Quick and Easy Homemade Soap Recipes

From the Comfort of Your Home

Soap making can be fun, healthy, and rejuvenating. Natural soap making eliminates the chemicals that are found in many store bought products. Often times store bought products claim that they can do wonders for your skin, however, many times customers end up with dry or oily skin as a result. