This type of handicraft, such as making soap at home, is now gaining increasing popularity. Homemade soap is natural, it contains only those substances that will be beneficial to your skin in combination with the scents that you like. Soap making for beginners is a simple process. The main thing is to understand the ingredients and the rules for their arrangement. This is what we will do in this article. Let's try to figure out what it is - homemade soap boiling Recipes for beginners will also be presented below. Of course, not all, but some of the existing options.
What is used to make soap?
Homemade soap making for beginners involves having the ingredients to create a particular soap. So, let's look at what substances someone who decides to brew a natural detergent at home will need.
First of all, no soap can do without fats. They are the main component. Soap making at home for beginners, as well as for experienced craftsmen, involves the use of fats of both animal and vegetable origin. Rendered pork fat is often used as a base. This is the most economical option, but the final product will smell like laundry soap. If you use vegetable oils, the aroma will be much more pleasant.
Next important component- it's alkali. It is this that ensures the saponification of fats. This could be, for example, caustic soda or sodium hydroxide.
You will also need stearic acid. It is what is most often found in fats and oils. It is added to give the soap hardness.
Another component is salt. It is best if the salt is sea salt. After all, it is very rich in substances that have a tonic and strengthening effect on the skin.
Beeswax is used not only to impart hardness. It adds shine and aroma to your soap. You can even decorate the finished block by gluing natural honeycomb to it.
If you want the resulting soap to have a scrub function, add ground nuts, seeds (just a little) or oatmeal to it.
Creating color
Clay, mustard powder, paprika, cocoa, ground coffee, vegetable juices and herbal decoctions, honey, beer, milk, etc. are used as natural dyes.
Of course, chemical dyes (food colors) give more saturated color, but natural ones are still more acceptable.
Creating a scent
Various substances are used to impart aroma to soap. You choose whether they are natural or synthetic. Soap making for beginners (recipes will be given below) allows you to use natural essential oils, as well as artificial flavors. These can be special fragrances, food flavors, perfumes or aromatic oils. Those that are created artificially can cause allergies. Therefore, it is preferable to use natural ingredients.
Security measures
Soap making for beginners and for experienced ones, however, also requires compliance with certain safety rules. Carry out all work with gloves to avoid skin burns. It would be nice to wear an unnecessary robe. Cover the table on which you will work with newspapers or some unnecessary tablecloth. The entire process should be carried out away from children and pets. Cleaning after finishing work should also be done with gloves. All utensils that you use for making soap should never be used for cooking. It should be kept separate from all other utensils.
Soap making for beginners based on baby soap
Baby soap is just what you need in this case. It will allow beginners to quickly master soap making. You can see a photo of the final product made in this way in this section.
Choose the simplest baby soap without additives or flavorings. The product you choose should be melted in a water bath with the addition of a small amount of water. Afterwards, you need to enrich it with oils and add fragrance, as well as all those components that you would like. The advantage of this method of creating soap is the availability of materials. But it was not without its drawbacks either. First, scented soap creates problems. And secondly, the duration of melting of the product is quite long. Plus, you won't be able to create clear soap.
Using a special base
The basis for creating soap is a kind of semi-finished product. This is almost finished soap. It just has no color or smell.
It is much easier to work with than baby soap. It melts very easily and there is no need to add water. It also hardens quite quickly and easily takes any shape.
Making soap without base
The third method of making soap at home is the most difficult. But only in this case can you independently select and control absolutely all the ingredients.
When preparing soap in this way, you cannot do without a respirator and glasses, since the work uses alkali. In addition, you will need scales and a device to measure the acidity of the medium, or at least indicator strips. This method can be cold or hot. Soap made using the first method cannot be used immediately. It must sit for about six weeks for the alkali to be completely neutralized.
Soap making at home for beginners: recipes
Having mastered simple ways When making soap, you can safely start experimenting and come up with your own special options. Using all kinds of herbs and spices, you can create truly healthy products. We figured out how to organize soap making at home for beginners. The recipes that will be discussed below are just a small part of huge amount possible options.
