Lye is a potentially dangerous ingredient commonly found in both commercially produced and homemade soaps. Lye can cause serious burns to the skin, blindness, and if ingested, death. Furthermore, lye-free soap is usually gentler on the skin, which makes it ideal for people with sensitive skin...
Homemade soap is great for many reasons, but it can be a bit daunting to make. One of the reasons is the need to work with lye. It’sdefinitely notsomething you want to be working with when you have little ones running around. Thankfully there’s an answer for that and I’m sure ...
When looking at soap recipes, keep in mind that you can’t just switch out one type of lye for the other and expect to make a decent soap. Depending on the type of lye chosen, you may need more or less of it for the same amount of oil. When making any changes to the oils used...
Make Liquid Soap from Bar Soap Can you use bar soap to make liquid soap? Yes, you can. Grating a bar of soap with a cheese grater and soaking it in hot distilled water can transform a bar or two intoa quart of liquid soap. To make this diluted soap recipe, begin with a bar of ...
To make lye and be successful at soap making your lye has to be at the right strength. Now there are 2 ways in which this can be done, both of which indirectly involve chickens. If you live on a farm and keep chickens, then this test is fine for you. If not, then you can use...
HOW TO MAKE SOAP AND WEARING SAFETY GLOVES AND GLASSES By wearing gloves and safety glasses you can prevent the lye from getting into your eyes and onto your skin. If it comes into contact with your skin it will burn immediately, make no doubt about that. Therefore, protection is very imp...
Out of Ashes...Lye! So I have not done it yet, but I plan to try to make a soap mixture of some sort using ashes from our woodstove this winter, lard that I rendered last winter and water - and see what happens. I will definitely do a post when I do that. What I love about...
A cold process breast milk soap takes longer to make and uses more ingredients, but may be more stable than a melt and pour process. Cold process soap uses lye solution and oils to preserve additives such as breastmilk which would otherwise go bad. See also Can Fetal Heartbeat Disappear an...
1. Gather your soap ingredients Begin by assembling all your ingredients. This includes your fats or oils, lye, water, fragrances, colorants, and any additional additives you plan to use. Combining different oils will lend your final product different characteristics. Some oils will help make your...
Ultimately the decision to use or not use palm oil to make lye soap is a personal one. I used palm oil in this cold process soap recipe as I have a lot of it still in my soapmaking arsenal. It also makes a great bar of soap solely on its own. (So, if you haven’t tried it...