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Making Soap From Scratch

Soap Making, particularly if you are making soap from scratch, can be a relatively inexpensive and rewarding hobby but that is not the only reason people consider making their own soap!

Soap Recipes

Although you can create your own soap recipes with the assistance of a soap calculator, when you are learning the craft it is much easier to use someone else's recipe until you completely understand the process.

Opaque Soap Recipes

The beauty of good basic opaque soap recipes is that you can change your soap very easily by varying the fragance and color or by adding additional ingredients after trace to change the texture of your soap.

Cold Process Soap Making

Cold process soap making is one of the methods for making soap from scratch.

Soap Making Methods

There are four basic soap making methods, although died in the wool soap makers think of a couple of them as cheating and as a result do not count them!

Melt and Pour Soap Making

If you want your soap making to be a family activity, melt and pour soap making is probably the best method for you.

Soap Making Entrepreneur

This is not your typical sales page. Although you will come across several opportunities to order 'Soap Making Entrepreneur' as you scroll down the page, DO NOT BUY IT unless you seriously want to start a soap making business.

Soap Making Blog

Welcome to Suds Monthly - Your Soap Making Blog! This is the place to be if you want to watch the Making-Soap-from-Scratch website is growing and evolving.

Soap Making Safety Tips

Before you start measuring out your ingredients, for your own good, please take the time to look over this page of soap making safety tips! Soap making can be a safe and rewarding hobby, but it can also be a very dangerous past-time if you do not respect the ingredients and the process.

Soap Making Safety Equipment

Making soap from scratch is perfectly safe, providing you handle your chemicals carefully and take a few safety precautions, like using soap making safety equipment. The main dangers of both the hot and cold process soap making methods are the normal dangers of working with hot materials in the kitchen plus the dangers of working with caustic soda.

Soap Making Equipment

As you will be working with chemicals, your soap making equipment should be made of stainless steel, glass (pyrex) or unchipped enamel, or you might just experience some unexpected results from your soap making efforts!

Soap Making Utensils

As a soap maker it is advisable to keep your soap making utensils spearate from the utensils you normally use in your kitchen, particularly if you are making your soap from scratch.

Soap Making Questions

When I first started as a soap maker, I have lots of soap making questions but no one that I could ask for the answers!

Making Soap

Making soap is an interesting if sometimes frustrating hobby, and as you begin the learning process you will find that soap is not just soap!

Castile Soap Recipes

Looking for Castile Soap Recipes? In English speaking countries the term 'Castile Soap' is used to describe soaps made exclusively from vegetable oils. But most often, the term is generally used to describe soaps make either exclusively or predominantly from Olive Oil.

Equipment for Soap Making

If you are going start making your own soap, you are going to need do a bit of research on the necessary equipment for soap making.

Soap Making Molds

No matter which soap making method you decide to use, you are going to need soap making molds to form your bars of soap.

Soap Making Ingredients

On this page you will find an outline of the most commonly used soap making ingredients, with links to more detailed on each of the different categories of ingredients.

Carrier Oils for Soap Making

One of main the types of ingredients in hand made soap are carrier oils. The most commonly used carrier oils in soap making are Olive Oil, Coconut OIl and Palm Oil, but these oils are not your only choices.

Soap Making Supplies

Are you looking for Soap Making Supplies? On this page I have listed most of the online soap supplies outlets that I have found

Soap Making Books

If you are considering making soap from scratch, investing a bit of cash in some good soap making books is a really good idea!

The Everything Soapmaking Book

If you are just starting out as a soap maker, and you are looking for reference material The Everything Soapmaking Book would be a good choice.

Soap Making Business

Would you like to turn your hobby into a soap making business?

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Making Homemade Glycerine Soap

Although all homemade soaps contain glycerin (a naturally occuring component of the fats and oils used in soap making), when most soap makers are talking about making homemade glycerine soap what they actually mean is making transparent soap.

Glycerine Soap Recipes

To make homemade glycerin soap you will need to get out your favourite glycerine soap recipes!

Making Laundry Soap

Making laundry soap is not only cost effective, it can also be a lot of fun!

Rebatching Soap

Rebatching soap is a method of 'remaking your soap'. Basically you grind up existing bars of soap, adding water or milk and reblending before decanting into molds.

Soap Making Troubleshooting

One of the nice things about making soap is that a disaster does not have to stay that way! With a little bit of soap making troubleshooting, just about any 'bad' batch can be saved or re-invented by re-batching your soap.

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