Making spruce tip soap 🌲 Naturally colored cold process soap making

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In this video I make cold process soap with spruce tip infused olive oil.
A few weeks ago I went to the forest to pick some spruce tips and wanted to include them in a soap recipe.
I colored the soap naturally with spinach powder. I like how bright green the soap bars turned out and I hope the color doesn't fade with time.

Thank you for watching!

All natural soap recipe with spruce tip infused oil and spinach powder

Total batch weight: ~800 g

300 g olive oil (50%)
180 g coconut oil (30%)
72 g shea butter (12%)
48 g illipe butter (8%)

2.5 tbsp dried spruce tip powder (infuse in olive oil and strain)
1 tbsp spinach powder (add to oils)

125 g distilled water

10 g citric acid

89.8 g lye (83.8 g if not using citric acid)

(40% lye concentration, 6% superfat)

Essential oil blend:

5.4 g pine essential oil
3.6 g cedarwood essential oil
9 g lavender essential oil

Cure the soap 4-6 weeks before using.

Soap making equipment*

○ Silicone molds:

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[tellervo.]

Hi, thank you for watching! Happy midsummer day🌼 You can find the recipe for this soap and some links to soap making equipment in the description box. If you’re wondering about the use of citric acid in soap making, it does not lower the pH of soap. Instead it consumes some of the lye and increases the superfat, but I usually add more lye to compensate.

Metal ions such as calcium and magnesium can be found in tap water. These metal contaminants can cause rancidity and soap scum in handmade soap. When citric acid and lye are combined, sodium citrate is created. Sodium citrate works as a chelator in soap. A chelator traps the metal contaminants, so that the soap won’t react with them. This way the soap's lather improves and shelf life increases.

[formobile]

Wow, .. the soap came out so beautiful. Loved the whole process of using natural ingredients. As usual, the video was so calming and refreshing at the same time.

[tassiegirl]

What a beautiful way to end my day watching yet another of your soap making videos. You used nature at its best to create such a pretty soap and the music complemented it all perfectly. Thank you so much I will keep this recipe and add to my must make soaps.

[learningno]

The beauty of this soap is unique and stunning.

[Erica-yrgf]

Beautiful. I bet it smells heavenly. 💕💕💕

[CanterburySoapworks]

Your videos put me into a trance. Thanks for sharing.

[xieyfyf]

Beautiful video, awesome soap. Thank you for sharing.

[DawnOrganics]

Beautiful green soap, and very relaxing as always. Thanks for another great upload, love from Australia ❤❤🙏🙏

[freddieivory]

Beautiful color, thank you for sharing

[sascha_trvl]

your Videos are sooo good to calm down! If I have the time some day. I'll try some of your recipes

[Ja_s-per]

Looks so,
Good!!!

Great job,
🙏.

[kathrynwilcock]

Beautiful soap love! Such a soothing video too 🌲💚

[shunwilliams]

Amazing thank you so much for sharing 🎈🥰🥰🎈

[scentuousbazaar]

This vid has been the absolute most relaxing soap making vid I've watched yet. 😍

[Soapartisan]

Your soaps are always so beautiful in their natural coloring .. this one must smell amazing .🤩 you are so very talented and work so relaxed ❤️

[zednoureddine]

C'est toujours un plaisir de voir tes vidéos, l'art et la manière, bonne continuation.

[angelasanchez]

Hermoso 😍. Gracias por la fórmula ♥️🇲🇽🙅‍♂️

[ricardocortezsr]

Awesome video. so different from other soap videos, no rock music or heavy metal more like a work of art. Thank you

[cathygilani]

Love your videos!! The are so calming. I really like that you use natural colorants also.
I've never mixed pine e.o. with lavender essential oil -
I'll have to try it.
Thank you - beautiful soap!!

[camsanders]

Ah, I was going to ask about the citric acid. I thought maybe it kept the spruce green in the soap (in the same way it keeps cut apples from browning). Interesting that it improves shelf life. BEAUTIFUL soap -- I loved everything about this video. Nicely done, as always. :)