Read on for a detailed step-by-step homemade soap making workshop. Soap making is not only an exciting process, but also always a rewarding activity. Ready-made homemade soap will be both an excellent gift for friends and family, and a necessary hygiene product for the home.
There are several ways to make soap: from a base (which you can buy in specialized stores), from baby soap, and from scratch yourself. The most difficult process, of course, is when making soap from scratch; this will require more components than when making soap from a base or baby soap. Consider the most acceptable way - making homemade soap from baby soap.
To do this, we need: dyes (food can be used), aromatic oils, base oil (such as almond, apricot seed, grape seed, etc.), molds, some milk and, of course, baby soap.
Homemade soap making process:
- The first step is to rub a bar of soap into a metal plate, pour milk (about 2/3) and let it settle a little.
- Then you need to put our bowl in a water bath, in order to speed up the process you need to cover it with a lid and stir regularly. When the soap has melted and turned into a liquid gruel, we put it on the lowest temperature so that it cools down a little.
- Then you can start "working" with it, for this add 2-3 tablespoons of base oil and a couple of drops of dye to the soap. You can make a scrub soap, for which you need to add honey and oatmeal there.
- Next we need glasses. When we mix the resulting mass thoroughly, you can start pouring the soap into the prepared cups. This is done in order to get different colors.
- Add dyes of the desired color to each of the glasses. Then we fill in the molds, according to the color scheme - as you need it. When the molds are completely filled, it is necessary to put all this in the refrigerator overnight, or for a day, and then remove it from the molds and leave it in cling film for a week on the windowsill or balcony, so that our soap will finally harden.
After that, the soap is finally ready to use! Such a simple process will allow us to make homemade soap of any color and shape.
