How to Make Soap: A Beginner's Guide

Tired of searching for the perfect bar of soap to meet your family's specific needs? In this episode, Amy explains the step-by-step process of making your own soap using the simplest recipe from the beginning steps of purchasing ingredients and needed tools all the way to learning how to formulate your own recipe using a Saponification chart. Once you understand the basic process and mathematical equations, the skies the limit on what soaps you can make as you craft new recipes by applying further research on specific ingredients and techniques.

00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Overcoming a Fear of Lye
05:20 - Tools and Supplies
10:33 - Step 1, Determine the Batch Volume
12:28 - Step 2, Online Calculators for Oil Quantities
16:20 - Step 3, Lye Check with Saponification Chart
18:50 - Step 4, The Superfatting Process
22:40 - Step 5, Mix the Lye Solution
25:07 - Step 6, Measuring the Oils
25:56 - Step 7, Combining Oils and Lye
28:33 - Step 8, Pouring into Mold
29:38 - Step 9, The Gel Phase
30:40 - Step 10, Unmolding and curing

Resources -
Saponification Chart - https://www.thekinnardhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Saponification-Chart.pdf

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