Trying out new soap designs is a lot of fun. Here are some beautiful design techniques for cold process and melt and pour soap.
Find great inspiration and recipes for cold process soap that are sure to inspire you to make your own. Great recipes with skin loving ingredients.
This activated charcoal soap recipe makes for a gentle yet purifying bar of soap. Used as a facial soap or great as a homemade gift!
Learn the marble design technique for cold process soap making in this short video. What fragrance to use and how to choose colors.
Here are some common soapmaking additives that you can use when soapmaking. The usage rates are provided as a suggested starting point. You can use more or less depending on your desired result.
This simple cold process soap recipe has it all—lovely lather, long lasting bar, well moisturizing. It makes an amazing bar of soap, but takes just two oils that you can buy at the grocery store. It's the perfect starter recipe for beginning cold process soap makers. You can hone your soap making skills with simple,
Learn how to make this sea salt, beach inspired cold process soap perfect for any season. How to make summer cold process soap. DIY cold process soap with colloidal oatmeal and kaolin clay. This is a gorgeous clamshell technique design cold process soap to make at home. Cold process soap DIY techniques and cold process soap design ideas. Cold process soap free recipe and DIY. Cold process soapmaking video DIY with full recipe and lots of instructions.
A super bubbly homemade soap with great cleansing and moisturizing properties. Once you try this recipe, it will be all you want to use!
Overheating Soap Every soapmaker will come across overheating issues at one time or another. Maybe you get in a hurry and mix your soap when the oils and lye are too hot. Or perhaps you purchase a new mold and over insulate it. It happens to
This article is a comparison between hot process and cold process soap making. Although there are similarities, and they are both methods for making handmade soap, there are important differences to know about. Here’s a look at the two methods so you can decide for yourself which is best for you.
Learn how to make cold process soap with natural oils and lye in this simple tutorial and find out how this differs from hot process slow cooker soap.
This tutorial will help you make your own gentle soap at home and provides soap making resources for newbies to DIY cold process soap. CP soap making help with a basic recipe.
This lemon balm cold process soap recipe is soft and rich. It has a bright lemon-mint fragrance and is naturally coloured with turmeric and green mica.
A super bubbly homemade soap with great cleansing and moisturizing properties. Once you try this recipe, it will be all you want to use!
Homemade cold-pressed chamomile soap recipe. This is a great recipe if it is your first time making a soap bar using lye.
Rose is traditionally known as the scent of love, but has other benefits too. Make this cold process rose soap recipe for a healthy, natural scented rose soap.
I really love to embed soap within soap as you have much more control over the outcome of a specific look you are going for. Here I have embedded thin (1/4") sliced logs of cold process soap into a full log of soap. You get nicely defined decorative elements that are showcased when embedded in a larger loaf of soap. You can also so this using individual molds, but must make sure that the embed is not completely buried by the surrounding soap. The above two soaps were created using a two step process. First the embeds were made by using an "In The Pot" swirling technique then poured into my 15" silicone log mold - unscented. I did not fill the whole mold, but instead formulated to fill it about 2/3 full. Allowed that to sit for 24 hours to set before removing it from the mold. After 24 hours (this time is dependent on your formulation - mine sets up pretty firm after 24 hours), it is removed from the mold and sliced into 6 long pieces lengthwise.
One of the questions that I get asked most often is, "How do I make my soap harder?" Here are a few ideas to get you started. It really takes experimenting to find what works best for your recipe.
Learn how to make Summer Fig cold process soaps using the hanger swirl technique and get gorgeous designs. How to make summer cold process soap. DIY cold process soap with colloidal oatmeal and kaolin clay. This is a gorgeous hanger swirl technique design cold process soap to make at home. Cold process soap DIY techniques and cold process soap design ideas. Cold process soap free recipe and DIY. Cold process soapmaking video DIY with full recipe and instructions.
Learn how to make this gorgeous iced vanilla woods cold process soap perfect for any season. How to make winter and fall cold process soap. DIY cold process soap with colloidal oatmeal and kaolin clay. This is a gorgeous in the pot swirl design cold process soap to make at home. Cold process soap DIY techniques and cold process soap design ideas. Cold process soap free recipe and DIY. Cold process soapmaking video DIY with full recipe and lots of instructions. Free cold process soap recipe.
Find great inspiration and recipes for cold process soap that are sure to inspire you to make your own. Great recipes with skin loving ingredients.
This natural soap recipe was inspired by a trip to my local apple orchard on a beautiful fall day. It features freshly pressed apple cider (unsweetened apple juice could work well too), along with the subtle warm spicy scent of essential oils.
Using a whisk is a great way to add texture or peaks to the top of cold process soap. Simply wait for the soap to thicken up a bit and lightly dip the tip of a whisk into the soap and raise it up. A couple people on my Facebook page said they use a mini-whisk!
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Hot process soap making is an easy way to make short work of making soap. Understanding the difference between hot and cold process soaps can be a little confusing at first, but how do you make soap with hot process? The short version: to make soap with hot process, use lye and oil to make...
