Hint: keep a spray bottle of hot distilled water and after each stir, spray the sides of the pot. It will keep those dried bits from getting into the batter.They came out lovely! HP is such a surprise!

I've made a lot of hp soap and I always blend it to a very thick, pudding like trace because it does try to separate when it starts to cook. I also agree that hp is more gentle on delicate fragrances because it doesn't have the heat and lye attacking the fragrance molecules. However, none of my hp soaps has been as fluid or beautiful as yours. You really pulled it off well!!!!

Call me crazy, but I just love the sound of that "glopping"! Your fluid HP is outstanding!

I’m a hot process soap maker, and I always add my goats milk in slowly after the cook. It adds to fluidity and you don’t have to worry about the milk scorching or anything. I do have that weird separation when I use colloidal oatmeal, it always comes back together through the cook. I also only blend to emulsion.

I received this bar today & it smells really good. Super mild, not strong at all. I love the hints in it. Both the orange & lime comes through but isn't over powering. Happy customer over here!

I LOVE the granite look of this batch ❤

Thank you for being so thoughtful giving your knowledge and recipes for soaping especially to people who want to start soaping. 💕

Love watching your videos. I usually add the essential oils when my soap is around 100 degrees or below so they don’t burn off. Keep an eye on the flash points. I made that mistake once. 💜

I love HP Soaps. Made a few in the last weeks. Watching your video was so nice, thank you 🥰 What I love about is, that you can add really special and delicate ingredients or oils and they "survive". I made one with special oils from Africa like !Nala and Mongongooil, so that what HP makes special for me.

Thank u You are Amazing. Love all your Videos. Blessings from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤

Also keep forgetting to tell u a natural pink that stays pink is rose clay & a little goes a long way so watch it! You have to kinda experiment with it too find the shade you want! It is a beautiful natural clay with amazing slip and skin benefits! Kudos!

you are doing good. you are totally working your hp with hibiscus and goji. great job girlfrined. i think it looks awewome very royal

Those would look amazing in some fun rock shaped molds! The already look like beautiful slabs of stone.😁 I get hung up on colors and scents going together, but I honestly don’t think most people care!

As a newbie soap maker, I started out with HP to save a seized soap😩and I loved the process and outcome except my top was a mess. This video was perfect for getting tips on keeping molds warm and how to keep the batter more fluid. Thanks!

Beautiful ❤️ This is one of the nicest hot process soaps I have seen.

Beautiful ❤

I love the hot process that's how I make my soap. Mine turn out rustic as well but I am going to be playing around this weekend to try to get a more fluid soap. Thank you for sharing with us, they turned out beautiful. I actually love the colors it looks like cement/rocks with clay through it. 💕

I love that it looks like a mineral soap beautiful!! What about a more masculine scent 😊

It turned out lovely💕💕

I like the gray/not blue color. Nice soap colors 👌. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing all of your experiences, we all have learned so much from you.

I think the colors go together. Love the trio color.

Guys will live this one, it looks like a granite!

Thank you ❤️

High temperature HP soap maker here and I always add any milks after the cook I also add sodium lactate along with 8-10% SF

I love the colors - beautiful soap.

I don’t agree when you said the colors don’t go together. They do go beautifully, I love it, super gorgeous!

I am obsessed! I love the look of these soaps. I have been doing a deep dive on soap making because it will be my annual new hobby to learn for 2024. I was ready to just jump in my doing melt and pour, but the more I have journeyed into the various processes, hot process seems like the road I want to take. I am so excited to jump in next year. I have been binging your videos and I love them! Fabulous work.

HP is fascinating Ellen. The soap looks like a marble counter top.

Beautiful soaps an yes I agree a more herbal scent would be perfect. I like watching cp soap making but something about hp is just so enjoyable to watch for me.

What a beautiful batch of bars! Just gorgeous! With those colors, I think I would do that cashmere, woodsy, beach or sea side, or a musk scent. So beautiful! Also, I loooove what the hibiscus did! It really looks like a luxury, spa bar. I wonder if maybe it looks different on camera?

Also, the soaps turned out really nice!

Are correct, with hot process you need to come to a heavier trace then you would with cold process

You did so great on your hot process soap. I do the High Temp Hot process and it will keep you moving in the process.

Thank you for an honest assessment of your soap💕I learned a lot. It is very interesting compared to cold processing, a little intimidating 😬

I love these bars, they don’t look hot process, you did a great job here. Well done 👍💕💕💕

I think they turned out great. When I saw the thumbnail and the awesome swirls I clicked on the video immediately. It doesn't matter if you're making CP or HP, your soaps are always gorgeous! I always love the look of Hot Process. I haven't mastered a pretty top yet either but after I cut them into bars they still always look good and I like the rustic look. I think a lot of the herbal and flower powders morph because of the high pH and not just due to high temps. I've done HTFHP quite a few times and I love it. Depending on the recipe you can get it to a thick trace and it's just a matter of minutes, maybe not even that before it volcanos the first time. You just have to watch and be ready to stir, stir, stir. It does cook a lot faster but then you have to remember to keep the lids on the crock pots because when it cooks that fast you are losing a lot of moisture quickly and it won't stay fluid for very long. I like to save my essential oils for HP too, and also fragrance oils that misbehave too much in CP. It's nice that there is the option so we don't have to miss out on using some fragrance oils that rice horrifically or totally seize the instant you add them.

