Recommended Soap Molds Soap making can be an exciting hobby or even a profitable business but you wont get very far if you make a batch of soap and have no way to shape and mold it. This is where soap molds come into play. The beauty of soap molds is that there are a wide variety of molds ranging…
Soap making is a general term used for… well soap making. It is general because there is more than one way to make soap, in fact there are 5 main soap making methods. When it comes to making soap from scratch for the average person, the 5 main soap making methods are Let’s take a closer look into each method…
Adding color to hand made soap is a matter of knowing which soap you are working with and what type of colorant you can use in that soap. Soaps can be colored with mica, oxides, natural spices or plant based materials and with artificial lab colors. Learning how to add color to handmade soap will help your creativity when making…
Sometimes you just want to make a cheap bar of soap instead of one of those overly expensive handmade soaps. To do this you need cheap oils to make your low cost soap and we recommend you consider low cost soap when starting out to improve your soap making skills. With all that said, what is the cheapest oil for…
There are 3 major benefits of using handmade soap. Ingredient control, Structure of the soap, and Control over the design of the soap.
I’m glad I got your attention and I will get to the point of the matter at hand. Adulterated oils in particular Adulterated Olive Oil uses not only in soap but in every day consumption can be a time bomb waiting to take some one out. What is adulterated Oil? Firstly I surmise you have probably never heard of the…
I’m sure you may have wanted to learn how to make your own soap for a while. If not I’m sure you heard of persons who have been doing it and possibly wandered how it was actually done. Well its easier than you think and there are great benefits to learning how to do it yourself. Firstly lets deal with…
I had no idea what eczema really was. Seriously. I heard about it and I’ve heard and watched commercials on tv about it but I never really understood what it really was. This article is a story of how we developed a handmade soap to help combat the symptoms of eczema that was plaguing our daughter. No one in my…
What makes olive oil in soap so important? This was my first question when i began looking up recopies to make soap. Apparently its usually one of the most widely used oil for handmade and natural soaps. As I soon found out from making my own soaps and testing them out, Olive oil has some interesting benefits to the soap and the…
Ok I’m going to keep this simple. There are many many reasons you should actually throw away your cheap commercial soap and switch over to handmade soaps but I will list just 6. If you haven’t read what commercial soap is or how its made you should take a look at those articles . What is Commercial Soap – How…
I’m sitting having a conversation with a friend about everyday stuff and she asked me about my soaps. With a crinkle in her brow she ask me a simple question that isn’t so simple to answer. Why is handmade soap so expensive? The best answer I could give without to much explanation is to state a business term. ‘Its just…
Every time I meet or talk to someone new about handmade soaps, at craft shows or via social media but most often face to face. There is one question that always comes up. What is this soap good for? I get it soap is soap but not really, especially when the price of the soap goes over $2.00 it becomes…
When I first heard about making soap, I started to hear the bad talking about commercial soap. Not wanting to look as if I was silly I didn’t fully understand what was meant by commercial soap but I also never asked what it was. At any soap making class or forum you find out sooner or later what is meant…
Essential Oil vs Fragrance Oil in handmade products, Which should you choose? Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils both add an aroma to soaps but both are not equal. To simplify the explanation, Essential oils are natural oils taken from plants that have their own scent, while fragrance oils are often synthetic scents and made in a lab. Because of the…
Why I gave up using Commercial Soap pt 2 While surfing on facebook a little add about making your own soap was being displayed. It was perfect, I can make my own soap and make soaps that are suited to my skin type that wont dry me out nor add too much oil like other commercial soaps. Eventually I was…
