My first exfoliating melt and pour bar came out with every poppy seed packed in a gritty layer at the bottom and a blank slab on top. I have made hundreds
Use cosmetic-grade activated charcoal at about 1 teaspoon per pound of oils for a dark grey-to-black bar, dispersed in a little oil first and stick-blended
Homemade soap detergent comes down to three things: a grated bar of hard soap, washing soda, and borax, blended dry or cooked into a gel.
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.