Thank you

Pretty! . . . pink for natural colorants I would try madder root (add to lye) or yellow dock root powder infused in one of your soaping oils :)

I love this. I think you did a smashing job! I love the pewter color. Thank you for sharing your experiences and videos! Beautiful. A job well done! God bless you! 🙏

The soap looks lovely, Ellen! It's actually not the heat of either process that causes the hibiscus flower powder to change colour from the lovely fuschia it is normally, but the PH of the soap that causes the change. That said, I really like the colour you got from it in this soap!

I can't smell them, but they definitely had the look. Real nice. 🥰🇬🇧⛄

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I love this soap. It looks like stone with rivers of gold. Absolutely accidently gorgeous! I would suggest you keep making it. I know men especially will love them. Maybe put a mild sweet woodsy scent? Again, gorgeous design and so much hard work. Thank u for sharing. I would also venture out to a soft gold mia in the caramel color and add additional color of copper in the swirl (thin line). Well done.

I usually add the milk toward the end of my process. Also I heat all my additives.

Oh I’m excited. I have all of these ingredients! I think I may try my hand at hot process soap today 😊 Yours turned out beautifully.

It’s a very pretty soap, love how the colors came out.

Your videos are really great. I just recently found your channel and have enjoyed watching several of your videos. You have a wonderful approach to soap making and I am now a fan.

OMG I love this please keep learning so I can see it all

Woe, that’s a gorgeous soap!

Thank you for the tutorial, it was so lovely. By the way….you are really beautiful. You are glowing like a star 💫

Another viewer said guys would love it because it looks like a piece of granite. I have to agree. I really like the way the colors turned out. A little tobacco & bourbon FO and it’s a guys soap, maybe even a shave soap. 🪒👍🏻.

I actually like a juxtaposition in the look and fragrance. Especially because I am sensitive to a lot of fragrances but I really like a color combination. Citrus fragrances are always a go to for me.

I replied to your ❤️ on my own comment that you'll probably never see!! Oops 😬 I found this amazing and so impressive!! Wowness!! Beautiful!

Very rustic! I love it! I have done LOTS of HP .. I do the high heat and can be done in 15 minutes from start to finish .. Just be very watchful if you try the fast method because when it volcanos, it can go over the top .. I also add my milk with the yogurt after the cook so it doesn't scorch .. I have a very heavy weight stainless steel whisk that is my best friend ... brings it together so quick and no risk of burning out your stick blender :)

Just watched this video again and I absolutely love the color of this soap‼️

Ellen, boy what an undertaking you took doing two HP soaps at the same time!! Great job. I think it’s called “Greige.”. I like it and it would go with my son’s bathroom decor.😊

I love love your hot process soap!!! You are my soap guru!! Love all your videos

Hello, I already practice the cold method and I will start the hot method which interests me a lot for the rustic side of its colors and the interest of protecting its precious oils and essential oils. I will allow myself to reproduce your magnificent goji / hibiscus soap, the colors are so magnificent. This will be my first hot process soap. I'll scent it with patchouli and it'll have your name on it, Ellen. Thank you very much for your experience sharing. Isa from France

Goat's milk hot process often separates, I've always just brought it back together with the stick blender. That also seems to make it gel faster also (stick blending while cooking). Unfortunately no botanical other than cornflowers and calendulas seem to stand up to the lye monster. I think it's a cool looking soap, but I agree, the colors don't match the scent. Thank you for talking about the cure time. Too many think they can cook and sell.

Really Beautiful and rustic. I am no expert on HP but many times my oils have separated and come back by using my stick blender the same way you did but you don't have too. I love soap makin' it doesnt always work out as planned, it will test your patience and humble you.❤

I am super happy I have made you another hot process soap in the time I expected, it is beautiful as always ☺️🥰👍🏻

Hi Ellen I made 100% coconut milk HP soap and it came out beautiful. I added coffee grains and some coffee FO. It was pretty fluid and the finished bars are so smooth. Only my 2nd attempt at hp soap. You gave me the courage to do it. So thank you, Ellen. Love from Pretoria, South Africa 😘💐

They look like little rocks. I love it!

Those are really pretty. I’m excited for you to try hthp, it’s really fun.

