Making soap is very simple and easy if you follow the proper steps, and by making them homemade we can choose the ingredients that we want so that it has the fragrance that we like the most.
Four methods used to make soap.
When making homemade soaps you can use four different methods. These methods are very basic, but they will help you a lot:
- Melt and pour: Melting pre-made block soaps can be useful, just add your favorite fragrance and cool.
- cold process: This is the most common method, making soap from scratch with oils and lye.
- hot process– This is a variation of the cold process method, in this case the soap is cooked in a crockpot or oven.
- Replenishment: consists of grinding bars of soap that are about to run out and adding milk or water to mix again.
How to make the best homemade soap?
He cold process is your best allyAlthough it takes the most time, to make soap you should start from scratch. With this process we will choose what we want to go into the pot, and we can make it as natural as possible.
To make soap, we must first heat the oils that we want to use in the soap pot until they are approximately 100 degrees, you can use a kitchen thermometer to know the temperature. Slowly add the lye and water mixture, and mix the soap with a mixer until it thickens.
Once the mixture reaches the appropriate thickness, we add the fragrance we want, the color and the additives. We pour into the mold and wait. It usually takes 24 hours to harden, and some 4 weeks to cure before it can be used.
If we do not want a typical square soap we can buy different molds, either with animal shape for the little ones' bathroom, with circular shape or even with themes like Harry Potter either Marvel. You can use any mold.
