How to Make a Pencil Line in Cold Process Soap

[@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska]

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[@muddymintsoap]

YAY!! So glad you have the book - thank you and I hope you love it! :) I'm also really happy to hear that our videos are resonating with you! Thank you for the kind comment and happy soapmaking!

[@lesleyJOHNSON-s4u]

Just made this soap last week and it's been cut. To say that I was a tad bit giddy is an understatement!! I've made several of your recipes from your book too they are lovely. Thank you to you and Troy for all the tools for this still new soaper. Oh, congrats on the nuptials. 💙

[@muddymintsoap]

Hooray! I'm so happy that you're enjoying our recipes! Thank you for the kind comment. It followed a not-so-kind comment, so it meant even more to me today. :)

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Aww, thank you! I'm glad you found us again! :)

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[@dianneg-phila]

I love the milky white color of the soap! Beautiful

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[@tirzahmatya9776]

How many pounds of soap does your slab hold? I’m absolutely in love with your book by the way. Very easy to follow. I have made 5 loafs so far!! Finally was able to try two of them this past weekend and they were amazing!!!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! I'm so happy you're loving the book! :) This slab mold holds 22.5 lbs of soap.

[@thedeubachs6280]

My favorite soap and favorite video so far! I can smell this soap from here! Can you share where you got your essential oils for this recipe? I can't wait to try this one! 💜🧼

[@muddymintsoap]

Yay!! I get nearly all my essential oils from New Directions Aromatics. :)

[@laetitiakeyter4919]

love your videos, thank you for sharing your experience with us newbies, you guys are great people, I bought your book, cant wait for it to arrive! Greetings from sunny South Africa!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much! I actually have a question for you! I just got an email from someone from South Africa asking where to purchase the book. Can I ask where you got it? Thanks!

[@karadiaz7014]

Loving all your videos. Any chance of a video on choosing which e-commerce to use?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean, which ecommerce platform for our website? Or just different platforms to sell on?

[@karadiaz7014]

What you use would be great! And any experience with others if you have used more then one before.

[@muddymintsoap]

@@karadiaz7014 I use Shopify for my main website, but I started on Etsy and we've always had both shops. :)

[@GinaAnagnostopoulou]

Beautiful soap, thank you so much for the instructions.

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks! :)

[@Hugh_Hunt]

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[@kiwanaderrick3624]

Thank you. Love the visual

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks for watching! I'm glad you found it helpful. :)

[@johannedube4159]

Hello very nice soap.I really like the way you explain things it is very easy to understand.I have a question about the recepies in your book are they made for specific molds or by percentage of each oils you used. Hope you will understand me my written english is not perfect

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there and thank you! The recipes in the book are all made for a 2.5 lb mold. All ingredients are given by weight in ounces and grams and we include oil percentages as well. Everything you need to enter the recipe into a lye calculator is also included, so you can easily resize the recipe. I hope this helps!

[@johannedube4159]

Yes this is exactly the informations I needed❤

[@johannedube4159]

Yes this is exactly the informations I needed❤

[@lyndawest8612]

I’m enjoying your videos. Congratulations on your marriage! I need a little direction. In some (and in your recipes) you reference peppermint supreme. I’m having trouble finding this. Hope you can help.

[@lyndawest8612]

Never mind I just found a source for Peppermint supreme. Thanks

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! I get mine at New Directions Aromatics, but you can also get it at Bulk Apothecary. Here are some links: www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/products/essential-oils/peppermint-essential-oil-supreme.html and www.bulkapothecary.com/essential-oils/peppermint-oil/ (for Bulk Apothecary, you can pick if you want Japan or Supreme before adding to cart).

[@brookzucha3993]

On my way to buy your book!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you!!! :)

[@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska]

Did I miss the link for the mint tea? 💕

[@muddymintsoap]

Oh shoot! I forgot to add it. Will do that now. Thank you!

