Making Sugar & Salt Solution for Cold Process Soap Making + Spreadsheet Tutorial - Dawn Organics

[@susanschiel4870]

Thanks!

[@DawnOrganics]

Thanks so much Susan, very kind indeed 🙏

[@dieseephuis]

Thank you. I love learning from wise people!

[@DawnOrganics]

Very kind, thank you 🙏

[@elainem7722]

Thanks, George. I hope you recover quickly. Even if you can only do one video every 2 or more months, we'll be happy to see it! (Now that Elly's back - yay! - I'm hoping for a Soap Makers Lounge video with her.) I'm curious if you've noticed an increase in the longevity of your bars since you reduced the amount of sugar you add.

[@DawnOrganics]

Thanks Elaine, it was a couple of months ago now, I recorded first half then and second half the other day hehe. Great that Elly is back! I'd hope to do another one soon! I have noticed it lasting longer with less sugar for sure 🙏

[@FrankSumner-vn1mz]

Thank you George! I'm new to soaping so I'm binge watching you soaping guru's! It is so much fun! I hope you feel better now! Have a great day!

[@DawnOrganics]

Thanks for tuning in and binge watching. I'm much better now thanks 🙏

[@Fysikoi]

Thanks for sharing, Geroge! Hope you get better soon!! :)

[@DawnOrganics]

Thank you, it was a few weeks ago already 🙏

[@RED-cy7ig]

Thank you for this tutorial. I will be utilizing this.

[@DawnOrganics]

Glad to hear it 🙂

[@ramyachin8459]

Nice and useful video sir..at which stage sugar and salt solution should add in soap sir...

[@DawnOrganics]

Thank you. I explained when to add them in the video. Sugar with the oils, salt solution before adding the rest of the water required in your recipe before adding the lye 🙏

[@Soul.7]

Nice, thank you. I’ve been using the TD in oil in a bottle with a small carnelian or rose quartz tumble crystal to shake it up. Didn’t have a marble and it has a higher frequency too being a natural earth crystal. Works very well, shaking it up before I use it in the batch or to dilute colour pots... I now have some water soluble TD. If I make that up in a bottle of distilled water what would be its shelf life kept in the fridge? I make a sugar syrup solution too, got the idea from Ely I think. My last one was very watery, I think I didn’t simmer it enough for a thicker viscosity. So 1 hour or more you say? I also make up an activated charcoal in oil solution bottle, for an easy additive to the oil batch (I deduct the extra oil it introduces from the recipe). Also you can squirt the activated charcoal solution in a drop pour using thin lines to colour or swirl your soap bar in artisan patterns for contrast. Been soaping about 20 months now - learning lots from all my favourite soapers on you tube, including you George, thank you so much... From the UK. xx😮

[@DawnOrganics]

That's very nice idea about the crystals :) The TD I mix up for soap lasts months and months in the fridge, haven't had any issues with it spoiling. Should be ok. That's okay if it's a little watery it will still function as intended and produce a richer lather. I have never attempted to colour that way, I don't see why it wouldn't work, best to give it a try and see how it does. Thanks for the nice comment! 🙏🙏🙏

[@joynosa5810]

Please 🙏 I need your help. My soap refuse to harden and still in the moulds and I'm guessing little lye and much water. It's been two days now and I don't know what to do please help me. Ingredients used were honey, oats and cucumber. Oils are olive oil, coconut oil and shea butter.I don't know what to do please help 😢😢

[@DawnOrganics]

You'll have to tell me full recipe with percentages and lye amount

[@joynosa5810]

@@DawnOrganics the oils and water content was around 45% equally each and the lye water was about 5% to 7%

[@DawnOrganics]

@@joynosa5810 percentages of each oil amount and the amount of lye you added in grams. Also the size of your oil batch in grams

[@KarenCain-c1w]

What salt is it? Looks like himalayan salt in your bottle.

[@DawnOrganics]

Correct. I use Himalayan pink salt

[@Memannti]

Is the spreadsheet still available?

[@DawnOrganics]

Yes, follow link in description

[@ramyachin8459]

Hi dawn, i have doubt in sodium gulconate..how much percentage of sodium gulconate can be used in soap...how to add and when to add clear me...

[@DawnOrganics]

It's 1% max of the oil amount, dissolve in the water before adding the lye

[@KAstarGod]

Thank you very much for this video. Do you subtract the sugar syrup from your water content as well or just the salt syrup?

[@DawnOrganics]

Thanks for watching! personally no because it's such a small amount of water and I always work with a very steep water discount

[@KAstarGod]

@@DawnOrganics Ok thank you. This video informed me that I could use salt.

[@NicoleHague-Andrews]

salt rather than citric acid? Does this mean the lye doesnt have to be adjusted?

[@DawnOrganics]

They have different functions. Salt is for longevity and hardness, it doesn't effect lye

[@RED-cy7ig]

Thanks!

[@DawnOrganics]

Thanks so much for the super. Very kind 🙏