Soap Making Lessons - How To Make Soap

I'm going to get Clinique face wash,but I want to know which is more drying to the skin the bar soap or the liquid soap?

I think the bars are pretty smooth and get ur skin soft. but most liquids do too. hmm…tuffy.
i say get the liquid

does anyone know where i can purchase a large qauntitiy of dried flowers and herbs for a decent price without being robbed?i also need soap making supplies cheap.please help.my eyes are tired of searching the internet.

Here are tons of dried flowers to purchase:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=Dried+flowers&category0=

this is my 5th time making soap. i add distilled water to lye, melt the fat, let them both cool to around 95 degrees, mix them, quickly throw in coloring or scent, and pour.

my problem is the scenting - i have used both essential oil and synthetic fragrance. when the soap dries it doesn't keep the smell, and there is an oily residue which i assume is from the oil.

Not sure what your measurements are for you're oils, lye and water mixture - might not hurt to check your recipe using a lye calculator - here's a link to one -http://www.the-sage.com/calcs/lyecalc2.php
It could be your fragrance oils make sure they are soap safe and for use in cp soapmaking.

I would would mix the oils and lye mixture between 100 - 115 degrees and would use a stick blender not an electric hand mixer (two beaters- doesn't work as well) - Using a stick blender will also help you reach trace faster too…I usually add my lye mixture to oils and blend for a couple minutes and then add my color and fragrance before trace and this seems to work for me. I sell my soaps at craft fairs after they've cured for 4 to 8 weeks and the sent seems to last fine.

hope you get it figured out - and enjoy your soaps -
Depending on your completed recipe size - I would use at least 2 oz's of sent for no more than 8 pounds of soap
I wouldn't put the soap in zip lock bags till after 4 weeks of cure time has elapsed as the soap may still sweat and make the soap slimy. I store my soaps in cardboard boxes till ready to sell/use.

Kathy Miller has a page devoted to trouble shooting these occurrences - http://www.millersoap.com/trouble.html

What are the differences between the 2? I cannot get a "real" response besides the crazy hippy saying non natural will kill you and the other crazy greedy business side saying they are better because of some ingredients I cannot pronounce. I know we don't need antibacterial because soap washes away the bad bacteria on our skin. (More like dislodged the bad stuff and dirt down the drain.) So, any scientific answers? Thanks.

I like hand made soap myself. I use it because of the naturally occurring glycerin which stays in the soap. Milled soaps remove the glycerin. I think glycerin is a huge help to keep skin moisturized.

Good luck.

Does any one knows how to make soap by using used cooking oil ???? what`s the formula ?

first you need to strain your cooking oil to get out any food bits in the oil - In order to know how much lye and water you would need to make a successful batch of soap. You need to know what kind of oil you have - canola, soybean, corn oil extra and how much you have — by weight — it is recommended that you use 3 or more oils in your formula for soap making. Once you know how much oil you have you need to plug this information into a reliable lye calculator to determine the amount of lye and water needed. I recommend — the one you can down load from here: http://www.millersoap.com/worksheet.html or one of these two
Majestic Mountain Sage Lye Calculator for Creating Soap Formulas (http://www.the-sage.com/services/calculator.html)

Kym has a lot of great information, but not all the information is there — such as what temp. of oil and lye water should be when ready to mix together…i recommend checking out http://www.millersoap.com in depth before embarking on your new soap making adventures.

Making soap in a crock pot is also called the "hot process" method or "milled" soap.

http://www.mommamuse.com/2006/02/17/instructions-for-making-crock-pot-handmade-soap/

http://www.rainbarrelsoap.com/recipe.htm

http://bellecitysoapworks.com/crockpot_soaps.html

Hope this helps! Good Luck!!

if distilled water used to dissolve the soap, did bubble will occur

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