Pinterest. Turmeric Cold Process Soap Color Tests - Soap Queen. Free Beginner's Guide to Soapmaking: Common Soapmaking Oils. One of the best parts of soap crafting is being able to customize your recipe down to the very last ingredient.
There are an infinite number of oil, fragrance, color and technique combinations, which is one of the reasons soap making can be so exciting! Arguably one of the most important aspect of any soaping recipe is the combinations of oils and butters that make up your base recipe. The oils you use impact most all defining factors in your finished product, from it’s moisturizing properties, to how well it lathers to the ability to do all kinds of coloring techniques and designs. In essence, think of your oils as the foundation of a house.
You need a solid base to support everything else. To guide you through the wide world of oils, we’ve assembled our most comprehensive resource on fixed oils to date. Apricot Kernel Oil – 6 months to 1 year Similar to the makeup of Sweet Almond Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil is lightweight and high in linoleic and oleic acids. Avocado Oil – 1 year Q: Help! How to Infuse Oils with a Crock-Pot - Soap Queen. Mighty Fine Soapworks. How to Substitute Oil in Cold Process Recipes. Selecting soap making oils and butters is a fun and personal process.
Each oil and butter contributes various properties to the finished bar. For example, some oils may give a silky lather, while others may contribute extra moisturizing properties. Many soapers spend years perfecting their cold process recipes to create what they consider to be “the perfect bar.” The great thing about making your own soap is recipes can be altered depending on personal preference, or with what oils you have on hand. But be careful, not every oil substitution is made equally! Before jumping into the complicated world of substituting oil in cold process recipes, I recommend reading the Free Beginner’s Guide to Soapmaking: Common Soapmaking Oils blog post. In addition to this handy blog post, I also recommend becoming familiar with the Lye Calculator.
The amount of lye necessary for the recipe depends on the saponification value of each oil. Shown above are palm oil, shea butter and cocoa butter. Create a Basic Homemade Soap Recipe. So you want to make some homemade soap?
Just like consulting a cookbook, starting out by using a recipe from a book or website is great. It's good to learn the craft of soap making by using a tested recipe at first. Simple Old Fashioned Hard White Soap Recipes. A recent student in a soap making class I taught asked me how to make her soap whiter.
She wanted a simple hard white bar of soap - just like her grandmother had made. No frills - just good old fashioned homemade soap. I had given the students a basic recipe like my Grocery Store Soap Recipe with an equal ratio of Olive, Palm and Coconut oil, and a little Castor thrown in for extra lather. The recipe was: 35% Olive Oil30% Palm Oil30% Coconut Oil5% Castor Oil It came out a nice light beige color. Banana Soap - СенМи - радионица природних сапуна. It comes a time in every soapmaker's life when one is inevitably inclined to make soap out of everything.
I remember when I was just starting this adventure slash obsession, I read among others 'Smart Soapmaking' by Anne L. Watson. How to Infuse Oils with a Crock-Pot - Soap Queen. Easy, Beginner DIY Liquid Castile Soap Recipe - Oh, The Things We'll Make! Shea Butter Soap Recipe. Shea butter (also known as karite butter in other parts of the world) is a natural fat comes from the seed of the karite or African shea tree and takes a long time to mature, as much as fifty years!
It is a complex fat, which when processed and applied to skin melts at body temperature and is absorbed rapidly. Benefits of Shea Butter on the Skin This fatty substance derived from stearic acid and oleic acid has a multitude of healing properties for which it has long been venerated. Infusing: Herbs, Spices, Teas & Clays. Pinterest. Alaiyna B. Bath and Body: Using PVC pipe as molds to create circular embedded soaps. I am always thinking of new ways to expand the artistic nature of creating handcrafted soap.
Swirls, embeds, themes, etc. make the process of creating these high quality, nourishing, great for your skin soaps all the better. Handcrafted soaps can range from unscented and uncolored which are excellent for sensitive skin to extremely ornate with beautiful scents to match. These soaps make wonderful additions to the bathroom or kitchen, unique and creative gifts and showering with them can get your day off to a great and refreshing start. Lately I have been experimenting with round soaps created in a circular column style mold then sliced into individual bars (sounds a lot like baking......). Defying the Rules of Soapmaking: 100% Coconut Oil Soap with Aloe Vera and a Mantra Swirl. How to Use Instagram for Business + Tips on Building Your Community - Soap Queen. Benefits of Coffee Soap on your skin and how it helps in your skincare – Westboundsoap. Coffee Soap is a wonderful product that I do sell quite a bit of.
People ask me what is so great about coffee soap so I thought I would give you a list of a few of the awesome benefits of Coffee Soap. Here are just a few: great for removing smells from your hands such as garlic, onion, fish or any other smelly smells :)can help make cellulite less noticeablegreat exfoliatecan help soothe sunburned skincan help soothe winter burned skincan help blood circulation in the skinhas anti inflammatory propertieshas antioxidant propertiescan help remove dead skin and environmental pollutantssoothes itchy skincan help smooth heels and rough feetcan help reduce puffiness under the eyesexfoliates leaving glowing and fresh looking skincan eliminate free radicals in the skincan reduce inflammationcan reduce or lessen red skincoffee grounds act as a great massaging agentwill also make your garbage disposal smells disappear :) Natural Soap Colorants - 44 Ways to Color Your Homemade Soap Naturally. As a follow up to last week’s article on homemade soap, this article will explore a number of ways you can color your soap naturally.
