Making Soap At Home

Let’s keep it simple for now because that is the best way to start. When you have mastered the operation and can process soap swimmingly, you will be able to commence adding alternative materials and thus make your own formulas depending on what you crave from a home-made soap.

Here is a list of the key soap componentsrequired for the novice.

What you must have:

Canola Oil

Coconut Oil

Palm Oil

Lye (5% super-fatted) – DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK THE SAFETY INFORMATION BEFORE PROCEEDING

Water

Safety Matters

Point 1 below is very great essential from the safety point of view, so please do acknowledge the demand for the correct safety gear.

General Instructions:

1. Put on safety goggles, gloves and wear long sleeves. Make sure you are working in a well ventilated area.

2. Taking great care, add the lye to the water. Stir well, being careful not to breathe in the fumes. Set the mixture to one side and allow it to cool to approximately 110 degrees F. Put the lye/water mixture outside if you are not in a well ventilated place.

3. Bring the oils together and melt them. Allow the mix to cool to approximately 110 degrees F or to within 5 degrees F of the lye/water.

4. Add the lye/water mixture to the liquified oils carefully and stir with vigor until “trace” takes place. Trace looks like a thin pudding. A stick blender helps hasten trace formation. If stirring by hand, it can take up to an hour to reach trace.

5. Pour your traced soap mixture into your moulds. Release after 3 – 5 days and let sit for  4 to 6 weeks to cure and finish the saponification process.

More things you should know:

– Bubbles; coconut oil makes for big, fluffy bubbles. Soap made from coconut oil will provide lather even in sea water. Olive oil is very beneficial for the skin and gives silky bubbles.

– Each oil or fat needs a different amount of lye to produce soap

– False tracing can arise as a result of the temperature of the mix dropping below the melting point of the mix. This is due to the fat solidifying and not the soap, so it becomes necessary to maintain the temperature approximately 110-115 degrees F.

– A suitable blender can be capable of making the fat molecules and the lye mix better, thus reaching the trace stage more rapidly. However, upright blenders can be guilty of pulling air bubbles into the soap, which we do not want. Nevertheless, hand-held blenders will bring about trace in two or three minutes even when using vegetable oils.

– Your soap will be about a value of pH7, the mid, neutral point of the scale from zero to fourteen. So, if it is higher than that, let it sit for a further week. As the lye sits properly, the pH will descend. There are so many soap recipes available and as you gain experience, you can even improvise and make your own. You can make soaps with different colours and different scents. You may also prepare soaps with your favourite additives which can include herbs.

Go for it; this is how to make home made soap

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