Your Soap Making Guide

Sun, Oct 25, 2009

Making soap is a very fun, and rewarding hobby or business that one can partake in.

However, if you don’t know the proper guidelines to follow to make the soap, and the necessary safety tips to apply when making soap, then you may not have the best soap making experience.

If you want to make high quality soap like a professional, know all of the best tips, tricks, and secrets so you can make beautiful, handcrafted soaps, then you need a proper soap making guide to follow.

One of the best soap making methods to use is the cold process method. This method will allow you to create some of the best soaps that will leave your skin feeling incredibly soft, moisturized, and healthy.

Once you master the art of cold process soap making, you be greatly rewarded with beautiful, professional quality soaps.

Using the cold process method, you will make you soap from scratch, and that is why the entire process is so rewarding!

As previously mentioned, you must make sure you follow safety guidelines because you will use sodium hydroxide (or lye) when making cold process soap. This can cause chemical burns if it contacts your skin so wear gloves and goggles to cover your hands and eyes.

Soap Making Guide to the Cold Process Method:

1. Add the sodium hydroxide (lye) to distilled water in a glass bowl while mixing slowly

2. In a stainless steel pot, melt the oils you will use for your soap

3. When the oils and lye water reach the proper temperature, slowly add the lye water to the oils to create your soap mix

4. Stir this mixture until it reaches the trace stage

5. When the mixture reaches this stage, add the essential fragrances or oils in your recipe of choice

6. Mix the soap and pour it into your molds of choice

7. With the molds covered with a towel, allow them to set for 24 to 48 hours

8. Once the soap solidifies, remove it from the molds

9. Allow your newly created soap to cure for 4 to 6 weeks

10. Enjoy your homemade soaps!

Using your own homemade soaps is much better for your health because the soap sold in stores is detrimental to your skin because it contains chemicals that aren’t great for your body. Your homemade soap will nourish your skin unlike any store bought soap you have ever used.

In addition, you can create beautiful, professional quality soap for your friends and family, or even sell your soaps and make a profit doing something you love!

Once you learn how to make your own soaps, the possibilities are truly endless. You can do anything you like with it! You can creative decorative, seasonal soaps, different shapes, scents, colors, etc.

You will only be limited by your imagination in what you can create with your soaps!