How We Make Our Rosemary Mint & Juniper Soap

Here's a step-by-step process on how we make our Rosemary Mint & Juniper cold process handmade soap. We show you how to add coconut milk to your soap using the milk in oils method and give a few fun tips along the way!
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Slab mold was handmade by us (by Troy!). Our slab mold is lined with freezer paper, which we purchase from Webstaurant.
We purchase our oils in drums from Soaper's Choice and our butters from Bulk Apothecary. Our essential oils in this recipe are from New Directions Aromatics and our Lye is from Duda Diesel and/or Bulk Apothecary. My special spoon is a teaspoon from my kitchen (make sure it's stainless steel!).
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Thanks for watching! :)

[@elisabethbrave8786]

Love the authenticity and humour in this video! It was also so relaxing and clear to watch. Elisabeth ( UK )

[@muddymintsoap]

Aww, that’s very kind. Thanks so much! ❤️

[@ldbonbon1983]

Thank you so much for sharing ❤️

[@JenSpice]

Making mint soap is one of my favorite too. Loved the tour. Your studio workshop is really nice. Having space to work is such a blessing. Beautiful soap!❤❤❤

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you for watching! As I'm sure you can guess (based on our business name), I love mint soaps! :)

[@MK-us]

Thanks again for your video. I sure love watching you perform !

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks!

[@arizonaaannie]

Great video! I’m in awe of your studio. ❤❤ This is something I dream about, so thank you so much for sharing your process!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much! We're so grateful for this space. We moved in almost exactly two years ago and have already filled it up!

[@bitababyszes]

Wonderful video! It's helpful to see how you make the bottom layer peaks before pouring the next layer. Thanks!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! Glad to hear it was helpful! :)

[@China-Clay]

After a brief hiatus, I’m back to soaping, loving your videos!

[@muddymintsoap]

Oh yay!! Thanks for watching our videos and happy soaping! :)

[@umabalakumar780]

Excellent video, very beautifully explained, Thank You.

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! We appreciate the comment and thanks for watching! :)

[@Ster_Marie]

Nice and sweet. I love it. It’s relaxing and informative, thank you.

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@joanbusby3213]

Great video, thanks for sharing. Love your studio, lots of space!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much! We're definitely really grateful for our space! :)

[@EvaTundeSzolga]

Thank you for sharing your soap making process. I really enjoyed it. I hoping to see how you cut your soaps after unmolding in the future. Lovely soap!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! We have a ton of cutting videos on our instagram (@muddymint), including a short on how we split our loaves here on KZbin. We'll try and do some cutting videos in the future though... great idea!

[@suhailyroman3702]

Great video!!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks!

[@papiapaulsoap]

Beautiful video! 😍 i have my Rosemary Mint with a hint of lavender ... :) your scent sounds amazing and the soap looks so pretty!

[@muddymintsoap]

Ooo… that sounds like a lovely combination! Lavender is so good with both rosemary and mint!

[@RoyaltySoaps]

Ugh. You're Perfect. That is All. Big love!! xoxoxo

[@muddymintsoap]

Katie!! You’re the sweetest. ❤️ Thanks for being such an inspiration to all of us. I’m honored you stopped by! 😘

[@thedeubachs6280]

Great video Simi! I think it was perfect that you fast forwarded the video in all the right places without taking away from the dictation of the video. Very nice video editing!!!! Loved watching how you make soap too! Thanks for adding these kinds of videos!!!! Love it!!!!!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much! My son actually edited this first video, as he has a lot of experience editing and we still have no clue what we're doing. He did a great job! He'll be happy to see this comment. :)

[@boop7313]

@@muddymintsoap He did a great job!

[@with_beaty]

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[@jenneferreyes7293]

hi, from the Philippines.. 😊

[@monimici]

Hi from Indonesia 😊😊

[@pattiduken]

Yay! Love seeing soaping videos! Would love to see a pack and chat and cutting soon!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much!! A pack and chat and cutting are great ideas. I actually don't pack orders or cut our soaps anymore (haha!), but we can probably do a video on it. :) Our next video will be on masterbatching lye water.

[@boop7313]

This was great, I look forward to seeing many more from Muddy Mint🌿

[@muddymintsoap]

Aww, thanks! We'll definitely be making more, although I'd not sure how fast we'll be able to get them up. Haha!

