Learn what ingredients you will need to make your own soap in this free video on homemade soap making. Expert: Sheryl Andrews Bio: Sheryl Andrews is award-winning quilter and crafter has spent a lifetime exploring the depths of traditional home skills. Filmmaker: Christina Knickerbocker
How To Make Lye Soap: Soap Making Ingredients For Making Homemade Lye Soap
November 14, 2009 By 25 Comments
then why do school teachers teach kids how to make soap. if it’s not something you should do with kids
I appreciate it because your ingredients are natural, meaning you are not using shortening. I would like to know how to make the real organic and integral soap. thank You
I’ve always wondered how to make soap using things I can get from the local store. I think this is great. Thank you for posting. ^_^
kids use glycerin soap – a ready made soap that they melt, color and add perfume. no lye mixing.
Really good ideas here for using everyday items, but as an ex biologist, I have to say, CANOLA oil is NOT safe for human use!! It’s a man made petroleum oil (gee, thanks Canada for putting this poison on the world food list), so I would wholeheartedly recommend NOT using Canola oil!
Other than that, great vid, great ideas!
thanks for anther glove vid..that true..women must be wearing glove forever when working by hand..
As a biologist, you should know that canola oil is pressed from seeds.
Go to google and type in ‘canola oil danger’, then when the results come up, go to the sixth listing on the first page: THE DANGERS OF CANOLA OIL.
Then, when the site opens, click on ‘Canola oil deadly for human body!’ and read the report there.
Then come back and try and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
I never said anything about it’s presumed safety.
Only that you’re misinformed if you think it is a petroleum byproduct. It’s a hybridized Rapeseed plant.
I’m not misinformed in the slightest!!
I contributed to the reports on that page!!
The oil is MAN MADE and contains a very high toxic amount of PETROLEUM! Hence a PETROLEUM byproduct!! Very little of the seed is actually left after production.
Petroleum-based oils do not saponify with sodium hydroxide. I have used soaps made from 100% canola oil, for testing purposes. They’re not good soaps, but they are SOAP, and have been saponified with an alkali. How then, if they are largely petroleum based, did they even become soap, since inorganic oils do not saponify?
EXACTLY! Anything with Canola oil as an ingredient, cannot be digested or ejected from the human body! Why would you want to smear the damn stuff all over your skin, thinking you’re doing good when in actual fact, you may as well just jump into a pool of oil and kill yourself? The blood cannot dispose of canola oil, pure and simple. Disguising a poisonous element behind rapeseed is both criminal and disgusting! I’m sure the Canadians can think of better ways to make money other than death!
I agree with you, in terms of being healthy – trust me, I’m an organic-garden-growing hippie myself, but I think you misunderstood my last reply…If canola oil is indeed an inorganic petroleum product, then HOW can it even become soap? I have made soap that was more than 60% canola – if it were all a non-saponifiable petroleum product, there is NO WAY the lye could react with it, and it would never turn into soap,but it did. Which leads me to believe it is an oil of organic origin.
Okay, I see where the confusion lies now.
Canola oil is added into the processing of rapeseed oil. With rapeseed, most of the oil is lost through evaporation if not processed quickly. The same oil that is used in machine maintenance and lubrication is the same oil that is used to make Canola Oil. The Canadian government marked Canola oil as safe, BECAUSE of the organic materials contained within it, but failed to inform the world of the lethality of petroleum byproducts used in the ingredients.
The amount of rapeseed oil contained in Canola Oil is enough to allow for cooking without suspicion of something nasty in your fryer. It is also enough to allow cohesive bonding between elements, hence the ability to make soap. Some restaurants in the USA do not allow Canola oil use in their cooking facilities due to the risk to health associated with its use. Canadian Oil (aka Canola oil) is used diversely across industries as a mechanical oil. The SAME oil they sell for cooking purposes!
Thank you I enjoyed the video.
if canola oil is not safe..then what would one use in it’s place…also I wanted to state that englishnowtv seemed very rude..I’m sorry..just my opinion…he/she could share their concerns without being so hateful..thanks..
Except for showing off in a video, there is no reason to use fifty ingredients in a soap. Soap is basically lye with fat. To make it friendlier to the skin you can add something like butter or milk. Then you can add a few ingredients like spices, herbs, flowers, fruits etc. There is really no need for all those things on her bench.
Glycerin isn’t soap. Soap does contain glycerin unless it is removed to be used as a byproduct.
Wow, you are all so smart. Wish I knew what all this meant! I want to make cute soap bars!
They possibly could have been extracted using petroleum solvents, and a residue is left withing the oil. You are correct, however, in saying that petroleum oils do not saponify, as they are completely unnatural, and lack the fatty acids required for saponification to take place.
Don’t make any sense to me. They R just making market soap with stuff from the market. It’s easier to just go buy it yourself. It’s better if U learn how to make soap from nature and don’t rely on system’s things. Real survive if something should ever destroy our wonderful system U know.
How about boiling fat and putting water through pot ash?
Thats real soap!
I know what you mean about staying off the system, but the truth is even if you use store bought products, you can make it better. For instance, you have more control over what additives you want, and you can also add more glycerol to the soap which makes it softer for the skin…why don’t soap companies do this? more profit by selling glycerol and soap separately
Why don’t you use Vegetable oil I use it in my soaps.