This soap is a pleasure to give and to receive.The difference between Grandma's harsh,greasy soap and your luxurious hand made soap,is the choice of ingredients.
All soap is made from mixing sodium hydroxide (also known as lye), a naturally-occurring chemical together with some sorts of fats or oils. Examples could be coconut oil, shea butter or coconut butter, olive oil, and so on. There are many natural oils that can be used for soap making and mixing them together in different proportions leads to many exciting types of soap in many variations.
The steps to making soap are:
1. You make a lye solution by mixing lye and water in the right proportion,letting it cool to room temperature.
2. You then take a pot, and heat it to melt the oils and fats that are solid at room temperature, and also warm the liquid oils.
3. Mix in the lye, stir with a stick blender until it reaches ‘trace’, the state where all the components have irreversibly mixed together and the chemical process of ‘saponification’ has begun.
4. Add in the essential oils, herbs, and colourings and mix them in.
5. Pour the soap into your prepared molds to set.
6. After 24 hours, take them out and put them on racks and leave to cure. After around four weeks of curing your soaps are ready to use.
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