Make Our Own Natural Soap, Its Fun And Easy
If you’re looking for a new way to express your creativity, be sure to try making your own natural soap. It can be as easy as “melt and pour,” or try more advanced methods of mixing fat, lye and water. You are sure to enjoy experimenting with fragrances, essential oils, herbs and colors.
Melt and Pour is easy and safe enough for kids to do. Soap bases could be goat milk, honey, glycerin, olive & aloe, oatmeal, shea butter or any other base you can find on the market. Each one has different qualities, so choose the one that is best for you.
To make a bar soap, melt the soap base completely, stirring frequently, then add the other ingredients. Choose your own fragrances, colors, or essential oils. Then pour the soap into the molds and allow it to cool. Don’t worry about getting it right the first time — you can re-melt and try again.
For a more advanced creative process, you can make soap with fat, water, and lye. This method requires a little more equipment, time and knowledge. Safety first: Keep in mind that lye is a caustic agent and requires special handling. Always use eye protection and rubber gloves when handling it, and don’t let it touch your skin or clothing. Also, lye will damage aluminum and Formica, so keep it off table tops and counters. There are many great sources that describe this process in more detail. Just search the Internet for “make natural soap.”
Many people choose to make bar soap for different reasons. Some people do it to save money. Those fancy soaps that look and smell pretty as well as soften your skin get to be rather expensive. Others make a business out of it.
It is environmentally friendly to make natural soap at home instead of buying soap from the store that was made in a pollution creating soap factory. Back before WWI people used to make soap at home from the fats left over from cooking. At that time, they used to buy cans of lye to make bar soap. Prior to that, people made lye from wood ashes.
Best of all, you have total control over what goes into your soap. If you are allergic to one ingredient, simply substitute another. Vegetarians will appreciate soaps made from vegetable rather than animal fats. Skin is the largest organ of your body. Knowing what’s in your soap is great way to help take care of it. Sustainable living certainly has some healthy side effects!
Making your own soap is fun, healthy and good for the environment. It allows you the flexibility to add ingredients you like and leave out the ones you donat. Homemade soap is good for your family finances as well. There are so many easy soap making recipes out there, anyone can do it.
Jen Hopkins maintains websites about acrylic nail care, and make homemade soap. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
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