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Soap Making for Beginners: Deliciously Simple Do-It-Yourself Soaps Recipes: Make Homemade Natural and Organic Soaps from Healthy Herbs, Essential Oils, Spices and Other All-Natural Ingredients Today
Are you looking for a method for crafting soap while at home? Then keep reading…There’s no better way to understand something than to make it, but without background knowledge you can sometimes feel a bit lost. Which is why I can’t teach you how to make soap without first answering the fundamental What is soap?
Put simply, when lye water is added to oils, there is a chemical reaction called saponification. Just as your elementary school vinegar and baking soda volcano eruption demonstrated a chemical reaction when two ingredients came together to make something completely different, the saponification process is a chemical reaction between fatty acids (oils, butters, fats) and sodium hydroxide (lye) that makes something soap. Recipes are developed with the goal of using all the lye during saponification so that no lye remains in the final soap product.
People have been making soap for centuries. Farmers would use every part of their animals, including the fat, to make things like candles and soap. Later, certain regions became famous for their olive oil and laurel berry oil soaps.
The benefits of from-scratch soapBefore you dive into any new project, it’s helpful to understand the benefits of what the project will provide. When it comes to soapmaking, there are huge benefits to making your own from scratch.
This is the most important benefit for me and my family. When you make your own soap from scratch, you know exactly what is going into it. You make the decisions on what is healthy for your skin and for the skin of those you love. No processing procedure or ingredients (ingredients that the government determines to be “generally recognized as safe” and thus do not need to be listed on a label) are getting into your soap because you are in full control.
If you want to be healthy, buying premade organic and premium products can become really expensive. When you make your own, there is an initial cost to the ingredients, but once you have them on hand, you can make enough soap for family and friends and still have ingredients left over to make lotions, lip balms, and other bath and body products.
One of the reasons I started my company, simple life mom, was because I wanted to learn how to make more of what we use on a daily basis. I value being able to have the choice to buy or make my own products. Soap, shampoo bars, shaving bars, laundry bars—these are all things that we use on an almost daily basis and that we can create ourselves.
There is something very exciting about making a beautiful batch of soap with your own hands. It’ll get you hooked, in a good way. My first batches were made with makeshift molds, and the results were funky shapes and sizes. I still couldn’t have been prouder. I was like a little girl making her first batch of cookies. I still feel the same way today.
Learning a marketable skillMany people today are searching for pure and natural bath and body products. Who knows? You could end up starting a very successful home business, just as I did.
Put simply, when lye water is added to oils, there is a chemical reaction called saponification. Just as your elementary school vinegar and baking soda volcano eruption demonstrated a chemical reaction when two ingredients came together to make something completely different, the saponification process is a chemical reaction between fatty acids (oils, butters, fats) and sodium hydroxide (lye) that makes something soap. Recipes are developed with the goal of using all the lye during saponification so that no lye remains in the final soap product.
People have been making soap for centuries. Farmers would use every part of their animals, including the fat, to make things like candles and soap. Later, certain regions became famous for their olive oil and laurel berry oil soaps.
The benefits of from-scratch soapBefore you dive into any new project, it’s helpful to understand the benefits of what the project will provide. When it comes to soapmaking, there are huge benefits to making your own from scratch.
This is the most important benefit for me and my family. When you make your own soap from scratch, you know exactly what is going into it. You make the decisions on what is healthy for your skin and for the skin of those you love. No processing procedure or ingredients (ingredients that the government determines to be “generally recognized as safe” and thus do not need to be listed on a label) are getting into your soap because you are in full control.
If you want to be healthy, buying premade organic and premium products can become really expensive. When you make your own, there is an initial cost to the ingredients, but once you have them on hand, you can make enough soap for family and friends and still have ingredients left over to make lotions, lip balms, and other bath and body products.
One of the reasons I started my company, simple life mom, was because I wanted to learn how to make more of what we use on a daily basis. I value being able to have the choice to buy or make my own products. Soap, shampoo bars, shaving bars, laundry bars—these are all things that we use on an almost daily basis and that we can create ourselves.
There is something very exciting about making a beautiful batch of soap with your own hands. It’ll get you hooked, in a good way. My first batches were made with makeshift molds, and the results were funky shapes and sizes. I still couldn’t have been prouder. I was like a little girl making her first batch of cookies. I still feel the same way today.
Learning a marketable skillMany people today are searching for pure and natural bath and body products. Who knows? You could end up starting a very successful home business, just as I did.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2020
About the author
Laura Garner
21 books8 followers"... a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction, intelligent and funny." -- Michael Palmer, New York Times bestselling author
"... writes confidently, with plenty of attitude and humor -- but her distinctive voice is enriched by a loving hand that gives her story unexpected depth. She makes you care deeply about her characters and the conflicting currents of their flawed lives." -- Katy Munger, author of the Casey Jones series
"... a character study of considerable style and merit. A fine little book teeming with its own small but important truths." -- Ed Gorman, author of the Sam McCain series
A writer since she was able to hold a crayon, Laura Garner finally got around to publishing her first novel, "Ain't Nobody's Bizness," in 2002. She followed up quickly with a sequel, "I Ain't Superstitious" (2004), then got flattened by Lyme disease for a while.
Currently Laura's working on "Ball 'n' Chain," the third mystery in the Maddie Maxwell series, and on a "showmance."
Laura earned undergraduate degrees in theater and music back in the 1970s, then received her MA in professional writing in 2005. She lives at Wits End with her husband and cat.
"... writes confidently, with plenty of attitude and humor -- but her distinctive voice is enriched by a loving hand that gives her story unexpected depth. She makes you care deeply about her characters and the conflicting currents of their flawed lives." -- Katy Munger, author of the Casey Jones series
"... a character study of considerable style and merit. A fine little book teeming with its own small but important truths." -- Ed Gorman, author of the Sam McCain series
A writer since she was able to hold a crayon, Laura Garner finally got around to publishing her first novel, "Ain't Nobody's Bizness," in 2002. She followed up quickly with a sequel, "I Ain't Superstitious" (2004), then got flattened by Lyme disease for a while.
Currently Laura's working on "Ball 'n' Chain," the third mystery in the Maddie Maxwell series, and on a "showmance."
Laura earned undergraduate degrees in theater and music back in the 1970s, then received her MA in professional writing in 2005. She lives at Wits End with her husband and cat.
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