@awarose

1 year ago

As someone who made a few soaps it's not this difficult! It's actually really fun and if the rules here were not so strict and the fees for permits and such in the EU weren't so high I would consider making it a small side business for fun. He made a thick trace and some of the additives accelerated the soap even more, once you get a light trace most soap will pretty quickly go to a thicker trace so it would have been better to go for a light trace and just mix those with seeds and such a little bit longer until the seeds were suspended, if he had more coconut oil in that blend the soap would have hardened before he could get the soap out of the beakers. With any additives you should consider the amount since to much of some things can cause irritation and others is fine to add plenty, cinnamon is best left as a spice it does not belong in skin products at all, it can easily burn and cause rashes. Other additives like honey can heat the soap so it makes a soap volcano, where it can bubble out of the form if you ad to much or have the mixture to hot to begin with, so you have to do some research before trying something new but there's plenty of good information and simple recipes online for beginners and once you get a bit more comfortable with the basic steps you can make your own recipes by using a soap calculator changing just one oil can make a completely different soap, or just go with a recipe you like and play around with additives or color designs, the possibilities are basically endless. I do like that he acted normal about the sodium hydroxide, so many soap forums and videos are treating it as it was a volatile explosive, yes it gets hot fast (make sure the beaker or whatever you use can handle that), and yes it's not good to get on you but protect your eyes, always add the powder to water and let it cool down a bit before moving and you'll be fine, never got it on me by just treating it respectfully but confidently. If you get it on your skin the oils there will become soap and you will be left with a completely dry spot intill the oils build up again, this ofc can feel irritated and be more sensitive but its not dangerous, in your eyes its ofc a lot more sensitive so protect then and also don't breath in the fumes your lungs won't like it. When using sodium hydroxide as a drain cleaner it actually makes soap in the pipes if you have any oil or fat down there, but it will wash away quickly since you don't let it cure.

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