Canola oil makes good soap, and you can use it up to about 40 percent of your oils as a cheap stand-in for olive oil. Expect a softer bar, a slower trace
Whipped soap making means beating air into your soap so it turns light and fluffy like whipped cream, then globbing or piping the airy batter into molds.
A kit sold as “professional” or “complete” is only complete if it contains a digital scale that reads to 0.1 gram and proper eye
For my first year I collected soap formulas the way some people collect recipes, pasting them into a binder without really reading the percentages.
Pioneers made soap from two things their farms produced: lye leached from hardwood ashes, and rendered animal fat like tallow and lard. They dripped water
My first attempt at a clay soap was a shaving bar, and I dumped two tablespoons of dry bentonite straight into the batter hoping for a slick, cushiony lather.
Making jelly soap without gelatin means swapping in a plant-based gelling agent, either carrageenan or agar-agar, both from seaweed. You dissolve the gum
For my first year I chose soap oils by their names and their reputations, reaching for anything labeled luxurious or nourishing. A bar I built entirely
The first thing to sort out when buying glycerin for soap is which glycerin you mean, because there are two different products. Liquid vegetable glycerin
My first herbal soap was a hopeful bright green, colored with dried parsley I had stirred through the batter expecting a fresh meadow bar.