Soap making

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.

Making black soap usually means African black soap, a traditional West African soap that gets both its dark color and its alkali from roasted plant ash

Every good swirl comes down to one thing: keeping the batter thin and fluid long enough to move it. Pour your colors at emulsion or thin trace, before

The first batch of hot process soap I cooked climbed out of the crockpot like rising dough and slid toward the edge of the counter before I caught it with a spatula.

Which oats you choose decides everything about an oatmeal bar. Colloidal oatmeal is ground so fine it dissolves, giving a silky, soothing bar for sensitive

A recipe written for cold process does not carry over cleanly to hot process, and the reason is water. Hot process cooks the soap, and some of the water

You poured a loaf, it cured, and now you have to cut it. How many bars will it give, and what will each one weigh? Cut too thick and you get fewer, heavier