Cold Process Soap To make cold process soap, you mix the fats and lye, bring it to trace, and then pour into a mold without cooking. Saponification comes over time, as the soap cures and hardens. The soap cannot be used for 4 to 6 weeks while curing to allow all the lye to change...
Making cold process soap from scratch doesn’t have to be hard or scary. You can learn how to make soap with lye, also known as old fashioned lye soap, using modern soap making methods, techniques and homemade soap recipes. This beginning soap-makers guide on how to make cold process so...
is the process used to make true soap. True soap is defined by the ingredients used and the chemical process that turns those ingredients into real soap. To make cold process soap you need a fat and an alkali. The fats are generally carrier oils and body butters but may also include othe...
The way that most cold-process soapmakers make goat milk soap is to replace all the water called for in making the lye solution with goat milk. The typical method is to freeze all of the goat milk into ice cubes, sprinkle the lye onto them, and allow the lye and frozen milk to slowl...
“doing it my way” initiative, I put a call out to colleagues who had not only made soap themselves but were willing to share their experience so we could learn ourselves. In this article, experienced prepper and soap-maker, Carmela Tyrell teaches us how to make cold pressed soap safely ...
what I read to what I was experiencing. Things didn’t look exactly as I imagined from reading the text described and having pictures was helpful, but nothing showed me everything from start to finish. Still I kept at it, determined to get the process of how to make soap down cold. ...
It’s trickier to make than soap made with water. When adding lye to any soap making liquid, the temperature of the liquid can reach up to 200°F. Milks contain natural sugars, and when these sugars reach high temperatures, the milk will scorch. Scorched milk does not smell ple...
Hot process soap in a lined soap mold, note that the finished texture is very different from cold processed soap. (Photo Credit Jan Berry) Lining Molds This is a step that can be done several ways. One method is to use two long sheets of parchment or freezer paper, one cut to the ex...
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!
How a soapmaker makes tasty-looking cold process soapsCaroline Aghajanian