Bentonite clay adds silky slip to soap, which is why it is the classic addition to shaving soap, and it absorbs oil, which suits oily and detox bars.
A melt and pour kit is the fastest way into soap making because the base is already saponified: no lye, no cure, and bars ready the same day they cool.
Making lemon soap is easy to do and surprisingly easy to get wrong, because the bright lemon scent fades fast in cold process. The fix is to use a folded
For the lye solution, use heavy number 5 polypropylene or 100 percent stainless steel, since both shrug off caustic soda and the roughly 200 degree Fahrenheit
Making a soap ball is as simple as grating a bar of soap, adding a little water until it holds together like dough, and rolling it firmly into a smooth
There are two ways to make clear soap. The easy route is a clear melt and pour glycerin base you melt and pour into molds, ready the same day.
Making soap crystals means casting clear melt-and-pour base, then cutting and carving it into faceted crystal points, or embedding a small polished crystal
The simplest way to make soap with aloe vera is to swap the water in a cold process recipe for aloe vera juice, keeping the lye solution cold so the aloe’
Caustic soda, also called sodium hydroxide or lye, is the alkali that turns oils into soap through saponification, and true bar soap cannot be made without it.
Making soap is one chemical reaction: saponification, where a fat reacts with a strong base and splits into soap and glycerol. The hydroxide from the lye