Soap Making at Home: Create Your Own Natural Soaps!

Making soap at home is both a fun and useful activity. Suitable for your own skin, You can prepare soaps with natural ingredients and stay away from chemicals.

Things to Consider in Soap Making:

• Safety: Always wear gloves, goggles and a mask when using caustic soda. Keep your work area well ventilated.
• Materials: Use the right and high quality materials.
• Hygiene: All containers and tools used in soap making should be spotlessly clean.
• Patience: The saponification process takes time. Be patient and follow the instructions carefully. Apply.

Basic Ingredients for Soap Making at Home:

– Oils: Natural oils such as olive oil, coconut oil, almond oil, avocado oil You can use oils.
– Caustic soda: Used in the saponification process. Use with caution!
– Water: Preferably use distilled water.
– Essential oils: Can be used to add fragrance and colour to the soap.
– Herbs and clay: to add colour, fragrance and beneficial properties to the soap can be used.

Soap Making Recipes at Home:

On the internet you can find many different recipes for soap making at home. I am going to show you two simple recipes that I would recommend:

Easy Olive Oil Soap Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 500 gr olive oil
•100 g caustic soda
• 250 g water
• 1 tablespoon essential oil (optional)

Preparation:

1. Slowly add the caustic soda to the water in a glass container and stir. Caution, the mixture heats up and may evaporate.
2. Heat the oils in a separate bowl.
3. Once the caustic soda water has cooled, slowly add the oils and mixer and mix well.
4. Keep stirring until the mixture is thick and smooth.
5. Pour into the soap moulds and cover.
6. Leave the soaps to solidify at room temperature for 24-48 hours.
7. Remove the solidified soaps from the moulds and leave to dry for at least 4 weeks. Leave it.

Lavender Scented Natural Soap Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 200 g olive oil
• 100 g coconut oil
• 50 g almond oil
•75 g caustic soda
• 180 g water
•1 tablespoon dried lavender
• 1 tablespoon lavender essential oil

Preparation:

8. Follow steps 1-4 in the easy olive oil soap recipe above. apply in the same way until.
9. Add lavender and essential oil to the blender and mix well.
10. Add the lavender mixture to the soap mixture in step 4 and blend until homogenised. stir until blended.
11.Prepare the soaps by following the remaining steps.