How to make soap at home with your own hands: photo and video lessons

Always wanted to try to create something new, unusual, super-exclusive and surely with your own hands? Mastery of soap making is an ideal option for this. It's time to act! We suggest you, together with us, step by step, try and understand how to make soap at home.

Step-by-step instruction

The soap-brewing procedure begins with the melting of the very basis - soap. Just cut a few slices of soap into a bowl. Of course, you can also grate soap on the grater, but it will take you more time( although the smaller the pieces, the faster they melt).The ideal handmade soap comes from baby soap.

The process of melting is carried out in the microwave oven in the defrosting mode or in the weak heating mode( but then we check every 20-30 seconds).

The main task: heating is carried out only until the moment when our soap base melts. Our mixture should not be heated more than 60 degrees, otherwise it will dry up. Be sure to check the temperature with a thermometer.

The next step is to add the secret ingredient.

Know the mechanism of how to make handmade soap, it's only half the battle. It is important to add zest to it, add spice. This role will be fulfilled by our secret ingredient.

When our mixture is not melted, it is necessary to add perfume, aromatic and essential oils, vanilla, honey, etc. The amount of secret ingredient is determined by yourself.

Making soap of color. Dye in the manufacture of soap can serve almost everything. You can either buy a dye in a specialized store, or use something more natural( for example, coffee, berries, milk, etc.).

Please note that some dyes may become discolored over time. Add color gradually, so as not to overdo it with color. If necessary, you can always add a little more color, but to make the color more pale - it will be more difficult.

Adding other ingredients. If you want soap to have moisturizing, nutritional, curative or other properties, you can also add herbs, fruits, oils, vitamins in liquid form, or something else.

But do not add too many different oils to our soap, as it can get too soft in the end.

We fill the molds. If you do not have special molds, they can be replaced by any kitchen storage container, plastic boxes, trays and lids. You can even use cells from boxes of chocolates, as well as ice molds.

Advice for easier extraction of soap from molds: grease them before filling with liquid petroleum jelly. This stage is also indicated here with the picture.

All the most important things were done by us earlier. Now we wait, when the soap will harden. To do this, you can place it for 5-10 minutes in the freezer. Then we remove the soap from the molds and admire the result.

Now you know how to make soap with your own hands at home, welding it yourself right at home. Some who just start to make soap often often resort to watching videos how to make soap at home, although to get a good result it's quite enough to perform all the steps described above step-by-step. After all, boiling soap is quite simple. Dare, and you will always succeed!

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