at the store. Love your containers!!! Thank you for sharing

That's amazing & was shocked to see the lather.Loved it💗Thank you for sharing the recipe Ellen.Can you please let me know what percentage of Essential oil we must use in this recipe ???

I want to try it out for a Shave.

I just made this soap. I’m very excited to use it, as I am a 33 year old man who just got heavily invested in wet shaving. I shave my head every 2 days and want to play around with soaps.

Ellen you always inspire me! I've been studying the dual lye conversions. The problem I'm running into is how to calculate my water portion. How did you formulate the water portion? SoapCal gives very high water...

I’m sure you’re out of them by now but I love one of those mugs full of soap.

Very nice. Almost want to give that a try. Not yet. I’m still learning all I can about cp.

I made this dual lye shaving soap today. No problem with volcanoing but it never did come to the glossy stage. It just kept getting thicker until it was a pile of soap crumbs which I wadded into a ball and crammed it into the little containers. I guess I stirred it to long but I never did see glossy.

Thank you very much. Any recommendations for water content? I use a 2:1 ratio, and even after a week, my bars still sticky. I did add glycerin after the cook, but not sure if I add too much. I use cold process method

You have other shaving videos which recipe did your customers like better? I know I've said this before but I love your videos they are so educational and you do such beautiful work

The African ladies that make it from the nuts say Shay Butter they leave the "e" out.This looks like one of the easiest I've seen, wow the lather is beautiful.

Watching you do "the lather test" makes me *almost* want to revisit shaving my legs. With that sort of soap. NB : I DID say "almost"

I love all your recipes! Can I put this shaving soap into 4 oz. glass ball jars and use plastic lids that fit? I thought that they would be better than the metal lids and rings in case of rusting. Thanks

I love the shave cups, may I ask where you got them? Thank you for the video

Looks luxurious! I bought black ramekins to go with my black handle boar bristle shave brushes:) I was thinking of doing a hot process soap and adding the bentonite Clay. I’d love to try this but I don’t have time to order the potassium hydroxide. There’s a recipe that uses soy wax, I’d love to try that as well!

Hi Ellen once again I absolutely love this! Questions do you add a preservative? Also is it a hard soap? I want to make and give as gift. Is it a good idea to put in jars?

Thank you for another lovely video and for the recipe idea. May I ask about the amount of water ratio that was used here please? Have a wonderful day, I enjoy your videos and work very much.

Thank you again for your wonderful videos, looks sooo cute !! I have a question, what's the purpose of the stearic acid in this recipe?

Great video.. 🥰 would love ❤ to try.. But what's the water%..

Always love watching your videos. May I ask what size box do you use for your shave brush?

Shea butter is pronounced Sh-a the A has a long vowel sound, my maiden name is Shea. I love sandalwood for men's products, i scent my shave soaps with it also.

Thank you for another wonderful video & recipe. What are u using 4 a superfat? Also when should it be added?

Ellen, could you whip it for whipped soap?

Lovely lather. What percentage of glycerine did you add at end of cook? Did you do a water discount while making lye to compensate for added liquid at end of cook?

Love your videos!! I say "shay" butter! I don't have any tusssia silk, can I just omit it?

It is okey to use metal insted of cristal (glass) for melt and lyes?

Great, thank your sharing your recipe.! May I ask the water amounts you have used to make the lye solutions? Not sure if I missed it?

Hi Ellen. How much sandalwood fragrance was used in this recipe?

Hi Ellen, would bentonite clay work here to add? I need to use mine and wonder whether you would recommend. Looks beautiful!

Hello, how does it make sure that it's ready or done for transferring to mold or cup? Is it when it's start to glossy? Thank you sharing

What is the reason for the glycerin?

Hi, I really love all your soaps. One question, Can I use this soap not only for shaving, but also can use it as a body wash? thanks, regards

Nice tutorial as usual. Where did you purchase the cups from?

First of all, I love your videos!! 🥰 I do have a question for you regarding the addition of glycerin at the end of the cook. Did you do a water discount to add it or did you just add it at the end as extra water? I will say that I do the HTHP (High Temp Hot Process) all the time and I LOVE IT but you definitely have to research it really good due to using such high temps and of course the volcanos that could happen! 😁 Thanks so much!!

Hi ..thanks for the video But I don't understand how did u calculate koh ..naoh..and water ??

Can you tell me where you found the lovely little cups?

Hello, love your videos. Would this work without the glycerin?

Can you try this with rendered tallow?

Hi, I’ve never made soap of any description before, but I’m keen to make my own shave soap. I have a few questions that maybe you or your viewers could provide input on. 1. Is is possible to make up the soap without scent and melt it at a later date to add scent? 2. If I were to use tallow, would I just replace some or all of the fat? 3. If I wanted to add menthol crystals, at what point in the process would be best for this? Thanks!

Hi Ellen, I have never used glycerin in my soap making. What is it’s purpose and if I don’t use it, how much more water would the recipe need to make up for that omission?

Turned out great....just wondering if you are you going to try making a duel lye soap paste?

Do you have an easy way to clean up after? That stearin acid makes the soap batter get hard fast!

Not sure what I did wrong but mine went really thick and hard to stir after I poured the lye in with the oils (before the fragrance). I followed the directions. Measured carefully. I'm a CP gal so maybe I need to try again. How do you melt your oils/steric acid? Microwave or double boiler method? I squished it into the molds. Let's see what happens!

Talk about an arm workout 🤣, this looks like one! This shave cream looks wonderful!