9 CHEAP HACKS for BEGINNER SOAPMAKERS!

[@As-friendly-as-I-get]

Adding water to hand soap or dish soap is not a good idea. Whenever you add water, you need to add a preservative to prevent the growth of bacteria.

[@SoapUniverse]

This is absolutely correct! If you go through foamy soaps like crazy, then microbial growth isn’t too much of a concern (

[@peepla7]

Anytime I'm using a liquid soap.... whether I'm using a base or adding water...I'm adding a broad spectrum preservative...even if it already has some in it. I only know what I added, not what came in a prefabricated item. I like germaban 2.

[@peepla7]

For gelatin glitter .....i just coat the gelatin powder in mica...then sprinkle. Works well.

[@LadyGecko]

Two things: 1) Milk Frother - You didn't calculate in the cost of the battery and you can end up incorporating a lot of air into your batter. I have a battery powered frother (mixing colorants and FO/KO), an electric one (no batteries required) and I have an inexpensive stick blender that I bought in 2019 that I'm still using. With that said, a milk frother is definitely a handy little device. 2) Soap Cutter - My first soap cutter was a cheese slicer; take a ruler and measure your desired width from the wire and draw a line with a Sharpie. I did modify it later by gluing on a sanded down dowel to make it easier to hold the soap. I still have it and I still use when cutting test soaps and samples.

[@TheEmanueleCastelli]

You are a wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️

[@SoapUniverse]

Thanks! I found out when I was 11 🔮

[@TheEmanueleCastelli]

@@SoapUniverse😂😂😂

[@GenericMcName]

You can also use corn starch to make the glitter

[@SoapUniverse]

You’re right! It works just the same and it’s a great vegan alternative to using gelatin.

[@theresalawrence156]

Wow! You really put so much effort into this video. Thank you so much!

[@susiebilk9905]

Yup, especially the fragrance!!!

[@As-friendly-as-I-get]

You can find stick blenders at second-hand hand stores and garage sales.

[@hadassahm3016]

Question- it seems that you need significantly more paint than mica. Like an entire pan of paint for two small soaps. A jar of mica is 10g but I imagine you need less than 1g for a whole batch, so what is the cost per batch?

[@SoapUniverse]

Breaking it down, 1g of Crayola watercolour would cost 9 cents, compared to the average mica which could cost 50 cents per gram. I’m pretty heavy handed with my colourants and usually use a teaspoon per 300g of batter for the richest colour, so that would be almost 50g of colourant for a full 17-bar batch of soap. That’s $4.5 for Crayola and $25 for regular mica. Please double check my math 😂

[@LaynieFingers]

As I'm in the US, I'm only addressing US law. Keep that in mind. It would be great if the term "non-toxic" was regulated by some agency. Unfortunately, it isn't, and doesn't have a particular meaning (from what I can find). There is a US group called the Consumer Product Safety Commission that oversees product safety education and labeling among other things. They discuss which products require labeling as hazardous. "To require labeling, a product must first be toxic, corrosive, flammable or combustible, an irritant, or a strong sensitizer, or it must generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means. Second, the product must have the potential to cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children." The important part of that statement is this: "illness during or as a result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use." That means the risk would be whenever the product is used as the manufacturer intended. It's counterintuitive, I know, but that's what it means. That's why I share the information as often as I do- because a lot of people don't realize that "non-toxic" doesn't mean safe, or safe to ingest.

[@Siriuslyyy]

That soap photoshoot looked like it was in jail 😂

[@mariak8480]

Oh my previous comment must’ve been filtered out due to me including a link to a shop. I was saying that you can buy pure pigments from professional art supply shops, e.g. pure (non-toxic) iron oxide in bags of 1kg for 10-15€. You only need few grams of them per 1kg of soap.

[@mariak8480]

they are stable under addition of lye, too 😊

[@SoapUniverse]

Ooh that’s a good point actually! You would probably have access to a wide range of colour as well. Is that one of the ways you source your colourants?

[@marisolvalez4719]

Loved all your hacks especially the jello

[@SoapUniverse]

Thanks, you should give it a try! Do you make soap?

[@marisolvalez4719]

I did it like three years ago and it was a hot mess ,I was so scared because the soap was getting hot it just freaked me out . I like the melt and poor it wasn't scairy ..But I look at many soap video especially Royalty Soaps . I'm thinking I might just try it again ..

[@SoapUniverse]

@@marisolvalez4719 It’s worth a try! Cold processed can be stressful but once you do it enough it’s easy to take care of. Definitely start out with melt and pour if you want to make soap but don’t want the added stress of cold processed!

[@gimomable]

Very well done and open about your hacks 😃 i love it 😊

[@SoapUniverse]

Thank you 😃

[@gimomable]

@@SoapUniverse I was very impressed 😁❣

[@EEG4ever]

Not my Canadian soap brain want to try the fragrance oil one but I'll wait for your update first 🙃🙃

[@kameljoe21]

I have one of those milk froth things. I could very well make it wired using a old wall wart... Though I would not mind something a bit stronger yet that small. The one I have just seems super weak!

[@SoapUniverse]

Mine is battery-powered and isn’t extremely powerful. As long as it spins pretty quickly, you’re good to go!

[@angelob96]

great video! very interesting, and i am not even a soapmaker

[@dianehedricks7860]

Awesome hacks! 😮

[@PurpleHam]

The toffee chips looked like 💩 drops 🤭 I loved the concept though!

[@SoapUniverse]

They were so ugly! 😂 Maybe I’ll attempt to improve the hack in the future

[@PurpleHam]

@@SoapUniverse you will definitely get there! 👍🏾

[@peepla7]

Make the paint melt with distilled water. Not water from the faucet.

[@Grazi_Delulu]

and here i thought that u made ur soap cutter using mdf and that laser machine lmao (bc it looks cute and DIY ish)

[@peepla7]

The ruler, thats cork...not cardboard.

[@peepla7]

My first cutter was a cheese cutter.

[@DawnyDaviau]

This is nice for your own use but you cannot give them away or sell as you change the ingredients in the assessment for the colourants.

[@mariainesriascos6424]

❤

[@Southphxgal2023]

Or you can just buy a cheap cheese wire cutter ☺️

[@SoapUniverse]

Before I bought my soap cutter, I tried looking for one of those and I couldn’t find them anywhere!! Except Amazon… Do they work well? I’ve heard the wires can break pretty easily

[@AllisonFields-s7m]

Even though this is satire(I hope), there are people who might try these stupid hacks.

[@misteasea]

They were very self-aware of the absurdity of the hacks, honest about the actual results, and prefaced the video by saying anyone who does try the hacks to be transparent about the process/ingredients if those soaps are being sold to others. I don't think there is anything wrong with them trying these hacks, especially considering they were very honest and ethical within the video.