How to cook soap at home

Recently, homemade soap-making is becoming more popular. Made of natural ingredients soap obtained environmentally friendly and useful for the skin. There are two variants of the preparation of soap. In the first case, the soap base is done by hand, but you have to work with alkali and comply with precise instructions. The simplest option - soap-making using the finished soap base. For those who decided to cook the soap for the first time, it is better to opt for the second method, which is the technology described in this article.

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 Choosing ingredients

professionals add  soap in a variety of components,  according to what type of skin is intended soap. The main components include:

1. Soap base. For homemade ideal option considered simple children's soap. In its structure there are glycerin, lanolin, natural oils that moisturize the skin and soothe irritation. For soap making is better to choose unscented soap.
2. The base oil, which improves the quality of the soap. The most popular jojoba oil, olive oil, peach.
3. Special  or food dyes etc.to give a saturated color, as well as fruit juice and vegetables, chocolate.
4. Additives are used depending on the recipe. As additional ingredients can take honey, dry  grass and flowers, cream, coffee grounds.

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Inventory

In addition to these ingredients, need for soap making:

1. Grater. It is better to choose the grater, where the chips get smaller.
2. Pan  of iron.
3. Two plates. One plate of glass or porcelain  to the water bath,  plate must be in the pot. another dish  need to melt the butter.
4. Knife to cut the soap.
5. A few spoonfuls.
6. Forms to fill buy in a specialty store, or you can use  disposable cans, baking dish.

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Instruction

Process soap making any soap consists of the following steps:

1. Rub baby soap on a grater.
2. In a saucepan on the plate pour water. After the water boils, put a chip plate in it. The edges of the plate should not be poured with water.
3. Periodically stir the mass, soap should not boil.
4. When all chips dissolve, add  3 Tea spoons of oil per 100 g of chips, half a glass of hot milk or water.
5. Later  add additional ingredients according to the recipe: Herbs, Flowers, Honey or Chocolate. Cook the resulting composition a few more minutes.
6. We remove the plate with water bath, then add essential oil, dye.
7. Transfix  hot soap mix  in forms. Moreover, you can combine different colors, as a result, beautiful curls are obtained.
8. We put the form in the refrigerator in order for soap to become solid. When soap finds out, get it out of the molds and leave for drying from two to seven days.

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Recipe massage coniferous soap

Natural coniferous soap is one of the most useful. It gently cleanses the pores, displays toxins. Also coniferous soap has exfoliating, soothing and bactericidal properties. To create this soap you will need:

1. 100 g of soap or soap base, better transparent;
2. Grinding spikes and pines - 1 teaspoon;
3. Loofah;
4. Alcohol;
5. Fir essential oil;
6. Green dye;
7. Molds.

The cooking technology is the same as for ordinary soap. In the process of cooking, we embarked a cheva or add coniferous decoction instead of water. At the end of the cooking, add fir oil and dye. Spill in molds with loupe. Top splashing with alcohol.

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Recipe for cherry soap

Cherry soap has a pleasant fragrance, makes skin silky. Compound:

1. Transparent soap base - 100 g.
2. Rosehip butter, fukus, grape bone, roses. Each oil is 1/3 teaspoon.
3. Freshly squeezed cherry juice - 10-20 ml.
4. Sugar - 1/2 teaspoon.
5. Dyes: pink, red, burgundy.

In the melted soap base, we pour heated cherry juice with sugar, add oil and mix thoroughly. We break the mixture of three glasses and each add different dye to each. Then pour soap from glasses by molds, mixing colors.

No special skills are required for soap. A variety of recipes, forms, additives makes the process of fascinating and interesting.