Turned out nice! I am going to try a hot process soap soon I hope, just kinda weary about it yet lol! I can't put that much coconut oil in mine though, that's pretty drying for my skin, but, I can tweak it lol! Thanks for the recipe Ellen. 🙂

I love your videos you explain alot❤❤❤❤

I absolutely love the color the Hibiscus came out and the little specs in it are so pretty!!! You can use that color in your next color scheme. The swirls are beautiful. Some marble effects there make them so interesting. Cheers 💕💕👍

I love those colors!

Hi Ellen! You are my favorite soap maker to watch. I love that you use natural colors too! I am a natural colorants soaper and wanted to give you a suggestion, try an infusion of Hungarian paprika to give you a bright orange to go with the orange essential oil. Another way to use the hibiscus powder is to paint on bath bombs like you would with a mica. Bless you, take care💖

What a fascinating technique is hot process, it sure is different from cold process but I think I'll stick to cold process and the other hot process technique were you use your hot lye water to melt your hard oils and butters

A friend and I actually use goats. milk instead of water in the ly mixture. I don't cook in the crock pot., but use in a stainless steel pot. and it traces. more like pudding. if you an to see the milk with soap. Check with Blue cactus Dairy goats.

Love watching & learning from you Ellen! I started making soaps a year ago with hopes of one day being good enough to sell. I recently bought three bars of your soap & just started using the gilded pear. It is amazing & I love it. It smells great, lathers wonderfully yet the most wonderful part for me is the way your soap bar feels in my palms. Know it’s weird, yet your soap feels different than other soap makers I’ve tried. Thank you for so graciously sharing with us all❣️ Ann

I see we have the same middle name too & my mama as well as my first daughter and she wanted to carry on the name with giving Ruth to our grand daughter! Any who , I just wanted to say at times I have used silk fibers from Bramble berry & incorporate into my lye solution but it's always bothered me that anything in my lye solution may mostly be destroyed along with the benefits and amazing properties so I researched & finally found a different form of pure silk in powder form from New Directions Aromatics that you can buy soluble in water or oil to dissolve in to add after the cook!! Still relatively expensive but at least doesn't get destroyed in the lye solution and it makes my soap feel amazing ! I've been doing this for years! Thought you'd like to check into this!!

It came out so pretty

I have several crockpots and they all cook differently. One just does not do well at all unless I put plastic wrap over it under the lid. Doing that makes the soap cook faster, and it stays more fluid.

The colors and swirls still turned out gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Can’t wait to try it. 😊

Great video and I do like the colors! I've had the same experience when I used hibiscus powder which turned a burgundy brown color. Also I've started splitting my liquid in my HP soaps. I mix 60% of the liquid with the SH and add the remaining 40% to the soap as soon as it has finished the cook. The part I like is that the soap cooks even faster due to less fluid and your arm gets a workout because of the thick batter.

Very earthy look! I love it! What are you cooking for dinner mom? Hot process soap😁. You're wonderful!

I am NO expert but I have seen some put the milk in after the cook, so MAYBE that's why it separated(?) SO BEAUTIFUL!!! 😍😍😍

Love this rustic look!!! Beautiful

As always, thank you for sharing!!

Ellen all your videos are awesome but this one was so good. Thanks so much. I enjoyed it a lot.

I’ve always been told to add a little at the end,once the soap is cooked, Han add the milk once temp has dropped to 175-180. I hope this helps.😊 Your soaps are always so pretty.

You did very good!!

The soaps came out lovely. This is the first video I've seen where you can add the colors 😅 Thank you. My question would be can you use a hand cake blender on low to do the mixing instead of all the stirring 😊 ❤🎉

Love the way the soap turned out. Amazing lather!

So pretty Ellen!

So cool to watch. Interesting ! 😊

That’s a beautiful soap! Makes me want to try hot process!

Absolutely beautiful. Great tutorial.

The anthocyanin pigments responsible for the red/purple hues in hibiscus flowers are notoriously unstable in high temperatures and changes of pH. They can often behave like litmus, leaning red in acidic environments and blue in alkaline ones, or just decompose on heating. (This is why so few natural dyes are made from flowers or berries, and those that are tend to produce yellows from carotenoid pigments.) It's always worth testing out plant-based colorants by heating in an alkaline solution first to see how they behave. That said, I really like the granite-like effect in the soap and would definitely consider adding hibiscus for a 'stone' soap.

The soap looks lovely.

LOL these food references are making me hungry :D...gorgeous soaps

That’s pretty Ellen!

I had the exact thing happen when I made HP soap with grapefruit juice, it split, but managed to get it to come together with the stick blender, phew! Maybe the sugars or acid in juice/milk? Yours looks great, it's so fluid!

That looks so cool. Thank you for sharing this great video.

Thank you so much for sharing this and the recipe!

That soap is so beautiful. I just got the triple skinny mold but not sure how much of the batter to make.

; Good Morning Your soaps are all beautiful. Hot process needs to have alittle thicker trace to eliminate the separation. I like to have a light to medium trace.