The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Natural Soaps by Sally W. Trew & Zonella B. Gould

Author:Sally W. Trew & Zonella B. Gould [Trew, Sally W. & Gould, Zonella B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781615640225
Publisher: Alpha
Published: 2010-06-02T06:00:00+00:00

Let the cooked soap cool in the mold.

15. You’ll need a soap cutter or a long knife. Use a ruler to measure and mark the cutting line. Then, place your cutter over the first cutting line and push firmly straight down all the way through the soap. If you stand directly over the soap, you’ll increase your chances of cutting straight.

Making Slow Cooker Hot Process Soap

Soap? In a slow cooker? You bet! It’s just as fast and just as easy as making soap on the stove. The only difference is your stove and stockpot are free for simmering a pot

Safety First

Once you use a slow cooker for soap, it is no longer safe to use for food. Over time,

the lye will destroy the surface of the slow cooker bowl. Even with one use, you’ll see that the bowl’s surface isn’t as shiny as it was.

of stew while you make soap in your slower cooker. After dinner you could relax in a nice hot bath using a bar of your freshly made soap! That’s a perfect ending to a busy day if you ask me.

In addition to most of the equipment listed earlier in the “Making Hot Process Soap” section, you will obviously need a good-quality slow cooker. Some have two temperature settings (low and high), and some have three (low, medium, and high). We recommend using a slow cooker with three settings, as the one with two settings gets a bit too hot when set on low.

Slow Cooker Hot Process Soap

This easy, hands-off recipe will yield 17.2 ounces (487.6 grams) of soap. Here’s what to put in SoapCalc: Weight of Oils

Water as % of Oils

Super Fat %

Fragrance Oz per Lb Distilled water

Lye—sodium hydroxide Palm oil

Coconut oil

11 ounces

38

8

.07

4.18 ounces (118.501 grams) 1.498 ounces (42.455 grams) 7.92 ounces (224.528 grams) (72%) 1.98 ounces (56.132 grams) (18%) Castor oil

Fragrance oil 1.10 ounces (31.184 grams) (10%) .481 ounce (13.64 grams) (.7%)

Here are the soap qualities: Hardness

Cleansing

Conditioning

Bubbly

Creamy

Iodine

INS

50 13 47 22 46 49

160

Always put on your gloves and safety glasses before you begin.

1. Line your mold with freezer paper (shiny side up), following the directions in Chapter 5. If you’re using a plastic tray mold, you don’t need to line it, but it does help if you spray the mold with a cooking oil spray.

2. Put a ceramic bowl on the scale, and push the tare button to zero out the weight of the cup. Weigh the fragrance oil, and set it aside.

3. Do the same for the colorant, and set aside.

4. Heat the slow cooker to high.

5. Place a cereal bowl–size bowl on the scale, and push the tare button to zero out the weight of the bowl. Weigh each oil individually and add to the slow cooker. 6. Put on your safety glasses and latex gloves again.

7. While the oils are heating, put a plastic bowl on the scale, and push the tare button to zero out the weight of the bowl. Weigh the sodium hydroxide in the bowl. Remove the bowl from the scale, and set it aside.

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