Making Soap At Home: Step - by - Step Guide for Beginners
- Admin
- Jan 5, 2018
- 3 min read
In my earlier article Natural Soap: How many and What ingredients should natural soap contain? we spoke about the variety of natural soaps available in stores. We questioned their origin and attempted to answer some of the questions related to the soap industry.
In this article we will go practical and make the soap ourselves!
If you feel you have reached a point, when natural, organic soaps from stores no longer satisfy you, and you want to step further by making it yourself, then this information is what you need.
My long desired wish to make a soap myself came true and I was greatly rewarded by the results. After practicing the soap making skill and taking valuable advice from the experts in this field, I am glad to share and publish step - by - step instructions on how to make soap at home.
Easy Melt Natural Soap Making Step - By- Step Instructions
1. Since we are at the beginning of our journey in soap making I suggest to buy a Soap Making Kit.
A good quality Soap Making Kit should contain only natural and necessary ingredients!
Necessary ingredients for soap making (image below):
1 Lb Clear Glycerin Soap Base
Bottle of Essential Oil (your choice or store's availability)
Herbs or Exfoliate (your choice or store's availability)
Several Primary Colorants
Soap Mold(s) (1 lb of glycerin will fill 4 soap molds shown on the image below)
2. You can melt the soap base (glycerin) in a double boiler or the microwave. Either way, cut the melt pour soap into smaller pieces for the quickest melting (image below).
If you decided to use the microwave, melt the base on high for 1 minute and do 30 seconds increments after that, checking frequently to make sure the pieces are melted or almost melted. Take out and stir any remaining pieces in.
If you decided to use a double boiler (which I did), bring the water to a boil, add the soap melt to a saucepan and cover it. Turn the heat on low and wait until the base is melted.
Do not bring the melted base to boil!
3. After the soap base is fully melted, add your essential oil. Stir until the oil is fully incorporated.
Start with 1/4 oz (1 1/2 Tbsp) per pound of base. If you feel you want to add more, then do so. There is no strict rule on how much oil to pour.
4. To have your soap look colorful and even more personal, add one of the colors from your kit, once the base has melted.
In my kit I had three natural colorants - natural mineral mica (blue), iron oxide (yellow), iron oxide (red). It is ABSOLUTELY SAFE to use these colorants in our natural soap!
Before adding minerals or oxides to the melted base, add a bit of water to the mineral colorant, making it a paste. Then add 1/8 tsp to 1/4 tsp of the colorant in to the melting base and stir it in very well.
5. Pour the mixture to your soap molds and spray the top with rubbing alcohol to get rid of any excess bubbles (but it is not necessary).
6. Let the soap to set for about 4 hours until set firm. For the best results let the soap set overnight. It will pop out from the mold very easily!
I am sure you will enjoy the process of preparing and making your very first batch of soap. And even more enjoyment and fulfillment will come after the first use. It is definitely worth to do handmade soap - mentally and financially - for your personal use or as a gift to everyone you love.
This experiment is just the beginning and I wish everyone the best results and further enhancement in the art of soap making!
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