Video making hot process palm free shaving soap with potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide. Hot process soap can let this soap to be used immediately. This shaving soap recipe I am sharing this time will also be a dual lye recipe.
Please always follow safety requirements while making soap! Sodium/Potassium hydroxide is caustic and can cause burns on skin or on mucous membranes!
To make a dual lye solution, I normally dissolve the potassium hydroxide in water first because from experience the heat caused to the water drops quicker than sodium hydroxide. I then add the sodium hydroxide into the same solution once the container is not hot to touch and the solution is clear. It is important to mix your hydroxides one at time! Make sure your solution has become clear after adding the other.
This video will also show you how to use the soap calculator to calculate the proper amounts to add in the formula to make a hard, stable and long lasting bar.
Recipe:
50% Soy wax
7.5% Cocoa Butter
7.5% Shea Butter
25% Coconut Butter
10% Castor oil
38% Lye concentration
5% superfat
3% Essential Oil
Timeline
0:19 Introduction
0:54 The type of oils used
1:33 Making of the lye solution
2:21 Pouring of the lye solution into the oils
3:16 Soap calculation and full recipe
4:46 Changing texture of the soap
5:27 Cooking of the soap
6:03 Adding additives and fragrance
6:40 Pouring into the moulds
7:07 Lather test of the dual lye shaving soap in this video
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My name is Janice and I am a pharmacist working in Hong Kong. The Scraftworks is the short form for "Soap Craftworks" and that this channel is dedicated to show my creations and other home crafts. Soap making for me is a combination of art and science - I love it!
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