Milk soap with honey. To create it, you will need a piece of baby soap weighing one hundred grams, milk (two-thirds of a glass), ten grams of honey, one teaspoon of glycerin, one tablespoon of sea buckthorn oil. For scent, use citrus essential oil (fifteen drops). You can decorate the finished block with chamomile flowers.
Scrub soap with coffee or oatmeal. For one hundred grams of baby soap you need to take one hundred grams of milk, a teaspoon of freshly ground coffee or oatmeal, two teaspoons of cocoa butter and chocolate or vanilla flavoring. To make it look more impressive, use brown dye.
Two-layer soap with dry lavender flowers. It will be very beautiful. It will require two basics - white and colorless. You will need to add dried lavender flowers to the colorless layer, about five grams of which you need to take. In addition, for 60 grams of each foundation you will need 3 drops of jojoba oil and lavender essential oil, as well as one drop of patchouli essential oil. For color, take a couple drops of blue dye.
Honey soap with wax. For one hundred grams of colorless soap base, take half a teaspoon of honey, a third of a teaspoon of olive oil, geranium essential oil (five drops) and three drops of dye yellow color. And of course, a piece of wax. To ensure that the foundation sticks to the soap neatly and does not melt, place it on the bottom of the mold, press it and fill it with a small amount of molten base (no more than two millimeters thick). Once it has set, spray the base with alcohol and fill the mold to the top. Or vice versa, first fill the entire mold, wait for a crust to form and add a little more. Before the last portion has hardened, glue a piece of foundation and press down well. This also works out very well.
So, we found out what soap making is for beginners, what you will need for it, and also got acquainted with the most commonly used additives. Soap making is a huge field for experimentation. Today it is not at all difficult to get necessary materials. Everything you need can be purchased at craft stores. And the process of creating soap is so exciting that it will surely give you a lot of pleasure.
I would like to advise those who decide to make soap in their kitchen to start learning the basics by creating soap from a ready-made soap base. This option soap making for beginners will not discourage you from being creative and will give results immediately. The fact is that novice soap makers often confuse making soap from a base and making soap from scratch. If you want to know how to make soap at home, then first “separate” these two concepts in your head.
“From scratch” means that you will have to remember some basics chemical processes. You will be working with alkali and fatty oils; the soap-making process in this case is lengthy. And it’s better to move on to it after you get comfortable with soap making from an industrial soap base.
This was the introduction, now my Photo master class. To watch the video of the master class, go to the very end of the article.
To make your own soap you will need:
- soap base transparent, approximately 100 g;
- liquid dyes;
- flavorings or fragrances;
- cosmetic oil ( apricot kernel, grape seed and more);
- a glass for melting the base;
- a glass in which you will mix all the ingredients;
- microwave or water bath;
- spoons or sticks for stirring;
- soap molds.
Step-by-step instructions with photos
Melting the base
Cut the soap base into small cubes. This is easy to do with a regular knife.
Melt in a water bath, stirring constantly to prevent the base from sticking. Even if this happens, there is no need to be scared - just here, in the container in which you are melting the base, cut the sticky layer with a sharp knife and continue melting.
Many soap makers use the microwave, I also like to speed up the process. And the kitchen is cleaner. You can put a porcelain or glass cup with a base in the microwave; even a simple plastic one will do if you have already gotten used to the temperature and can adjust the power.
Set the “Defrost” mode, the weakest one to start with. Place the glass with the base in the microwave and turn it on for half a minute. Check how the base melts; if you don’t see any changes, the cubes haven’t even melted, you can do it in two ways. Either increase the power a little, or increase the time to 1-2 minutes.
Depending on the brand of your device, choose one or another option. It just seems incomprehensible and scary at first, but then it will be easy - you already know your microwave inside and out!
So, the base melted and it turned out to be jelly in a glass. Be sure to stir well so that there are not even small pieces of unmelted base left.
