What is handmade soap?

Handmade soap is made by mixing natural oil and lye by hand. The raw materials are simple and natural, and no other chemicals are added. Can be used for washing hands, face and bath. Its practice is also very simple and is favored by countless girls.

Homemade handmade soap is not only natural and healthy, but also can design its own shape, add its own favorite flavor, and use its own handmade soap to make the whole person feel better. How to make such natural handmade soap? It's actually quite simple. Let's study together.

First of all, the materials and tools we need to prepare before making are: glass measuring cups, electronic scales, rubber gloves, glasses, molds, stainless steel pot, saturated saline, sodium hydroxide, pure olive oil or edible oil, stirring rods and food thermometers.

Step 1: Put on rubber gloves, weigh 50g of sodium hydroxide and 180cc water with an electronic scale, put them into a measuring cup, and stir with a stirring rod until the mixed liquid becomes clear gradually.

Step 2: Put 500cc of pure olive oil into a cup and heat it to 40℃. At the same time, the alkaline water finished in the last step should be cooled to 40℃. Here, check the temperature from time to time with a thermometer.

Step 3: Slowly pour the cooled alkaline water into the heated olive oil and stir it quickly. Be sure to wear gloves and glasses here, which will splash on your skin and burn you. Stir for 40 minutes, so that they are fully mixed together to ensure the success of saponification reaction, and then stir from time to time until the phenomenon of water-oil separation no longer occurs.

Step 4: Pour the viscous liquid into the mold and leave it for one day to form, but it can't be used immediately because the shape is not completely solidified, and the unreacted handmade soap will burn the skin.

After a long wait of one month, you can use your own handmade soap! If possible, you can also add pigments, petals or essential oils to make your handmade soap more beautiful and fragrant.