Make Your Own Natural Soap- Be Eco Friendly
The new generation is becoming more aware of environment friendliness as the days go on. They are also thinking of cost effectiveness. One way to be eco friendly is to make your own soap at home. To do this you must have some ingredients at hand and you can choose which fragrance to use.
By making your own natural soaps at home you can help to keep chemical exposures down on you and your family and also it helps your piece of mind knowing all of the ingredients are natural and healthy and not harmful.
Soap making can be time consuming, but the effort you will give in one sitting to make a handful of soaps must be beneficial to your skin. The main ingredients of soap are some kinds of oil like palm oil, olive or coconut oil. You have to mix up this oil with water and lie. All you have to do is heating lye and water together excluding the oil. When both lye and water meet the desired temperature they will combine together. You would want to stir or whisk this mixture until you are able to see stir lines on the top.
The best way to describe this is when you are making a pancake batter and the batter forms a raised line on top when a spoon is drug across it. That is the consistency you are looking for. Once this consistency is achieved this is when you would want to add any of the natural sources that you have collected to make the soap your own. For example, you can add beeswax to make it smooth or even cocoa butter to soften the skin. To make a successful natural soap though, you want to make sure to only use natural ingredients.
Once you have instilled the additives that you collected then you have to pour the soap mixture into pre-oiled molds. Normally the molds are brick shaped or tubular and you have to make sure that they have made greasy with a vegetable oil otherwise at the time of removing the soaps from the molds they may no slide out easily without breaking. The soap mixture has to be left in the molds for about 24 hours.
By this time the soap making procedure will go through many changes, for example, it may darken in color or even begin to bubble and might get warm. These changes are natural when the lye/water/oil mixture is set to rest after being emulsified together. This setting period of time neutralizes the soap and makes it fit to set into the chosen mold. Once again, it is absolutely important to remember that the molds should be made oily otherwise you will not be able to remove the soap from the molds easily to continue the process.
You must have a cool, dry place ready beforehand to let your soap place after you get it out from the mold. The soaps then can be pieced into any desired shapes and then needs to be placed on wire racks, lined with most preferably wax paper, and then have to be set in the dry, cool, dark place for the curing procedure.
The entire curing process might take from 3 to 8 weeks. But once this curing process is done and the soap has dried out the moisture that was left, then you will have a finished product. Most people are relaxed knowing that the soaps they are cleaning their bodies and faces with are healthy and not harmful to the community. This lesson can be passed to our next generations to come and is really a precious one.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about soap making, and make your own soap. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
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