Easy Steps to Making Soap

Going green and eco-friendly products are being widely promoted due to the fact that it timely and appropriate considering the abuse our planet has tolerated these past years. One of the going green ventures that I'm greatly fascinated with is making soaps. Aside from helping the environment, you can actually save money by advocating this practice. Making soap at home is actually so easy and what's so cool about it is that there are many resources in the internet where you can get ideas on how to make soaps.

Most soap making was either dangerous or too time consuming. There are resources that say that lye, an ingredient in making soaps, can cause explosion. Soap curing can take 30 days or more. It is fortunate that there is a solution available to address these concerns. There is now an easy way of making soaps that only takes about 30 minutes without the danger of explosion. With this innovation, it makes soap making available and possible to most of us.

There are four easy steps in soap making. First, we need to prepare the ingredients needed. We just need to buy pure vegetable glycerin bars to start. It is recommended that you buy in 5-pound bars from Clearly Natural Soaps. They are sold in 1, 5, and 25 pound bars of pure vegetable glycerin made without any animal by-products. This is a very practical to conserve our resources and a step towards helping our planet. The soap is called the melt-and-pour.

Next step is to melt the glycerin in a double boiler at about 1.5 pounds at a time. This creates roughly 6 bars of soap. This part of the process will be very simple as glycerin is very easy to cut and melt.

Afterward, essential oils, coloring, and whatever else you want may be added. This is the time to customize or personalize your soap. You may keep it simple by using essential oils like orange oil, lavender, and eucalyptus and yellow, purple, or green colors. You don't have to use them all in the same batch. For the colors, you may use soap color which is commercial available or you can also use food coloring. Just take precautions in using food coloring.

After adding your ingredients, pour the mixture and let sit overnight. It is highly recommended to use a silicone muffin pan because it is flexible. Extracting the bars of soap will be so easy. Any other pans may be used as long as it can withstand the heat from the soap.

After the soap sits overnight, you can now enjoy your homemade soap. Just cut it into bars, of course. Glycerin soap, aside from being less expensive, is actually much better than commercial soaps. With glycerin soap, you will get smaller pores, smoother and more moisturized skin.

Anne Rimando is a freelance writer who got hooked with making home made soaps.