Does anyone know any easy soap recipes?
I mean, simple, easy steps (and fairly quick, not like it takes a whole week to make the soap) and not too hard to find ingredients, if possible with natural ingredients. Anyone know any recipes like that?
There are no cold process recipes like that, and in order to make cold process you first need to do much research. That is because lye is caustic and you need to understand how to handle it plus find a good recipe to use. Plus there are many methods of making soaps from scratch and you have to decide on which one you want to try. Then it takes several weeks to cure once you have made the soap.
If you want a quick simple to make soap with natural ingredients don’t buy the base sold in craft stores.
Get some SFIC brand glycerin soap base.
You can make these melt and pour (glycerin) soaps and wrap them or use them the same day.
Here are a few places that sell either SFIC brand or another good base.
This first one is a lady I know (Joyce in Reno NV), she sells iSFIC brand bases, it is not on her website but she does sell the SFIC bases at great prices, with cheap shipping. You can get her phone # from her website and call her. http://www.arrowcreeksoaps.com/home1.html
Here they have a base they call their own but the ingredients read like the SFIC base ingredients. They also sell some other bases with SLS in them, so be sure to read the ingredients before ordering.
In WA http://brambleberry.com/meltandpour.aspx
in CA http://www.sficcorp.com/
admin on August 3rd 2009 in soap recipes
Soapflake responded on 05 Aug 2009 at 6:48 pm #
If you are referring to lye soap, it always has to cure for a while. If used before this it could be harmful to skin. You can purchase glycerin soap base, also known as melt and pour soap and color with natural products such as dried herbs or spices and use a small amount of skin safe essential oils for scent. Most of the items used for melt and pour can be found to make small batches at craft stores such as Michael’s or Hobby Lobby.
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hairbender responded on 05 Aug 2009 at 6:59 pm #
No, not if you are starting from scratch. It takes time and some skill to be able to make soap properly.
But if you want the more "instant" kind, you just melt some regular bar soap (which is not really soap as you know) and add your own ingredients to vary them, and pour into molds of various kinds. It still needs to set, but shouldn’t take more than a couple days.
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Rachel responded on 05 Aug 2009 at 7:10 pm #
There are no cold process recipes like that, and in order to make cold process you first need to do much research. That is because lye is caustic and you need to understand how to handle it plus find a good recipe to use. Plus there are many methods of making soaps from scratch and you have to decide on which one you want to try. Then it takes several weeks to cure once you have made the soap.
If you want a quick simple to make soap with natural ingredients don’t buy the base sold in craft stores.
Get some SFIC brand glycerin soap base.
You can make these melt and pour (glycerin) soaps and wrap them or use them the same day.
Here are a few places that sell either SFIC brand or another good base.
This first one is a lady I know (Joyce in Reno NV), she sells iSFIC brand bases, it is not on her website but she does sell the SFIC bases at great prices, with cheap shipping. You can get her phone # from her website and call her. http://www.arrowcreeksoaps.com/home1.html
Here they have a base they call their own but the ingredients read like the SFIC base ingredients. They also sell some other bases with SLS in them, so be sure to read the ingredients before ordering.
In WA http://brambleberry.com/meltandpour.aspx
in CA http://www.sficcorp.com/
References :
I make cold process and melt and pour soaps for several years now.