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Soap Manufacturing

This document provides a 12-step checklist for making hot process soap. It outlines the necessary tools, ingredients, and steps for mixing oils and lye solution, bringing the mixture to trace, cooking it to verify it has saponified, adding additives, pouring into molds, and cutting or using the finished soap. Tips are included about potential mistakes like forgetting ingredients. Links to soap recipes and suppliers are also provided.

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Soap Manufacturing

This document provides a 12-step checklist for making hot process soap. It outlines the necessary tools, ingredients, and steps for mixing oils and lye solution, bringing the mixture to trace, cooking it to verify it has saponified, adding additives, pouring into molds, and cutting or using the finished soap. Tips are included about potential mistakes like forgetting ingredients. Links to soap recipes and suppliers are also provided.

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Step By Step Directions for Making Hot Process Soap

Healing Harvest Homestead Resource Library, 2018

Step by Step Directions for


Making Hot Process Soap
A Printable Checklist


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Step By Step Directions for Making Hot Process Soap
Healing Harvest Homestead Resource Library, 2018

Hot Process Soap


Making Checklist
This list is super helpful for making hot process soap, especially
when you are just starting out. You can make sure you don’t skip any
steps, or even forget ingredients (this is surprisingly easy to do, and
happens to the best of us!)

NOTE: You can find tons of hot process soap recipes on


www.HealingHarvestHomestead.com to play around with! My recipes are
always palm free and all natural, with no fragrance oils or artificial
colorants.

You can also check out my eBook: How to Make Your Own Hot
Process Soap, which explains every single detail you need to know about
making soap, includes lots of pictures of the process, and has 22 different
recipe variations to play around with, along with charts and lists of
colorants and essential oil combinations.

A quick check list of tools to have ready to go before you start:

• Kitchen scale

• Hand blender

• Large crock pot

• Wooden spoons

• Soap mold

• Heat resistant measuring tools, like Pyrex

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Step By Step Directions for Making Hot Process Soap
Healing Harvest Homestead Resource Library, 2018

Hot Process Soap Direction Checklist


1. Get all your ingredients including all oils, butters, lye, and water lined up on your counter
top

2. Be sure you have all your tools ready to go (above), including safety gear (see my eBook
or tutorials on the blog)

3. Measure out your oils and butters BY WEIGHT using your kitchen scale. Add these to your
crock pot set on low.

4. Now measure out your lye and water BY WEIGHT. To make the lye mixture, be sure to
pour the lye into the water, NEVER the other way around. Stir well. Be sure to turn your
face aside because the fumes—-

5. When your oils are melted together in the crock pot, carefully pour your lye solution into
the oils (are you wearing your gloves and safety glasses?). Some colorants can be added
at this stage. Be sure to do that now, if that’s your choice.

6. Using your hand blender, bring the mixture to trace.

7. Put the lid on your crock pot and cook the mixture. You will see these stages: a) solid
mass; b) bubbles and mixture rising up the sides of the crock pot (stir when you see a LOT
of this—and your soap may boil over if you don’t stir it down—just be aware); c) a mashed
potato appearance and texture; d) finally a waxy, translucent look.

8. Test for done-ness. You can pick up a little bit off your wooden spoon and roll it in your
fingers. It should feel waxy and be able to form a little ball. For a further test, you can do
the “zap” test by touching it to your tongue. It should NOT zap you at all.

9. If it’s done, go ahead and add any other additives (like your essential oils and any other
colors or textures you want) now. Stir well.

10. Pour your soap into the mold, being sure to press down very firmly so all air escapes.
Otherwise, you may end up with a little Swiss cheese hole here and there.

11. Allow it to cool completely. I leave mine over night, usually. After it’s cooled down, remove
the block from the mold.

12. Now you can cut it if you want. Or you can leave it intact and cut it as you need it. The
fragrance will last longer this way. 


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Step By Step Directions for Making Hot Process Soap
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About curing: Hot process soap doesn’t really need to cure. If you end up with a softer soap,
there may still be some liquid in the soap and leaving it alone for a day up to a week will take
care of that. But your soap is safe to use right away, whether or not you decide to let it cure a
little longer.

And that’s it! Just print out page 2 and definitely 3 of this checklist each time you go to make
hot process soap, and you’ll never forget a thing!

Here’s a quick little story:

One time I was making soap, and I completely forgot to add the almond oil (12 ounces
worth!!). I just could NOT figure out why it wasn’t cooking right and why on earth it kept
“zapping” me even after three whole hours! So, yes, forgetting to do things can happen to us
all. :-)

It was after that incident that I created this checklist, and here it is for you!

Here are some soap recipes you may like to try:

How to Make Calendula Citrus Dream Soap

Tangerine-Cocoa & Oatmeal Hot Process Soap Recipe

Hot Process Soap Skill: How to Layer Two Colors Together

Soap Making Mistakes You Do NOT Want to Make—-How to Have Successful Soap

And there are SO many more soap making and soap recipe articles over at
www.HealingHarvestHomestead.com

And here is my favorite place ( along with Amazon) I love to get my essential oils, oils &
butters, and clays or herbs for colorants:

Starwest Botanicals. They have just about everything, fast shipping, and I believe in their
mission and who they support. They also sell essential oils in quantities you need for making
soap at a good price while still retaining the quality of the essential oils.

As always, don’t hesitate to email me if you have questions, comments, or requests!

Hugs, Health, and Self-Reliance,

Heidi

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