Basically everyone can make their own soap, All you will need is lye, water and a little fat.

Natural homemade soaps are easy to make once you understand the basics.

Once you know the basics, you can start adding new ingredients and make your own combination s depending on what you want and what you need to make.

For those of you who haven't tried making their own soap yet, here is a basic recipe perfect for beginners.

Easy Soap Making(makes under 4.5 lbs of soap)

Ingredients:

16oz Canola Oil

160z Coconut Oil

16oz Palm Oil

6.9oz Lye(5% superfatted)

15.8oz of water

General Instructions:

1.Wear suitable attire. If possible, use safety goggles and gloves.

2.Add lye to the water. Stir carefully making sure you don't inhale the fumes. Set the mixture aside and allow to cool to approximately 110F. If you're not in a well ventilated area, you can put the lye water mixture outside.

3.Add oil the oils together and melt. Allow to cool to approximately 110F or within 5 degrees of the lye water mixture

4.Add the lye water mixture to the melted oil carefully. Stir vigorously until a thin pudding like occurs. This is called trace. A stick blender will help create trace faster. Trace may occur for up to an hour if you're stirring by hand.

5.Once you're done, pour the traced soap into the molds. Take it off the molds after 3 to 5 days and allow to sit for a full 4 to 6 weeks to cure and finish the saponification process.

Additional Information:

*Coconut oil makes big fluffy bubbles. Coconut oil can also be lathered in sea water. Olive oil is good for the skin and gives silky bubbles.

*A different amount of lye is needed to produce soap

*When the temperature of the mixture falls below the melting point, false tracing can happen. It is to be understood as the fat solidifying and not the soap, so it will be safe to keep the temperature around 110-115 degrees F.

*A blender can make the fat molecules and the lye to mix well to reach the trace stage quickly. However, upright blenders can whip air bubbles into the soap. Hand held blenders will make even vegetable oils to trace in a couple of minutes

*The right pH value of a soap should be around 7. If it is higher than that, allow to sit for another week. As soon as lye sits properly, the pH will drop.

There are so many soap recipes out there. You can even improvise and make your own.

You can make soaps with different colors, different scents. You could make soaps with your favorite additive and herbs-you name it, you can do it.

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