Make the Lye Solution Put on your rubber gloves and eye protection (goggles), and set yourself up in an area with good ventilation. Next to an open window or outdoors is perfect. Pour the sodium hydroxide into the water and stir with a stainless steel spoon. Be careful not to breathe in...
Beeswax has more than 100 uses; knowing how to make beeswax soap harnesses natural benefits for your finished product.
Once lye has completely dissolved, the milk should be around 50-65° F. If you’d like, addsodium lactateto the lye mixture at a rate of 1 tsp. per pound of oils. It helps the soap pop out of the mold faster, and creates a harder, longer-lasting bar of soap. Stir thor...
Organic dried beans (except soybeans unless used for making fermented foods such as natto), lentils, whole grain rice, whole grains (except bulgur) and whole grain hot cereals (which must be soaked before cooking); wildcrafted wild rice; organic popcorn (to pop at home); organic sprouting ...
add sugar syrup to your soap batter. Make sugar syrup by combining one cup of sugar with half a cup of distilled water and gently heating it together. Use one teaspoon per pound of soapmaking oils and stir it in at trace. Sugar can heat soap up, creating full or partial gel, so keep...
Dye Chips: We have a wide array of colors with dye chips. Each chip will dye a pound of wax a medium shade. The advantage to dye chips is they are very easy to use. Just drop them in with your wax when you start. You can also mix them to make many other colors.Click here for...
a day can consist of over 4500 to 5000 mg of sodium a day. Even coffee and tea bottled drinks have sodium. It has nothing needed to make the product taste good, but it adds a bit of a taste or tongue “remembrance” or taste memory to most western diets. The same can be said of...
It’s pretty surprising that 98% of your body’s calcium is stored in your bones. Because of this, calcium is a mineral that helps strengthen and maintain your bones and teeth. And as mentioned above, since the body can’t make calcium, it is important to get a sufficient amount through...
To make a xanthan gum foam a ratio between 0.2% and 0.8% is typically used. The more xanthan gum you use the larger the bubbles that can occur and the denser the foam will be. Amount of Xanthan to Create BubblesFor bubbles, resembling soap bubbles, a typical ratio is 0.1% to 0.4% ...
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