I use a large wax melter with a pour spout for my oil and a glass tea pitcher with a pour spout for my lye. I just get however much i need and create. I stir the wax pot before I get oil and the lye I soap at 31% so, I mix the water already added. However, when I'm doing a specialty soap I do it like you and store it with a label on top(I'm a forgetter) that has the correct page number in my recipe book. LOL. We all find little ways of speeding up the measuring, pouring and spooning. I dread that part so much I try to make it quick. I'm learning to make a face care line and I'm back to tiny measurements and glass beakers. I feel like a bull in a china shop. LOL. I love to watch your videos because they give me such good ideas and tips I'd never thought of. Thank you so much for all the content you take the time to share.
I love this method! What a great idea to save time, and also a way to work on something on the days you're feeling uninspired...just mix up the oils to prepare for the day you're ready to make soap. Thank you!
Thank you. This will work for me! Funny how a simple idea can make ones work run so smooth. It doesn't have to be as difficult and dangerous as I was imagining in my head :-) Appreciate this!
When I get my garage cleaned out and a counter and cabinets set up I will do this, but for right now the only thing I am ‘batching’ is my lye solution the night before. Just doing that has saved me so much time.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have always been under the impression that you had to have your ingredients around 100 degrees in order for it to come to trace spot properly
Thank you for the great ideas, and container suggestions! I've been enjoying making smaller batches lot late, but they're a little less word than a bigger batch...but using the master batch with your favourite recipe makes things faster, and neater...
I never thought about preping this way! This is really good if you have your go-to recipe and want to focus on design and color. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this video. I just made two loafs today and told my husband, I should mix a couple of batches of oil ahead of time. So I was very surprised to see this video in my feed right after I said that. Thanks again this video is a great help. 😉
....and then my entire life was simplified.... I will definitely be masterbatching my oils. However, I won’t be masterbatching my lye bc I hardly ever use water, I always use beer, milk, heavy cream, aloe, etc... I know about the 50/50 rule but I’ll just measure out my lye... but my soaping Time was just cut in HALF... thank you Amanda!!!!
Those are the same products I use....they are great! Also, there are smaller ziploc containers for smaller batches. I use those for 2 lb batches. They are great and love the fact they have screw tops instead of pull off lids.
I have been doing this for a few years..I make large batches each in my 3 stock pots...I then measured out my lye also in 3 bowls and cover them . I don;t mix mine till I'm ready as I make goatmilk soap and I have tried mixing ahead but it gets thick.It makes life so much easier. Thank you for explaining in plain english as so many others talk % and I just don't get it. :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and tips. I guess these Rubbermaid containers are more difficult to find in 2022. I finally found them at Dollar General (what a misnomer), and the Ziplock ones on Amazon. This will save all that dishwashing and (sometimes; okay most times) the mess up, THEN the 2 hr. clean up. 😞 I love your multiple batch tip 🙂!
Hello, this is a great idea. Can't believe it took till now to stumble upon this video. Talk about making life easy!!!! I do have a question though.....you took your oils/butters and X times 5 which I was right with you. Got that but when you did the water and lye, you lost me. How come you only X'd it by 2??? If I took the water of 342 grams and lye of 124.61 grams and weighted each container to have 342 water and then mix 124.61(or close to) of lye would that be okay for each batch because you lost me when you did X 2.......lol
I came across your video today. Thank you so much for the information. I do have a question....how long can you let sit the lye solution in containers before using them? Thank you
Helped show me I'm doing it correctly. May need to get the e-book on concentrated lye solution but still a bit nervous about a math mistake, lol. Thank you for the video!
so nice to follow in metric🇱🇺🇱🇺👍i go to a day centre cuz i am♿and prepare all in plastic cokebottles and alsothe lye prepared in small zipbag so when i get there just ready to run btw i cannot download your batch pdf sorry i really like your vids so clear👍
17:27 I still want to know what happens if you do it backwards 😂 18:43 I don’t understand why you mix up 5 different solutions, rather than mixing I big batch then divide 5 ways afterwards?
Yes they will turn back solid. And to answer your second question - you asked this question 2 months ago which is about the time I premixed my lye. I am still using that lye.
@@LadyGecko I guess I am a day late and a dollar short and you now know the answer. I just thought it was a good question and other people might want to know the answer. Oh yeah, you asked how long can you keep premixed. My premix is older then your question so that might be your answer.
This Master Batching looks so laboursome. Why don’t you pour the calculated oils into a 1 Gallon container and pour out what you need for your recipe when ready for your one loaf. And pour all the Lye solutions calculated and mixed up into another Gallon? Then pour out what you need when ready for that loaf. So much repetition here, containers, and clean up! I’m sure there are ways to be even more efficient than this .... four years on! Thanks anyway.
You said not to make lye solution in glass, companies that sell the lye say use heat resistant glass or plastic. Why do you not suggest using glass. I am new to soap making and went with the recommended glass, a coffee pot, heat resistant enough for coffee, would you say this is not safe for making lye solution? I’m not being snarking, I’m trying to learn.
I have always made sodium hydroxide solutions (lye) in glassware in chemistry labs. With proper glassware (ie. no cracks), mixing lye in glass should never be an issue
Oh wow, I didn't know that you're not supposed to mix lye in glass containers. I've been specifically using my pyrex containers to mix my lye 😥 -- On her website she says that the lye can etch and shatter glass.
Mixing lye in glass should not be an issue provided you have proper glassware, always make sure there's no cracks. Invest in some lab grade beakers if you're worried (shouldn't be too expensive if you find the right source). I would prefer to use a pyrex jug over some plastics as not all plastics are designed to handle heat
In a decent plastic container you should be able to store the lye for months/years. In my chemistry labs they store concentrated sodium hydroxide solution (which is what lye is made of) in plastic tubs with a plastic tab for dispensing
They last indefinitely. It's just lye water. It's not going to change or become something else. I make five tons of soap each year, and I don't 50/50 batch. I do the full ratio and store it in HDPE plastic cat litter jugs (cleaned very thoroughly). Our batches are around 25 pounds each (four logs), which comes to 64 bars. On nice days I'll make a couple extra batches of lye water, then store it for rainy, sleety or snowy days, or when it's 20 below zero (or if I'm just lazy or in a hurry). I've stored lye batches for weeks and it works just fine.
Hello! I buy them at Walmart usually... These are the ones for lye - they come in difference sizes. www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Medium-Round-Containers/dp/B007J46WRU/ref=sr_1_7_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1534553554&sr=8-7&keywords=ziploc+twist&dpID=51WGOxKHIWL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
