AdAgrA 2021: Hidden Treasure

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AdAgrA: Adventist Agriculture Association

The Farmers Pantry

Rob Norris

Introduction to Canning

Janitza Densmore

Natural Soap Making

Lilia Perlee

Baking Bread the Old-Fashioned Way

Thom Mayer

Dehydrating Fruits and Vegetables

Our loving father as we attempt to teach and receive a blessing Please be with us help the minds be open and readily to absorb and help me to say the right words and That I don't forget something that's important.

Amen If you got an email with the handouts I sure hope you printed it out.

If you did not print it out I only have 1 and I'm not sure if they have how about am I on this thing okay I'm going to put it right here for now while I talk and you can take notes there's a few basic ingredients that most of them are readily available in your kitchen.

There's a large variety of oils that we can use but you have to know what you're doing.

Are you 1 of those that don't measure in your kitchen?

Well, this is not a recipe you want to dump cook.

This is a recipe you want to measure and make sure it's precise.

But this is a chemistry of combining the triglycerides, the fatties, and the oil with the lye and making it into a salt okay.

When I'm at home I don't wear gloves But I am to teach you safety as well.

When you're first learning, you get nervous, you're fumbling, you're not unsure what you're doing.

So for my nervousness sake, I am going to wear them.

I do recommend if you're injury or prone to break or fall or be safe, lye does eat a hole in your skin.

Okay, I have everything here pre-measured.

I kind of cheated at home because I'm trying to cram everything in this class.

Okay, we have 12 ounces of coconut 17 ounces of olive oil and 10 ounces of palm On the right here.

There's a several scale Thank you, Jacob There's a scale of different saponification different values that you can do If you want your soap really harsh like a laundry soap and you want it to take all the oil off your clothes then you make it a lot harsher.

If you want a basic soap like a bathing soap then you want a milder soap.

Something that's going to leave some oil back in your skin because as we wash we wash our natural oils off.

So you want something that's going to leave a little bit of extra oil in your skin to moisturize.

If you use our soaps you won't need lotion very often because it naturally will leave a percentage.

I see you see they're highlighted number 7 that's the sevenification standard that we're going to use.

We're going to leave 7 percent of the oil in our batch without binding into a salt so it it'll be free floating in the soap.

I don't want you to think, ew, slimy soap.

But it's going to be free floating in your soap.

And when you wash, it's going to leave some oil on your skin.

The reason I started making soap is because my husband, in the military, got heavy metal poisoning.

Our well water, our pipes, our toothpaste, our foods.

I know it wasn't in our foods and then when I discovered soap, it's like wow.

All those beautiful colors that you buy in soaps, they're oxides, they're rust from different minerals, mica, so it's called.

Children, do you realize that your skin is an organ just like your mouth?

Every little cell is a mouth, so when you bathe with these soaps, you're ingesting that in your skin.

So that's why I started making soap, because I wanted to know what was in my soap.

I wanted to make sure that I was getting the best that we needed.

It doesn't have any arsenic or any lead or any mercury, none of that.

And even the soaps that you buy that have fragrances in them, these fragrances are something that we don't want.

Fragrances, I got this off a website, Fragrance oils may contain a percentage of natural essential oils but due to the cost of this they're made of synthetic materials now and manufactured.

There's more than 3, 000 materials that can be used to create fragrances and they don't tell you what it is because it's a trade secret.

They don't want you to know but these fragrances contain phthalate and phthalate is a group of synthetic chemicals that are used in many things including making plastic more flexible.

We have liquid soap, I mean I'm sorry, we have liquid oils and then we have solid oils.

So the trick to working faster, because I have my mom of 7 and I'm always on the go, What I have discovered that I use part water and part ice.

And when we're making soap, you want your oils at a certain temperature and your lye solution at a certain temperature.

If you print it out my flyer, when you get home it will probably still be there, you can download it and print it.

You want to have your both liquids around 100 degrees.

So we're going to start if my stove is hot and there we go.

Sorry I got to take these till I do the lye.

What I have learned to do is I melt my solid oils first and when those are just about done melting then I go ahead and add my olive oil and that will help to cool down my solid oils they're in the liquid state so I can work faster.

So here we go, we have 12 ounces of coconut.

The oil is good to be close, it doesn't have to be extremely precise.

I have a friend that makes a lot of soap, she learned from me, and she's a chaff.

So she just went to my class and she instead of weighing things out she measured things out okay this is a cup and a half and that's how she makes soap this is my son Jacob okay so we're gonna go ahead and continue while he helps me here.

Something that you want to learn and you will learn each different oil has a different saponification value.

I don't do just different oils for the sake of having different oils.

You do different oils because each oil will incorporate something a little different.

1 will be more sudsy, 1 will be more gentle to your skin while the other 1 will be emollient like the olive oil it will leave your skin feeling smooth and there we go but each 1 combines different with the lye so you have to you just can't substitute for example I can't substitute olive oil with sunflower oil even though they're both liquid you have to know what the saponification value if you want to get consecutive results.

Like today I learned in the grafting class that if you want golden delicious you have to get a trade from the golden delicious because there is only 1.

So, if you want to get consecutive results and you want the results to be the same each and every time, you want to have a good saponification value scale and those are available online.

If you get that handout Printed out on the very top or you can write note now.

It's called the sage calm They have a live calculator that if you want to create your own blend of oils to make your own soap you can go there says okay I have 3 ounces of olive oil 2 ounces of babasu oil and 3 ounces of sunflower oil how can I make this into a bar of soap and it'll tell you how much lye to use, how much water to use?

So you can, you don't have to be precise and follow this recipe you can play with it.

They've been in the car where it's nice and cold.

Okay while we're giving that a couple of minutes we're going to go ahead and start with the lye.

On the lye, as I said, I have a few ounces of water and a few ounces of ice to speed up the cooling process.

There is not a color, a natural color like you say.

Oh I want some really pretty green soap so I'm going to put some peppermint leaves in my soap the lye will burn that up the lye will kill your green it'll be brown okay it'll still have the nice peppermint scent but lye is very hard.

What I have done in the past is I make a batch of soap with no scent no additives nothing in it other than soap.

Once it's solidified and done, then I shred it and I re-batch it.

And then, when the lye is wasted or killed or out of there, then I can add some herbs and it does not damage the color as much.

Okay, we are still working here with the, can you see it's melting but it's just kind of slow.

I didn't think to bring it in earlier to make sure it was.

While that's working, let's work on the next project.

Now the next step is the dangerous part children, but I want you to pay close attention because it can be done safely.

As you see I have things that are very basic that are found in your kitchen.

I bought vinegar to clean out my washer and I cut the top off or you can use a pitcher but I didn't have a pitcher big enough for your lye solution.

When I'm at home I do this normally in the kitchen.

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