Liquid Soap Recipe With Shea Butter

Make shea butter liquid soap from scratch!
This recipe is not about using a pre-made liquid soap and adding some ingredients. It is not about using a soap bar to make liquid soap. This recipe makes a genuine, natural shea butter liquid soap, with olive oil, coconut oil and, of course, shea butter. You will get a beautiful light yellow liquid soap, scented with lemongrass and lemon, ylang-ylang, or your favorite essential oils.
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Ingredients
SOAP PASTE (around 18 oz):
6.7 oz distilled water sovrn.co/1harvlx
2.82 oz potash tidd.ly/3VRACj7
4.23 oz refined or organic coconut oil tidd.ly/3j4Haq1
7.76 oz extra virgin olive oil sovrn.co/m0p1jor
2.12 oz refined or organic shea butter tidd.ly/3VUEv73
LIQUID SOAP:
All Soap Paste (around 18 oz)
50 fl oz distilled water sovrn.co/1harvlx
0.35 fl.oz Liquid Germall Plus tidd.ly/3VVRLrO
7.05 oz vegetable glycerin tidd.ly/2Vv6eyc
0.17 fl.oz essential oil lemongrass sovrn.co/m5q679w
0.17 fl.oz essential oil lemon sovrn.co/oaivp2a
0.34 fl.oz essential oil ylang-ylang sovrn.co/vklsamo
(you may use other essential oils, just respect quantities)
Equipment
Slow cooker sovrn.co/u3if29g
(for this recipe, the one with 2qt is enough)
Digital scale tidd.ly/3xmle55
Pitcher nurturesoap.co...
Rubber spatulas sovrn.co/3an2ot1
Spoon sovrn.co/3an2ot1
Glass jars with lid tidd.ly/3r0Bb9M
Cups sovrn.co/v5phro9
Small strainer sovrn.co/1f2sqsm
Pump dispenser sovrn.co/1nt3g8e
Safety Goggles tidd.ly/3lCgO0U
Safety Mask sovrn.co/6p0jf3z
Safety Gloves tidd.ly/3GacgH2

[@user-mo4jt9uu7d]

This is one of the best videos I've seen on liquid soap making, thank you!

[@HerbAlcochete]

Wow, thank you! Really nice words, they help keep going with my channel more than anything else 🥰 Cheers!

[@c.r.1917]

This is incredible. Thank you for this. I'm going to use this video to make soap for the first time!

[@HerbAlcochete]

Hope you enjoy it!! Let me know if you have any doubts.

[@carlabrentnall2608]

thank you for sharing this recipe 😘

[@Benedicta-d1h]

This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this. Please, Can i substitute the Olive oil with Canola oil ? Or with Soybean Oil? I will greatly appreciate your favorable response please.👍👍👍

[@HerbAlcochete]

Hello, thanks a lot for your interest!! The answer to your question is yes, but it's not straightforward. In fact, you need to treat it like a different recipe. If you change one of the oils, you NEED to recalculate the recipe with a soap calculator (soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp) to get the right amount of lye/potash and water. Otherwise, you might get an irritant soap: all lye needs to be consumed by the oils, and it's calculated having that in mind. If you change an oil, you change that ability of the oils to consume all the lye. So, you need to recalculate it all.

[@HerbAlcochete]

If you want to use canola oil instead of olive oil the recipe quantities would be: 187g distilled water 79g of potash 120g coconut oil 220g canola oil 60g shea butter You can give it a try with these quantities. Bear in mind the soap might become a little different.

[@sanazmirbolook4445]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@kris85236]

Have you tried this recipe in a foaming dispenser? If so, how much do you dilute it?

[@HerbAlcochete]

Hello kristen. I use normal pump dispensers for this soap, therefore, no, never tried a foaming dispenser. On the other hand, I see no reason not to work. Start undiluted then go for 1:1 dilution, 1:2 dilution and see how it performs. It will have to be trial-and-error for a bit till you know a good dilution. Would love to help more... Cheers.

[@michaelhouse678]

can you substitute olive oil for castor oil?

[@HerbAlcochete]

Hello Michael, thanks for your question. No, you can't change oils just like that, not without running the recipe over a soap calculator. You will need to recalculate potash and water contents again for castor oil. Here is my post about changing soap recipes, I suggest to read it carefully: herbalcochete.com/how-do-you-use-a-lye-soap-calculator/ But I am curious: why castor oil? You have it cheap at your home or area? Here in Portugal is expensive, compared to olive oil.