For the manufacture of soap we will need:
1. Soap base
2. Basic oils
3. Essential oils or flavors
4. Dyes
5. Fillers
6. Dishes for melting soap base (+ saucepan, if you do it in a water bath)
7. Knife
8. Cutting board
9. Spoon
10. Forms for soap
11. Scales
12. Alcohol
13. Well, a small omnipresent assistant who kindly agreed to pose me for this master class)
I want to stop a little on materials and tools.
Soap base It can be transparent and white, it easily cuts, melting and quickly freezes. In fact, it is almost the finished soap that we will enrich oils and give a beautiful shape. In my case, the basis is transparent.
Basic oils Press the soap useful properties, so you can choose them considering the features of your skin. I love to use olive, calendula, jojoba, grape bones, forest walnut. With the transparent base, the basic oils are better not to use, as they clutter the basis, so I do not add them now. In general, the initial mission of soap is cleansing, but for moisturizing, nutrition and skin tones, in any case, it is better to use special cosmetics.
Essential oils or flavors Punify your soap a pleasant aroma, and essential oils also have a beneficial effect on the skin.
Dyes Required for staining soap base. If you have skin prone to irritation, you can refuse them. Dyes can use food and synthetic, but it is impossible to mix them with each other.
Fillers - This is a real field for creativity: dried flowers, clay, chocolate, honey, cocoa, coconut chips, ground oatmeal, powdered milk, lufa. The only thing that needs to be remembered is the shelf life of such soap will be small and it is better to start using it right away.
Alcohol We are necessary for clutching the layers in a multi-layer soap, to remove bubbles from the surface of the soap, for better spreading the base for the complex form for soap.
Special dishes , knives, spoons and boards Not need to buy , those that you use in the kitchen are suitable. The main thing is thoroughly wash them after use.
Molds for soap For your first experiments, it is also not needed, any silicone baking forms are suitable, plastic cups from yogurts and even children's culberry. The main thing is to use flexible forms from which you can pull out your soap without damaging it. Therefore, the glass forms are categorically impossible to use.
Libra In principle, the thing is not mandatory, but desirable. You can do without them, if when buying the foundation, you divide it on equal parts. For example, borrowing 500 grams, you can only divide it into 5 equal parts, each of which will weigh about 100 grams.
Safety technique . The surface on which you will work, it is better to be closed with an old glued with the glue or newspapers, and on yourself to wear apron to avoid random droplets on your favorite dress.
1. Prepare the surface of the molds by sprinkling them with alcohol. (In the absence of alcohol and complex embossed molds for the fill of the soap, this step can be skipped)
2. Cut the soap base with small cubes and put on the water bath or in the microwave. Do not bind the basics, as it disrupts its properties. I use the microwave and 100 grams of the basics to float approximately 30 seconds before the liquid state. Tiny non-molten pieces can be melt stirring the hot base. I stir the basis at all stages very carefully.
3. Add a dye (up to 7 drops per 100 grams of foundations), depending on the desired color saturation. Gently mix to uniform color.
4. We are waiting for the base slightly cool and add base oil. The amount of oil in different sources and recipes varies from several drops to 1 teaspoon per 100 grams of the base. The more oil you add, the worse your soylco will be soapped. On my experience, I chose the optimal version of the 1/3 part of the teaspoon per 100 grams of the base. But if you have dry skin, then boldly increase the amount of oil.
5. Add essential oils or flavors (3-7 drops per 100 gr bases), mix, but do not get carried away so that the base does not cool the base before.
6. I wanted a little brightness in a gloomy rainy day and I added a pinch of sequin))
7. Fill your soap in the prepared shape and leave to dry for 1 hour.
If there are bubbles on the surface of the soap poured into the form, they can be removed by sprinkling with alcohol from the spray gun.
When drying soap, it is better not to touch and not move, as it deforms its surface and it will freeze the waves.
8. As soon as the soap completely freezes, it can be removed from the form. Here is such a wonderful soapie from us.
