How to Make Hot Process Soap in a Crock Pot

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Sanitize your counters by wiping everything down thoroughly.

   That keeps the lye fumes from flying around the room and the danger of ingestion low.
   
   It is important to understand the dangers of working with lye so you will need to take the proper precautions by putting on your gloves, goggles, and chemical mask.
   
   It is always important to remember never, ever add your water to your lye.
   
   The best way to remember is:
   THE SNOW FALLS ON THE LAKE! ,, Leave it sitting on the stove underneath the fan. ,,,, This will take about 3 minutes.
   
   You will continue to blend with the stick blender until it comes to a very light trace. , RESIST the urge to stir it.
   
   It will need to cook for one hour.
   
   Keep a close eye on it, but do not stir. , You should start to see a pool of oil on top of the mixture. , It will look like mashed potatoes.
   
   At this point you can add the fragrance oils, but be sure that the soap mixture is 10 –20 degrees below the flashpoint of the fragrance oils or you will just burn off the top notes of your beautiful scents. , Put the lid back on and let it cook for another 15 minutes. , I usually take a bit of the mix (watch out it’s very hot) and roll it between my gloved fingers, wait for it to cool, then touch to the tongue.
   
   If it zaps your tongue let it cook for another 20 minutes and re-test.
   
   If you are leery about touching your tongue with the mix, then just take a small piece of soap and soap up your hands under running water
   - if it stings, then you still have lye and need to cook for another 20 minutes before rechecking. , Note:
   To save time, you can add the fragrance oils to the fats/oil mixture before adding the lye/water mixture
   - this will keep the soap mixture more pliable for pouring into molds. , Smooth out the top of the soap in the soap mold by using your gloves hands.
   
   Let the soap sit in the molds to cool for 24 hours.
   
   Take out and cut into bars. ,, You can use wire shelves that you can buy.
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   Step 2: Weigh out all your ingredients with the exception of the lye and set aside.

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   Step 3: Prepare the molds with freezer paper

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   Step 4: (you will want the shiny side up) and set them aside.

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   Step 5: Put your cutting board on your stovetop

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   Step 6: and turn your stove fan on high.

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   Step 7: With your scale and pitcher sitting on the cutting board underneath the stove fan

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   Step 8: measure out the water in your lye pitcher and set next to scale

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   Step 9: always keeping it under the fan.

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    Step 10: measure out the lye and very slowly pour into the water while stirring steady and slow until the lye is completely dissolved.

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    Step 11: In the Crock-pot

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    Step 12: add the coconut oil and Shea butter on low until it's completely melted.

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    Step 13: Add the Olive oil and stir until mixed in completely.

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    Step 14: Add the lye/water mixture to the oils.

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    Step 15: Using the stick blender

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    Step 16: mix on low with a short burst

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    Step 17: then stir

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    Step 18: then another short burst until the two mixtures are combined.

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    Step 19: At this point

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    Step 20: turn the Crock pot on high

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    Step 21: put on the lid

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    Step 22: and walk away.

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    Step 23: During the hour process of cooking it will start to rise and start folding in on itself.

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    Step 24: At the end of the hour

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    Step 25: you will want to stir it.

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    Step 26: Add lavender buds and coloring.

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    Step 27: At the end of the 15 minutes

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    Step 28: give it another good stir - and at this point you will want to test for lye.

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    Step 29: Work quickly because hot process soap can get very hard to pour if left to cool for very long.

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    Step 30: After you pour the soap into the lined mold

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    Step 31: pound the mold a couple of times on the counter and then cover soap with Saran Wrap.

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    Step 32: Let your hot soap bars sit in a well ventilated room for them to have a good drying out for at least 3 to 4 days before you package them.

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    Step 33: Set up a space for the cold and hot process soaps to cure.

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