How to Make Handmade Soap on Your Own

It is very old. We can say that he is of all the life. To make handmade soap you need 3 main ingredients: oil or fat (or a mixture of different oils and fats), water and sodium hydroxide. If any of them are missing, it will be impossible for us to make our homemade soap. Other ingredients such as honey, oats, essences or aromatic herbs are optional natural additives: they improve the properties of artisan soap or crystal private care soap, but you can make soap without them.

Three main components to make soap (oil / grease + water + sodium hydroxide). All the recipes carry a meticulous calculation of quantities and the components are weighed with exactitude from health and beauty wholesale.

1. Oil / grease.

Olive oil, for example.

It is one of the most used in the elaboration of natural soaps and I have put it here as the most traditional example. But in general, you can use virtually any oil or grease to make soap.

2. Pure Water.

3. Sodium Hydroxide.

First the mold is prepared. Traditionally wooden crates were used for the production of handmade soap. I follow the tradition and for my soaps I use my wooden molds. In the background is usually put a special paper to not spoil the wood.

The sodium hydroxide solution is then prepared in the water. Sodium Hydroxide is a white substance that converts an oil or fat into soap. You have to take certain precautions to work with her (put gloves, cover the work table, etc.). Sodium hydroxide is the obligatory component in the elaboration and can not be suppressed nor replaced by something else. Without Sodium Hydroxide you can not make handmade soap. When sodium hydroxide is dissolved in the water, the mixture becomes very hot and must be allowed to cool to the required temperature (according to each recipe).