In this post I am going to offer you step by step instruction along with recipes for items you can make and use to decorate your home, give as gifts or perhaps sell for profit as i Marie Ackland have been doing.
To get a feel for what soap making is all about, start simply by beginning with a straightforward recipe, Chocolate soap is a nice begining and here's what you need:
12 oz scraped soap, 5 oz water, 1/4 cup instant cocoa powder, 1/8 oz Chocolate Fragrance oil
Blend your scraped soapy water in a saucepan and set on gentle heat; When the soap has liquified combine cocoa powder and chocolate fragrance; Stir well and then pack into molds and allow to sit till totally hardened.
When you're prepared step it up we are going to begin with making glycerine soaps... This is what you will need to create apple Tart Soap:
4oz. Clear, Unscented Glycerine Soap, 1 Spoon Liquid Soap, 1 small spoon Liquid Glycerine, 1/2 little spoon Apple Fragrance Oil, 2 Drops Red Food Color, 1/2 little spoon Ground Cinnamon
ll pan over low heat or in a glass cup in the microwave; Add Liquid Soap and glycerine and stir carefully but well; Add perfume and/or color; Add cinnamon and stir; Permit to stand for a pair minutes, just enough to start to thicken so when you stir again the cinnamon will be more uniformly distributed; Pour into molds. Permit to set completely (in or out of fridge). When utterly set you can wrap your soap in plastic wrap, cellophane candy bags also work extremely well.
Another type of glycerin soap that's interesting to make is Apricot Freesia and this is what you may need:
1 lb White Glycerin Soap Base, 12 Drops Cosmic Color Canary Yellow, 11 Drops Cosmic Colour Red, 1 t. Apricot Freesia FO, Ingredients For "Whipped Cream" Topping: 4 oz White Glycerin Soap Base t.
First you melt soap base for tart in a double boiler; After it is totally liquified, add colour and fragrance; Pour mix into a muffin tin and permit to harden; Remove from tin; Melt soap base for topping and add a shake of Glint Dust; Using a mixer, mix till thickened and bubbly; Spray with rubbing alcohol and spoon the coating onto the tarts and allow some of the glaze to run over sides; Top with a touch of Glint Dust (optional)
Being one who does a large amount of entertaining and pary hosting and spending time with youngsters, Cookie Cutter Soap was a must! The making of this soap needs one to be creatively free and is a good craft for kids, with adult supervision of course.
Melt and Pour soap base (opaque) Smell (optional) Color (must be liquid, like gels) cookie sheet (must have at least a 1/2 in. Edge on it) knife (to swirl your colors) cookie cutters
First you'll be wanting to melt down the soap base and smells; You can give the main base a color if you want or leave it white; Pour the base on the cookie sheet and add colours and swirl them all over - here's where you get to be imaginative! When this dries, pop the block of soap out of the cookie sheet. Use cookie cutters to chop up the soap.
There are lots of different things you can do with this for instance you can make...Christmas Soap: Swirl red & green into white and use cookie cutters;Candy Cane Soap: Swirl red into white with peppermint smell and candy cane cutters; Easter/Spring: Swirl multiple pastels and find some fun cookie cutters; 4th of July: Nationalistic white soap with a stunning red & blue swirl (find a pleasant star cutter)
So you see your options are limitless as far as what you can create and sell if you need!
To get a feel for what soap making is all about, start simply by beginning with a straightforward recipe, Chocolate soap is a nice begining and here's what you need:
12 oz scraped soap, 5 oz water, 1/4 cup instant cocoa powder, 1/8 oz Chocolate Fragrance oil
Blend your scraped soapy water in a saucepan and set on gentle heat; When the soap has liquified combine cocoa powder and chocolate fragrance; Stir well and then pack into molds and allow to sit till totally hardened.
When you're prepared step it up we are going to begin with making glycerine soaps... This is what you will need to create apple Tart Soap:
4oz. Clear, Unscented Glycerine Soap, 1 Spoon Liquid Soap, 1 small spoon Liquid Glycerine, 1/2 little spoon Apple Fragrance Oil, 2 Drops Red Food Color, 1/2 little spoon Ground Cinnamon
ll pan over low heat or in a glass cup in the microwave; Add Liquid Soap and glycerine and stir carefully but well; Add perfume and/or color; Add cinnamon and stir; Permit to stand for a pair minutes, just enough to start to thicken so when you stir again the cinnamon will be more uniformly distributed; Pour into molds. Permit to set completely (in or out of fridge). When utterly set you can wrap your soap in plastic wrap, cellophane candy bags also work extremely well.
Another type of glycerin soap that's interesting to make is Apricot Freesia and this is what you may need:
1 lb White Glycerin Soap Base, 12 Drops Cosmic Color Canary Yellow, 11 Drops Cosmic Colour Red, 1 t. Apricot Freesia FO, Ingredients For "Whipped Cream" Topping: 4 oz White Glycerin Soap Base t.
First you melt soap base for tart in a double boiler; After it is totally liquified, add colour and fragrance; Pour mix into a muffin tin and permit to harden; Remove from tin; Melt soap base for topping and add a shake of Glint Dust; Using a mixer, mix till thickened and bubbly; Spray with rubbing alcohol and spoon the coating onto the tarts and allow some of the glaze to run over sides; Top with a touch of Glint Dust (optional)
Being one who does a large amount of entertaining and pary hosting and spending time with youngsters, Cookie Cutter Soap was a must! The making of this soap needs one to be creatively free and is a good craft for kids, with adult supervision of course.
Melt and Pour soap base (opaque) Smell (optional) Color (must be liquid, like gels) cookie sheet (must have at least a 1/2 in. Edge on it) knife (to swirl your colors) cookie cutters
First you'll be wanting to melt down the soap base and smells; You can give the main base a color if you want or leave it white; Pour the base on the cookie sheet and add colours and swirl them all over - here's where you get to be imaginative! When this dries, pop the block of soap out of the cookie sheet. Use cookie cutters to chop up the soap.
There are lots of different things you can do with this for instance you can make...Christmas Soap: Swirl red & green into white and use cookie cutters;Candy Cane Soap: Swirl red into white with peppermint smell and candy cane cutters; Easter/Spring: Swirl multiple pastels and find some fun cookie cutters; 4th of July: Nationalistic white soap with a stunning red & blue swirl (find a pleasant star cutter)
So you see your options are limitless as far as what you can create and sell if you need!
About the Author:
Hi my name is Marie Ackland and i have been making soap for a considerable time and selling it for good profit. If you need help with your soap making efforts please take a look at my new blog it is stuffed with some really great info and tips.
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