Martha B. McKay - Homemade Soap Recipes: Learn Simple DIY Soap Recipes Step By Step Using All-Natural Ingredients, Essential Oils, Herbs And Much More

Homemade Soap Recipes

Learn Simple DIY Soap Recipes Step By Step Using All-Natural Ingredients, Essential Oils, Herbs And Much More

By Martha B. McKay

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Introduction

A s you have probably already noticed, some of the basic items you have in your home can easily bust your budget. However, today, you are going to learn something new that can stop soaps from being one of those items.

You wonder how? Well, you can make all kinds of soap bars from all-natural ingredients in your home for the smallest fraction of the cost.

What is even more exciting is that you can truly enjoy the process. You might find that your soap making hobby can turn into a business at some point.

Preparing natural, homemade soap recipes are an amazing DIY craft that you can prepare from the coziness of your home.

Before we delve deeper into the soap recipes and the instructions on how to make the bars, there are several important things that should be mentioned. These are regarding the process of making soaps such as supplies and equipment you will need and. of course. some safety tips and tricks to help avoid any potentially dangerous situations.

Chapter One: Soap Making Basics

B efore you get started , you should invest some time into familiarizing yourself with the most commonly used methods of homemade soap making.

It should be pointed out that some of these methods are easier, and therefore, more suitable for beginners when compared to other methods generally used.

No matter which method you choose, you must read all the instructions listed for each recipe as well as take all necessary safety precautions.

This is extremely important when making soap recipes which use lye that can burn your skin or irritate your eyes when handled improperly.

Nonetheless, making your own soap from the ease of your home is pure fun; an extremely fulfilling activity which lets you explore your creative side.

As a matter of fact, there are so many different satisfying things about using your own soap bar, one of which is you know for sure it will be gentle to your skin.

Whether you are looking for more natural alternatives to soaps you can buy at local stores or you are looking forward to exploring your creative side, soap making is always fun and never too challenging as long as you read the instructions carefully and stick to them.

As you explore your innovative side, you get to create something unique, a character which commercial soaps lack.

Homemade soaps are also charming; they feel good, they smell good, and they nurture your body in a truly comforting way that commercially manufactured soaps cannot.

Actually, there are plenty of reasons to embrace this hobby, to explore your crafty side, and to make your own all-natural soap bars.

First of all, making soaps at home is less wasteful, especially when it comes to the paper-packaged and plastic-packaged stuff you purchase at your local store.

Additionally, homemade soaps can be produced with all-natural ingredients and amazing fragrances, which are better for your health as opposed to commercially manufactured soaps, which contain everything, but natural fragrances and ingredients.

Moreover, by engaging in homemade soap making, you save some bucks, which is always a huge plus.

The Origin of Soap

I n this section of the book, we take a look at how soap bars are made. In their essence, soap bars are certain combinations of either plant oil or animal fat with caustic soda. When soap bars get dissolved in water, they break dirt away from all kinds of surfaces.

Through many ages now, soap bars have been used to cleanse as well as cure skin. In some cultures, soaps have also been used as a skin ointment. Today, we use them mostly as skin cleansers.

Regarding the exact origin of soap bars, it is yet to be uncovered even though many experts believe that ancient Roman civilizations invented the process of making soaps sometime around 600 B.C.

What we know for sure is that soap bars were also manufactured by many other civilizations such as the Celts. Besides its main purpose, soaps were used throughout the entire Roman empire as medicines while mentions of soap bars as skin cleansers do not emerge until the second century A.D.