Adding oils, fragrances and dyes
Pour into the glass in which you will mix. Convenient to use disposable plastic cups. Naturally, I use them more than once; they are easy to wash after the process.
Add a few drops of base oil to the liquid foundation and stir.
Add the dye drop by drop, stirring constantly. Depending on the concentration of the dye, from one to several drops will be required.
Sometimes I dilute a very “dense” dye slightly with water.
And lastly, add the fragrance. I pour about half a teaspoon per 100 g so that the aroma is felt well.
Forming Soap
Pour the liquid soap into the prepared mold. Silicone does not need to be lubricated with oil or alcohol. If you are working with plastic ones and are afraid that it will be difficult to remove them from the mold, then wipe the mold with oil.
Leave the poured soap to harden. As soon as it hardens, and this happens within half an hour to an hour, the soap can be used.
If you let it sit for several days, it will be much more pleasant, this has been noticed by many soap makers. Pre-wrap the soap in cling film.
- Read this article before going to the store
- Soap base is sold from different manufacturers and of varying quality. Some people like it more “oily”, others like it to harden quickly. Only by trying, you can find your own base that is comfortable for you. To understand better, read the article about soap base from Russian manufacturers.
- Do not pour more than one third of a teaspoon of oil per 100 g of soap base. Otherwise, your soap will not lather, there will be no foam, alas.
- Food coloring is usually sold in very concentrated quantities. Therefore, they should sometimes be diluted with water. And don’t make the color very rich, the soap should remain transparent, like jelly. And colored foam is of no use to you.
- Get started with silicone molds, there are no problems with them, they do not break, do not melt at high base temperatures.
- Buy products for soap making for beginners you can in or search in geographically nearby ones.
Happy soap making!
Yours, Helga.
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I used to go to the store for “delicious” soap Lush.And now, when I have time and desire, I make soap myself)
Soap making is a very interesting and very exciting process, and about the benefits of soap self made you could write a whole book.
For everyone who is interested in this topic, I want to tell you how easy and simple it is to make homemade baby soap.
I made my first soap about two years ago.
Today I can more or less make any of the bases and am learning how to make soap from scratch (but that’s a different story)
To be honest, there are no particular difficulties in this matter.
Here it is important to learn a few basic rules of technology and use your imagination.
And over time, having gained experience, you can become an excellent soap maker.
And now a simple master class for everyone who has decided to try making their first soap from the simplest ingredients.
So, we will make moisturizing milk soap from baby soap.
Main Ingredients
You will need 100.0 of the simplest baby soap.
Be sure to pay attention to its composition, it should be without additives, flavorings, or adding cream, otherwise unpleasant moments will arise when making soap, but we don’t need them. I recommend baby soap from the Nevskaya Cosmetics brand with bunnies.
- 100.0 milk
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- a couple of drops of your favorite essential oil (I used cinnamon and vanilla), you can do without it.
- 1 tbsp honey or sugar
Dishes
- First, you will need to build a water bath; to do this, pour water into a larger saucepan and immerse a smaller saucepan in it. Instead of a small saucepan, I had a heat-resistant colander, in which I placed a plastic bowl for melting soap.
- Stick or spoon for stirring.
- Metal grater.
- And a soap mold, greased with oil.
- You can use a silicone muffin mold or a plastic soap jar as a mold. The main thing is that you can get your soap later.
- My real soap mold was replaced by a jar of cotton swabs.
We’re just starting out, we’re trying to make soap, so we don’t have any supplies, we’re making do with improvised means)
Cooking technology
So let's get started.
- First, let's grate our soap on a fine grater, pour hot milk over it and leave for a couple of hours. Ideally, overnight in the refrigerator.
- Then we put our soap shavings in a water bath heated to 50 degrees. Add honey or sugar (these are melters)
- And stirring periodically, without allowing it to boil, dissolve it until smooth (without lumps).
- Remove from heat.
- Add 1 tbsp olive oil and 3 drops of essential oil to the melted base.
- Stir and pour the mixture into the mold.