Natural Soap Colorants With natural colorants you won’t get the bold, vibrant hues that commercial soaps give you. Simple Coffee Soap Recipe. Anyone who just loves the scent of coffee will love this coffee soap recipe.
But coffee soap also has more practical applications. Coffee is known to absorb food odors like garlic and fish, which makes coffee soap a great product for home cooks looking to neutralize food odors on their hands. An additional benefit of this recipe is that it uses extra strength coffee and inexpensive coffee grounds both for its scent and as a natural exfoliant. How to Rebatch Soap to Fix Mistakes. After letting the soap heat for an hour or so, open the lid and stir gently. At this point, you may just be able to mash it around a bit. You’ll see it’s probably starting to just begin to liquefy (to the consistency of thick applesauce,) and that the edges of the mass of soap are starting to get a bit translucent. Gently stir it up and put it in for another hour or so. After another hour, the soap will have liquefied more and will be more homogeneously translucent.
What you want is for it to be...MORE completely liquefied (or at least completely softened) and translucent. Handmade Hot Process Soap. Tools: A Scale that reads in Ounces to at least 1 tenth of an ounce. (Example - 1.4 oz) Electric Stick Blender – You could use a Plastic or wooden Spoon to stir with but you will get tired of that. Glass Measuring Cups. Soapmaking Additive Chart. Business Insurance, FDA Labeling Regulations, Lye Calculator. Crockpot Castile Soap. When I started making soap, I learned from the book Handcrafted Soap, by Dolores Boone. It is well worn – though I don’t follow the recipes, I follow the technique. I love the hot process soap method because it is fast and pretty hands-off. Soap Queen TV Presents: How to Make Rebatch Soap.
Eight Acres: Soap with coffee grounds. Before I started making soap I used to buy a soap with coffee grounds in it. It was a "gardener's soap", the coffee grounds were supposed to help with scrubbing dirt off your hands. Recently I decided to try making something similar. I found a few recipes (here and here) to get an idea of how much coffee to use. The recipes say to use fresh coffee grounds and fresh espresso to make the lye, but as we don't drink coffee, and this was just for washing hands, I wanted to use waste coffee grounds instead.
Eight Acres: How to rebatch a soap disaster. I had made three batches of soap already, so feeling like a seasoned professional, I went ahead with another batch, even though my digital scales needed a new battery and I couldn't find my good thermometer. I figured that I was so good at soap making now that I could be able to use my spare analogue scales and my cheese-making thermometer, even though the scale on both is pretty dodgy and the scales don't seem to zero properly.
Yes, the scene is set for a soap making disaster. Unlike cooking, in which the amounts don't have to be completely accurate, soap making is really a chemical reaction in which you do need to measure out very accurately or it won't work. Gentle Coconut Milk Soap - Humblebee & Me. How to Make Sea Salt Soap. Coconut Oil Dietary Guidelines and Suggestions. Purchase – Soap Trays. Using Fruits/Veggies in Soap. By Elizabeth (North Carolina) I really want to make some soap using fruits and vegetables and I'm thinking that means I need to use a preservative of some sort (right?). I keep reading contradictory statements about preservatives (which ones to use, if they're necessary at all, etc). Are LiquaPar Optima, Optiphen, and Phenonip for use in bar soaps or just lotion/liquid soap products? If you could shed any light on these questions I'd greatly appreciate it--thanks for your time! Talk It Out Tuesday: Preservatives - Soap Queen.
Color Soap Naturally - Infusing oil with herbs and spices - Lovin Soap Studio. Infusing oil is probably my favorite method of using natural colorants for coloring handmade soap. It works for most natural colorants but we’ll talk about the ones that do better using a different method as we go along. When you infuse oil you don’t get the grainy speckled look you get when you add spice or herb powders to traced soap. You want to be sure to use a long shelf life oil for infusing. My favorite oil to use when infusing is olive oil. It is in all of my soap recipes. There are two main methods of infusing oils. Cold infusion –Add spices or herbs to the oil in a jar and allow to sit 2-6 weeks to infuse. Heat infusion –Add spices or herbs to the oil and heat gently to kick start the infusion.
My favorite method is to use a hot water bath to gently heat the infusions. I usually infuse 2 tablespoons of any powdered herb or spice into 5 ounces of olive oil. Step 1 – Measure out 2 tablespoons of your powdered herb into a heat-sealable tea bag. How to Naturally Color Handmade Soap - Lovely Greens. Untitled. Homemade Natural Soap Albuquerque NM from Orange Magnolia Soapworks. How to Add Purees to Cold Process Soap - Soap Queen. Cold Process Wine Soap Recipe. Soapy Success. Tea Tree Oil for Scalp. Insect Repellent Soap Recipe. Cucumbersoaps. Wellnessmama. Soap – The Nerdy Farm Wife. Soap Additives Archives. Carrot & Honey Soap Recipe – The Nerdy Farm Wife. Understanding Liquid Soapmaking. Liquid Soapmaking – Where To Start. Liquid soapmaking instructions. How to Make Natural Liquid Soap.
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