The first time I made goat milk soap I poured the milk straight into the lye, watched it hiss and turn the color of canned pumpkin, and knew before it
Artisanal soap is cold process soap built on a deliberately balanced oil blend, superfatted around 5 percent, and cured a full four to six weeks.
Making soap gems means pouring clear glycerin melt-and-pour base, colored with translucent jewel-tone dyes and shimmery mica, into a faceted gem mold or
I added turmeric to soap for the first time because I wanted a gold bar without buying synthetic colorant, and I overshot the dose so badly the lather
The most reliable homemade dish soap is a bar made from high or full coconut oil at zero percent superfat, because coconut cleans hard and zero superfat
Making soap from bacon grease is really making lard soap, since bacon grease is rendered pork fat that, once cleaned, produces a hard, mild, creamy, long-lasting bar.
I started making my own foaming hand soap after a store bottle ran dry and I refused to pay eight dollars for a refill I could mix in two minutes.
You do not need any certificate to make or sell soap. Courses exist to build skill and confidence, not to grant permission, and the routes run from free
Making cocoa butter soap means adding cocoa butter to a recipe at about 5 to 15 percent of your oils, where it lends hardness, a creamy luxurious feel
My nephew was seven the first time we made soap together, and he still calls the little star shaped bars we poured that afternoon his invention.