- Cool it for 15 minutes and then put it in the refrigerator.
- When the soap hardens, remove it from the mold.
- We try to do this carefully by pressing on the bottom of the form.
If it is difficult to remove, you can lower the mold into boiling water for a couple of seconds (but make sure that the water does not get on the soap itself), and then resume trying to get the soap out.
- Dry the finished soap on paper for 24 hours.
- This way it will get rid of excess moisture, harden and become suitable for use. Now pack it or leave it for personal use.
That's it, your first homemade handmade soap is ready! Congratulations, you did great! ;)
Approximately the same technology is used to prepare any other soap from baby soap.
Just use your imagination, add other oils: , apricot, etc. (in the same proportions), natural dyes and flavors and you will have your own homemade and very healthy soap)
Video about soap making
If you don't understand the process, watch this video. This master class shows the basics of soap making.
After going through it in practice, you will want to plunge into this Magic world home cosmetics further.
Learn the process of making soap from a soap base and learn how to make your own soap from scratch.
Today there is everything for engaging in this fascinating process; entire soap shops offer all kinds of natural ingredients, equipment and utensils.
A lot of master classes on soap making have been written.
All this can be done with your own hands, a thousand times more useful and cheaper!
Try it and share your results!
Alena Yasneva was with you, good luck to you!
Recently, soap making at home has overwhelmed those who like to do something with their own hands. This fascinating process quickly becomes a hobby. Yes and benefits natural soap much more than a store-bought one, full of chemical components.
Therefore, we suggest learning how to make soap yourself. Step by step instructions and the accessible explanation that you will find below will certainly help in this fascinating matter. 
Making soap at home: what do you need?
Soap making is one of the areas of modern Hand made, which involves making useful things yourself. What should you stock up on before you start making soap?
1. Basic foundation. There are three basic options.
- Baby soap, which is grated and is the base for all other ingredients. This option is perfect for those who are starting to try themselves in this business. Having filled your hand, you can move on to other materials.
- Special soap base. It is available for sale in handicraft stores and is a ready-made base for work.
- Soap making professionals use oil and lye preparing soap. The consistency of the future soap will depend on the amount of alkali added.
2. Oil included in the base. You can take any mineral or vegetable. The main task of this component is to nourish and moisturize the epidermis. Alternatively, the following oils are suitable:
- almond;
- castor;
- olive;
- cocoa butter, etc.
3. Flavors. Their role is played by essential oils from fruits and herbs.
When choosing such a flavoring, you should pay attention to the needs of the skin, since, for example: orange oil helps to saturate with vitamins and get rid of cellulite, but tea tree copes well with excess oily skin.
4. Pigment (dye). There are two options for coloring soap:
- food coloring or a special dye for coloring soap, sold in the same craft store;
- natural, herbal decoctions, vegetable and fruit juices come to the rescue here.
5. Auxiliary elements. These include:
- liquids for diluting soap base (milk, water, herbal infusions);
- decorative elements (poppy, flowers);
- scrubbing particles (coffee particles, oatmeal);
- vitamin supplements;
- glycerol.
6. Equipment for work. These are the dishes in which the soap mass will be boiled and the molds where it will harden.
Fragrance and color additives for homemade soap
- transparent soap base – 0.5 kg;
- chamomile oil – 5 tsp, it is suitable for sensitive skin (you can take another if desired);
- food coloring, ours is blue;
- black or yellow French clay – 1-2 tsp;
- fragrance: choose any essential oil that you like, but since the soap will be in marine theme, then it is better to give preference to fresh ocean aromas;
- alcohol, needed to get rid of bubbles;
- pebbles to create decor;
- Soap mold, we have a square silicone one.
Soap is made according to the instructions below:
- Cut the base. You should get small pieces.
- Place them in a 1 liter jar. Place in a saucepan with water and place on the stove. The base is heated for 25–30 minutes. You can’t let it boil, so you need to monitor the combustion process.
