Easy way to make soap?
Question:i have been making my own body scrub for months now and i think its time for me to learn to make soap!for some reason i love soap even more than shower gels!but i searched up google and its all these confusing methods in making them. any easy tricks without calculating and mixing this and that? cant it be done like, melt the soap base, mix with olive oil, mix with some scrub, put it in the mold and let it dry: just like that?
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Here's a link with some easy soap recipes.
Whale blubber!!!
look what dumenuff said lol
I put oatmeal in my soap as an exfoliater, you can also put essential oils in when making up but just a few drops.
You can't beat making your own soap it also goes down well when giving it as a gift.
Yes Siamese cat it is as easy as that, experiment and have fun, you should also try making your own face creams and shampoo.
Several years ago I got the bright idea to make soap - maybe from watching too many epsiodes of the Beverly Hillbillies when I was a kid?
Anyway, I rendered down a pile of fat cuttings I got for free from the local butcher, spooned out the meat and foreign stuff. Then added the Lye (aka Drano) and stirred it good. Poured into molds and let it cool.
The soap worked fine, but it didn't smell nice. Was tough on the skin as well. I went back to Ivory!
most of those " recipes" are junk go to majestic mountain sage/lye calculator . you decide what fats & how much, it tells you haw much lye ( allways super fat/over fat at least 4% )
no easy mix, all soap is lye soap
i would suggest, lard or tallow- good base, olive oil - small bubbles, coconut- big bubbles, coco butter- smooth ( my standard mix) i've also addes bee's wax, rosin, castor oil, paprika - color, ...
good luck - read up
Making your own soap is incredibly easy. Go to your local craft store and pick out the type of soap base you want. There are several types to choose from: glycerin (clear), coconut oil (white) and olive oil (almost clear). Then get any additives you want--scent, color, herbs etc--and a mold.
When you get home, slice up the soap base and melt. Most instruction will tell you to use a double boiler, but trust me, the microwave works just fine. Start off with about 20 seconds, stir it and return if necessary. You don't want any lumps. Once it is melted, add scent, color etc. Pour it in the mold, put it in the freezer and in about 20 minutes you are ready for the shower.
If you want to make soap from scratch www.millersoap.com is a good place to start. It sounds though like you're looking for a simpler way to go about it..no measuring, no lye, yadda. Melt and pour is a fun alternative. You can buy bases at craft stores or if you find yourself doing a lot of it, I'd buy it in bulk on line. You can also buy what is known as "soap noodles" on line. That is simply cold process soap made and shredded for you to melt down and add whatever you like to it.colors, fragrances, yadda. Personally, I find them kind of hard to work with.but they are out there. I add all sorts of things to my soaps, oatmeal, calendula petals, lavender buds, pumice.all ground up of course. If going for melt & pour look for a "suspension" formula, otherwise everything you add sinks to the bottom.
One little note. If you go for the melt & pour, be careful about adding oils to it....add very little, it tends to cut down on the lather. I read somewhere on this site, someone suggesting adding coconut oil to melt & pour soap to help with the lather...that won't help. Coconut oil only makes great lather if the soap is actually made, from scratch with that oil added.it has to go through saponification in order for it to impart yummy bubbles :)
you need a good source of animal fat. look between your ears.lol
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