Let’s take a look at how you can make the base for your homemade soap, right at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making a soap base at home includes, melting the wax, butters and oils, creating the lye solution, and combing everything before cooking, adding colors fragrances and packaging. Making your soap base at home can be time-consuming but also a fun hobby.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a look through the rest of this guide for more specific information about making your own soap base at home. You’ll soon discover why homemade soap is better than store bought.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s get straight into this and give you the basis for making soap bases in the normal format before moving on to a quicker method and a lovely see-through soap base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This method is a hot process, so expect that artisan finish creating an authentic-looking, and smelling homemade soap base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warning: Before starting to use the ingredients in the method to make your soap base, ensure you have the correct safety equipment to hand, including a mask, gloves and goggles. It is best to have as much of your skin covered as possible to prevent irritation and burns from splashing<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are a few things to remember and get good at when making soap base that will help you produce better quality soap and more consistent results<\/p>\n\n\n\n Always add small amounts of lye to the water and stir carefully as you do so. The mixing of these two ingredients creates a chemical reaction whereby the water dissolves the lye and heat by way of gas is produced by the reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A byproduct crust is created which needs to be stirred so it doesn’t seal the top of the solution, in turn holding the reaction and gases in. Do it too quickly and everything is held in by the crust which creates a volcanic effect and you don’t want caustic lye spraying everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep windows open or mix the solution outside in a covered area so as not to produce a build-up of the fumes that will be created by the chemical reaction of the distilled water and neat lye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make sure your oil solution is around 50 degrees before adding Lye Solution, it is dangerous to add when the oils are too hot as the additional heat will increase the rate of reactions and again can be hazardous<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst your creative side may be excited to try to mix colors and fragrances at first, your first few batches should use only isolated colors and fragrances so you can get used to the exact dosing methods and how these affect the eventual results in terms of strength of coloring and fragrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you learn how reactive each element might be with your mix and the volumes used, then begin to experiment with combinations to create your own unique stamp on the appearance and smell of your soap.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow To Make Soap Base the Normal Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Method<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Things to Consider When Making Soap Base<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Add Lye to Water, not Water to Lye and Slowly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Create the Lye Solution in a Well Ventilated area<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Wait for Oil Solutions to Cool Before Adding Lye Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Experiment with Single Colors and Fragrances to Start With<\/h3>\n\n\n\n