- Add chamomile oil and 45–50 drops of your chosen flavoring to the melted base. Now cast the third part of the base for the lower part with clay, and drop 5 drops of dye into the remaining part. The color saturation will depend on how much dye you add.
- Treat the pebbles with alcohol and lower them to the bottom of the silicone mold.
- Pour the colored liquid into the mold with the stones.
- When the base with stones has hardened, remove it from the mold.
- Carefully remove the pebbles from the soap.
- Pour French clay into the previously cast transparent base.
- Return the blue piece without stones to the mold and pour the base with clay on top.
- As soon as a film appears on top, sprinkle with clay. top part soap
- After 25 minutes, the base will set and the soap can be taken out. Cut it into pieces and you can wash with pleasure.
Homemade clear soap recipe
To make transparent soap from scratch, we prepare:
- Castor oil – 120 g;
- Coconut oil – 150 g;
- Pork fat – 30 g;
- Glycerin – 210 g;
- Alkali – 45.7 g;
- Water – 90 g.
It is prepared like this:
- Very cold water introduce alkali.
- Melt coconut oil and fat, add castor oil.
- When the oils have cooled well, introduce an alkaline solution into them through a sieve.
- Using a mixer, beat all ingredients until smooth.
- Place the mixture in a water bath. Cover with a lid and, stirring occasionally, simmer for 2 hours.
- After this time, use an indicator strip to measure the pH. It should turn light green.
- Now pour in glycerin. Continue simmering until the soap becomes homogeneous. This will happen in approximately 40 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into the mold and leave to harden.
It is not recommended to place clear soap in the refrigerator to harden, as the cold temperature will cause the base to become cloudy.
How to make baby soap at home?
Homemade soap making is becoming increasingly popular today. And this is understandable, because making soap with your own hands is an extremely interesting and profitable process that quickly becomes addictive and turns into a favorite hobby.
Perhaps everyone who has ever tried to make soap at home falls in love with this exciting activity. At first glance, it seems that the cooking is beautiful scented soap It’s very difficult on your own, but in fact everything is very simple. We invite you to get acquainted with this technology and make real homemade soap.
Soap at home - its benefits
There are plenty of reasons to make soap at home. After all, handmade soap is an environmentally friendly and natural product, unique in both form and content. Unlike store-bought soap filled with chemicals, homemade soap does not dry out the skin, but cares for it.
You can add natural additives to it that suit your skin type. This can be a variety of vegetable and essential oils, honey, herbal decoctions, citrus zest, natural coffe, oatmeal, seaweed, flowers, chocolate pieces, loofah, etc. At the same time, you and your loved ones will always be confident in the effectiveness and naturalness of homemade soap, because it, like homemade food, is made with soul and only from high-quality products.
In addition, making soap is a real creative process. The form and content of homemade soap depends only on your imagination. It could be just cute colorful pieces of fragrant soap or a whole work of art. Let's take a closer look at the process of making soap at home.
How to make soap at home
Ingredients for homemade soap. So, to make soap you will need:
Soap base. You can purchase a special clear or white soap base from specialty store or use regular baby soap. White soap base is practically no different from baby soap, except that it has no smell. But a transparent base will allow you to make a very beautiful transparent soap. But for beginners it is better to practice on children's soap.
Base oil – almond, olive, peach, apricot, it can be anything. Essential oil. The choice of oil depends on your skin's needs. For example, tea tree is suitable for oily and problem skin, orange will saturate the skin with vitamins and get rid of cellulite, ylang-ylang will rejuvenate sensitive skin. Dyes. You can purchase special soap dyes or use food coloring. You can also add color to soap using natural products: cocoa, chocolate, fruit and vegetable juice.
Supplements In order to give your soap additional properties, you can add various additives to it: glycerin, cream, honey, herbal infusions, dried flowers. And if you want to make scrub soap, add ground coffee, oatmeal, ground nut shells, etc. Dishes for a water bath. Soap molds. You can use any molds: pastry molds, children's molds, special molds for soap, any plastic or ceramic containers. Alcohol to lubricate the surface of the mold. Warm milk, decoction or water to dilute the base.
