Homemade Soaps: Do Something Good For Your Skin
Commercial soaps are nothing compared to their homemade counterparts: commercial soaps dry out your skin and often leave a disgusting film behind. Homemade soap, on the other hand, is good for your skin and uses fewer chemicals. Although it might sound intimidating, homemade soap is very easy to make, and youall find that homemade soaps also have none of the problems associated with commercial soaps.
One of the biggest downsides to commercial soap is that it isnat soap at all: its detergent! This is a petroleum-based product, and will tend to dry out your skin over time, leaving you itchy and miserable. Homemade soaps, on the other hand, are made with gentle, natural oils like coconut, olive, and palm, which will both clean your skin and moisturize it.
Another of the huge problems with commercial soaps is the possibility that it was tested on animals, and whether such tests were conducted ethically. However, if you make your own soap, you know exactly whatas gone into making it, and often times you can make your soaps with environmentally friendly ingredients.
Homemade soaps can be tailored to your specific needs or tastes. Whatever the specific fragrance is your prefer, be it lilac or cinnamon, you can include it and produce a soap perfect for you. You can also exclude specific ingredients you know react negatively with your skin.
Making soap can be a creative outlet for you, allowing you to experiment with different ingredients and produce wonderful smelling products, which just so happen to make great gifts. The process also allows you to learn a dying art. Most people these days, as is the case with so many things we use every day, take for granted the ability to simply purchase a common item like soap in the store, and do not know this skill that was once essential for every home.
Use this basic arecipe.a Youall need to gather lye, purified water, and three oils: coconut, grape seed, and olive. From your ingredients, create one mixture of all the oils, and another mixture of the lye and water. Be careful here: the lye and water will get hot quickly and begin putting out fumes, so you may want to do this part outside. Warm the oil to 110F, and let the lye mixture cool to that temperature, then add the lye mixture into the oil mixture. Pour the whole thing into a blender and mix it well until it reaches the consistency of a thin pudding. Finally, after itas reached the proper consistency, pour your new soap into molds.
As you can see from the above soap making recipe, soap is generally easy to make, although there are some risks involved, but these can be easily mitigated with some research and general care and common sense. The riskiest part of making soap is properly handling the lye. This is a very caustic substance and the skin and eyes should be protected while working with it.
Not only is making soap easy and fun, itas a creative project that helps you keep alive a dying art, and helps you be healthier and more environmentally friendly. Give it a go: soap-making is a great project to try out!
Jen Hopkins has worked in the skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about home soap making, and natural soap making. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
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