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Here is the link: amzn.to/3Xiojx5 (just added it to the description too)

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[@jencysuresh2401]

Hi Simi, I am new to soap making and would love to learn more. I am looking for a good soap for sensitive oily skin and another one for summer to give as gifts. What would you suggest? One of your recipes that are on for sale or a recipe from your book?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! The book has far more recipes in it, for a great price, so I’d probably recommend starting there. There are plenty of recipes for sensitive skin (I think most of the soaps in the book would work well) and there are some fun summer soaps like Lemon Cake, Wildflower Garden, Lavender Lemonade, Flower Child, and Milky Rose (among others!). I hope this helps!

[@jencysuresh2401]

Thank you Simi! This helps!!

[@jencysuresh9990]

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[@karenmendez4780]

Do you recommend another coconut milk that is 100% coconut milk only ?

[@muddymintsoap]

Great question! I don't know of one that is 100% coconut, but once I find a good replacement, I will let everyone know. Most coconut milk has a bunch of extra ingredients in it, so for now, I still like this Aroy-D one best.

[@38msjoyce]

Nice video was hoping to see the cut and line.

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there and thanks for watching! I'm holding up the exact bar from this batch at the beginning of the video, so you can see it there. :)

[@mitalimmadan4021]

Lye lint to be strained before adding to oils. Is it needed. Can you make a video on it. Thank you

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! We do strain our lye water, mostly to catch any large chunks that might be sitting on the edges of our lye-water container. Honestly, I never did it when I first started making soap and only started doing it once we began batching our lye-water. It's just routine now and we always strain it when we measure it out (rather than when we add it to our oils). I hope this helps!

[@georgianasalter]

Lol, I saw your "soap behaving badly" video. The soap was so bad it was good. It was scandalous. 😂 Spoiler* It actually did turn out good even tho it didn't behave as normal.

[@muddymintsoap]

Haha! Yes, it was scandalous! :)

[@pablo6980]

Hi ! I realize my soap take too longer to be hard. Is it because of the amount of caustic soda please? I use Mendrulandia app to do them. Thank you in advance for your answer!

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! If your soap is taking too long to harden, you do want to make sure your lye amount is correct, but if you're using an app to calculate it, then it should be good. You never want to change the lye amount, as that is a set amount based on the oils. It could be that your recipe has too much water in it. How much lye are you using and how much water? Do you know what your ratio is?

[@pablo6980]

@@muddymintsoap for 398gr of liquid oil (olive, coconut, castor, jojoba, almond), The app gives 109g of water for 51g of lye . What do you think about please?

[@muddymintsoap]

I think that sounds reasonable, but if you're having a hard time unmolding, try using less water (maybe about 90 grams of water instead to start?). I can't tell if you have the lye amount without knowing all the oil amounts, but I'm assuming that your app calculated it correctly. What's your superfat?

[@pablo6980]

@@muddymintsoap My superfat is 8% and my concentration is 32%.

[@pablo6980]

@@muddymintsoap For the soap I made before, I didn’t really have this problem. But I thought I used too much oil in my new soaps. For my next soap, I’ll try to use only 3 oils (olive, black castor and coconut) to see. I could avoid mixing almond oil and jojoba oil with the others.

[@georgianasalter]

Did you say you were at a different location before and are at your home now? If so, as a business owner, What made you change locations?

[@muddymintsoap]

Yes, we were in our larger production space for three years (we have a KZbin video of the tour of that space, if you're interested). Now we are back at our home studio, which is a building in our backyard. If you're interested in why we shifted, you can read this blog post: muddymint.com/blogs/news/goodbye-my-love.

[@gloriafaria4301]

Preciso que me ensines o hot process

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! I actually have zero experience with hot process!

[@laetitiakeyter4919]

Hi Simi, I sent a reply to you re where to purchase in South Africa, did you receive it? Love, love your book, best investment ever!

