there's a solution: fruit fly traps. While fruit fly traps vary in size and design, most are easy to set up and make short work of ridding your kitchen or home of these unwanted visitors. With a good trap, in no time, you'll turn each fly into a "flew." That was corny, we kn...
There are a few key things to know before you dive into making your first batch of lye soap, however. One important piece of the puzzle is learning about how to safely work with lye so that you can make cold process soap from scratch without injury. Why Do I Need Lye to Make Cold P...
liquid soap is generally made with a hot process. When you mix the lye and oils, you end up with a soap paste that will later be dissolved in water to make a liquid soap.
(For more information, read our article:Can You Make Soap Without Lye?) Homemade Soapmaking Equipment When learning how to make soap, remember to use equipment that will not be used for cooking. While you could clean everything really well, it’s best not to take a chance. Stainless stee...
own recipes. To formulate liquid soap recipes without lye excess, I recommend the recipe calculator at Soap Calchere. As I said, slightly perilous path for the beginning liquid soaper due to the research required in this pursuit. In my opinion, it’s best suited to the advanced liquid ...
Learn how to make soap in a slow cooker with our cold process recipe of water, lye, and fat. This recipe is great for making crock pot soap! Learn How to Make Soap in a Slow Cooker When I first started learning how to make soap, somewhere in the back of my mind was the question...
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...
Another option is to mix up a simple lemon essential oil stain remover spray, which you’ll learn how to do below! DIY Lemon Oil Stain Remover Spray Ingredients: 1/4 cup hydrogen peroxide, 3% 2 Tbsp castile soap 20 drops lemon essential oil Directions: Add the peroxide, castile soap, ...
Water infusion:infuse the material into water and use the infusion to mix into your dried lye. This is essentially herbal tea. Make homemadecarrot soapusing carrot puree Natural Yellow Soap Colorants The natural soap coloring world is your oyster when making yellow soap. Usepumpkinor carrot pur...
HOW TO MAKE SHAMPOO Step 1: Pour gently simmering water over the dried herbs in a jar and cover. Let steep for about an hour. Step 2: Strain the herbs out and pour the water into a bottle (an old shampoo bottle would be perfect.) Add the liquid Castile soap and drops of oil. Not...