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Liquid soap making will provide you with liquid hand soap you can use at your washbasin, in the kitchen, and a body wash to use in your shower. During the process, you will be able to give your liquid soap the color, the fragrance and other features you want. Every time you will be assured to have the best quality of soap you and your family deserve. Contrary to commercially-produced liquid soaps, your soap will only contain the environment and skin friendly ingredients you have chosen. Liquid soap making is more challenging than making bar soap in many ways. The main differences are: - potassium hydroxide is used instead of sodium hydroxide - potassium hydroxide comes as little flakes and usually contains around 10% remaining water and some impurities - the process is a hot process instead of the cold process used in making bar soap - the process is longer, with more stages to go through - in the cold process a slight excess of oil is an insurance against too much lye in the soap, and the extra oil is even good for your skin. The excess oil, moisturising in a bar soap, would cause cloudiness in your liquid soap, could separate and float as a sticky layer on the top. So, just make sure you have the right proportions. Making liquid soap is quite achievable, even for a beginner, if the right equipment is used and the different stages of the process are correctly followed. If you are a beginner, you must follow a tried and tested formula. I recommand a formula based on an easy and reliable recipe from Ellen Peacock: 16.5 oz. (490 ml) Sunflower Seed Oil 7 oz. (207 ml) Coconut Oil 5.5 oz. (163 ml) KOH (potassium hydroxide) 16.5 oz. (488 ml) Distilled Water for the Lye Mixture You will also need: 40 oz. (1,183 ml) Distilled Water to dilute the soap paste Either 2 oz. (59 ml) of boric acid or 3 oz. (89ml) of borax mixed into 8 (237 ml) or 6 oz. (177 ml) of water to neutralise the excess of lye Fragrance or essential oils, and soap dye or colorant, if desired. In addition to the equipment used in the cold process, I recommend you use a large crock pot in which you can easily set the required temperature for the process to go on smoothly. You will have to go through the following steps: 1 Preparing and mixing the liquid soap ingredients 2 Getting to trace
3 Cooking the paste 4 Checking the paste 5 Diluting the paste 6 Neutralizing the remaining alkali 7 Adding fragrance 8 Coloring the soap 9 Letting the soap rest So, why wait? Lets get started!
mixture is milky or very cloudy, you need to cook it longer, or you may have mis-measured your soap ingredients in the first place. If the test mixture stays clear as it cools, you are ok.
My personal choice is for essential oils as I am also already using them for my health. I really know the great benefits I can get from them, and many are highly beneficial for your skin. As a rule of thumb, especially with your body wash, use 20 to 25 drops of essential oils per 8.5 oz. (250 ml) of liquid soap. You can also make your liquid hand soap anti-bacterial by using specific essential oils, such as tea tree essential oil. Indeed the essential oil distilled from tea tree is well known in aromatherapy for its powerful antibacterial properties, yet mild effect on the skin. Add 10-15 drops of tea tree EO per 8.5 oz. (250 ml) of liquid soap. With the essential oils, add half a cup of glycerine to your homemade liquid soap to give this recipe a stronger moisturizing property.