How To Make Soap At Home - Make Simple & Gentle Cold Process Soap | BrambleBerry.com

This guide covers soap making whether you're new to it or want a reliable recipe. Learn how to mix coconut, palm, and olive oils for a perfect balance of cleansing and moisturizing properties. No fancy molds are needed—just a simple box lined with freezer paper. Start your soap-making journey with this straightforward tutorial. Perfect for beginners!

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This recipe uses coconut, palm, and olive oils, which are commonly used because they complement each other well. Palm oil acts as a secondary lathering agent and hardens the soap, coconut oil cleanses and produces big bubbles, and olive oil moisturizes and gives the bars a silky feeling.

The soap is unscented and uncolored to keep things easy. Once you have a few batches, you can start experimenting with additives. For the mold, you can use almost any box or container that you have on hand. You'll need to line it with freezer paper so the soap doesn't stick.

☑️ Simple and Gentle Soap recipe:
8 oz. Coconut Oil (24%)
15 oz. Olive Oil (44%)
11 oz. Palm Oil (32%)
4.8 oz. Lye
11.2 oz. Distilled Water

☑️ Key Terms:
• Saponification: The chemical reaction occurs when oil and lye molecules create new soap molecules.
• Trace: The point when oils and lye water emulsify and begin to thicken. Once the soap has reached a thin trace, it will continue to thicken as it sits.
• Emulsify: When the oils and lye solution mix and don't separate, emulsify is often used interchangeably with trace.
• Superfat: Any extra oil that's not turned into soap.
• Gel phase: "Gelling" or "gel phase" refers to when the soap gets warm and gelatinous—up to 180° F. The Gel phase results in brighter colors and a shinier, more translucent appearance.
• Soda ash: Unsaponified lye reacts with naturally occurring carbon dioxide in the air to create a white ashy film on the bars. This only affects the way the soap looks, not the quality.

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[bramble-berry]

Thanks for watching! You can find the full written instructions and ingredients for this soap here:

[casitabuluttv]

Please be warned about mixing lye in a glass container. Lye eats glass particles over time, making it prone for cracking. I (like many other soapers) had an incidence where my glass pyrex measuring cup (which I had used several times before) broke moments after pouring lye into the water. Thankfully I was mixing my lye in the sink, and was not harmed. But some others haven’t been as lucky. You need to mix the lye in stainless steel or hard plastic container.

[SueandSoap]

I love the simplicity of this recipe. It really doesn't need 10 different fancy oils and butters and colors to make a great soap!

[moriversoap]

This video gave me all the newbie feels. There is nothing quite like that very first batch of soap. Lots of great info for anyone starting out!

[csdurch]

Finally! You’re the only demonstrator that told me what “tracing” is. Your demo is terrific. I’m truly a beginner and can’t wait to get the items I need. Thanks!

[breadcrumbs]

Heads up: it actually only takes 10-20 minutes (30 minutes at the absolute max) to whisk a soap mixture to trace, which I don’t think is that bad. So don’t feel discouraged to not try soap making if you don’t have a stick blender, it’s totally possible with just a whisk!

[motherofquills]

Thank you for getting back to basics. This is something my husband and I have been doing more and more of lately. Getting back to basics and kind of starting over if you will. This is a great refresher and a great starter. Thank you!

[ShyShyTheGem]

Just ordered everything I needed to make my first batches of soap 🧼 so excited ! Thank you for this video :)

Update: I made the soap and the process was so easy !! :) next time I will add some scent because the smell of the olive oil and palm oil wasn’t very nice lol !

[shawndellburney-speaks]

I've been researching how to make bar soap. I want to give away as gifts at my event, and hands down, this video is the sweetest! Thank you for sharing the simplicity of this recipe. I cannot wait to try! ;)

[estellevanzyl]

You're such an amazing teacher. Thank you for making it so easy. It will be my VERY FIRST time, but I am looking forward to it. Thanks again

[celesteelijah]

So glad I saw this, Anne-Marie! I had been hesitant about doing CP. But now with your teaching, I know I can do it. I've been doing just MP going on 2 years, I'm ready to graduate. Love your website and I have joined so ready to learn. THANK YOU!!

[hiawanthaabdusalaam]

Thank you for this similar version of making cold process soap.. I always wanted to make soap. So i started of with MP and now after 2 years of that, I’m ready to try it! I’ve been watching your videos for 2 years off and on. I love ❤️ all of them . I just ordered all my ingredients to make my first small batch of cold process soap, I can’t wait for my supplies to arrive and start to make some soaps!!! Thanks again for all that you share with everyone! 😊

[Diamond]

OMG I LOVE IT - then I can use DHL boxes and not to purchase expensive silicon boxes - awesome thanks a lot for your AWESOME LESSONS.. WHAT A GREAT HELP FOR ME.

[mduvigneaud]

Something I've started doing is adding my oils in stages depending on what function the oil has in the soap: castor oil is always added first, cocoa or shea butter is always added last.

[carolp]

Thank you for this terrific demo! I am very new to soap making and have only worked with melt and pour. I have feared trying CP for so long. This video is wonderful, and feel I can take the leap and give it a try now.

[beckyluvstoscrapnsew]

Freezer paper is so expensive and extremely hard to find here in Australia...that much would cost at least $5.00 where I last bought some, if not I often use it more than once, I start with pale colours and as I use it again it will get to the darker record has been five batches of soap using one lot of freezer paper lining!

[LadyGecko]

I think it would be cool if you did 'kit' videos. Where you open one of your kits and then go through the process. Not that the instruction cards provided aren't great because they are, but I know that some folks are still intimidated.

[op-joshy]

Finally someone that is not selfish
Thanks for sharing

[agneszephyrin]

I was looking for a simple recipe for a long time, I am so excited to have found this one...because I can't use soaps with deodorants in in all of my soaps have to be simple soap..thank you so much for your recipe..

[sqwjxxf]

I was so worried about taking the next step and trying cold process soap making. I was sticking with melt and pour😕 but learned so much on how to use it from Brambleberry that I figured why not. This has been such a great learning experience. Anything that is posted I watch! I’m so thankful, this has turned a fun hobby into something I love and enjoy, and now others are enjoying my creations as well. Maybe one day I will continue to a startup. 🙏🏼🙂 your a wonderful teacher!