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Adding Color To Your Homemade Soap With Soap Colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants – Photo courtesy of Flickr user necrocake.

Do you want to learn how to make soap at home?

There are many different ways you can make soap and sometimes you want to have colored soaps for more variety. Soap colorants give your homemade soap a unique look and there are numerous ways you can color soap.

Most soap colorant in the soaps you buy in the store is made with synthetic dyes and other chemicals. This article focuses more on natural dyes for your homemade soap, but for our full, comprehensive guide to soap colorants please click here. Continue reading “Adding Color To Your Homemade Soap With Soap Colorants”

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Soap Making Fragrance Oils

Fragrance oils are a great way to add a personal touch to your homemade soap. Flickr Markhillary

Fragrance oils are a great way to add a personal touch to your homemade soap. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Markhillary.

Scenting your homemade soaps is a great way to personalise your soaps, and with such a wide variety of options is a matter of personal preference.

There are two varieties of oils that can be used to scent soap: fragrance oils, and essential oils. Either can be used, according to the preferences of the soap maker.

Fragrance oils are made from a mixture of aroma chemicals. They are commonly used when there is no essential oil available for a particular fragrance, or when the essential oil is far too costly or environmentally irresponsible to use.

Unlike essential type oils, fragrance oils can be part natural and part synthetic, or all synthetic. Continue reading “Soap Making Fragrance Oils”

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How Do You Make Soap

Yes, you’ve heard all about the advantages of making your own soap but have you ever considered making one all by yourself and just how do you make soap?

Making soap at home is far less complicated than you think.

It is easy, enjoyable and at the same time rewarding. Once you learn, you can then start to make glycerin soaps, herbal soaps or any kinds of soap you like. But first you have to know the basics.

This post outlines the basics of the most popular soap making methods, but please click here to read our full, comprehensive post on the soap making methods available to you.

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The Basic Soap Making Ingredients

Soap Making Basics: Soap Ingredients

Soap making is one of the most rewarding hobbies today. And Using The Correct Soap Making Ingredients is important to your success.

This article is a very brief explanation of the ingredients needed to make soap at home – for our full, comprehensive breakdown on soap making ingredients please click here to learn more.

Soap making: it’s not only fun but also when it is done with friends and family, can be a very memorable experience. It’s simple It’s easy and can bring  friends and family closer together.

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Which Soap Making Colorants Do You Choose?

There are many variants for soap colorants

There are many variants for soap colorants – Photo courtesy of Flickr user necrocake.

Soap Making Colorants—which one to choose?

There are several different soap colorant options that are available for soap makers.

Natural soap colorants are more favored by expert soap makers as it is much safer to use. You can get amazing results with natural dyes and you don’t need to go the synthetic route to get soap that people buy. The best soap making advice I can give you is to try the natural dyes and see how things turn out. Of course you’ll need some practice but this is part of the learning process when you make your own soap.

For example, saffron can give your soap a yellowish glow, indigo root can be used to give your soap a deep blue color and Moroccan red clay can be used to give your soap a brick red color.

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Herbal soap making and a free herbal soap recipe

Anyone can make herbal soap at home, with ingredients that are readily available in any grocery store or supermarket. Photo courtesy of flickr user nico paix.

Anyone can make herbal soap at home, with ingredients that are readily available in any grocery store or supermarket. Photo courtesy of flickr user nico paix.

Everything natural and herbal is always better. Even your skin deserves natural treatment too. Herbal Soap Making is a great idea for healthy and vibrant soaps.

The better news is that you can actually make your own herbal soap at home.

Herbs are well known to have medicinal, aromatic and skin smoothing properties.

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How To Make Homemade Soap

How To Make Homemade Soap – It’s easier than you think

Why make your own natural soap?

Making your own all natural soap is a very easy and also beneficial. The differences between handmade and store-bought soaps are quite vast.

Instead of using your preferred all natural oils that help balance skin moisture, commercially bought soaps add animal fat and synthetic chemicals to substitute them.

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Lye Soap Making

This article briefly explains the properties of lye and the importance for lye as part of the soap making process. Please click here to read our full, comprehensive article on soap making with lye, including a free basic soap recipe, or to learn more about homemade soap download our free soap making guide.

You may have asked this before, what exactly is lye?

Lye is a caustic alkaline chemical that dissolves substances like fat, and has a high degree of reactivity with other materials.

It is also known as Sodium Hydroxide.

If you know about soap or have been making soap, you would know that almost all handmade soaps are made of Sodium hydroxide except for a few liquid soaps that are made of Potassium hydroxide.  Potassium hydroxide, unknown to many, is also a type of lye used to make liquid soap.

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