The way it is usually made in this tradition is a lot simpler. It produces a product that for ritual purposes works well, is safe, and is hard to screw up.
This particular attempt is a mixture where I'm trying to more closely replicate what is found in nature. So it is a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mineral salt, and sodium sulfate with water and I'm doing everything at lower temperature.
We'll see if I like the end product.