Soap Making Secret

Okay, so you can already make homemade soap using the cold process and the melt and pour method. How about giving a shot at making liquid soap?� This process and hobby is becoming more and more popular these days whether you have your own technique or use suggested homemade soap recipes.� While this hobby can also save you money since you won�t be buying your liquid soap, it takes a few steps, but with patience, you can be an expert in no time.

First, you will need a few things like distilled water, boric acid, soap oils, and soap fragrance and color.� But just keep in mind it�s not necessary to put in any fragrance or color in your liquid soap at all if you don’t want to.� So, to make homemade soap liquid style, you�ll also need to gather some other items such as a large crockpot, thermometer, small scale, measuring cups, stick blender and a potato masher or flat whisk.

Put your oils in the crockpot on low and keep this temperature at 160 degrees during the entire process.� Next mix your lye water and we recommend wearing rubber gloves and safety goggles for this procedure.� First, weigh the amount of distilled water that your homemade soap recipes requires and weigh on your scale and then do the same with the lye.� Add the lye to the water and stir to dissolve and don�t be alarmed if the mixture is bubbly, that�s normal.

Now you can add your lye and distilled water mix to your soap oils that you have at 160 degrees in your crockpot.� Here is where you will use your stick blender, this may take a while, but hang in until it is completely blended.� You will need to continue this until your soap has what the experts call a �trace� appearance�a sort of pudding type look.

When you are at the desired trace mix, place the lid on your crockpot and check on it in about fifteen minutes.� You don�t want it to separate so if it is, give it a quick stir using your potato masher of flat whisk, and keep checking your liquid soap every fifteen minutes or so, stirring each time.� Depending on the homemade soap recipes you have, your mixture can take up to four hours to cook and go through several stages�the stage you want is a sort of a translucent Vaseline state.

At the four-hour point, add one ounce of boiling water to your mix and stir.� This is called testing your soap mixture and you want it to be clear, however, a little cloudy is okay when making handmade soap.� If your mixture is too cloudy and doesn�t appear even somewhat translucent, then it needs to be cooked longer or you may have mixed your ingredients incorrectly.� You will want it to stay clear or become even clear as it cools�it will cool in about an hour.

After it�s cooled, add as much water as your homemade soap recipes call for and wait until the oil-distilled water-lye mix has completely dissolved into the water you have just added.� Once this step is done, turn the crockpot back on and heat back to 180 degrees.� Next, you will need to go through the neutralizing process.

The neutralizing process is where you mix boric acid with boiling water.� Make sure you follow your homemade soap recipes and its measuring guidelines carefully and stir while keeping it hot.� Add approximately � ounce of this neutralizing mix for every pound of your soap paste.� When this is complete, you can add fragrance and color before the soap mixture cools.

Finally, your soap will need to cool in jars and be kept in a cool place.� While homemade soap recipes vary, this is the basic way to make homemade soap the liquid style.� You can play with mixing fragrance and color, but you should stick to the measurements of other ingredients that your recipe calls for.� Have fun!