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Making Natural Soap at Home.
The first question you may have is; what does natural soap have to do
with herbs? Herbs are used to enhance and beautify the end
product. With a little study, and soap making know how, you
can make a custom bar of pure and organic soap specifically
for your personal needs. In the pages that follow I'm going
to explain the entire process, with
a twist that makes it easy.
How to make ‘REAL’ natural soap,
in your Blender,
for NEW soap makers.
IT IS VERY
IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND
THIS
ENTIRE
WEB SITE SECTION,
BEFORE
YOU
ATTEMPT TO MAKE SOAP IN YOUR BLENDER.
Please
adhere to all safety procedures,
on this web site and/or in the eBook,
as well as with all equipment used.
Also, please understand that - just because this method of soap making
is quick and easy - it is not necessarily 'safe'. You will be
working with active lye and must understand that lye burns could be the
result of carelessness or accident.
The author of this revised and refined method of soap making, Sandy
Marie deFerbrache,
and/or any of our Affiliates,
are not responsible
for injuries you may sustain, from this, or any soap making
methods.
Soap
making is done at your own risk.
This web site does contain some information on caring for
lye burns;
we strongly advise that your family doctor be contacted in
all cases of accident or injury.
It
is
theorized that natural soap was discovered around the cooking fires of
ancient people.
What makes soap is oils and / or fats, lye and water. Seeing
as lye is created by slowly dripping water through ash the cooking
fires are the logical first place that soap would have appeared.
From this humble beginning came the old world ‘Soap Boilers’ that
created soap for their community. It was discovered that hard
wood ash produced better lye and the
old world procedures for making the lye to make natural soap are
detailed
here. Please take the time
to read this information - it's very informative.
To ‘test’ their lye water a person puts a raw potato or raw
egg into
the water. If at least a quarter of it floats above the lye
water - the lye water is ready for soap making.
Keep in mind that measuring lye to make soap is a relatively new thing
brought to us by the wonders of science. The old method was
strictly by chance with a ‘knowing’ of what the cooking product was
supposed to look like. If the oils were not reaching trace or
were separating - more lye water would be added. If chunks of
soap started floating to the top too soon - more oils or fats were
added. It was this ‘eye ball’ method that produced the soaps
so harsh that they could take a layer of skin off (usually this was
soap made by housewives that didn't do this for a living).
Unfortunately there are still many people that remember this ‘old’ soap
and still shy away from even trying hand made soaps.
As the ‘science’ of soap making became more clear - learning
the SAP
(saponification) values of oils and how to create perfectly
measured
lye water - the ‘fun’ of natural soap making emerged and this became a
craft
that people could more easily learn and do. Two basic methods
emerged - hot process (hp), which cooks the soap until it is totally
ready, and cold process (cp), which just brings the batch to trace and
then allows time to finish it. Both of these methods have
their pros and cons.
Hot process produces a bar of soap that you could use the moment you
are done, but its sometimes a little sticky and it does not yield well
to fancy soaps as you need to push it into soap molds rather
fast. It's also easy to ‘miss’ a step in the
process and therefore more ‘ugly’ soaps are produced.
Cold process soap must sit for 2 - 3 weeks allowing time to finish the
bar of soap. This process is nice as you can pour it into
fancy molds and as it sets up you have ‘pretty’ soap.
Naturally, the draw back is that you have to wait to use it.
The basic concept of making natural soap in your blender was first
developed by
Joyce Chance in April, 1995. Ms. Chance agreed to share her
new soap making technique with Elaine C. White who posted it on her web
site (http://members.aol.com/oelaineo/blender.html).
Unfortunately the site was closed in October of 2008. There
are now other web sites that describe the base process, however most of
the sites I've found are directed to people who are experienced with
soap making in the more traditional ways.
I worked with this method for several years, changing it, and
developing it into a tool for NEW soap makers. I then took
my, new revised,
method on the road teaching hundreds of people how to
safely make soap at home. And yes, this is 'real' soap.
I am VERY pleased to bring this method to you. You will find
full safety and set up information, and complete step-by-step
instructions, with pictures, to help you be successful with your very
first batch. You will also find all the information you need
to help you create your own recipes, and valuable information on the
oils and additives for soap making. You will even find
valuable information on 'where' to buy supplies and several links to
product retailers.
Did you find what you
were looking for?
Original
Text
Copyright © 2004, by Sandy Marie deFerbrache, Second
Printing 2007, Web Site Adaptation 2009. Original Photographs
Copyright © 2004, by Sandy Marie deFerbrache, New Photographs
2007. All Rights Reserved.
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All
information, shared on
this web site, is for enjoyment and study only and is NOT meant to
diagnose or treat any medical condition. Only your
health care professional is qualified to diagnose or treat medical
conditions. Do not risk your health! Just because
something is 'natural' does NOT make it safe. Do not, under
any
circumstance, ingest or use herbs in any form
without consulting your Doctor. If you do, you do so
at
your OWN RISK.
Web Site
Content (text, graphics, look and feel) are Copyright Protected © All
Rights Reserved 2009, Sandy Marie.
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