Natural Soap Making Recipes, Tutorials & Ingredient Guides
A Parent’s Guide to Gentle, Everyday Baby Care Why Baby Skincare Needs Extra Care A baby’s skin is thinner and more sensitive than adult skin, which means it can react more easily to harsh ingredients, strong fragrances, and unnecessary additives. Choosing gentle, thoughtfully formulated baby skincare products helps support baby’s natural skin barrier and keeps…
Natural and Health Products I did my last Christmas Craft Fair last weekend, and I just wanted to touch on a few things. These Christmas Gift and Hobby Shows are a great way to showcase your products and get out there and get known, but before you do this please make sure you comply to…
Can soap benefit CBD Oil or CBD Oil benefit soap? With the legalization of pot I have been asked this question many times if I make soap with cannabis. In fact, for many years I have been making Hemp soap.
Grocery Store Soap Recipe I’m calling this soap the Grocery Store Soap Recipe because everything you need for this recipe can be bought at the grocery store. This is a great recipe for the person who is just starting out with soap making or just wants to make a small batch of soap for Christmas…
Rendering Fat Grandma’s Lye Soap was made with rendered fat; this fat would have come from goat, beef, pork or lamb. When making soap with animal fats; the fats will need to be purified first. This is done by rendering the fat, and it’s usually done when there are cooler temperatures outside. Late fall or…
What Do Lye Spots and Lye Pockets Look Like in Soap? Discovering unexpected white spots or liquid pockets when cutting into a fresh loaf of soap can be alarming — especially when the soap looked perfect on the outside. The good news? This is a common soap-making issue, especially for beginners, and understanding what you’re…
How to make exfoliating soap When washing with an exfoliating soap it will help to remove oil and dead skin, also removing any dirt that may be clogging the pores, this then helps the skin to absorb moisture. When the skin is able to absorb moisture it will look and feel so much better. What…
Homemade Lip Balm Making your own lip balm recipe is so much better than buying any tube of lip balm or chap stick from the store, and probably not near as natural as making your own beeswax lip balm. There are a few companies that now make all natural lip balms, so you can find…
If you’ve been making handmade soap for any length of time, you’ve probably accumulated a collection of soap scraps, end pieces, trimmings, and small bars that seem too good to throw away. I know I certainly have. Whether you’re making soap for personal use, gifts, craft fairs, or selling online, those leftover pieces can quickly…
Storing your handmade soap How to care for your soap? The first thing you need to know about homemade handmade soap is that it needs to breathe. This is important to help the soap cure – the longer it cures the harder the bar will get. It will stay hard so long as it is…