Homemade Liquid Castile Soap

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Learn how to make homemade liquid Castile soap with Sherrie’s Remedy Room.

This beginner-friendly course walks you through Sherrie’s complete process for creating a clear, plant-based liquid soap using olive oil, vegetable glycerin, potassium hydroxide, and distilled water.

You will learn how to safely prepare your workspace, measure your ingredients, combine and blend the mixture, recognize the different stages of soap paste, monitor the cooking temperature, test the finished paste, dilute it into liquid soap, and bottle the final product.

Sherrie also explains how the basic soap can be customized with suitable fragrances, essential oils, and other optional ingredients. You will learn why customized soap may look different from the clear, unscented version and how additives can affect its color, clarity, thickness, and consistency.

Liquid Castile soap is a versatile base that may be used to create hand soap, body wash, household cleaners, dishwashing products, laundry products, and other properly formulated personal-care and cleaning products.

By the end of this course, you will understand Sherrie’s step-by-step method and have the knowledge needed to make your own batch of homemade liquid Castile soap.

This Course Includes

  • Beginner-friendly written lessons
  • Ingredient and equipment guidance
  • Potassium hydroxide safety instructions
  • Sherrie’s step-by-step soap-making method
  • Cooking, testing, and dilution instructions
  • Customization guidance
  • Troubleshooting information
  • A complete video demonstration

No previous soap-making experience is required.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand what liquid Castile soap is and how it differs from other soaps
  • Identify the ingredients, tools, and safety equipment needed
  • Measure soap-making ingredients accurately in grams
  • Safely work with potassium hydroxide, also called KOH
  • Combine and blend the ingredients until the mixture reaches trace
  • Recognize the different stages of the soap paste
  • Monitor the temperature while the soap cooks
  • Test the finished paste for clarity
  • Dilute the soap paste using distilled water
  • Bottle and store the finished liquid soap
  • Customize the basic soap with optional scents, oils, and other ingredients
  • Understand how added ingredients may affect the soap’s clarity, color, and consistency

Course Content

Understanding Liquid Castile Soap
In this module, you will learn what liquid Castile soap is, why it is considered a plant-based soap, and how it differs from traditional bar soap. You will also be introduced to the main ingredients Sherrie uses, including olive oil, vegetable glycerin, potassium hydroxide, and distilled water, along with the basic supplies needed to begin the soap-making process.

  • Welcome and Introduction
  • Lesson 2: Benefits of Liquid Castile Soap
  • Lesson 3: Key Ingredients Explained

Module 2: Equipment and Safety
In this module, you will learn which tools and protective equipment are needed to make liquid Castile soap safely. Sherrie explains how to prepare your workspace, keep soap-making equipment separate from cooking supplies, monitor temperatures, and protect yourself while working with potassium hydroxide.

Module 3: Making the Liquid Castile Soap
In this module, you will follow Sherrie’s step-by-step process for making liquid Castile soap. You will learn how to measure and warm the ingredients, dissolve the potassium hydroxide, blend the mixture to trace, cook the soap paste, monitor the temperature, test the paste for clarity, and dilute it with distilled water.

Module 4: Customizing Your Liquid Castile Soap
In this module, you will learn how Sherrie customizes finished liquid Castile soap with optional ingredients such as fragrance, frankincense, jojoba oil, and honey. You will also learn how added ingredients may change the soap’s color, clarity, thickness, scent, and overall appearance.

Module 5: Troubleshooting and Final Demonstration
In this module, you will review common issues that may occur while making liquid Castile soap, including overheating, volcanoing, cloudiness, excess bubbles, undissolved paste, and soap that is thicker or thinner than expected. You will also watch Sherrie’s complete step-by-step demonstration from measuring the ingredients through cooking, testing, diluting, bottling, and customizing the finished soap.