🎁 Soap at home: the secrets and recipes

Handmade soap just beats records of popularity. This is a great gift for friends and acquaintances and fascinating hobby, which literally sick many needlewoman. The result of the works is always useful, it does not become exhibits. Soap-making at home, its foundation - in this material.

Making soap from the very beginning

For those who have not yet tried this needlework, explain: soap-making requires specific materials and caution. But if you collect all the needed and how to prepare the creation of soap masterpieces process will bring you great pleasure.

What is needed for cooking, soap in the home from the ground up

To work you will need:

The basis

Sold in chips or chunks, consisting of vegetable oil, water and alkali. Those who are not the first time engaged in the soap, use soap base with swirls, flowery patches. Instead of finished foundations can use ordinary soap for babies - it has no impurities. But transparent piece of you out of it will not work.

base oil

Use olive, argan oil or peach to mitigate the finished soap. They do not have a strong odor, but gives a nice soothing effect to the skin.

Essential oil

With the help of essential oils create a bouquet of aromas, and in addition, add the properties to the skin and even therapeutic effect. These components should be used very carefully because an overdose may even cause skin burns.

pigments

For soap use mineral colorants, and the vegetable and fruit juices and herbal infusions. The dye can be added as cinnamon or fir oil. Especially effectively looks pearlescent color.

decorative fillers

For decorations using glitter, dried herbs and flower petals. To effect belongings can add coffee grounds or fine grits. Nourishing effect will give the cream, chocolate and honey.

molds

In handicraft shops sell special forms for soap, but you can use molds for cupcakes or even something from the arsenal of the children's sandbox. One thing to keep in mind - to work not suitable metal molds, they can come into contact with a chemical soap.

accessories

Besides the above, you will need alcohol, they are usually treated with molds. In addition, the required utensils for breeding structure, wooden stacks for its mixing, measuring spoons or shot glasses. To protect necessarily prepare a dust mask and gloves.

Stepping master class: how to cook soap at home

To make soap, it does not need more than an hour. Here is a simple master class for example, how to cook the soap from scratch:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Cut the soap base in the same size cubes. Use a thin knife.
	Place the pieces in a plastic bowl and place in the microwave. Do not use one big piece - base will melt unevenly. Put the microwave on medium and constantly checks the process. It is important that the foundation does not boil, watch the time.
	Add the melted base of the food or mineral pigments. Stir to see the resulting color.
	Add the soap a few drops of essential oil: peach or pink.
	Decoration Sprinkle a little sequins and carefully stir up, that they were distributed evenly.
	Pour the soap into the mold and be sure to sprinkle on top of rubbing alcohol to relieve it of air bubbles.
	When the soap hardens, remove it from the mold.

As you can see, there is nothing difficult, this task can handle even the novice. But laminated soap-making at home, the video for beginners:

Simple soap making recipes at home for beginners masters

Here are a few simple recipes, how to make soap at home:

0.1 kg of transparent bases are added one teaspoon of honey and olive oil or argan oil. For decoration - a pinch of pearl. The original part of the Armat add a pinch of dried basil.

0.1 kg bases teaspoon sea salt, a pair of spoons white clay and a few drops of sea flavor. For scrubbing can add coffee grounds or simply ground organic coffee.

This soap is great for people with skin prone to irritation. Number of foundations - as in the previous recipe. As additives - a pair of spoons pink clay, apricot oil and liquid vanillin.

The composition is suitable for teenagers and those who have problems with acne. The foundation added grape seed oil and olive oil. You can add a bit of chamomile and calendula, even just dried flowers.

Two ways of how to make soap at home

Soap can cook not only because, as we have described above. Generally, there are two basic ways to soap making from scratch at home: hot and cold. First - a quick and efficient, and the second - a long, but gives an interesting result.

Cool way to bile soap in the home involves heating due to chemical reaction. Once the bar has to "ripen" at least 14 days. During this period, a part of alkali is neutralized.

Safety in the manufacture of soap at home from scratch

Ingredients included in the composition of the soap can cause unwanted reactions. To avoid them in soap-making at home with their own hands, should follow some simple rules:

1. Do not use on 0.1 kg a basis for more than 10 drops of essential oils. When working with essential oils, avoid skin contact. If this happens, wipe the skin with a cotton swab with oil. Considered safe in this respect, rosewood and lavender.

   

2. Use soap for food or cosmetic dyes. All the others can cause unpredictable reactions. And of course, do not use for coloring watercolor, gouache, ink or green fodder, unless, of course, do not want to make too much of the original effect.
3. Do not use the product for cooking dishesFrom which you eat. chemical components Soap may be left on its walls.
4. Do not forget about protective equipment: gloves and a respirator.

What mistakes you can make, if you make soap at home from scratch

Above all, never let the boiling bases. If this happened, it would have simply thrown away. The temperature for heating - no more than 65 ° C.

Pour the soap into the shape you need to slow - so less air bubbles formed. To deal with them on their own, do not forget to treat the mold and the surface of the cast of soap with alcohol 96%.

Do not put soap in pieces of fruit and fresh flowers. They were covered with mold.

Do not overfill, the excess immediately act on the soap bar. Keep in mind that the edible oil has a very limited shelf life.

Store the finished soap in parchment paper - it will prevent it from mold.

, Do not bother him after pouring into the mold so that the bar was not ugly lumps. All the ingredients you need to lay in warm, not hot mixture.

How to make soap at home cold way: the Video

A good example of how to make soap at home without heat:

How to cook at home the soap hot way: the Video

And now, how to prepare the soap at home using a water bath:

Recipes for beginners to make soap from scratch: advanced level

And a little more recipes. Cook the soap at home from scratch for different purposes:

For the kids in the bath always add broth chamomile or succession. It helps to deal with diaper rash, and rash. To add broth in the soap base, a bag of weed in the warm rinse composition, but not the grass itself to sleep as hard twigs can injure the baby's skin. The infant formula do not add essential oils.

Composition of hand-made, you can wash your hair. This is very useful because you can add ingredients that will make your hair fluffy and obedient. For this purpose, the foundation added burdock, olive oil or coconut oil.

If the foundation to add a little glycerin, it will soften the hair, making shaving easier and non-traumatic. For the caregiver effect adds almond or castor oil.

If your other half like the aroma of beer, you can add it to the soap. Only boil before adding the alcohol should be to have disappeared majors, and there was only a characteristic aroma.

It's only a small only recipes. A lot of video on how to cook the soap at home. But in fact, the soap-making, and attractive, it is possible to constantly experiment with ingredients and excipients. If your arsenal is proven and successful recipes, share them in the comments!