QUICK MIX OILS - LOTS OF LATHER
Size
33 oz
54 oz
108 oz
35 lb
Lye
4.7 oz
7.8 oz
15.6 oz
80.6 oz
Water 11 oz
18 oz
36 oz
185 oz
Recipes for Common Sizes
Favorite Mold
10” Silicone Loaf Mold
5 lb Wood Loaf Mold
36 Bar Birchwood Mold
molds to hold 50 pounds of soap
Lye SAFETY!
HANDLING LYE:
Lye is a hazardous substance and should be treated carefully. It is safe for use in
home soapmaking but some precautions must be taken:
Always wear protective goggles! Getting lye, water with dissolved lye in it or fresh
soap in your eyes is an emergency. The best way to handle a lye emergency is to
prevent it. If an accident does occur, immediately run your eye under cold water
and seek medical help.
Always wear protective clothing. Once you mix your lye with water, it will heat up
quickly due to a chemical reaction. If you splash or spill lye on your skin, you will get
a chemical burn. Protect your hands with gloves, and wear long sleeved clothing.
Keep a bottle of vinegar nearby to neutralize a lye burn and USE IT if you spill lye
water or fresh soap on yourself. Alternatively, you can rinse lye water or fresh soap
off with cold water and soap. It may not hurt instantly but a splash can cause damage.
Mix lye in a large heat-safe container, preferably inside of a sink. If you prefer, you
can mix your lye outdoors.
Always ADD LYE TO WATER. Sprinkle the lye on top of the water for best results,
and stir with a stainless steel spoon or heat resistant plastic utensil. Never pour
water onto a pile of dry lye, a severe, volcanic reaction can occur. Work in a well
ventilated area and avoid breathing in lye fumes (these are strongest when you first
add the lye to the water).
Do not allow children or pets into your soaping space while you are working.
Use dedicated soap making utensils and tools. Don’t use your soap tools to make
food.
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Basic Soaping
Directions
Usage per Ounce of Mix
Superfat % Lye
Water
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
10%
0.147 oz
0.145 oz
0.144 oz
0.142 oz
0.141 oz
0.139 oz
0.138 oz
0.137 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
0.33 oz
Before starting to make soap, use this handy Cheat Sheet to make sure you have
everything ready.
1. Children and pets out of the area
2. 1 uninterrupted hour available to you
3. All work surfaces covered with newspaper or sheets to protect against spills
4. All oils weighed out (if necessary)
5. Mold choice fully prepared (lined if necessary)
6. Water measured out
7. Lye weighed out
8. Fragrance Oil weighed out
9. Colorant prepared (pre-mixed or measured out)
10. All utensils at the ready; stainless steel spoons, stick blenders, spatulas clean and ready to go.
Now that everything is fully prepped, it’s time for action!
1. Put your gloves and goggles on.
2. Add your lye to your water, stirring slowly with your stainless steel or heat-safe stir ring utensil. Take care to not breathe in lye fumes.
3. Once all grains or flakes are mixed in, set lye water safely aside.
4. Mix all of your pre-weighed oils into a large heat safe bowl. It should not be over 50% filled at this point.
5. Melt your oils so they are around 120 to 140 degrees.
6. If your lye water is cooled below 140 degrees, add your lye water to your oils.
7. Slowly pulse your stick blender on and off, moving it around the bowl so that all parts of the soap mixture are getting agitated and blended.
8. Once your soap has reached thin trace, add your colorant and any additives.
9. When your color is mixed in, add your fragrance oil. Whisk your fragrance oil in.
10. Pour soap into your prepared mold.
11. Cover your soap with saran wrap or a cardboard cover.
12. Insulate with towels.
13. cut within 2-4 days
14. Cure for 4 to 6 weeks before using, giving away or selling.
QUICK MIX OILS - LOTS OF LATHER
The Bramble Berry Soap Quick Mix Soap Oils are an easy way for you to save
time weighing and blending oils. We’ve done all the work for you. Your oils may
arrive liquid, solid or a combination depending on the time of year and the conditions the oils traveled in. If the oil is solid or a combination, make sure to fully mix
and stir the blend before use. This bag comes with an additional 0.3 ounces of
oil in it (to account for a little being left in the bag as you pour) so you DO NOT
need to reweigh the oils if using the entire bag. If you are not using the entire bag
and are creating your own, small recipe (see instructions below), you will need to
weigh your oils, lye and water.
Coconut Oil33%
Contains:
Lots of Lather is comprised of Coconut, Palm Oil,
Palm Oil33%
Canola Oil, Olive Oil, Castor Oil and Vitamin E.
It produces an extremely hard bar that has large
Canola Oil16%
Olive Oil14.9%
Castor Oil3%
Vitamin E
0.1%
bubbles with good stability. The resulting soap rinses
away cleanly in the shower. Because of the lathering
properties, this recipe does best at a 7% superfat or
below. The combined SAP value of Lots of Lather is
0.151037.
Water Amount:
Ideal water amount for Lots of Lather is 33% (or 0.33). The full range of Lots of
Lather for water is 25% to 41%. To make things easy, right in the middle is literally
double the amount of your lye (easy!)
Recipe:
To make 5 pounds of soap, your bag comes with 54 ounces of oil. You will mix
7.8 oz of sodium hydroxide BY WEIGHT into 18 ounces of water to make your full
5 pound recipe. This is a 5% superfat.
To make 10 pounds of soap, your two bags come with 54 ounces of oil each, or 108
total ounces of the mixture. You will mix 15.6 oz. BY WEIGHT of sodium hydroxide
into 36 ounces of water to make your full 10 pound recipe. This is a 5% superfat.
What if you want to make a 7 pound batch of soap? It’s easy to figure out! You can
either go to the Bramble Berry Calculator and figure the recipe by the percentages in the Lots of Lather formula (above) and resize the batch, or, you can do the
math yourself.
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Example:
If you have 100 ounces of Lots of Lather Soap Quick Mix, you would figure out
your lye by multiplying the amount of oils you wanted to use by the SAP value of
Lots of Lather (0.151037).
100 oz. x 0.151037 = 15.1 oz. of lye for a 0% superfat
Water = roughly double the amount of your lye (15.1 x 2 = 30.2 oz.)
To get your superfat, simply discount 5% off the lye amount. This looks like:
15.1 – (15.1 x .05) = 15.1 - 0.755 = 14.345 for a 5% superfat (also referred to as a 5% lye
discount)
We hope you enjoy using your Lots of Lather Quick Mix. If you have any questions,
please email us at [email protected], phone us at 1-87-SOAP-STUFF or post on
our FaceBook page: Facebook.com/brambleberry