Homemade soap: ideas and recipes to make it happen
Staying indoors can be a lot of fun if you can relax by finding new hobbies and experimenting with new passions. If you appreciate natural products, you will have a lot of fun making fantastic home made soap with your own hands, in beautiful colors and in the strangest tastes. Homemade soaps are a nice idea to give to friends, but maybe you may find that you are definitely brought up and with a little imagination start a small craft business!
Soap is a versatile and super useful product: find out everything you can do with it and then roll up your sleeves and get to work!
Why make soap at home
First of all because it is fun and then because you can choose the right ingredients according to your needs and the characteristics of your skin as well as of course to your tastes! By continuing to read, you will discover 3 really tempting recipes that you can't help but try right away. Essential oils, herbs, citrus fruits and 100% natural ingredients: depending on what you put into it, your soap will bring different benefits to the skin but always without the synthetic ingredients present in the industrial soaps that we usually buy.
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The advantage of making soap at home
The advantages of making soap at home are many, first of all natural soaps are free of chemical ingredients that are added industrially to give aromas to cosmetics or to increase the foam effect. Often these chemical ingredients can cause allergies or reactions to delicate skin and making them at home is an excellent solution!
Another benefit is that homemade soap contains glycerin, and glycerin is valuable for our skin! Let's not forget that they are environmentally friendly, made only with natural ingredients and therefore non-polluting, and then they can be customized according to our different needs, we can make them with antibacterial, detox, anti acne, energetic, rebalancing properties ... in short, there really is the spoiled for choice. Do you still want to discover an advantage? Creating home made artisan soaps is a lot of fun. Get the right ingredients and protective gloves, goggles and mask: are you ready to get to work?
The natural anti acne soap
There are many natural ingredients with anti-acne properties, including thyme, clay, turmeric or blue sulfur. To make this operation quick and easy, you can buy the natural base soap online or in specialized stores, a mixture available in both white and transparent colors, depending on the result you want to obtain. Alternatively, the base must also be prepared at home, mixing caustic soda and water in a large and very resistant container. Be careful because the temperature rises! To this combination is then added the oils (coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil) and blended everything with an immersion blender. Done? Now you can go wild and prepare your acne soap simply by adding the main ingredient (for example, thyme, in the form of essential oil) and any dye. Pour into the chosen mold and decorate with a sprig of thyme: let it dry in a cool and dry place for about 4 days and then remove from the mold, cut into the desired shape and keep it away from light and water until complete saponification. It will take 40 days!
A must: the olive oil soap
Olive oil is precious for our skin and manages to integrate our lipid reserves, immediately giving it a healthy and soft appearance. Olive oil covers the skin with a protective patina and is excellent in winter to protect the skin from the cold. You can prepare an excellent olive oil soap by adding 1 liter of virgin olive oil heated to the same temperature as the mixture to your natural base (or to the home made mixture of water and caustic soda). Stir until the mixture takes on consistency and then pour into the mold waiting for it to solidify.
Fill up with energy with orange soap!
Vitamin C is rich in benefits for our skin and has a precious energizing action. You can add orange juice (or a mix of citrus fruits, such as lemon, mandarin and orange) to your natural base and proceed in the usual way, pouring into the mold and waiting for it to be completely cold and solidify in 4 days and then for it to soap. in about a month. For this version you will get splendid results by decorating with dried citrus slices and favoring a transparent natural base.
Molds and decoration ideas for natural soap
Unleash your imagination and create soaps of all shapes and sizes. In addition to the classic shapes to be cut into squares, you can let yourself be inspired by what you have at home, using the molds for sweets, chocolates and even the small ones that you normally use for ice cubes in the freezer!
Remember to enrich your home made natural soap with pieces of dried and fresh fruit, spices, such as poppy or sesame seeds that will give a beautiful effect and will also perform a delicate scrub function! Creating handmade soaps is fun and pleasant: and when they are ready, use them to decorate your bathroom and embellish them with colored ribbons to amaze friends with a super personalized and original gift.
An important note: always choose a well-ventilated place to get to work and comply with safety regulations.
