How to cook soap at home - a simple soap technology

About what soap and how to cook it, people knew about 4,500 years ago. For the inscription of this information, cuneiform, Sumerian, and a clay tablet were used. At that time, the Sumerians used soap for one purpose - they were cleansed sheep's skins from lanolin - this was the preparatory stage before staining.

Celts and ancient Romans soap was required for the treatment of skin diseases. As ingredients, they used goat fat and ash.

At present, many people are fond of home soap making, which is not surprising, because this hobby is not only an interesting, but also an advantageous process, but how to make soap at home, a lot of videos and master classes are shot.

Sequence of work

The production of a beautiful fragrant soap seems to be a rather complicated process, but in reality everything is simple! The next master class will introduce you to the sequence of cooking this home soap.

First you need to provide yourself with the following ingredients:

1. Soap base. It is transparent or white and is sold in specialized stores. A similar component is an ordinary baby soap, though, it is desirable that it does not have any flavor. For the manufacture of some particularly beautiful and original soaps, it is better to use a transparent base, but for a start there will be enough and simple soap.
2. Base oil - almonds, olive, peach, apricot, orange, etc.
3. essential oil. The choice of this ingredient should be based solely on the needs of your skin: application of tea tree oil requires oily and problematic skin, orange perfectly satiates the skin with vitamins;and with the help of ylang-ylang oil you can have a rejuvenating effect on the sensitive skin.
4. Dyes. It is acceptable to use both special dyes and food colors. If you want to give the soap a shade, then some natural ingredients, such as chocolate or fruit juice, can help.
5. Additives, with which soap acquires a number of additional properties. For example, the effect of scrub can be achieved with ground coffee, oat flakes or ground nutshell.

Also, you need to stock up on the utensils necessary for a water bath, various kinds of molds( confectionery, children's, etc.), alcohol, warm milk, decoction or water.

Now you can start cooking soap.

1. The basis or baby soap should be subjected to thorough grinding, which will quickly melt it with a water bath.
2. At the same time, it is recommended to add a base oil - 1-1.5 large spoons per 100 grams of base.
3. Now milk or cream is added. There are several secrets that will be especially relevant for beginners: milk can be replaced with water or a decoction, but, due to these actions, soap can exfoliate. And, to make the base melt better, sugar can be used instead of water and milk.
4. Completely melted soap base should be removed from the fire and mixed with the following ingredients: essential oil( 5 drops), glycerin( teaspoon), dye, flavor, coffee or any other component required by the recipe.
5. The resulting mass is poured into the mold and the surface is sprayed with alcohol - this avoids the appearance of bubbles.
6. To be completely sure that the soap is frozen, it should be left alone for 2-3 days in the refrigerator or any other cool place.
7. Everything, you can extract soap from the mold and admire the resulting work of art!

You can even make an "orange" soap yourself:

Why you need to make soap yourself

Every person has the opportunity to learn how to make from scratch a variety of different soap variants: different shapes, shades and compositions. Soap can be made in the form of little animals, cakes, hearts, etc.

It is possible to enumerate all the reasons for self-manufacturing of soap for a long time. Here are some of them:

1. The result is an environmentally friendly and natural product that has a unique shape and composition.
2. Homemade soap has an extremely caring effect on the skin.
3. You can add exactly the components that your skin type requires. For example, in the composition of soap often found a variety of oils, honey, herbal decoction, citrus peel, coffee beans, oat flakes, flowers, chocolate, etc.
4. Efficiency and naturalness of soap will not cause any doubts between you and your loved ones, as only high-quality products were used for manufacturing.
5. Soap making can be called a truly creative process. The form and content is influenced only by your imagination. The result may look like a few cute multi-colored pieces that have an amazing scent or a whole work of art.

Idea for making: homemade soap from loofah

As a basis for this production, you can use:

• regular baby soap in which the content of all chemical additives is minimized;
• is an industrial soap base in a transparent or opaque color. It sells specialized stores, as well as online stores.

Before proceeding directly to the manufacturing process, you need to get acquainted with such a concept as aggressive alkali, and learn about the basics of the chemical process of saponification of fats.

So, let's start making soap from loofah.

Before starting work, it is necessary to place the following components in the workplace:

• loofah( a sponge similar in appearance to a washcloth);
• transparent soap base( in order to fill the loofah);
• titanium dioxide( if the base is white, then it will not be required);
• essential oils or fragrances;
• dyes;
• aluminum can;
• cardboard juice box.

Aluminum can serve as a mold, so it needs to cut off the top, and uneven edges to wrap around so that they do not damage the soap when taking out.

Luffu is placed inside the can of the cylinder and begins to fill it with various "fillings":

1. Transparent layer with tar addition.
2. Transparent layer with blue dye and fir oil.
3. Transparent layer with a green dye and sea-buckthorn oil.

We get the received candle and place it in a cardboard box. We pass to the melting point of the white base or add to the transparent titanium dioxide. We alternate layers of the most diverse colors and flavors: red with sea-buckthorn, green with mint, yellow with grapefruit, etc.

Now go to the most enjoyable: remove the box and cut the soap into the necessary pieces. Do not get discouraged if the layers are a little on each other( before they have completely dried up) - this gives the soap a vintage effect and an original appearance.

Video

Several interesting and simple recipe for making household soap below: