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How To Make Soap

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HOW TO MAKE SOAP?

Equipment / Tools

Safety gloves

Safety goggles

Soap pot

Kitchen scale

Glass pitcher

Mason jar with lid

Plastic pitcher with lid

Thermometer

Measuring cups

Spoons

Spatula

Stick blender

Molds

Materials

Lye flakes

Distilled water

Oils (types specified in your recipe)

Fragrance (optional)

Color (optional)

Additives such as flower petals, natural exfoliants, and spices (optional)


PROCEDURE:

1.Measure the Water and Lye

Place a pitcher on the scale and zero out the weight. Add distilled water to the pitcher until it weighs the
amount called for in your specific recipe.

Place a mason jar or plastic pitcher on the scale and zero out the weight. Add the amount of lye called
for in your specific recipe. Close the lid tightly and set it in a safe place.

2.Mix the Water and Lye

Slowly add the lye to the pitcher of water. Do not do it the other way around, and don’t make any
splashes during the pouring. Stir the mixture gently until the lye is dissolved. The mixture will heat up,
which is expected. Immediately rinse the tool you used to mix. Put the lid on the lye-water pitcher and
set it in a safe place away from children, pets, and other adults.

3.Weigh the Oils

Put the soap pot or a glass pitcher onto the scale and zero out the weight. Following your recipe, weigh
the oils one by one into the pot or pitcher. Zero out the weight after you measure each oil. Pour it slowly
—you can always add more, but once the oil has been added, it’s combined in the mixture.

4.Heat and Melt the Oils

Place the soap-making pot with the solid oils on the stove over medium-low heat. Slowly melt the oils
while stirring gently. Monitor the temperature with a thermometer. Turn off the heat when the oils get
to about 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep stirring until all the solid oils are melted.

When the solid oils are melted, add the room temperature liquid oils to the soap pot. This brings down
the overall temperature. You want the oil mixture to be at about 100 degrees Fahrenheit when you add
the lye-water.

5.Add the Lye Solution

Make sure all the soap additives in your recipe, such as color and fragrance, are ready to go. Place all the
spoons, measuring cups, spatulas, and whisks you’re going to need nearby. Once you begin, you need to
move steadily

Grab your handy stick blender but don’t turn it on. Slowly add the lye-water mixture to the soap pot.
The oils will immediately start to turn cloudy. Using the stick blender as a spoon, but not turning it on,
blend the lye-water into the oils. This is the beginning of the saponification process or the chemical
reaction that turns your mixture into soap. Set the lye pitcher aside in a safe place.

6.Mix the Oils and Lye

While stirring the lye water and oil mixture with the stick blender, turn on the blender in short bursts. To
start with, blend for 3 to 5 seconds. Then, turn it off and stir some more. Repeat this process and keep
blending in short bursts until the oils and lye-water are completely mixed. At this point, it is nearing
trace, the indication that emulsification has occurred.
To test if the mixture has reached trace, dip a spoon into the mixture and let it dribble back into the pot.
If this process leaves a track on the spoon, the mixture is ready, even if it isn’t thick yet. If you were to
hand-stir the pot of soap, like soap makers used to do, it might take up to an hour to reach trace. With
the introduction of stick blenders to soap making, the trace can be reached in a few minutes.

7 Add Fragrance or Essential Oils

After the soap mixture is completely blended, but before it gets too thick, slowly add any fragrance or
essential oils from your recipe to the mixture. Stop stick blending the mixture and just use the end of the
stick blender like a spoon.

8 Add Additives or Extras

If your recipe calls for additives such as spices, natural exfoliants, flower petals, herbs, or special
moisturizing oils, now is the time to add them. As you did with the fragrance, gently stir them into the
pot using the stick blender as a spoon. Before you move on to adding the colorant, give the mixture a
brief blend with the stick blender to make sure that the fragrance oil and additives are well mixed.

9 Add Color to the Soap

Next, add color to the soap. If you want the soap to be one single color, add the colorant to the pot and
stir.

10 Pour the Soap Into the Mold

By now the soap has thickened. Pour the raw soap into a mold, using a back and forth motion to spread
the soap evenly. Scrape the last thick bits of soap out of the pot with a rubber spatula. If the top of the
soap in the mold is uneven, smooth it out with the spatula. Pick the mold up and gently tap it on the
countertop to dislodge air bubbles that may have been trapped in the mixture. Set the soap in a warm,
safe place to set up and begin curing.

The soap mixture heats up as the saponification process starts. If the temperature of the room is chilly,
lay a towel around or over the mold to keep it warm and keep the reaction going strong.

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