How to make soap at home. So, now that everything is prepared, you can start making soap.
The first thing you need to do is cut the soap base into small pieces or grate the baby soap, this will help them melt faster. Now melt the soap base in a water bath, stirring it occasionally. Add base oil to the soap at the rate of 3 teaspoons per 100 grams of base. While the base is melting, it is necessary to occasionally add a little milk or cream to obtain a creamy mass. Instead of milk, you can add a drop of water or a decoction of herbs, but water can cause the soap to separate. It is best to replace water and milk with sugar, this will allow the base to melt faster and better.
When the soap base is completely melted, remove it from the heat and add various ingredients: 5 drops of essential oil, a teaspoon of glycerin, dyes, flavors, coffee and any other ingredients you wish. Now you need to pour the soap into a mold and spray the surface of the soap with alcohol from a spray bottle, this will remove bubbles on the surface. We leave the soap in the molds until it hardens completely; you can put it in the refrigerator or a cool place. After about 2-3 days, the soap will be completely dry and ready for use. We take it out of the molds and show off the result!
Homemade baby soap
Soap making is a very interesting and very exciting process, and a whole book could be written about the benefits of handmade soap.
I made this first soap about two years ago.
Today I can more or less make any soap from a base, I’m learning how to make soap from scratch (but that’s a different story).
For everyone who is interested in this topic, I want to tell you how easy and simple it is to make homemade soap from baby soap.
To be honest, there are no particular difficulties in making soap. Here it is important to learn a few basic rules of technology and use your imagination. And over time, having gained experience, you can become an excellent soap maker.
And now a simple master class for everyone who has decided to try making their first soap from the simplest ingredients.
So, we will make moisturizing milk soap from baby soap.
Compound
You will need 100.0 of the simplest baby soap.
Be sure to pay attention to its composition, it must be without additives, flavorings, or adding cream, otherwise unpleasant moments will arise when making soap, but we don’t need them.
100.0 milk
1 tbsp olive oil
a couple drops of your favorite essential oil (I used cinnamon and vanilla), you can do without it.
1 tbsp honey or sugar
Dishes
First, you will need to build a water bath; to do this, pour water into a larger saucepan and immerse a smaller saucepan in it.
Instead of a small saucepan, I had a heat-resistant colander in which I placed a plastic bowl for melting the soap.
Stick or spoon for stirring.
Metal grater.
And a soap mold, greased with oil.
You can use a silicone muffin mold or a plastic soap jar as a mold. The main thing is that you can get your soap later.
My real soap mold was replaced by a jar of cotton swabs.
We are just starting out, we are trying to make soap, so we don’t have any accessories, we make do with improvised means).
So let's get started.
Preparation
First, let's grate our soap on a fine grater, pour hot milk into it and leave for a couple of hours.
Ideally, overnight in the refrigerator.
Then we put our soap shavings in a water bath heated to 50 degrees. Add honey or sugar (these are melting agents). And stirring periodically, without allowing it to boil, dissolve it until smooth (without lumps). Remove from heat. Add 1 tbsp olive oil and 3 drops of essential oil to the melted base. Stir and pour the mixture into the mold.
Cool it for 15 minutes and then put it in the refrigerator.
When the soap hardens, remove it from the mold. We try to do this carefully by pressing on the bottom of the form. If it is difficult to remove, you can lower the mold into boiling water for a couple of seconds (but make sure that the water does not get on the soap itself), and then resume trying to get the soap out.
Dry the finished soap on paper for 24 hours. This way it will get rid of excess moisture, harden and become suitable for use.
Now pack it away or keep it for personal use. That's it, your first homemade handmade soap is ready!
Approximately the same technology is used to prepare any other soap from baby soap. Just use your imagination, add other oils: coconut oil, apricot oil, rosehip oil, macadamia oil, etc. (in the same proportions), natural dyes and flavors and you will have your own homemade and very healthy soap.