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...
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...
Before we continue on the methods, there’s one thing that I need to emphasize. ALL real soap, at some stage, has been made with lye. It’s just what soap is! In another article, I explain what is soap if you want to learn more. There are ways how to make soap without handling...
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, ...
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...
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...
intermediate soap-making skills, along with an understanding ofcold process soap making. You also should be able to make abasic homemade soap recipe, which you'll then adjust to create the whipped effect. Besides making some for yourself to enjoy, these whipped soaps can be excellent homemade...
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...
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...
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...