Guest guest Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 I've been making soap for years. It's really gentle on the skin and very easy to also. Kids love to help. You need : 1.) one block of glycerine clear soap base. (I buy at my friends new age shop) Craft stores sell it, usually comes by the pound. I buy about a 3-5 lb block. 2.) one long handle wooden spoon 3.) double boiler as the water underneath needs to bubble close to the bottom of the top pan or you can use a sauce pan and put a smaller pan inside that has a rim so the rim fits over the edge of the bottom pan and the water will boil up around the outside of the inside pan. I use one of the little cobalt blue pans with white speckles in it, the type you would take camping that's inexpensive. It has a rim and fits inside the sauce pan perfectly. 4.) the soap molds are sold in crafts stores. My niece uses flexible ice cube trays and some make little soaps out of the plastic candy molds. I have used my same molds for years and they have never cracked. I like the medium bar of soap size. There's usually a row of 3-4 molds attached so you can pour the soap in each one and let them set. 5.) you can color the soap with vegetable food dyes or leave clear and just add oils, etc. 6.) Cut thru soap base with a sharp knife. You don't need a ginzu cuts thru a can type.LOL Instructions: You boil the water in the sauce pan and place the double boiler or extra pan on top (don't let any water splash into the soap). Cut about a 3/4 lb chunk of glycerine soap base off and place in the top pan and turn the burner down to medium. As the soap heats it will melt, stir with the wooden spoon until it's all melted, won't take but a few minutes. When melted remove top pan and let sit just a minute, then stir in a drop of food coloring, If you want to add an essential oil wait about 2 more minutes and slowly stir a few drops of lavender, neroli, ylang ylang, geranium, blood orange, grapefruit, rose,etc. and stir. Now slowly pour soap into the molds and let set overnight. If you want to add something inside the soap like a small crystal, dried flower, etc. only fill the mold 1/2 way then add your little treasure and then cover with more soap. You can do many creative things with this. The clean up is fast since you are working with soap and not wax. They pop right out of the molds with no problem as long as you don't over fill above the edges. For dry skin I toss a tablespoon of slippery elm powder into the soap or I put Quaker oats in the blender on high and blend until it's a very fine powder and put into the soap. Any questions just ask. You can also write to my email box if you need any help and I will try to help you find oils, soap base, etc................Donna Jenni Billings <jenni wrote: OH sweet smelling broccoli stem eating Donna... do you think you can say something like that and just leave us hanging???? please can you share your secrets for making your own soaps and other bars!! =) sounds intriguing! I've always planned on doing that sort of thing eventually!!! =) thanks!~ jenni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Is it hard to find vegetarian glycerine? --- GeminiDragon <thelilacflower wrote: > > I've been making soap for years. It's really gentle > on the skin and very easy to also. Kids love to > help. > > You need : > 1.) one block of glycerine clear soap base. (I buy > at my friends new age shop) Craft stores sell it, > usually comes by the pound. I buy about a 3-5 lb > block. > 2.) one long handle wooden spoon > 3.) double boiler as the water underneath needs to > bubble close to the bottom of the top pan or you can > use a sauce pan and put a smaller pan inside that > has a rim so the rim fits over the edge of the > bottom pan and the water will boil up around the > outside of the inside pan. I use one of the little > cobalt blue pans with white speckles in it, the type > you would take camping that's inexpensive. It has a > rim and fits inside the sauce pan perfectly. > 4.) the soap molds are sold in crafts stores. My > niece uses flexible ice cube trays and some make > little soaps out of the plastic candy molds. I have > used my same molds for years and they have never > cracked. I like the medium bar of soap size. > There's usually a row of 3-4 molds attached so you > can pour the soap in each one and let them set. > 5.) you can color the soap with vegetable food > dyes or leave clear and just add oils, etc. > 6.) Cut thru soap base with a sharp knife. You > don't need a ginzu cuts thru a can type.LOL > > Instructions: > > You boil the water in the sauce pan and place the > double boiler or extra pan on top (don't let any > water splash into the soap). Cut about a 3/4 lb > chunk of glycerine soap base off and place in the > top pan and turn the burner down to medium. As the > soap heats it will melt, stir with the wooden spoon > until it's all melted, won't take but a few minutes. > When melted remove top pan and let sit just a > minute, then stir in a drop of food coloring, If > you want to add an essential oil wait about 2 more > minutes and slowly stir a few drops of lavender, > neroli, ylang ylang, geranium, blood orange, > grapefruit, rose,etc. and stir. Now slowly pour > soap into the molds and let set overnight. If you > want to add something inside the soap like a small > crystal, dried flower, etc. only fill the mold 1/2 > way then add your little treasure and then cover > with more soap. You can do many creative things > with this. The clean up is fast since you are > working with soap and not wax. They pop right out > of > the molds with no problem as long as you don't over > fill above the edges. > > For dry skin I toss a tablespoon of slippery elm > powder into the soap or I put Quaker oats in the > blender on high and blend until it's a very fine > powder and put into the soap. > Any questions just ask. You can also write to my > email box if you need any help and I will try to > help you find oils, soap base, > etc................Donna > > > Jenni Billings <jenni wrote: > OH sweet smelling broccoli stem eating Donna... > do you think you can say something like that and > just leave us > hanging???? > > please can you share your secrets for making your > own soaps and other > bars!! > > =) > sounds intriguing! I've always planned on doing > that sort of thing > eventually!!! =) > > thanks!~ > jenni > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 I've only used vegetarian. My friends shop and the two craft stores only carry this type. I have seen one with goats milk but it's a cloudy white and I've never used that. Don't where you live but Michael's Craft stores & Joann's Craft stores carry glycerine base in a clear block. I'm in Southern Cal.... Donna Taylor <veralinnyumsweet wrote:Is it hard to find vegetarian glycerine? --- GeminiDragon <thelilacflower wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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