What is Handmade Soap?
Soap is a pretty basic chemical reaction: it’s a salt of a fatty acid. In order to make soap, fats and lye are combined in a process called saponification. You take some lye, some fat (animal or vegetable oils), heat it up, and BAM soap! OK, we simplified it, but you get the idea… soap is a natural process that comes from combining natural ingredients.
Handmade soap is made of vegetable oils (sometimes animal fats too) and butters that are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and nutrients that are essential to healthy skin. And, real handmade soap contains glycerine. You won’t find any soaper out there extracting all the goodies from their soap to upsell you the 2nd product. On the contrary, handmade soapers are working hard to find wonderful skin-loving ingredients to create more and more beneficial soaps for our lovely skin.
The benefits of using handmade soap
Most of the handmade soaps have the functions and effects of cleaning the skin, moisturizing and moisturizing the skin, but they need to be used rationally.
1, clean the skin handmade soap is made of pure plants, cleaning ability is relatively strong, can help the skin dirt to be removed.
2, moisturizing and moisturizing: Appropriate use of manual soap can achieve hydration and moisturizing effect, improve the symptoms of dryness and chapping on the skin.
3, moisturize the skin: manual soap can also play a moisturizing effect on the skin, reduce the adverse symptoms on the skin, and form a protective film on the skin surface.
Each person's situation will be different, if there is a bad skin problem need to go to the hospital for diagnosis, and then according to the doctor's guidance for treatment.
How to make handmade soap at home by using Soap Base
Materials and equipment
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Milk White Soap Base | 250g/bag |
| Multi-cavity Mold | 2 pieces |
| Single Mold | 3 pieces |
| Base Oil | 5ml/bottle |
| Pigment | 5ml/bottle |
| Fragrance | 5ml/bottle |
| Plant Fine Powder | 5g/pack |
| Amino Acid Foaming Agent | 20ml/bottle |
| Silicone Spatula | 1 piece |
| High-temperature Resistant Double-layer Measuring Cup | 1 piece |
| pH Test Paper | 80 strips/book |
| Double-layer Bubble Net | 1 piece |
| Dropper | 4 pieces |
| Elegant Self-sealing Bags | 30 pieces |
| Bear Soap Holder | 1 piece |
| Electronic Scale | 1 piece |
| Stainless Steel Bowl | 1 piece |
| Stainless Steel Basin | 1 piece |
Handmade soap making step by step
1. Prepare your materials.
2. Put the soap base strip into a stainless steel basin, heat it over water, slowly stir and melt until the liquid is fully melted.
3. Pour milk or breast milk into the measuring cup, the ratio of soap liquid to milk is 3:1 to 2:1, the more milk, the more moisturizing soap, while the cleaning ability is reduced.
4. Pour the melted soap into the measuring cup, and add the base oil (2-4 drops recommended), fragrance (10-20 drops recommended), pigment (1-3 drops recommended) and other materials, stirring gently with a scraper.
5. After adding the soap and stirring well, slowly pour it into the mold. If there are bubbles on the surface of the soap liquid, please use a scraper to gently scrape it off, so that the finished soap surface can be smooth.
6. Place the hand-made soap in the mold at room temperature for a period of time until it cools and solidified, and finally remove the mold.
7. It can also be refrigerated for dozens of minutes to accelerate the cooling of the mold.
8. The mold is made of silicone, and the mold can be removed by lifting the bottom gently.
9. Put the handmade soap into a ziplock bag and store it in a cool and dry place.
