INCI Names for Essential Oils Carrier Oils and most ingredients you’ll use in your Homemade Products
Category: Making Soaps
What is INCI
INCI it is a listing of Latin Names for Cosmetic Ingredients and is the shortened name for “International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients”
Clay in Soap – and much more
Adding Clay to your soap is a great way to color your soap naturally or make special purpose soaps. Clays come in different colors and are a great natural way to color your soap. These clays are not limited to coloring your soap, some of them have wonderful minerals that can be used to benefit…
How to make soap from Goat Milk
Goat Milk Soap Benefits Skin Goat’s milk benefits skin by moisturizing and helping to remove the dead skin. It does this because the milks contains vitamins A and B2, which are known to be beneficial in helping to moisturize the skin It also contains alpha hydroxy acids, which will help to remove dead skin cells. Make Goat…
Vegetable or Animal Fats in Soap Making – what is the difference
In order to make soap, fatty acids have to be mixed with an alkali and heated in water. Oils such as fat and butter are made up of fatty acids. There are a variety of oils that make up these fatty acids, but each has their own molecular makeup so vegetable or animal fat?
Essential Oils vs Fragrance Oils
Essential Oils vs Fragrance Oils Are all scents the same? No they are not, so what to Scent soap with? Fragrance or Essential Oils. Essential Oils vs Fragrance Oils. Fragrance Oils are a mixture of some natural and some synthetic oils and essential oils are oils that have been extracted from plants.
Bar Soap – Healthy, Natural, Safe – That’s the question
Are all natural bars of soap what they say there are? Is your bar soap – healthy, natural, safe? Let’s find out. I came across a shampoo bar that Lush sells, now I know many people
Soap Coloring Ideas, hmmm what to color this soap with?
What Colorant should I use? There are a few different options out there for coloring your soap. As you read about them and learn you’ll be anxious to get started and may even find that I may have missed a few as you come up with your own soap coloring ideas. Plant Based Colors Plants,…
Melt and Pour Soap
Melt and Pour Soap Now I know this site is suppose to be about Cold Process Soap making, but I wanted to touch on Melt and Pour or Glycerin Soap.
Lye Soap Making
Sodium Hydroxide Soap Making Also known as lye, NaOH, or caustic soda, and a must-have for making soap Lye or sodium hydroxide for soap making (or NaOH), is needed for cold-process soap, and making cold-process soap is what this website is about. Lye is also known as caustic soda, it is a caustic metallic base.