How to cook soap at home?

Making soap is a fashionable entertainment that can captivate both an adult and a child. Handmade soap is a wonderful gift, because it can be given any shape and painted in any color. The range of soaps in stores is quite large, but, unfortunately, on the shelves it is not always possible to find what is useful for your skin. How to cook soap at home? There are several ways, and now we will consider them.

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Soap base - buy or make?

For any soap, whether household or toilet, first of all, you need a base. Where to get it?

1. Ready to buy at the store.
2. Make from baby soap.
3. Make from liquor and fat with your own hands.

It’s quite easy to buy soap base in stores now. This is a very useful thing, which at times simplifies the process of making soap. Such a base is ideal for an inexperienced soap maker, because you will not need to mess with hazardous substances.

Important! Such a base is inexpensive, it is transparent and matte.

Baby soap is a soap base in itself; there are no dyes in it. As in the first case, you do not need to deal with caustic substances and carry out dangerous chemical reactions.

Self-made soap base - the process is not that time-consuming, but not very pleasant. You'll have to:

• deal with liquor, and it is caustic;
• carry out chemical reactions using heat;
• deal with substances whose smell can hardly be called pleasant;
• use additional equipment and personal protective equipment during operation.

However, this method also has positive aspects - you can say that you have fully mastered the entire process of cooking soap. In addition, if you wondered how to make laundry soap at home, self-made soap base will give the best answer.

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What else do you need?

In addition to the soap base, for the manufacture of home soap you need:

• base oil;
• essential oils;
• glycerol;
• vodka or alcohol;
• milk;
• dyes;
• cooking utensils;
• atomizer;
• forms.

Base oil

As a base, any high-quality vegetable oil is suitable. Most often used in soap making:

• olive;
• apricot;
• almond;
• peach.

Essential oils

Essential oils will give your soap special, only its inherent qualities. Before choosing essential oils, familiarize yourself with their effects on the human body.

Important! You can make a soap calming, uplifting, antiseptic - whatever your soul desires. The range of essential oils in pharmacies and perfume stores is large enough, so there is room for imagination.

Other substances

Why dyes are needed is clear to everyone: in order to make soap of a certain color. Better to buy some dyes - what if you want a piece of soap to be striped?

Important! Dyes for soap can be bought in stores where goods for artists are sold. Food coloring is also suitable.

Natural dyes

Oil paints in the manufacture of soap are unlikely to be useful, but natural dyes are very necessary. You can buy them at a pharmacy, grocery store, or even make them yourself. You will be helped out:

• red pepper - soap, of course, will turn red;
• sandalwood powder also gives a red color;
• dry herbs naturally give a green tint; herbs can be prepared on their own or bought at a pharmacy;
• cocoa or chocolate - the soap will be brown;
• coffee grounds - a brown tint;
• turmeric - gives an orange color;
• beets - purple.

Important! If you prepare the green dye yourself, carefully watch what grass you collect, there are poisonous plants in any forest.

Sugar, milk and vodka

Why do we need oils and dyes - more or less clear to everyone. And why sugar and vodka? - Everything is very simple:

1. Sugar improves melting.
2. Vodka or alcohol is needed to sprinkle the surface of the soap.
3. Milk is useful to dilute the soap mass. However, in extreme cases, it can be replaced with warm water.

Additional ingredients

You can add to home soap:

• fruit juices - you get a vitamin soap, to which the juice will also give color;
• coarse salt or pieces of almonds - to obtain scrub soap;
• clay - so that the soap is better washed;
• various herbs for the therapeutic effect.

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Forms

Since the manufacture of soap is now extremely popular, you can buy all the necessary items in the store, including special forms. However, if there is no possibility and extra money - it does not matter. Suitable children's plastic sand molds.

Important! In addition, various ceramic forms can be used. Suitable for baking dishes, as well as all kinds of jars of creams, if they are made of durable plastic.

What else is needed?

Very useful for a beginner (and not only a beginner) soap-maker such things as:

• measuring spoon (or rather a few);
• measuring cup;
• 2 thermometers;
• rags;
• personal protective equipment - glasses, gloves, respirator.

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Soap on ash

This ancient method of making soap is rarely used now. For him you will need:

• wood ash;
• sieve;
• filter paper or canvas;
• large enameled, glass or plastic container;
• 2 enameled containers for heating liquor and oil;
• water.

Important! Ash is needed only that which is obtained from burning wood or herbs. If you burned garbage, such ash is not suitable.

Proceed as follows:

1. Sift the ash, fill it with water and mix.
2. Add water gradually to dissolve the ash.
3. Leave the container for a day - sediment will appear in the container.
4. Filter the precipitate and discard.

Important! As a result, you will have a solution of liquor. It is already ready for use. If you leave the container with the solution in the sun, the process will go faster and will take about six hours.

