Soap is a skin cleaning tool. Most often, purchased soap has an alkaline environment, which harms the skin, causing peeling and itching. That is why soap -making at home is a way to provide yourself with natural soap, which favorably affects the skin.
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There are three main ways to prepare a detergent:
from the washing base;
from children's soap;
from alkalis and fat.
The easiest way to cook a homemade detergent of baby soap. When you master a simple cooking technology, you can proceed to more complex options.
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For preparation, grate the baby soap on a fine grater and pour on this basis hot water, milk or a decoction of herbs. Put the container with chips in a water bath and drown the mass for 20-30 minutes. After time, the chips will turn into a plastic mass, similar to a very thick sour cream. In this mixture you can put coffee grains, oatmeal and favorite essential oils. Pour the resulting composition according to the forms and put on the cold for 1-2 hours. The more natural ingredients in soap, the faster you need to use it. The product is not intended for long -term storage.
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If you cook soap to give it to friends, you can resort to the use of bright dyes and make a multilayer bar. Such a soap looks just amazing. When adding lavender oil, ylang-ylang and jasmine, the product will smell excellent. For the smell, you can add the zest of lemon and even its juice. Warn friends not to be stored for a long time, otherwise it will be covered with mold.
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Soapworking at home will make friends and relatives very useful and natural gifts. In addition, people with sensitive and prone to peeling cannot use conventional detergents. Homemade soap of its own preparation is suitable for caring for children and problem skin.
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You can prepare fragrant bars from the soap base. It can be purchased in the store "Everything for Hand Made." Sometimes such funds are sold in large hypermarkets. But if you do not want to buy a mass with an unknown composition, then you can cook soap "from scratch". At the same time, it is worthwhile to understand that to obtain a bar of soap you will need alkali, natural oils and wax. It is necessary to adhere to all safety rules when working with an alkaline solution. It is added to “deceit” vegetable or animal fat. Without alkali, you can’t cook soap!
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To prepare a fragrant bar, prepare a solution of alkali and mix it with fat. Put the mixture on the fire and cook for about 1 hour. Add essential oils, decoctions of herbs, dyes and white clay. Pour the mass into molds and cool it.
Do not be lazy, please yourself and loved by fragrant home soap from natural products. And your skin will tell you “Thank you!”.