Making & Cutting Lavender Chamomile Cold Process Soap (2023)

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Hello everybody, it is me Caitlin here it has been quite a few months since I've done any soaping I made all of my Christmas soaps off of uh off camera a few months before Christmas to get them done ahead of time, and now I am trying to get back to soaping after the holiday season.

It is now January, so I need to get Sophie.

I am wearing a mask because I just mixed my lye solution, so I'm just making sure that's all dissolved and I'm going to be doing the heat transfer method.

So if it sounds like I'm heavy breathing, it's because I am because I cannot breathe very good in mask.

Okay, I am going to strain it just for extra insurance.

Here, I didn't add any Mulberry silk to my live solution.

I want to keep this bar vegan, so there's going to be no milks, no animal or insect or bug anything additives.

It's just going to be soap with some herbal additives now I'm going to just mix this, and hopefully it melts at a decent speed and doesn't thicken up too quick, because that tends to happen.

Alrighty now I will be chopping up.

These chunks of shea butter, not shea butter, mango butter just to speed up the process.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and try to incorporate these in a little bit more by hand before I.

Go full bore with this stick blender here: okay, so I went ahead and put the silicone mat under my Bowl here, just to kind of quiet it a bit because my kids are in the other room.

Sleeping and I do not want to wake them and I also don't want to alert the dogs that are downstairs because they will bark like crazy, I.

Just love making soap.

I haven't really had the energy or the time lately to make it with all of the holiday festivities going on and kids programs, and all of that, so it's nice to get back in my soaping room and I actually had to clean my soaping room because that's where everything for Christmas got stored because the kids aren't allowed in here.

Okay, so I have in this container here.

This is just a little bit of water with some citric acid dissolved in it.

So I'm gonna go ahead and add that in citric acid helps prevent soap, scum in your shower or your bathtub.

So that's why I add that to the soap foreign before I get too crazy, the stick, blending I'm going to go ahead and add the fragrance which is lavender chamomile by nature or by nurture soap and I've, used it before when I first started, making soap a few years back and I loved it, it kind of has like that: nighttime baby wash smell to it, so it's really mild, really gentle smelling and it discolors to like a tan color.

It's supposed to not accelerate, which you know I, don't remember accelerating.

So hopefully it's the same formula that it was back in the day and I'm just going to stick a blend out for all of two seconds.

Just to get this party going.

Hope you can't see me.

Oh you can hello, hello yep! You can see me all right, so this is getting thick.

One thing that I am going to do is split it off into two different containers, which I'm just going to leave part of it in the main container and just add a little bit into this other container, because I can now just leave that in there so into this one, I'm going to be adding some purple mica from um.

True, two girls make us and it's called Purple Haze.

So this is like a nice lavender color, so I'm gonna, throw that in there like so and then into this other container.

I have some lavender powder and some chamomile powder, so that is going into that one I mean I, can't have a lavender, chamomile soap and not add the lavender and chamomile that I have an oh, my goodness, that smells amazing ugh.

It smells so herbal I love like natural soap like if I just had the lavender and chamomile powder in just basic soap, no fragrance or even just a little bit of some light, essential oil just a little essential oil.

That would be awesome, but chamomile essential oil is expensive and always sold out.

So I'm not even gonna, bother with that right now, with the price of everything, it's really hard to get people to even want to pay, for you know a basic bar and then, if you try to add too much into it, that's too expensive.

Are they willing to pay for that because they really don't know how much everything costs to make, and so they want every single one of your bars to be the same price, even though it's not the same price to make every single one of your bars.

If you know what I'm saying to make it easy I like to do like by five bars for so much money, and that way people just buy every time they buy, they buy more of a bulk order.

For me, it's bulk somebody buying 10 bars is to me is a lot of bars to sell because I'm, a tiny, tiny business I'm, not packing orders every day.

My busiest time is Christmas, so it is what it is at that point, but I enjoy it, because I could still hang out with my kids spend time with them have down time.

I'm not constantly busy, which is the whole reason why I quit working in the salon was so that I could spend time with my family.

These chunks need to get smaller in here that lavender, and that is air yippee.

This looks like it might need to be.

Stick Blended for like two seconds.

I really should have pre-dispersed these in oil, but this is a last minute decision and I just didn't feel like it.

Let's be, let's be real here, should I make my life easier? Yes do I! No! Is that a problem yeah? That is pretty look at that that's a nice lavender shade and this it looks like it thickened quick, but it's staying like the same amount of thickness.

You know like me like me: do I want to do a separate layer like two layers yeah.

Let me see what I have going on behind me.

I like to try to not do my bars too similar, so do I want to do purple at the bottom and then this on top Maybe.

