SoapCalc. Using Natural Colorants in Soap Making. There are many options when it comes to coloring your soaps with natural ingredients.
Though usually not as vibrant as synthetic colors, natural colorants can be just as lovely. Many of the ingredients can be found in your kitchen, your grocery, or from soap making suppliers. Many of them are already used to color common foods and drugs. (Annatto is what gives macaroni and cheese its orange color. Cochineal is used to color Hawaiian Punch.) Here are some of my favorite options, and the color they impart: Activated Charcoal - usually made from bamboo, gives a gray to deep black color depending on use. Note: Unless you've used this colorant before, or are following someone else's recipe, it's important to do some simple tests before you throw a bunch of carrots or seaweed into your soap.
Check out Testing Natural Colorants in Soap for more information. Soap. My Soap Recipes: Soap Making 101: Basic tutorial for cold process soap.
How to Make Soap With Milk: Basic cold process tutorial using cow or goat’s milk, coconut milk, or other non-dairy substitute. How to Create Custom Soaps: Example of how I create a variety of soaps starting with one plain recipe. Making Soap Without Lye (Sort of): How to add natural ingredients to make a variety of custom herbal soaps, using a ready made melt & pour base. Good Earth Spa. Soap Making Basics. How To Make Soap At Home. Here are some instructions on how to make soap at home using inexpensive ingredients, most of which are easily available in health food stores or the supermarket: 1.)
Make the alkaline solution by adding 2 oz. of Red Devil lye slowly into 32 oz. of distilled cold water in a glass container, stirring slowly with a wooden spoon. The lye will react with the water, heating it and releasing fumes so be careful not inhale any. Set aside the solution to cool the lye. 2.) 3.) Crock Pot Hot Process Soap – LOTS of pics! I'm so excited to share this with you!
I knew people made their own soap long ago and there were some people crazy enough to still do it, but i never considered it a reasonable thing to do... UNTIL I read that it could be done in a Crock Pot...fix it and forget it right? First thing you have to do if you want to make soap is find a recipe, in this instance, a hot process recipe. There are a TON of them online, but make sure you run them all through a lye calculator. I started out with a recipe of 80% Olive Oil and 20% Coconut Oil, plugged everything into my lye calculator and it gave me all of my exact measurements. 1. 3. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Natural Soap Making. Homemade Body Wash - Keep Scary Out Of Your Shower — LITTLE SEED FARM. Our Homemade Lavender-Lemongrass Body WashWhat do you put on your body every day?
By the time I’ve finished my morning routine I’ve used shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, toner, moisturizer and sunscreen for my face, and lotion for my body. Somehow, it took me close to a year before I started wondering what the heck was actually in those bottles in my shower. Isn't it odd that we’ve become so conscious of what we put inside our bodies, and somehow managed not to give any thought about what we were putting on them? All of that changed a few weeks ago when a friend recommended The Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database which rates products according to the chemicals they contain and how harmful they are. I searched the items in my bathroom and found that all of them except for what I put on my face (Alba Botanica and Kiss My Face) had a moderate to high hazard score.
Scrapple and I have been using it for about 2 weeks now and will never go back! Homemade Sugar Scrub in Decorated Jars. I wrote the other day about a project I was really excited about but needed to finish up, and here it is!
These were gifts for a triple baby shower (not triplets, but three lovely ladies all due within a few weeks of each other, although triplets would be exciting) that I attended yesterday. All three babies-to-be got sweet goodies from my shop (a bear hat for the little boy and button beanies for the girls) but I wanted to do something for the moms, too. It's so fun to open presents for your little nugget, but poor pregnant mom is the one doing all the hard work, and she deserves something, too! So I thought back to my final weeks of pregnancy--huge, bloated, swollen, miserable weeks--and thought of what I would have liked to have then (other than an early, pain-free labor . . . much as I wish I could bottle that up to gift to my friends) and came up with this: Mamas need some pampering, right?
How true it is.