I even found the very book that my friend’s soap recipe came from at a second hand store (and bought it), but I STILL never made soap. So when a friend approached me about sharing a recipe for melt and pour soap that was easily made into “homemade soap” style, I was thrilled....
5. Coldness makes a hard, brittle soap. 6. Excess lye makes a coarse, flinty soap that will crumble when shaved. Soap should have a smooth, velvety texture that curls when shaved. It should not bite the tongue when aged. 7. Use the all-purpose soap for toilet soap, a shampoo, for ...
How to make your own homemade soap with a few simple ingredients and without lye. This fun DIY bar soap recipe is great for beginners and is kid-friendly.
Herbal: A lovely way to utilize herbs and flowers from the garden, this is made with dried rosemary, dried rose petals, liquid castile soap, aloe vera juice, jojoba oil, pure rosemary EO. tendcollective.blogspot.com greatcakessoapworks.com Fabulous Bar: Lye, lard, shea butter, cocoa butter...
soap recipe to make some fun variations recently. When you make melt and pour soaps you aren’t really “making” soap. You are melting down an already formed soap base and added scents and textures to it. If you are looking for the cold press method, this isn’t it. I’d love to...
No Scale? Soap Recipes Using Fluid Measures My friend, Rachael, submitted this helpful information for those who do not have a scale. With the new larger size of lye container, they will still need to find a way to weigh out the lye, however. Here you will find aliquid conversion chart...
There is No Lye in Finished Soap Even though lye is caustic and dangerous to work with, after it reacts with the oils in your soap (through a process called saponification),no lye will remain in the finished product. The lye reacts with the oils, turning what starts out as a liquid ...
Once the 50 minutes has passed, it’s time to test the soap to make sure the lye has reacted with the oils completely and no longer remains in the mixture. I like to do this by grabbing a small amount of the soap mixture, allowing to cool for a second, and then touching it to ...
To make a simple soap with a simple recipe, follow this tutorial for the step-by-step process from the Fimby blog. With lye, vegetable shortening and water, you'll be making beautiful soap in no time. Also, check out the Fimby YouTube channel for more tutorials and information on home...
Again, this is not an exact science–there’s lots of room for experimentation. For liquid varieties, I myself have not tried using liquid soap instead of a bar. I think Liquid Castile would be ok, you might want to dilute it with water first (no, I don’t have a dilution ratio to...