Homestead Soapery Soap Studio

Part of the brand expansion plans of Homestead Soapery include broadening the availability of naturally made products. Sure, these days you can buy...

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We are all about authenticity and promotion all the same, so thought we’d make a fun post about our meet the maker story (even though we are a few months behind!) So March Meet the Maker has been and gone, and we’ve only decided to do this now...

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You may have seen our last videos where we use the heat transfer method to make cold process soap. If you haven’t, they’re here, and here.

Basically, the heat transfer method stipulates that you add your lye water solution to your hard oils to help melt them, and simultaneously cool down the lye water solution to room temperature. This decreases the time it takes to whip up a batch of soap.

There are both positive and negatives for this method, which I will outline in this post.

Today we have a special treat, in the form of an interview with our master soap fairy and a discussion on the new vegan reformulation. Let’s not waste anymore time and get straight into it.

How I made the Purple Linen Swirl soap using the heat transfer method in cold process soap making

How I made Tobacco Salsa Swirl soap using the heat transfer method in cold process soap making

After doing our survey and review of our vegan reformulation with spectacular results all round, we have soft launched our vegan formula in this launch with the Purple Linen Swirl and Activated Charcoal soaps.

Welcome to Homestead Soapery! In this video we show the soaps we are launching in our April 2021 launch, and do a lather and suds test! The April 2021 launch is scheduled for 9AM AEST on 25 APRIL 2021. The following soaps will be available: * VEGAN: Purple Linen Swirl - https://www.homesteadorganics.com.au/...​ * VEGAN: Activated Charcoal - https://www.homesteadorganics.com.au/...​ * MILLED: Blood Orange - https://www.homesteadorganics.com.au/...​ * MILLED: Shrek - https://www.homesteadorganics.com.au/...​ * TRADITIONAL: Tobacco Salsa Swirl - https://www.homesteadorganics.com.au/...​

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We are now on YouTube! After spending months deliberating we’ve decided we are going to get onto YouTube so today we upload our first video on the heat transfer method in cold process soap making. Be sure to check it out, and like and subscribe to stay up to date with the making of our product launches!