How to make soap at home

You've decided to skip on this expensive factory made soap while shopping for groceries. Good for you! Only thing left to do is learn how to make soap at home. And there are many ways for making soap in small amounts for personal use. You can make what ever flavor you like and any soap shape you want after you read through these article series. There are some simple rules to follow and of course safety instructions to follow while making soap at home. But the result is home made, naturally flavored, hands made soap.

Reasons to make soap at home?

Ann Bramson writes in her book of soap making “Soap”: “Where the hard pastel-colored bars sold at the drugstore are anonymous and indifferent, homemade soap has character. It charms…it smells good…feels good…is comforting in ways which manufactured soap can never be.” You are about to discover how easy it is to make all natural, your own kind of soap. It is not that hard you might think, actually it is pretty simple process. Just prepare yourself for a real journey into the beautiful reaction of flavors, get ready and go exploring. 

You are just one basic chemical reaction from your soap

Fats or oil, lye plus basic chemical reaction and you get a soap. That's it. How your soap going to look is basically your choice  of ingredients. To make some cookies you need some flour and water. Not a tasty choice of ingredients but still, you can make cookie from those. Same principle goes for soap. Take some nice oils, add some even better essences, some coloring and your soap gets its own taste. Commercial grade soap will never taste perfect, just like you want. But home made soap would. It is you to decide how it smells, soap colors and consistency. So, get going and keep reading to the next article to discover how to make soap at home.