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
To make loofah soap, set a half-inch to one-inch slice of dried loofah in each mold cavity, spritz it with 99 percent isopropyl alcohol so the soap will
Christmas soap making means festive scents like peppermint and gingerbread, red-white-and-green swirls, and wintry shapes like trees and snowflakes.
For reliable color in soap, reach for mica or mineral pigment, disperse it in a little oil first, and start at about 1 teaspoon of mica or half a teaspoon
A soap making tray is simply your mold, usually a silicone or wooden loaf or slab you pour soap into, or a cavity tray that gives finished shaped bars
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.