How to Make Lye Soap : How to Decorate Finished Homemade Lye Soap

Learn how to decorate your finished bars of soap in this free video on homemade soap making.

Expert: Sheryl Andrews
Bio: Sheryl Andrews is an enthusiastic advocate of the home arts. This award-winning quilter and crafter has spent a lifetime exploring the depths of traditional home skills.
Filmmaker: Christina Knickerbocker

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[crookedcreekct]

I can't see her decorate the soap because of that darn "expert village" graphic. Geez.

[bjjowett]

I agree about beeswax, however, some vegetarians, wegans, or other people believe that it is 'morally' wrong to use animal by-products. I personally think that it is ludicrous. I believe that as long as the animal, insect, etc. is not purposely harmed, killed, or affected negatively in any way, then it is fine. Same with trees, or plants, I believe that as long as the twigs, trees, plants, etc. are naturally felled, then it is fine to use the materials.

[tiggerkenwood]

@watusernameshudiuse

I personally want to make homemade soap because of allergies to many cosmetic ingredients. Further, 99 percent of the bar soap that you can buy at stores like Walmart contains antibacterial agents which men can use with no ill effects but many women cannot (they cause bladder and yeast infections). The soaps like Dove that don't have antibacterial ingredients have comedogenic (acne causing) ingredients made from animal fat.

So, those are my reasons:)

[sunshyneNrainxx]

You have no idea what you've been wAshing with. Look up the ingredients if you don't believe me. And if there's any vegans out there... Sodium tallowate is rendered animal fat. It's in most commercial soap.... Hence they can claim it's moisturizing. Yuck

[sunshyneNrainxx]

The PH level is similar. Not the ingredients. Commercial soap is made with crude cheap oils then the glycerine is stripped from it and they add chemical stabilizers and bonding agents along with surfactants to bind what's left. They can't even call it soap anymore. That's why it's labelled " body bar" or something like deodorant bar. Because it's no longer natural it's considered a comestic and therefore has FDA requirements.

[watusernameshudiuse]

just as you said, it's pretty much the same as commercially made soap, so why would you go to the trouble of making your own?

[honeydipped67]

How can a PH of 10 be good, when your skin natural PH is 4.....that is not good. Paraben, mineral oil, and petroleum is not healthy for the skin.

[momtomtse]

This is the FIFTEENTH and LAST video in this series.

[WellMeaningGentleman]

You sound like Samantha from Bewitched.

[blondethai]

I just don't understand why you have this beautiful video, very well done but then have the wording OVER her hands so we can't see what she is doing.. :-(

[pampamy]

@bombonasecino1 i run your "recipe" in soapcalc dot com and first of all, 3 liters may not be equal in weight. You want to weight the oil always. Then, you just used 2 times the water needed for that amount of oil. (too much water!). and finally if you use the calculator you will see, in the "hardness" description that your get a 17 that is very soft, you need to be over 29 to be aceptably solid. hope you used preservant, because with that amount of water soap will rotten!!

[bombonasecino1]

I made soap and its been a week and the soap is still soft as a brownie. what have I done wrong?

I used 3 liters of olive oil , 3liters of water and 500ml of lye. can anybody help me? thank