Make Our Own Natural Soap, Its Fun And Easy

If you’re looking for a new way to express your creativity, be sure to try making your own natural soap. It can be as easy as “melt and pour,” or try more advanced methods of mixing fat, lye and water. You are sure to enjoy experimenting with fragrances, essential oils, herbs and colors.

Melt and pour is easy, and safe enough for kids. Some of the soap bases you can try are goat milk, honey, glycerin, olive & aloe, oatmeal or shea butter. There are some others as well, and each of the bases has different qualities. Try a few to choose the ones you like best.

To make a bar soap, melt the soap base completely, stirring frequently, then add the other ingredients. Choose your own fragrances, colors, or essential oils. Then pour the soap into the molds and allow it to cool. Don’t worry about getting it right the first time — you can re-melt and try again.

For a more advanced creative process, you can make soap with fat, water, and lye. This method requires a little more equipment, time and knowledge. Safety first: Keep in mind that lye is a caustic agent and requires special handling. Always use eye protection and rubber gloves when handling it, and don’t let it touch your skin or clothing. Also, lye will damage aluminum and Formica, so keep it off table tops and counters. There are many great sources that describe this process in more detail. Just search the Internet for “make natural soap.”

Many people choose to make bar soap for different reasons. Some people do it to save money. Those fancy soaps that look and smell pretty as well as soften your skin get to be rather expensive. Others make a business out of it.

Making your own natural soap is also environmentally friendly — store-bought soap was made in a pollution-causing factory. Before World War I, people used to make soap at home from leftover cooking fats, using purchased cans of lye. Before that, people made lye from wood ashes.

The movement toward more sustainable living has some healthy side effects as well. Since our skin is the largest organ of the body, taking care of it has become more important. One of the benefits of making natural soaps is that you can control what goes into them. If you are allergic to Shea Butter, just use oatmeal instead. If you are a vegetarian, there are soaps you can make out of vegetable fats instead of animal fats.

Making your own soap is fun, healthy and good for the environment. It allows you the flexibility to add ingredients you like and leave out the ones you don’t. Homemade soap is good for your family finances as well. There are so many easy soap making recipes out there, anyone can do it.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about how to make homemade soap, and organic soap making. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.

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