The Beginners guide to cold process soap making: Episode One - All about the equipment you will need

Welcome to our "Soap making for Beginners" guide! Over the next 7 days, we will be uploading a mini series of videos focusing on soap making for absolute beginners. We will cover things such as equipment, lye safety, soap making oils, terminology and how to make your very first soap.

We have put together this guide as we have had a lot of questions from people asking how to get into soap making and how they can learn to make soap. We are not the first people to put together a guide like this, but we know that when you are new to soap making it helps to have as many different resources to learn from as possible!

We have tried to cover everything that we can think of in our guide and if you watch each of our daily episodes they will hopefully give you a basic understanding of how to begin making soap safely. We will be covering a different soap making topic each days for the next seven days.

In today's episode we will be covering the basic equipment that you will need if you want to start soap making. The list is fairly long but many of the items can be purchased relatively cheaply at shops like the pound store or regular supermarkets.

If you have any comments or questions along the way, please do let us know so we can do our best to help you learn how to make soap!

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In addition to this special, one off mini series, we also upload new soap making videos every Friday and new behind the scenes/business tips videos every Tuesday.

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[GR-hytf]

Such an inspiration to listen to you. Love this channel the MOST!

[lisawhitham]

Thank you for putting together The Beginners Guide! I have watched all 9 episodes and loved them.

[theeR]

Thank you for this informative video. Looking forward to this 7 day course. Cheers 🥂

[deebochaton]

Thanks for explaining so clearly what I will need to get started. Just beginning to learn about soap making and this is very, very helpful

[BorneTrue]

So informative, thank you for these videos! I am just in the learning about soap process before attempting and this really helps to break it all down.

[juliehutchison]

You are so kind in making all your videos. A friend recommended you to me, a good friend! thank you so much, I've always wanted to try making soap and you've given me the confidence to give it a go!

[BOO]

This was helpful and exactly what I was looking for... thank you ❤

[ilcevelazquez]

Hi! I’m from Mexico City. I’m starting to make soap as a business. I’m so afraid but your videos are so inspiring and build my confident. Thanks for share! :))

[michellecrutchfield]

Great, informative beginners video. Really awesome job.

[lisaalty]

I am so happy I found you, I have been watching royalty soap and have become obsessed with the craft to the point I found you when I was looking for how to sell you soap legally. As much as I love Katie my problem is I am in the UK so I can’t use her suppliers. Maybe your channel can help me work out some issues!! Great job thank you, , Also it’s great to hear you referring to shops I have in my area ie the pound shop

[randallart]

Your videos fill me with excitement and encouragement, thank you. I've just start making soap and hopefully soon I would like to start seeing after I go through all the legal proceedings. I need to get down exactly what I want to offer.

[emmelinastork]

Love love love the videos. Could you advise on what brand of wholesale essential oil you use? Thanks!

[DebsShipley]

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[NicoleRiley-kn]

How do you wash your bowls after they've touched the lye? Is regular dish soap fine?

[Nina-fnbp]

Wonderful!!! Thank you so much for sharing 🤍

[cmt]

What about a soap cutter is it needed for beginners?

[Badoura]

where were you at 2pm on 02/01/2021?!?!?!?!? ... currently waiting till the weekend to make my 7th micro batch with this time hemp seed butter :)