Any soapers on here? I just made a simple batch of coconut oil soap to use during winter when my skin is most dry and I can't find any soap I really like commercially. So far it has turned out nice and is now curing for about six weeks.
I made soap!
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Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! I can just see you in your back yard, standing over a cauldron, stirring with a paddle!
I'm glad your soap has turned out good. My mom talked about when my grandmother made soap in the "witch's pot" in their back yard.
Enjoy it! Soap making is quite fun, isn`t?
Well, made a few batches myself and enjoyed making it but didn`t care much for the soap.
I did the cold process method emulsifying the soap with a stick blender and calculated to some excess fat content but always found the outcome totally inferior to commercial soap. It always turned mushy when left wet and wasn`t very mild at all.
One time I decided to melt the soap after curing in boiling water again and added salt to wash all impurities like residual lye out similar as the commercial soap industry would do.
Didn`t know how to separate the glycerin from that dirty brine to put it back into the soap again like industry would do but can tell you this was by far the best self made soap I ever made.
Then I lost interest in this hobby again. Soap and hard water just don`t mix well.
Found the residual soap scum much more drying to skin as most shower gels. Not to mention the additional bathroom cleaning that is required too.
But in soft water your experience might be much better than mine.
Did you add scent and color to it?
Well, made a few batches myself and enjoyed making it but didn`t care much for the soap.
I did the cold process method emulsifying the soap with a stick blender and calculated to some excess fat content but always found the outcome totally inferior to commercial soap. It always turned mushy when left wet and wasn`t very mild at all.
One time I decided to melt the soap after curing in boiling water again and added salt to wash all impurities like residual lye out similar as the commercial soap industry would do.
Didn`t know how to separate the glycerin from that dirty brine to put it back into the soap again like industry would do but can tell you this was by far the best self made soap I ever made.
Then I lost interest in this hobby again. Soap and hard water just don`t mix well.
Found the residual soap scum much more drying to skin as most shower gels. Not to mention the additional bathroom cleaning that is required too.
But in soft water your experience might be much better than mine.
Did you add scent and color to it?
My grandma used to make homemade soap in the 50’s and early 60’s when I was a kid. She used cooking fat and grease that she’d saved, rendered it down, strained out the impurities and mixed it with lye. Then she would pour it into shallow pans lined with wax paper and allow the soap to cool and harden and then cut it into bars. The soap was kinda light tan in color, harsh and was used for cleaning. I don’t recall if she scented it. She lived in the Richmond, Calif. which has very soft water so soap scum was probably not as much of a problem as it would be here in Sonoma county where our water is hard as hell.
Eddie
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