[@firdowskruger9896]

Thank you, Simi. Great video and not too long

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks so much for watching! :)

[@christinafeliz5244]

Great video. So glad you are sharing your beautiful techniques with us. It's so helpful ❤️

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks Christina! I'm so glad you find it helpful. :)

[@kanishkmalik8a234]

Loved your very first video and can't wait for your next one, it was very professional, totally flawless, congratulations 👏👏👏

[@muddymintsoap]

Aww, you're sweet. Thank you so much!

[@evenyce]

Love it! ❤

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! :)

[@Ching21286]

I loooove the job, excellent! May I ask the portion of coconut milk please?

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! We use a ratio of 1:1 water to lye and the remaining liquid is the coconut milk. I hope this helps!

[@dawnwinters2473]

Beautiful ❤

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks Dawn!

[@julianna8150]

This is a great video, very organized and professional! I appreciate you sharing your process. I like how you add your EO blend before your lye and I’m wondering if there are any resources you’d recommend with info about which essential oils accelerate trace? Thank you!

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! Thanks for your comment and for watching! That’s a great question. The essential oil that we always leave out to blend at trace is clove. Other essential oils that we use that can accelerate are geranium, fir needle, and lemongrass. I personally don’t find them too bad, so we put those in with our oils, but I’d probably add them at trace the first time you use them until you can feel how the batter is behaving. Thyme accelerates a ton, so watch out for that one as well. In general, spicy essential oils (clove, cinnamon, etc) tend to accelerate, as well as florals like geranium. When I’m doubt, leave it out! 😊

[@julianna8150]

Thank you, I appreciate the info! 😊

[@audreyb.9591]

Thank you so much for all the advice that you share ! I just have 2 questions about the way you make soaps : - How do you melt solid oils ? Do you use a microwave ? Cause I always spend a lot of time checking that the lye and the oils are at the same temperature ! (I don’t prepare the lye in advance yet). - Do you cover the soaps at the end to avoid « white color » on the top ? Thanks again and long life to your business:)

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi Audrey! Our oils are already melted. We have a heat band on our oil drums and then we keep our butters in water jacketed tanks. If our oils are a little cool, we microwave our butters a bit and that fixes it. So, we’re pretty lucky with our setup, although it wasn’t an accident! 😉 For your second question: we don’t cover our soaps. I like to let nature do it’s thing and just let it come out how it comes out! :)

[@cielolara2673]

Siempre me preguntaba, porque Muddymint no sube videos aqui? okey ahora estoy muy feliz con sus videos❤

[@muddymintsoap]

Aww, thank you! ❤️

[@estelaortiz7095]

Happy to see you on KZbin! Hope to see many more videos so l can keep on learning! Thank you 🌻

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks so much Estela!

[@ruthieorskitchenstudio7609]

Hi Simi, Thank you so much for your wonderful soap video! It was truly calming to watch, and I could watch it again and again. I especially love the way you made curves in the mold, it almost looks like you're making cake batter! If you don't mind me asking, how big is your soap mold? Have you ever filled it to the top? I'm curious as to how much soap you can make at one time. Also, can you share where you buy your giant hand mixer? I'm looking for one to make soap-making easier. I'm so impressed with the way you make soap. It's clear that you have a lot of skill and experience, and I'm looking forward to learning more from you. Thanks again for the video

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much for this incredibly kind comment! :) I have a link to the stick blender in the description and the really big one we use sometimes is linked in our lye video that we just posted yesterday. Our mold is 18"x14"x3.5" and we make 22.5 lb batches in there. We don't fill the mold to the top, as you can see. If we did, we'd have really tall bars and could probably make a square bar, which would be cool! Each of these molds yields 64 bars of soap for us. We typically make three of these at once (6 buckets), which is our batch size, but as you can see, we split it into 6 mini-batches. Hope that helps! :)

[@ruthieorskitchenstudio7609]

Awesome thank you so much Simi 💓. I will watch the the latest video as well 😃

[@LSmith-lq6bp]

First time watching and new subscriber! I'm amazed at the volume of soap that you make. Keep soaping!!!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks for subscribing! We usually make 6-9 slabs per day. We have a pretty good system now!