Soap Making:

1. Prepare the ingredients. For 1 liter of liquor you will need 1 liter of base oil, 350-500 ml of essential oils.
2. Mix the oils.
3. Pour liquor and oil mixture into enamel pots.
4. Heat the oil and liquor to 40 ° C.
5. Pour the liquor slowly and very carefully.
6. Mix it all with a blender or mixer.
7. Wipe the molds with vodka or alcohol.
8. Pour the soap into the molds.
9. Put the molds in a warm place for a day.
10. Forms with soap can be wrapped in a blanket or fleece blanket - this will speed up the reaction.

Important! Lye is a very caustic substance, you need to work with it in goggles and gloves, avoiding skin contact.

If the liquor has been evaporated from the solution

If you immediately made a lot of liquor, it can be stored in a plastic or glass bottle, but it is better to evaporate it first. Before you cook soap at home from evaporated liquor, you need to dilute it with water - take 250 g of water for 250 g of liquor.

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Laundry soap

The main task of laundry soap is to launder what is poorly laundered. It does not have to be bright and beautiful, it does not need aromatic additives. Therefore, it is easiest to make laundry soap according to the described recipe, but without the addition of essential oils and dyes.True, you need to recount the ingredients - take a little more base oil.

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Making soap from a soap base

If you have already managed to work with liquor, making soap from a finished base will seem like child's play to you. It is really very simple.

You need:

• 3 pieces of baby soap (you can use remnants);
• water;
• milk;
• essential oils;
• dyes;
• grater;
• rolling pin or pestle;
• a large glass container - also suitable from stainless steel;
• a saucepan or bowl - best enameled;
• a larger pan for a water bath;
• wooden stick or spoon;
• forms.

How to cook soap at home in this way:

1. Grind the soap as much as possible - best on a grater in a glass container.
2. After that, soap flakes need to be crushed - so that the process goes faster, pour 0.5 cups of warm milk into the same vessel.
3. Put it all in a small saucepan.
4. Pour water into a large pot.
5. Inside place a pan with soap.
6. Heat a large pot, stirring what is contained in a small, wooden spatula or spoon.
7. You should get molten soap, stir it so that it does not burn and does not go foam.
8. Remove the small saucepan.
9. Add essential oils, dyes, and everything else you need for a prescription.
10. Mix the contents of the pan thoroughly - the ingredients should be evenly distributed throughout the container.
11. Transfer the contents of the pan to the pan and refrigerate.
12. To make soap easier to get out of forms, it is best to put it in the freezer for an hour.

Important! Put the soap removed from the molds in a cardboard box without a lid and put it all in a well-ventilated room for three weeks.

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Soap base soap

The soap base differs from any other soap in that it has no other ingredients besides the main ones - fat and liquor. It has no smell; it can be transparent. Therefore, it is best to make soap out of it, adding everything you need.

Important! Some varieties of baby soap still have a specific smell, which will certainly be mixed with the aroma of essential oil and other ingredients.

You can buy a soap base, including via the Internet, and make home soap from it in the same way as from a children's one.

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Soap coniferous soap

For example, you can take massage coniferous soap. You need:

• 100 g of a transparent soap base;
• Shredded needles of spruce, pine or cedar;
• Alcohol or vodka;
• Fir or cedar oil;
• Green food coloring

The manufacturing process is the same as for any other home soap:

1. Grind and melt the soap base.
2. Add chopped needles, fir or cedar oil, as well as dye.
3. Mix everything thoroughly.
4. Put the soap in the molds, cool, remove and let it rest.

Important! If you do not need a massage effect, you can add coniferous extract instead of needles.

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Puff soap

Plain soap at home is easiest to cook - just add a single dye to the soap base with all the ingredients. But if you wish, you can make a two-color, or even a three-color bar.

Puff soap looks very impressive. Cooking it is quite easy, that is, almost the same as any other. Layers are formed during solidification, respectively - you need to prepare two types of soap.

Important! You will need 2 large pots and 2 small ones. It is better if both types of soap are of different colors, but the same in quality. But here, as they say, options are possible - it is possible that you will want to make layers of the same color, but with a different smell, or add elements for scrub to one of the layers.

How to act:

1. Prepare a soap base - grind and melt.
2. Fold the soap in 2 bowls or pans.
3. 2 large pots fill with water and arrange the contents of the bowls water bath.
4. When the base melts, add dyes and other ingredients.
5. Wipe the form with alcohol.
6. Lay the first layer and go over the surface with a fork.
7. Lay the second layer and walk along the surface.
8. Lay the third layer - basically the soap is made in 2-3 layers, but if desired, more can be done.

Important! In the manufacture of puff soap, the mold is mentally divided into 2-3 or more parts, stacking each layer to the corresponding “mark”.

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Now you know how to make soap at home, and you can do it in several ways. We hope that having tested all our recipes, you will receive basic knowledge, understand that this process is very interesting, and will continue to show your imagination by making original, unusual and useful blocks for home or as a gift to your friends.