Making Cold Process Aloe Vera Soap - Harvesting the Leaves and Gel - Full Soap Making Recipe

In this video, I demonstrate my easy method for extracting the gel from aloe vera leaves and share my recipe and technique for making aloe vera soap using the cold process soap method.

This method uses fresh aloe vera gel as a full water replacement in the soap recipe. You can also blend some fresh aloe gel into your soap making oils and make your lye solution with water if you would like a more straightforward process. If I blend my aloe into my oils, I make the lye solution with water but use a 1:5:1 water to lye ratio. I have used 2.5:1 liquid to lye ratio in the video demonstration recipe to maximise the amount of aloe in the finished soap.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide (lyes) used in soap making, in granular or flake form or in solution with water/other liquids, as well as raw soap batter, are highly corrosive and require careful and attentive handling and the proper use of personal protective equipment. Please watch this video to learn more about essential soap making safety precautions: https://youtu.be/EZTsW9UvNmU

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RECIPE
My mould used in this video is 22cm long, 6.5cm wide and 5.5cm deep
It holds 822g of soap batter in total.
To work out the base oil amount for your mould, see this video https://youtu.be/ZguW6J3Jj2Q.
To develop your own soap recipes to fit your own mould see the video links provided above.

For this soap, I used the following ingredients:

80% olive oil - 432g
15% coconut oil - 81g
5% castor oil - 27g

Aloe gel/water 182g (2.5:1 water to lye ratio - in the video I used 192g due to the aloe gel being weighed as ice cubes, I also strained out the aloe pulp from the lye solution)

Sodium hydroxide 73g (5% superfat calculated into the recipe)

Blue indigo powder mixed with some water for the colour.

Essential oils - 22g in total (4% of base oils)
11g tea tree
8g peppermint
3g cedar

METHOD
As demonstrated in video

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