[@jilljarvis7577]

Great information. Love your style of presentation. Beautiful looking batter 🤩

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks so much, Jill! :)

[@WoodlandSunrise]

Great video! I enjoyed watching!

[@muddymintsoap]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@beadladee]

Temu has hefty wooden chopsticks that you may want to check out for the juniper berries. I buy the 10 pack.

[@muddymintsoap]

Good to know! I have been using these skewers I had laying around in my kitchen for the last 7 years! Haha!

[@treefortnaturals4738]

Great video, Simi!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@angem4607]

Great to see you here on KZbin. I love your soaps especially the wild lavender. Happy to be a new subscriber..

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks so much for watching! Wild Lavender is one of our most popular scents! :)

[@michelleobie4674]

First time watching and new subscriber. Where did you get the buckets and soap molds?? Love your video and channel

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi Michelle! Thanks for watching and subscribing! Our buckets are linked in the description for the video and we made our molds. :)

[@user-mr4lw6fo2v]

你的工作区好干净啊，这是怎么做到的，真是太优秀了

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you so much! We like to stay organized. :)

[@kajbathandbodyllc4318]

Awesome video! I think you will grow pretty quickly on here. I personally haven’t had a lot of luck but you have a great presence and a good ability to talk and narrate in ur vids. And you have a great overall aesthetic. You’ll do awesome! 🤩🥰👍

[@muddymintsoap]

Aww, that's very kind of you to say! I really appreciate your comment and thank you for watching!

[@Greatewall79]

Very nice video thanks for sharing guys! We follow you from your very start on Instagram, Would be great to see your next videos👍🏼 Now, what about temperatures? ? There is not mention about this! I see your oils buckets setting behind you, everything set to mould? Do you work at room temperature? Thanks!

[@muddymintsoap]

Thank you! We work close to room temperature. We usually have our oils and lye-water between 80-100 degrees F. And, yes, after we made this soap for the camera, we made two more slabs off camera. We did find that if our lye-water was under 80 degrees, we sometimes ran into problems with our soaps because we use a lot of butters. The butters solidified and cooler lye water can also lead to false trace. I hope that helps!

[@Greatewall79]

@@muddymintsoap thanks a million for answering my questions!

[@user-uf1si2bn5t]

第一次看到你的影片，好喜歡也按了訂閱，期待你下個影片。

[@jojopaul6136]

What is the ratio of E. oils that you used in this recipe. If you could tell us please?

[@muddymintsoap]

We don't share our ratios for this recipe. Sorry!

[@D.Kat_personal_care]

Hello ! May I know what kind of paper you are using for lining the mould

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! We use freezer paper. Thanks for watching! :)

[@D.Kat_personal_care]

@@muddymintsoap thankyou :)

[@sherrymorrow2517]

That is gorgeous! What temp do you soap at?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! We soap between 85-100 degrees F. Thanks for watching!

[@sherrymorrow2517]

@@muddymintsoap thanks for the response. I’m suddenly have issues with soda ash and appreciate your answer. You have a tremendous set up and can’t wait to watch more of your videos! Thanks again.

[@muddymintsoap]

You're welcome! You can reduce soda ash by soaping warmer and cutting your water amount. We personally just leave all our ash on top of the soaps. Doesn't bother me! Some of our soaps do get a lot of ash, but sometimes it enhances the look of the bar.

[@sherrymorrow2517]

@@muddymintsoap thanks for the advice!

[@janicecohoon9674]

Hi Simi! Great video, love your process of making soap and I have a question about adding your essential oils before your lye water. Is that because you have your lye made in advance and it doesn't get hot? My essential oils have evaporated when my batter was too hot. Thanks again for your video!

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi Janice! Thank you and great question! We didn't mention it in the video, but both our lye-water and our oils were at about 90 degrees F when we mixed them together. Our lye is made once every week or two in a large lye tank, so it's been cooling down for a while. We actually heat it up in the tank to around 90 degrees before we make soap and our oils are at a similar temperature. Of course, the batter heats up more once the lye water and oils start to react and the soap heats up even more in the mold (usually to about 120 F for us), but the essential oils seem okay through all that. I hope that helps!

