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   The difference between cream soap and other handmade soaps is that in this process I use both NaOH and KOH for my lyes. KOH makes liquid soap. NaOH makes solid bars. Mix them both together in certain percentages and you get a cream soap!
   Another difference is that I add stearic acid to the recipe. Hard bars and liquid soap do contain stearic, because a lot of vegetable oils contain stearic naturally anyway. My cream soaps contain a high percentage, which makes it a wonderful shave cream too. I also add pure glycerin to the base oils and butters and cook it with the soap.
   What you did not see is that I have premixed my lyes with my water, and I also melted my stearic, oils and added my glycerin to my oils. In this picture I have added the lye mixture to my oils in my crock pot.
   The stearic acid in the recipe will make the batch think that it should separate. I will keep blending it until I get a smooth texture.

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   Its starting to mix together now, but still needs more blending.
   
   




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   This is what we call trace, a stage where I don’t have to worry about my mix separating again.

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   Frm this honey texture it will turn into a hard taffy texture.




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   At this point the soap has reached the taffy stage I wanted you to see. Now I can leave it alone and go do other things while this cooks for awhile.

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   The soap has now been cooking for over 2 hours. It is starting to soften up and clear up.
   
   

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   30 minutes later:

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   The soap is now done.
   
   

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   I test the soap at this point with a pH tester or I take a touch of it on my finger and touch it to my tongue. if it tastes sweet like glycerin, then its ready to go. If I get a zap that feels like touching a battery to my tongue, then I cook it for a bit longer.
   At this point I supercream the soap

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    with a little stearic and a little glycerin. I cook it for 15 more minutes and turn off my crock pot and let it sit for a few days.
    2 days later my soap has turned from hard to soft and whippy.

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    I can whip it with a simple spoon, but I put it in my 35 year old Kitchenaid mixer that I scored at a second hand store for $35! And I whip the soap in small amounts till the entire batch is whipped.

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    The finished product feels so nice, and just a little bit creates such wonderful bubbles.
    Looks so creamy! This soap naturally glistens.

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    Once everything is is whipped up I put the soap in my buckets
    
    

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    for what is called “rotting.” Rotting is a period where the soap cures and gets better with age.
    Just as I cure my liquid soap by “sequestering” and my hard bars by putting them on the soap rack for 4-6 weeks, cream soap needs the same treatment.

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kermit

27 Jun 08:28

hmmm this stuff looks só good :)

Cat Morley

27 Jun 10:46

Yummy, looks so good!

ZAJA Natural

27 Jun 11:06

Thank you! I would be happy yo post an easy recipe if anyone wants to try it out!

queenfairypants

27 Jun 16:22

I want to eat it!!

x

Mallory Howard

17 Jul 06:24

Oh that's sooo cool!! please post the recipe because I sooo want to try it out! Thanks so much!!

Kearyn Malia

21 Jul 19:45

wow, this is really neto! thanks so so much for sharing!

Lindsay F.

25 Jul 00:55

*sigh* Any kind of soap reminds me of Fight Club. How sad am I?

"I am Jack's Colon."

Ha.

CeeyraCatastrophe

29 Aug 15:23

Awsome, where can you find the ingredients?

PB

16 Sep 22:52

Pleeeease post an easier one, maybe without so many soap-making chemicals? Perhaps I could try making one out of glycerin soap and something else... that would be a disaster, I'll wait and see if you come up with anything.

Tashiie.x R.

28 Sep 12:44

umm, where did u get the ingridients from?

ZAJA Natural

28 Sep 14:11

You can join a yahoo group called cream soap and learn more about ingredients and recipes.

PB

04 Oct 02:01

Thanks!

ZAJA Natural

04 Oct 02:37

"Pleeeease post an easier one, maybe without so many soap-making chemicals? Perhaps I could try making one out of glycerin soap and something else... that would be a disaster, I'll wait and see if you come up with anything."

All true handmade soap is "glycerin" soap because glycerin is a byproduct in soapmaking. Unfortunately I do not think one can make cream soap with any kind of glycerin "soap base" as it is a totally different process than regular soap. its not hard to make at all once you get the hang of it. The lyes are the easy part:)

Desert Soapstone

11 Nov 00:34

Can you use Beeswax instead of stearic acid?

The Trace

13 Nov 04:55

You should think about making some to sell :D I would totally buy some from you!

ZAJA Natural

13 Nov 10:14

Hi,

Beeswax cannot be used instead of stearic acid. Stearic acid is essential to this process of soap making. It is what makes the soap "cream". Without it you would just be left with a squishy opaque soap that would not cream no matter how hard you whip it. Beeswax in soap in the quantities that you need with stearic acid would not make a very good soap. Typically beeswax is used to harden a bar of soap, in small amounts.

ZAJA Natural

13 Nov 10:16

I used to sell it just for bathing but due to my tenuous school schedule I had to cut down on how many different products I offer. I mainly use this soap for my Dead Sea Mud Scrub and my shaving cream. You can go to my website (same as my username with .com at the end) and view the different items that have cream soap.

thecraftaholic

13 Nov 15:27

this is awesome! I can't wait to make this!

avery g.

26 Nov 18:46

Try wholesalesupples.com or brambleberry.com for ingredients.

Stephanie H.

31 Mar 02:49

what are the amounts that you use or at least the percentages of materials? I'm just curious because i wanted to make this and i'm a chemist

Stephanie H.

31 Mar 02:54

what base oils are used? can you use essential oils to add scent this?

Odette H.

08 May 07:43

Hi there
I think I am really stupid but I cannot find the quantites to make this whipped soap, only the ingredients. Please could someone help me.
Thanks
Odie

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