how to make lye out of wood ash, and some soap recipes that will help the novice or beginner soap maker to the more adventurous and advanced. For those of you who want to make your own recipes with different fats and oils and need guidance on how much caustic soda to use, have a lo...
Freezing goat milk is a common technique when you make goat milk soap 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, ...
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...
Others, like avocado, are ready to be mashed up without cooking. Stir purees into soap batter at a light trace. Water infusion: infuse the material into water and use the infusion to mix into your dried lye. This is essentially herbal tea. Make homemade carrot soap using carrot puree ...
I know that all of these safety warnings make lye sound pretty scary! Keep in mind, though, that soap is made every day by many people without incident. If you can safely handle bleach, another potentially harmful chemical, you should be able to handle lye with the same amount of competen...
the goat’s milk. If you just dump it, it can create crusty lye clumps that are hard to dissolve because there is not initially enough liquid to dissolve it all at once. Some of these lye clumps can go without getting dissolved and end up in your finished soap. You don’t want that...
Lard: Lard, which is pig tallow, is the closet substitution for palm oil in cold press soap recipes. It barely changes the outcome of the final soap. All Vegetable Crisco: If you don’t use animal products to make lye soap, the other substitution you can make for this specific beginner...
BAD NEWS! Wear your safety glasses, please to avoid this common soap making mistake. The only time I use the breathing mask is when I pour the lye into the water. You don’t need to look like a deep-sea diver with a full face mask to make soap. Put the kitchen fan on full blast...
cold process soap making. You also should be able to make abasic homemade soap recipe What You'll Need Equipment / Tools Kitchen scale (with ounces) Large mixing bowl with hand mixer or a stand mixer Safety goggles and gloves Pitcher (for lye solution) ...
If you want to make labels, I used these 2 inch round kraft labels To make eight of the “100% Handmade” bars above, you’ll need: “100% Hand Made” lotion bar/soap mold (pack of 6) Square soap/lotion bar container (optional) Here’s an alternative lotion bar mold that I also...