A gentle baby soap recipe using nourishing oils and shea butter. Lavender helps relax little ones after a long day. Table of contentsWhat makes a good baby soap recipe?Ingredients and tools you will needStep by step:Here's the printable recipe!Looking for more homemade things for baby?Any questions? Leave me a comment, and I will do my
A blog about making handmade soap, using the cold process to create soap and loving everything about it.
What You’ll Need: 10″ Silicone Loaf Mold 7.1 oz. Avocado Oil 2.4 oz. Cocoa Butter 11.8 oz. Coconut Oil 10.4 oz. Olive Oil (Pomace) 11.8 oz. Palm Oil 3.8 oz. Shea Butter 6.6 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye 15.6 oz. Distilled Water .8 oz. Fresh Snow Fragrance Oil 2 oz. Heavenly Honeysuckle Fragrance Oil Green Chrome Oxide Yellow Mica Bright Blue …
Making soap was one of the first self-sufficient skills I ever learned. Once I began questioning what we were putting into our bodies, what we were putting on them was not far behind. I worried
9 Beginners Cold process Soap recipe Ideas If you are looking for beginners soap making recipes then try these options for 9 great beginners cold process soap recipe ideas to try today. Making cold process soap doesn’t need to be hard, you just need to be methodical like cooking. The great thing about making soap
How do you take your coffee? I like to take my favorite pick-me-up into the shower in a wonderfully exfoliating, rejuvenating coffee scrub soap! I just LOVE coffee soap! So why use coffee in soap, anyway? Just a few of
This is a quick photo tutorial for those who already know how to create an in the pot swirl or have other decorative techniques and formulations under their belt. The vertical side embeds are created on day 1, set for 24 hours and then cut lengthwise (or in a mold with long dividers to evenly space them). I use the same formulation for the side embeds as I do for the main soap. This is the resulting soap. 1. Create a log of soap using an "in the pot" swirl technique. You can really use any technique you want depending on the look you want on the sides. Since they are slim and I wanted lots of swirled colors, I chose this method. You can do color layers, hanger swirls - any technique to get the look you want along the sides. I use a formulation that allows time to create a design, but still sets up in 24 hours to be umolded and cut the next day. 2. After unmolding and cutting the soap lengthwise into 4 even strips, I place them into them into the mold I am going to use to create the soap. These are 9" long silicone molds from Woodfield's Molds. Excellent quality silicone molds. You want them to fit in there snug so they do not move when you pour the center soap. 3. Create another batch using the same formulation, scent and color per your personal preferences. This soap is scented with a combination of Water Lily, Jasmine and Yuzu with no added color. Pour the soap into the mold between the two strips already in place. You want this too be a bit taller than you normally would pour a soap because it is going to have to be trimmed and cleaned up afterwards and you still want to end up with a decent size bar of soap. 4. Put the soap to bed (I always gel these soaps to insure that they pieces stick together and have never tried this without allowing the soap to gel) for 24 hours or however long your formulation needs to firm up for unmolding. 5. After 24 hours (or however long it takes for your soap to set up), unmold the soap. 5. Slice the soap into individual bars. You will then need to cut of a slim layer from the top to get a nice smooth surface. There may be some soap that ended up underneath and on the sides of the colored embeds that will also need to be cleaned up. Continue to trim as per your personal preference. I beveled the edges of this soap and added a stamp. ~ Faith Copyright 2006 - 2014 Alaiyna B. Designs, Alaiyna B. Bath and Body. All rights reserved. All text and images are the property of Alaiyna B. Designs. No part of this document or webpage may be reproduced by any means without prior written consent of Alaiyna B. Designs and/or Alaiyna B. Bath and Body.
Nothing fancy, just a basic cold-process soap. This recipe uses the three most common soaping oils for a simple balanced bar.
These are all 1 pound oil recipes with a superfat of 5-8% (aside from the one bar recipe). If you modify a recipe or switch out an oil, please run your recipe through a soap calculator such as http://www.soapcalc.net. Basic Lard 4 oz Olive Oil 4 oz Coconut Oil 7
One of the questions that I get asked most often is, "How do I make my soap harder?" Here are a few ideas to get you started. It really takes experimenting to find what works best for your recipe.
This project is perfect for coffee lovers - it features coffee seed oil, coffee grounds, and uses coffee instead of distilled water.
Cold process soap making is not only fun but also a great way to use your creativity and create a beautiful, skin loving practical product.
One of the most challenging things when you're first figuring out how to make soap is - hands down - how to control trace. There's quite a learning curve in seeing the different stages of
A super bubbly homemade soap with great cleansing and moisturizing properties. Once you try this recipe, it will be all you want to use!
I made this soap in February and have been told that it looks like a gemstone, something like malachite. Since then I knew I had to make cold-process soap that would resemble gemstones. At first I picked onyx and here is my cold-process soap called Onyx: After that I prepared a soap called Fordite and planned to submit it as my entry for the Soap Challenge, because I was using the spinning swirl technique to create it. But I changed my mind and decided to go with another entry. I haven't taken pictures of the fordite soap yet.
You have a lot to consider when comparing cold process soap vs hot process soap. They both have their own benefits and advantages.
Hello! I'm Amy Warden. Creator of fabulous handmade soap, host of the monthly Soap Challenge Club. I've been making cold process soap since 2002, and I love providing learning opportunities for soap makers around the world through the Club!