You know what I'm gonna do this on the bottom: oops I'm gonna do this on the bottom and then uh lavender on top kind of like a layer, but not this is actually still pretty fluid for how thick it is, which is like perfect for doing heavy drop Swirls and in the pot swirls, but I've done too many drop Swirls and in the pot swirls, so I'm trying to switch it up a little bit and doing this with your spatula is a easy way to kind of knock out.

Air bubbles and I could see bubbles popping to the top.

When I do this and it evens out the soap a bit more too, the dogs aren't going to start barking because I'm doing a lot of ruckus I'm ruckusan.

That is pretty.

This would be nice just by itself.

I.

Just like a nice, simple bar and I know.

I've said that in like all of my videos, but personally I would only make basic simple bars, but I just I, don't know, I have so much fun stuff that I can add to them.

I feel bad, not using all of these stuff, plus I mean it makes for a good.

It's a good eye.

Catcher, it's like having the natural soap with a little pizzazz without being too crazy, because it's not like a frosted soap.

I just want to get like a little bit of texture in here, but not like that.

Much kind of knock things around a bit I, don't want it to look like an exact layer.

So this is me attempting to not have it be like an even layer, I, don't want it to look like a mistake either, like I tried to make it even but I just didn't succeed, so it needs to be bad enough to look like it's on purpose.

That is such a pretty color mm-hmm, good choice and again, thank you to girls micas for supplying me with some beautiful micas.

I love them I'm, trying not to bang this down, but I really want to get some air bubbles out of it, because I don't want to irritate anybody in my house.

Okay, it's definitely ready to texture.

So I, don't know what I'm gonna do.

Maybe I'll just do some swirls.

These gloves, I, don't know if you could hear it, but these gloves are making like a squeaky noise.

All right there, it is I will try to unmold this tomorrow.

At some point um it depends on how busy things get so I will bring you back for the unmolding and the cutting, hopefully, hopefully, I'm, not a liar right now.

Okay, bye see you in a sec foreign Batman.

Okay, it's a little soft.

Still, you sniffing my silt back there bud.

Oh, it's soap, yeah all right! So I guess I will let this sit for soap, a couple hours to firm up the rest of the way since it's getting some more air to it.

Soap, soap, soapy, soap, okay, so I waited like an hour and I'm going to go ahead and just start cutting so I'm going to cut a good sample size off of this end.

So and that's you know just a basic car, my son is in the room.

He is very interested in my soaps.

What are you doing? Nope knock knock who's there.

Who is it? Can you say Happy New Year that I really like that that purple came out really nice yeah, you like that sound.

If you hear like that fan sounding noise, that's just the furnace running! That's the way it sounds coming through.

All of my bends in my house, I noticed that when I was re-watching what I filmed yesterday a lot of the video had that kind of white noise in the background.

So that's what that was.

Oh that's why? Let's look see how my camera's, starting to sag, let's fix that I need to get like a uh, a little wrench, tiny little wrench and tighten this nut s.

I'm gonna go ahead and turn my light on what so you guys could see a little better I was trying to use natural light because I just like the way it natural light is, but it's a little too dark out today.

It's a little two sad looking out there.

So this this might darken a little bit I believe.

Actually, hmm, you can't really tell too much, but the edges are slightly different color than the rest of the bar.

It hasn't even been 24 hours yet so we shall see- and this will be slightly exfoliating- a nice gentle exfoliation.

Oh it smells so good too.

It's so like it's not well yeah.

It's faint! It has just like a very clean gentle smell to it.

I like it I probably could have used more, but it is what it is.

Hello.

Are you knocking on stuff and saying hello? He started talking a lot lately yeah, you could kind of see some discoloration around the edges.

It's going to be more of a tan and less of like a yellow, and that is going to be too small of a bar, so I guess I shall make a few samples and have more samples to go around I, really like the way that the chamomile powder makes yellow speckles and if you're wondering why my fingernails look like that.

It's because I put those nail stickers on my nails and I.

Wasn't patient I, just ripped them off one day and um yeah the edges of my nails, peeled up, so that was fun well, thank you.

Buddy Pig.

Okay, it's a little pig dish, but these are just going to be nice.

Little samples for people are always still shocked whenever I give them samples.

They're, like oh, my God.

It's like I, give everybody samples you're, not special.

Okay, anyways alrighty, guys I'm, going to probably wait a couple of days to clean these up, just so that I'm not mashing the edges around and I kind of want them to do their discoloration and whatnot and I feel like it's already getting some air and already kind of changing colors slightly.

Well, you can't really tell too much.

Oh it's moving again, but uh yeah see that it's a little swirly swirl on top alrighty.

Thank you! So much for watching and I will catch you in my next video bye.