[@barbarawexler3714]

So, if you don’t use a lye tank and make your lye ahead of time, what is the safest way to heat it back up? Thanks for sharing this video. 😊 Your soaps are beautiful.

[@muddymintsoap]

@@barbarawexler3714 Hi there! If you're not making your lye water from scratch and you're storing it in a container, then you can use it as is if you like. We found that if our lye water was under 80 degrees F, we seemed to run into some issues. Before we had our lye tank, we used to warm up our lye with a warm water bath. Pour hot/warm water in a larger container and then put your lye-water container inside of it. Don't ever microwave lye water or heat it up on the stove! A gentle slow heat up with a water bath is really the only safe way to do it, as far as I know. You can also add water to your 50/50 lye solution to warm it up, if that's what you're using as your extra liquid. Hope that helps!

[@barbarawexler3714]

@@muddymintsoap that makes sense. I always have to wait a long time for the lye water to cool down before mixing with the oils and using a lye tank is definitely more efficient!! I can’t wait to see more video’s in the future!

[@janicecohoon9674]

Thanks for your reply Simi, yes that helps to answer my question 👍

[@free5663]

Hi Simi, Great Video! The link for the lye tank, takes you to the juniper berries? Thank you..Its the same link to the berries.

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! I just fixed it. The link goes to the lye container you see in the video. The actual lye tank (which is off camera) is from Soap Equipment. Thanks!

[@arelisminier828]

Una pregunta La sosa no quema la leche, poniéndole la sosa de ultimo

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! Our lye is already cooled when we add it to the oils, so it doesn't scorch the milk, no. :)

[@pamgraham6332]

No EO in the top layer?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! We did add EOs (and the coconut milk) at the beginning to the second bucket (around 2:45). Both buckets were prepped ahead of time, so when I add the lye to the second bucket, the additional liquid and EOs are already in there. I hope this helps!

[@ambarzaman8776]

For how long do you allow your soap to cure before cutting ?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi there! We cut our soap after 24-48 hours and then we cure it for 4 weeks. :)

[@ambarzaman8776]

@@muddymintsoap thank you so much 😊

[@thecrimsonreigner1517]

Lye is so dangerous!!!! Thanks for taking proper safety precautions!

[@muddymintsoap]

It can be dangerous, yes! With proper precautions, it's nothing to be scared of though. You just have to ensure you keep practicing safety and don't get complacent with time. Thanks for watching!

[@twisterlane6922]

please make more videos

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi! We recorded our next video last week! It should be ready soonish… :)

[@laurendeck1689]

Do you put through gel phase or no cause of coconut milk?

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi Lauren! We don't force gel on any of our soaps, but they do tend to gel in the wood slab mold (and yes, the coconut milk certainly contributes as well!).

[@karadiaz7014]

Great video! Can you tell me where you purchased your lye containers?

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks so much! I’ve linked our supplies in the description, including the lye containers. 😊

[@karadiaz7014]

Thank you!

[@karadiaz7014]

Looks like the lye container link is for the juniper berries.

[@muddymintsoap]

@@karadiaz7014Oh shoot! You’re right. I will fix it. We use 2L polypropylene containers.

[@vanusadsouza6876]

@@muddymintsoap Simi, I believe she wanted to talk about the drum, I was also wondering where the link was.

[@eloisaojeda7403]

Hola puedes activar los subtítulos para poderte entender? Gracias

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi! I'll take a look to see how to do this. Sorry, this our first video and we're still new at it. :)

[@yunitatangidatu7568]

Indonesian subtitle, please???

[@muddymintsoap]

I think KZbin has a way to turn on subtitles. I explained in another comment on here... hopefully it works for you!

[@sihirliorgum97]

Would you please add Turkish subtitle it would be wonderful

[@muddymintsoap]

Hi! I wish I knew how! I tried to add subtitles to this video, but I wasn't able to figure out a quick way to do it. If you have any suggestions for the next video, let me know!

[@muddymintsoap]

Actually, I was able to figure out how to get Turkish subtitles just through KZbin! If you click settings, you can choose subtitles, and then pick your language. The english subtitles are quite good, so hopefully the Turkish translation is as well. I hope that works for you!

[@shannonpayne3041]

More soap batter views please 🙏🏽

[@muddymintsoap]

Thanks for the feedback! We hope to get an overhead camera set up soon! :)