Home soap making: recipes and video lessons for beginners

Many needlewomen today are pleased to make home soap. But in order to start this uneasy business, it is worth watching video lessons on soap making in the home, located at the end of this article. Only with their help can you achieve certain successes in the production of high-quality and beautiful soap.

There are many recipes for making soap at home, among them there are those that are designed for beginners, and that do not require painstakingness, they use a ready-made soap base. Making soap from such a foundation for beginners is an excellent start.

Those who have long been experimenting with the manufacture of soap make it from scratch, while they use sodium hydroxide and solid oils, and very often various additives and flavors are used in recipes.

In any case, making soap at home, you can choose a recipe that is suitable for your skin type.

Advantages of home soap making

If you are still thinking about whether it is necessary to do soap making at home, it is worth knowing that this needlework has a number of advantages:

• There are many reasons to cook soap, because this environmentally friendly product will be a perfect gift for any holiday;
• Supplements, you can add any, which means that you can always exclude the manifestation of various allergic reactions;
• Manifestation of imagination and realization of creative potential. The form and content of soap depends entirely on how you make it. It is worthwhile to show very little imagination and you will have a more beautiful and useful tool.

Ingredients for soap at home

Those who are going to start soap making at home from scratch need to know what ingredients they can use. So:

1. Basis. Such a basis can be bought in a store for needlework, it can be transparent or white. Also to create it you can use baby soap. The truth of it is transparent soap can not be done. It is worth noting that beginners should start with a child's soap.
2. Base oil - it all depends on the taste, because the technology of making soap provides the addition of any base component, for example, olive or peach oil.

1. Essential Oil. Each type of skin requires its own oil. So, the problem skin perfectly tolerates the tea tree, and the orange will saturate your skin with vitamins.
2. Dyes. With their help, soap is given a specific color. It is worth saying that you can add color using natural products, such as chocolate or vegetable juice.
3. Supplements. To have soap has some useful properties, you can dilute its composition with oat flakes or coffee, as well as other useful ingredients.
4. Dishes required for a water bath, as in the photo:

1. Forms for soap. It all depends on your ingenuity, as for soap making, any shape is perfect for both confectionery products and conventional ceramic containers.
2. Alcohol that forms are lubricated.
3. Warm milk, can be replaced with water, dilute the base.

How to make soap soap-based

The simplest soap recipes are those that are based on a soapy solution. Such a soap will be completely natural, and will also have the right color and smell. It is used immediately as soon as the soap is cooked.

A small master class will tell you what it takes to make soap. Just for starters, let's designate the ingredients:

• soap base, sold in special stores( it is transparent and white in the form of a piece or shavings);
• essential oils;
  ornaments for soap( plants, sparkles, dry fruits, peel, etc.);
• appliances and utensils.

1. So, first you should melt the soap base, just do not add water.

2. After that, cool the mass, add oil and additives, let it cool down.

3. Further it is necessary to pour the soap into the molds and put in the refrigerator.

4. Now cut into pieces and the soap is ready for use.

A small course on making soap at home

So, to make soap of any complexity, for example like this it is necessary to follow the basic steps that will lead to perfection of making soap at home.

The first step is to melt the substrate, for this we first grind it.

It is possible to melt in several ways, but there should not be direct contact with the plate. And that means you can make a steam bath, or use a microwave.

Warm up only until the substrate melts.

In the second step, add the essence. You should gradually introduce the solution, so too sharp does not change the color and properties of soap.

Step three consists in tinting, and as already mentioned a little above, almost any material can act as a dye.

The fourth step is to add other additives that will give the soap specifically properties.

The fifth step is a pouring into forms.

After this comes the most important step and the last one is extraction from the molds:

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