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14 de feb. de 2024 · This comprehensive guide to cold process soap making will walk you through the steps and supplies needed to create your own all-natural soap.
- Overview
- Preparing to Make Cold Process Soap
- Mixing the Ingredients
- Pouring the Soap
- Curing the Soap
Making soap at home is a satisfying, inexpensive way to provide for your family's needs or create wonderful gifts for your friends. You can make soap using a kit, but making it from scratch enables you to choose your own ingredients and customize the soap to fit your needs. This article provides information on making soap from scratch using the cold process method.
24 ounces of coconut/olive oil
38 ounces of vegetable shortening
12 ounces sodium hydroxide, or lye. (also called caustic soda)
32 ounces spring or distilled water
4 ounces of your favorite essential oil, such as peppermint, lemon, rose or lavender
Cold process soap is made from oils, lye, and water. When these ingredients are combined at the right temperature, they harden into soap in a process called saponification. Go to your local craft store and grocery store to purchase the ingredients listed.
Set up your soap-making workspace.
It's easiest to clear a space in the kitchen since you'll need to heat the ingredients over the stove. You'll be working with lye, a dangerous chemical, so make sure children and pets are not underfoot while you work.
Spread newspaper over a table and assemble the following equipment, which can be sourced online or from your local craft store:
Safety goggles and rubber gloves, to protect you from the lye.
A scale to weigh the ingredients.
Make sure that all of your ingredients are exactly the measurement that it is supposed to be, especially on smaller batches. Use the scale to make sure the measurement is exact, and pour the lye into the two-cup measuring cup.
Measure 32 ounces of cold water.
Use the scale to make sure the measurement is exact, and pour the water into a large, non-aluminum container, such as a stainless steel pot or glass bowl. Use distilled water for the best consistency.
Add the lye to the water.
Place the container of water under your stove's running exhaust fan, or make sure the windows are open and the room is well-ventilated. Add the lye to the water slowly, stirring gently with a spoon until the lye is completely dissolved.
It is very important to add the lye to the water and not the other way around; if you add the water to the lye, the reaction between the two substances is too quick, and may be dangerous.
Pour the soap into your mold.
If you are using a shoebox or wooden mold, make sure it is lined with parchment paper. Use an old plastic spatula to scrape out the last bits of soap from the pot to the mold.
Be sure you are still wearing gloves and safety goggles during this step since raw soap is caustic and can burn skin.
Carefully hold the mold an inch or two above the table and drop it. Do this a few times to work out any air bubbles inside the raw soap.
If you're using a shoebox as a mold, put the lid on it and cover with several towels. If you're using a soap mold, tape a piece of cardboard over the top before adding towels.
The towels help insulate the soap to allow saponification to occur.
Turn the box or mold over and allow the soap to fall on a towel or clean surface.
Cut the soap into bars.
You need to use tension to cut soap of this type. You can use a sharp knife, a length of wire with two handles, or heavy nylon string or fishing line.
Allow the soap to cure.
Set the soap on top of parchment paper on a flat surface or a drying rack for two weeks to allow the saponification process to complete and the soap to fully dry. Turn the soap over after two weeks to let it dry on the other side.
Cure the soap one month.
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