Cold Process Soap Making #2 - Natural Colours & Ingredients

Taking You Beyond Basic Soap Making Using Alternative Techniques & Natural Ingredients - Expand Your Soap Making Skills

What you'll learn

You will be able to create your own recipes using a range of natural ingredients, to make fabulous, attractive looking soap with skin nourishing properties.

You will be able to master the technique of adding goat’s milk and other milks to your soap without it discoloring or scorching.

You will know how to use plant based colours and other natural colorants, to create a subtle natural look in your soap.

You will also be able to enhance your colors to make them a deeper shade as well as using an ombre technique.

You will be familiar with different grades of exfoliating ingredients and know how to add them to your soap to create exfoliating and stunning visual effects.

You will be able to use a variety of molds to create unique effects in your soap

Requirements

You must have prior experience of making Cold Process Soap. This course does not teach the basics of how to make soap, or cover the safety precautions that you need to take when handling lye.

You should be familiar with basic soap making terms and have experience with making soap batter, adding colour and essential oils to your soap.

You need to be have experience of making soap with liquid and solid oils and butters, and be able work with the various stages of trace

You need to be able to calculate the volume of your mold and create recipes based on percentages

Description

This course will show you how to make natural soaps using a variety of ingredients and techniques:You will discover my methods for making perfect goat's milk soap, avoiding scorching, burning, or discolorationYou will have access to two different methods for infusing oil with plants.You will get tips for using honey in your soaps as well as a range of exfoliating ingredientsYou will see how to make soaps using a variety of natural oils and butters to create some lovely moisturizing bars of soap. I share all of my recipes, so that you can use these to create your own soaps in any shape or size that you want.You will learn about natural colorants, including clays, plant based colorants and pigments, and you will see how to use these to create natural looking soap, with subtle to more pronounced colors.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 How To Improve Your Course Experience

Section 2: Colouring Your Soap With Natural Colours

Lecture 3 Introduction to Colouring Your Soap Naturally

Lecture 4 Introduction to Colouring Your Soaps With Clay

Lecture 5 Mixing the Clays

Lecture 6 Making Soap Coloured With Clay

Lecture 7 Turning Out Soap Coloured With Clay

Lecture 8 Introduction to Colouring Your Soap With Botanicals

Lecture 9 Making Soap Coloured With Botanicals

Lecture 10 Turning Out Soap Coloured With Botanicals

Lecture 11 Introduction to Using Pigments to Colour Your Soap

Lecture 12 Making Soap Coloured With Pigments

Lecture 13 Turning Out Soap Coloured With Pigments

Lecture 14 Using Colourants in Your Soap

Section 3: What You Need to Get Started

Lecture 15 Ingredients

Lecture 16 Molds

Section 4: Castille Soap

Lecture 17 Introduction to Castille Soap

Lecture 18 Making Castille Soap

Lecture 19 Turning Out and Cutting Castille Soap

Section 5: Orange Soap with Buttermilk and Calendula Infusion

Lecture 20 Introduction to Buttermilk and Calendula Soap

Lecture 21 Making Calendula Infusion

Lecture 22 Making Buttermilk Soap

Lecture 23 Turning Out Buttermilk Soap

Section 6: Coffee Soap

Lecture 24 Introduction to Coffee Soap

Lecture 25 Making Coffee Soap

Lecture 26 Turning Out Coffee Soap

Section 7: Goat's Milk with Lavender

Lecture 27 Introduction to Goat's Milk with Lavender

Lecture 28 Making Goat's Milk Soap With Lavender

Lecture 29 Turning Out Goat's Milk Soap

Section 8: Honey and Oatmeal Soap

Lecture 30 Introduction to Honey and Oatmeal Soap

Lecture 31 Lining Mold For Honey and Oatmeal Soap

Lecture 32 Making Honey and Oatmeal Soap

Lecture 33 Turning Out Honey and Oatmeal Soap

Section 9: Loofah Soap

Lecture 34 Introduction to Loofah Soap

Lecture 35 Making Loofah Soap

Lecture 36 Turning Out Loofah Soap

Section 10: Indigo Ombre Soap

Lecture 37 Introduction to Indigo Ombre Soap

Lecture 38 Making Indigo Ombre Soap

Lecture 39 Turning Out Indigo Ombre Soap

Section 11: Rose Soap Coloured with Clay

Lecture 40 Introduction to Rose Clay Soap

Lecture 41 Making Rose Clay Soap

Lecture 42 Turning Out Rose Clay Soap

Section 12: Making Your Soap Look Professional

Lecture 43 Soap Cutters

Lecture 44 Stamping Your Soap

Section 13: How To Adapt My Recipes To Fit Your Own Molds

Lecture 45 How To Adapt My Recipes For Your Own Use

Section 14: Troubleshooting

Lecture 46 Troubleshooting Tips

Section 15: Bonus Section

Lecture 47 Bonus Section

This course is for the student who has some basic Cold Process soap making experience, who wants to gain experience in more challenging techniques such as goat’s milk soap, buttermilk soap, infusing oils wth pants and creating effects with a variety of militants.