Making French Pink Clay Soap

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Join me as I make french pink clay cold process soap, start to finish. I am new to soapmaking. It is a craft and hobby I have wanted to explore for a long time, but I was intimidated by the need to use lye. The idea of having a packet of caustic soda beads sat in a kitchen cupboard put me off, and I really didn't fancy handling it either.

I finally read all the safety advice and watched lots of videos of other people making cold process soap, ordered the ingredients I needed, and got started. I am so glad I did, as it's really fun!

This is my second batch of cold process soap and I followed a recipe I found on Soap Making Magazine, it's this one: soapmakingmagazine.co.uk/...

I chose to use this recipe as it is vegan, palm free, measured in grams (metric), and uses ingredients that are easy to get hold of. Palm oil production can be bad for the environment unless it is produced in a sustainable way, so I choose to avoid it as much as possible.

I bought the coconut oil and olive oil in my local supermarket, the shea butter from a shop called The Soapery thesoapery.co.uk/ - not sponsored, but if you're in the UK they are a good place to buy oils and butters in bulk - and the sodium hydroxide, clay powder, mould and litmus paper via independent sellers on eBay. I don't use Amazon for ethical reasons, though I suspect you could buy everything there too. Do try to support local, independent sellers where possible though, and if you use Amazon try to select products available via independent sellers in the marketplace rather than Amazon products.

If you are curious about making soap and want to try it for yourself, I hope that this video inspires you. I am just a beginner myself though, so please make sure that you watch other videos, read up on the safe handling of sodium hydroxide and lye, and that you know exactly what you are doing before you get started. Soapmaking is fun, but lye can cause skin damage and serious chemical burns, so it is important that you handle the substance carefully at all times and that you work in an environment free from distractions - don't try this with companion animals or young children running around.

Finally, whichever recipe you choose to follow, make sure to run it through a lye calculator to double check that the measurements are correct. Typos happen, and sodium hydroxide measurements need to be correct to the gram. I used this lye calculator: the-sage.com/lyecalc/ to double check the recipe I followed, and it confirmed that the measurements were correct and that the recipe was well balanced and wasn't going to result in a block of skin burning soap.

I think I am more nervous than many people would be about lye because I have really sensitive skin. This is part of the reason I'm so interested in making my own soap, because I can choose which ingredients to put in and which to leave out.

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