18) How to Correctly test the pH of your Soaps

This is included in the beginner soap making series, but it's for everyone. I go over the correct standards for testing your soaps, and several methods to do it... including using turmeric, cabbage, test strips, phenol, and a pH indicator.

[@naturally_nica]

The WAY I just screamed with laugh at your "friends don't let friends lick soap" 🤣

[@lorrainerothbletz6013]

This is great information,thank you so much for sharing,using tumeric as ph indicator is amazing,and it totally worked

[@tonyahunt3175]

Thanks for the teaching on the ph process

[@savonchezhelene4060]

Your video is very interesting and professional! I liked it very much! I think I will be testing turmeric and using it a lot more in the future. As you have shown it seems a promising indicator of lye heavy soaps at high pH (10,5 vs 12). For now, I am using pH strips (as you show) on dissolved soap; but using drops on the soap although less accurate would be a lot quicker when testing many batches :-) Thank you!!

[@joycedawkins8850]

Thanks Tina, that was very informative.

[@TinaMoenck]

joyce dawkins You're very welcome

[@LunaOverEden]

Interesting, I soap on a major budget and I got better results with the cabbage test than what I saw here. I boiled my distilled water in shredded cabbage and put that liquid onto a piece of soap. I zap test too, but never licked it. I test all my soaps and they never have problems. What worked for my ancestors works for me now. Never had a lie burn and I test on sample pieces I do not sell. Who does that? Just sharing. Thank you for sharing as well. Hope someone else finds this helpful.

[@MsSweetlandofliberty]

Thanks so much, Tina. this is very helpful information!

[@sharmaybeals-wentzell4170]

Thank you for the information, your so informative. I tried the turmeric solution and it worked. Amazing.

[@stephentoons]

I made the tumeric indicator... Comparing it to a litmus test strip... the strip says my soapy liquid is a 9, the tumeric solution turned orange... The color orange is half way between yellow and red. On a bar of soap that has cured for a week.. litmus test says 9... dropping some tumeric solution on it is interesting... it stays yellow but has red spots.. So I assume at the red spots the PH is high. People use tumeric as a colorant for soap... my question is does the soap go through a color change from red to yellow as it cures? I also compared litmus test strips between applying the strip directly to a wet bar, and to soap dissolved in water... both read the same ph.

[@andreajones5635]

Very,very helpful,and this was what I was looking for, thank you so much.

[@TinaMoenck]

Andrea Jones You're very welcome

[@thepretty1s]

Very helpful, thanks

[@Skywalker67897]

Thank you so much for this informative video. I’m a new soap maker and want to know if I’m using a melt and pour base for my soap, do I need to test the ph of the bars I’m making. Thanks again

[@leeavillanoza5884]

Very helpful as I just made liquid soap using your e-book and Jackie Thompson's book as guides, and wanted to double check the Ph before I sell it.... On a different topic, do you use waterproof labels on your liquid soap bottles? Thanks!

[@TinaMoenck]

Yes I do. I also cover them with clear plastic.

[@dapsybaby2012]

Thank you so much for this video...

[@diklanav]

Hello, about temp.... is it 158 Celsius?

[@giselenascimento6157]

Great video!!! Thank you. Just Made a batch last night and the ph strip turned out very bright pink - heavy lye. Can I correct after the soap is ready?

[@mouldybread7773]

I believe you're measuring too soon. You still have active lye, saponification did not finish thus your reading appears as bad. Leave your soap like 6 weeks and then do a measurement.

[@porschdrakes]

That’s what happened when I did red cabbage

[@nancykraus7027]

I have a question in the ph. I was using a recipe and was short in some coconut oil and measure with coçoa butter to go to the weight that was needed..soap came out beautiful. Followed the rest of the recipe as far as lye and water etc..was wondering would the change in the oils make a high pH. I did the tumeric test and it indicated red

[@TinaMoenck]

Every oil and butter has a different saponification value, but hopefully your superfat covered the difference. How fresh is your soap? That'll affect the pH.

[@VelmaJinkys]

Seems like tumeric is the way to go. Thanks Tina

[@lorip6846]

Great video Tina presented very well. Where can I find your book?

[@TinaMoenck]

gumroad.com/l/EeAJQ

[@junesmith2512]

I thought the ideal PH of soap was 7-8 not 10

[@earthlyng_official4599]

If you super fat your soaps, PH probably wont be an issue.

[@liliacerda4003]

I thought that save number should be 6 or 7? Please clarify

[@TinaMoenck]

Normal pH of handcrafted soaps are 8.5-10 which is completely safe. If a handcrafted soap was a 6 or 7 it would fall out of solution and you'd no longer have soap. Only synthetic detergents are acidic. Our acid mantle easily bounces back when using our soaps. You just don't want to use a lye heavy soap with a higher pH.

[@NicoSama]

can you use liquid ph pool tester?

[@TinaMoenck]

Most likely the pool pH testers don't have the 0-14 pH range.

[@sarahconklin3871]

😂😂😂 that title❣️

[@digitalmarketingcode]

Is this topic cover in your ebook??

[@TinaMoenck]

I did all this after the ebook.

[@theones261]

Im a licker of soap.

[@lisasmith3981]

People don't really put there soap on there mouth wow omg

[@libertymicrofarm6032]

Wow almost 30 minutes to explain ph testing…😮

[@kunju-uo7ev]

What nonsense...?