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.
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