Making Bar Soap

Making Homemade Soap gives you a truly luxurious product that your family can enjoy and it makes great gifts too. You could even start selling your soaps to family and friends for extra income.

Soap making or “Soaping” is a wonderfully fun hobby, one that produces a unique product that is a delight to the senses.

Tailor your bar to your exact requirements. Whether you want an extra creamy rich lather, an added exfoliant or an exotic fragrance, you can easily make your perfect spa quality bar.

Benefits Of Making Homemade Soap

One of the biggest benefits of making your own soap is that you get to choose what ingredients go into your soap and onto your body.

Instead of petroleum based ingredients which often strip skin of essential moisture and exacerbate conditions like eczema, you can use natural oils and rich ingredients that truly care for skin and aleviate skin problems.

And don’t forget, your skin is the largest organ in your body. What ever you put onto your skin gets absorbed into your body!

If you’re trying to reduce your exposure to the toxic soup that we all endure on a daily basis, then learning how to make soap is definitly a step that you want to take.

When you make your own body care products you get to select exactly what goes into the mix. You can incorporate luxurious, natural ingredients and craft a product that is a delight to use.

Beginner Soap Making – Using A Melt And Pour Base

Making homemade soap isn’t difficult, but as with all crafts there is a learning curve.

For beginners, an easy way to get started is to use a melt and pour base.

The melt and pour method is straightforward and simple. Even children (properly supervised) can have a lot of fun creating soaps this way.

This method eliminates the need to use Lye and gives very fast results.

Full instruction for melt and pour soap making

Making Homemade Soap Using The Cold Process Method

This method of soap making is the real deal. With cold process you take oils and lye and turn them into soap. It’s part science and part art.

Using lye can be daunting for beginners.
Find out how to handle it safely.lye for soap makingCommercial soap makers remove glycerine from their soap. Your homemade soap will retain its glycerine and you’ll benefit from it skin softening properties. If you’ve only ever used commercial soaps before you will be stunned when you discover just how amazing homemade ‘real’ soaps are.

Here’s what you need to know to get started with cold process soap making.

Soap Making Problems

Soap making is a process that relies on temperature, timing and the use of the correct ingredients.

For a beginner, soap making can and will go wrong if you don’t pay close attention.

For example, did you know that the type of soap making scent that you choose could ruin your soap?

For a list of common problems that crop up with homemade soap making, their causes and cures go to soap making problems.

Making Homemade Soap – Selling Your Soap

Making soap can become addictive, with so many wonderful scents and other ingredients to play with.

You can create delight after delight to satisfy your creative urges, then you can put those products to work for you.

Give away your creations as gifts and not only will the recipients be thrilled with their pampering product, they will most likely ask you to make them some more when they run out.

Your friends and relatives could be your very first customers in a profitable and enjoyable business. When you have a truly fantastic product word of mouth referals will grow your customer base.