Soap making - master class

For someone, soap making is a pleasant hobby, someone has already managed to turn this hobby into a small home business. But definitely soap making has become a fashionable trend and almost every needlewoman sooner or later buys its first base and jars of fragrant oils. For beginners, ideas, recipes for handmade soaps are worth their weight in gold. We will get acquainted with them in this article.

Soap from the ground up with your own hands

The first we will consider the method of creating soap without the technique of heating the substrate. This is the so-called cold process of creating soap from scratch.

1. Here we will use alkali, water and a whole complex of very different butters (solid oils) and liquid oils, aromatic oils and colorants.
2. First, we connect the alkali with water at the indicated temperature. Do not be afraid of this process, but safety and protection in the form of gloves are mandatory. Once you have mixed the alkaline base and added a mixture of oils, the saponification process has started, as a result, the alkali will not be present in the final product.
3. Next, your task is to dissolve the solid butter and add liquid oils. Always watch the temperature, so as not to overheat the ingredients and do not bring to a boil.
4. Introduce the water-alkaline mixture and stir constantly. Next, add flavor additives and dyes as desired.
5. For complete dissolution, we will use a special mini mixer for soap making.
6. In the end, we need to add so-called additives so that the thickening process starts and a "trace" begins to form.
7. That's what the "trace" actually looks like.
8. For the next stage of soap making, we will need shapes by ourselves. Here you can use both small molds made of silicone, and long baths.
9. Soap is poured and on top is decorated with a variety of elements.
10. After aging for about a couple of days, you can get ready-made fragrant soap and cut it into portions.
11. Here is a soap assortment you get as a result.

Master class on soap making for beginners: we make gifts

Soap making from scratch by their own hands is usually chosen by those who are already in the subject for a while. Beginners usually prefer not to start from scratch, but use ready-made soap bases. It is sufficient to melt them, fill them with useful and odorous additives, and then pour into the mold. Consider this option of soap making step by step.

1. So, dyes and other additives are ready. Soap base we will be drowning in the microwave: approximately in a minute and a half, every 30 seconds we take out and mix.
2. You can not overheat the substrate. When it goes into a liquid state, add dyes and other additives. You can use natural tinting substances such as spices and spices, some use very few food colors.
3. Then pour a ready-to-use soap mixture into the silicone mold.
4. We will cut out the curly pieces from it, because in advance we put one of the molds in the container: it's easier to determine the required level of filling.
5. Approximately in 15 minutes you can accurately get a frozen soap.
6. Cut out the figured pieces from it.
7. Decorating our gifts will be ribbons or any other ribbons. The hole is made with a wooden skewer.
8. Here such markers or stamps are good for wishes.
9. At this master-class gift soap has been completed.

Master class: soap making with exfoliating effect

And at last we will consider a master class of soap making for beginners with loofah. Lufu is appreciated for its ability to gently exfoliate dead skin cells and make it soft.

1. That's loofah.
2. We will cut it into small rings like a loaf.
3. Now about the basics. In this case, a white base for soap is used, which we will drown in the microwave. From useful-fragrant ingredients we will use honey, coconut shavings, flavor coconut.
4. Melt the base for soap and filled it with all the ingredients.
5. Then we lower there the cut slices of loofah and leave them for impregnation. So you avoid the emptiness with the finished soap.
6. We take out the loofah and put it on the forms.
7. In the soap mixture, add coconut chips and fill it with molds. The soap is ready!