[@muddymintsoap]

Oh! I didn't see it yet! Let me have a look and thank you!

[@pablo6980]

I see that you use 50/50 lye solution . Or for me I usually use The lye solution depending of the amount of oil use.

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! The amount of lye doesn't change. You should always use the amount of lye required for the oils that you use in the recipe. Using a lye-water solution just allows you to pre-mix your lye ahead of time so that it's always ready to go. I think the term 50/50 lye water can be confusing. You you'd like more information on this, we have a video explaining how it works here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHOuppmOmLaMo80

[@pablo6980]

@@muddymintsoap thank you a lot !

[@sherrymartindale8582]

The EO description sounds nice. I seen your other video on folks that have purchased your book that are having trouble with the recipes turning out. When you say the recipes in the book are ones you created just for your book, they are not the recipes you have made throughout the years, they are not tried and true recipes? I made two of them and neither turned out. (I mean no trouble by asking these questions:)

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi Sherry! Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you asked! I've heard from far more people that have made our recipes successfully - hundreds in fact - than people who have had issues. One soapmaker has made 28 of our 31 recipes, so I know that there are no errors in the book. Remember that I made all these recipes several times myself and checked them carefully. We also sold all these soaps to our customers. While these are not our "bestselling" soaps, I think they are actually better because they were created by me after years and years of making soap, so they have a lot more experience put into them. I think that you might be seeing comments from newer soapmakers that are having issues with the recipes, or perhaps from soapmakers that are inadvertently doing things incorrectly. For instance, it is hard to know how long to stick blend your soap if you're new. There are also temperature considerations. Some people are using accelerating fragrance oils in their soaps. Some poeple are using the wrong amount of lye, as they find the 50/50 lye water part confusing. So, I highly encourage you to email me to discuss whatever issue you're having. I've helped a TON of people figure out what the issues were, and they went on to have successful batches! I really really want you to be successful! Please email me at muddymintsoap at gmail dot com and I'll help you out. By the way, if you check out the reviews for my book on Amazon, you'll see that a lot of people had successful batches and many have posted pictures: amzn.to/3uIOFN0. :)

[@TrudyTutti-jm5wj]

Hi Simi! I love watching your videos!!❤I’ve seen all of them at least once!Always so informative,,,as I’ve just started out my soap making journey a few months ago🧼🫧 I’m trying to soak up and learn everything I possibly can from expert soap makers like yourself and others,,to be able to put together a wonderful product I can be confident in selling. Well, a couple days ago while looking for Fall season🍁soap ideas, I came across Holly w MORIVERSOAP, and she was making a soap she said YOU had inspired her to make from your book…it was Pumpkin Maple Soap…so, I thought, How Fun! I decided I NEEDED to make a pumpkin puree soap too! And after watching THIS video, wanted to also add a cocoa pencil line to give it some interest, as this was going to be an unscented soap for folks like me who have skin sensitivities. It turned out GREAT, and was super fun!! Please keep your videos coming,,,and Jsyk, yesterday I hopped on over to Amazon and purchased your Natural Soapmaking Handbook!😃❤

[@muddymintsoap]

Woohoo!!! I absolutely LOVE this comment! I love Holly and I saw her beautiful pumpkin soap as well. I love the idea of adding a pencil line too! Did you do the bottom with pumpkin and the top plain? Or is it all pumpkin with a pencil line? All the pumpkin soaps are making me want to make one too! Glad you're having fun and that our videos (and all the other amazing videos out there) are providing some good inspiration! Thanks for purchasing my book too! I hope you love it. :)

[@TrudyTutti-jm5wj]

@@muddymintsoap I did the whole thing in pumpkin w a straight pencil line in the center,,and a simple top w gentle swirls..but now that you mentioned it,,,it would’ve been super fun to do the top section above the pencil line like you mentioned! Maybe I’ll make another one w your idea and use a fall essential oil blend this time! Ty!♥️