If you are interested in making soap by the handmilled method, then check out this tutorial from Soap Making Supplies and Tutorials.This tutorial explains the basic process involves five simple steps. If you follow each step, youu should be able create your very own rebarched soap.
1. Make a plain soap base from scratch using the cold process method or hot process methtod but do not add any extra essential oils, dyes, or nutrients. In other words, create your initial soap using only the ingredients that actually take part in the saponification reaction.
By the end of this initial stage you should have made a basic, pure, unscented soap base with no other additions. Note that some soap makers do add some of the extra ingredients during the cold process procedure, but most add them later on in the milled soap process.
2. After the soap base is fully hardened, grate it into small pieces and melt in a microwave, crock-pot, or double boiler. You may want to put the grated soap in a heat resistant heavy duty plastic bag so that you can snip off the end for easy dispensing. This also allows you to easily mix the extra nutrients added into the soap by kneading the soap within the bag.
Remember, if you did not wait for the soap to fully cure, it can still be somewhat caustic. So make sure you follow these soap making safety guidelines!
3. Once the soap base is liquefied, add the essential oils, soap dye and various nutrients and mix the concoction until the soap is one solid color.
4. Now pour the soap into a pre-designed soap making mold, or wooden loaf soap mold to harden.
5. After the soap bars are solid, take them out of the mold and lay them on a rack to further cure
Keep in mind that you don't need to do this if you already waited the initial 3-8 weeks for the soap that you made from scratch to completely cure before grating.
6. Before using hand milled soap, or any homemade soap for that matter, always test the PH levels to make sure the soap is completely safe.
1. Make a plain soap base from scratch using the cold process method or hot process methtod but do not add any extra essential oils, dyes, or nutrients. In other words, create your initial soap using only the ingredients that actually take part in the saponification reaction.
By the end of this initial stage you should have made a basic, pure, unscented soap base with no other additions. Note that some soap makers do add some of the extra ingredients during the cold process procedure, but most add them later on in the milled soap process.
2. After the soap base is fully hardened, grate it into small pieces and melt in a microwave, crock-pot, or double boiler. You may want to put the grated soap in a heat resistant heavy duty plastic bag so that you can snip off the end for easy dispensing. This also allows you to easily mix the extra nutrients added into the soap by kneading the soap within the bag.
Remember, if you did not wait for the soap to fully cure, it can still be somewhat caustic. So make sure you follow these soap making safety guidelines!
3. Once the soap base is liquefied, add the essential oils, soap dye and various nutrients and mix the concoction until the soap is one solid color.
4. Now pour the soap into a pre-designed soap making mold, or wooden loaf soap mold to harden.
5. After the soap bars are solid, take them out of the mold and lay them on a rack to further cure
Keep in mind that you don't need to do this if you already waited the initial 3-8 weeks for the soap that you made from scratch to completely cure before grating.
6. Before using hand milled soap, or any homemade soap for that matter, always test the PH levels to make sure the soap is completely safe.
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