Baby Soap Ingredients There are so many options when it comes to choosing oils to make soap with. Really almost anything goes as long as you run it through a soap calculator to make sure no lye remains in the finished soap. Certain carrier oils give more suds, while others are more moist...
What helped me understand soap ingredients was learning about the soap making process. Specifically, they make soap by saponifying some kind of fat or oil with an alkali, aka lye. In the case of castile soap, it is olive oil. Typically, an alkali is either sodium hydroxide (for bar soap...
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Three years ago, trying to find a way to have liquid soap without the plastic bottle, I discovered that you can’t actually make real liquid soap from a solid soap bar. What I ended up with was aslimy green failure. And the reason is that liquid and solid soaps have different chemistri...
Remember to be very careful using lye. It can cause burns if not handled correctly. Keep some white vinegar handy in case of spills. For this soap, I wouldn’t add dried herbs. They can get stuck in your hair and be difficult to remove. ...
Different oils have different saponification values (the amount of lye needed to convert the oil to soap) so you’ll need to run the new recipe through alye calculatorto determine how much water/lye you’ll need. Coconut oil works well in this recipe because it creates a very cleansing lath...
1. Despite the buttermilk being frozen, and then being set in an ice bath, my lye milk still hit around 115F. I know that this isn’t a scalding or scorching temp for milk, but is this too hot for the soap? I did place it in the fridge overnight. ...
Bramble Berry has a recipe with olive oil and shea instead check out soapqueen.com Reply Jamie November 13, 2017 at 11:40 AM There is a recipe you can use without coconut oil. If you are okay with animal fat, you can use organic tallow in place of coconut oil and add shea butter...
Bought this expensive bar of soap to try because it was suppose to have goats milk in it. The ingredients listed on the bar packaging were: Coconut Oil, Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Organic Shea Butter, Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Lye, Olive Pomace Oil, Sunflower Oil, Fragrance, Colorant. ...
Soap based shampoo bars are just that, soaps made with lye and oils just like the other soaps that I have shown you how to make on the blog. Often times, people try to make soap bars slightly less harsh for hair by slightly lowering pH. That is done in an effort to make them ...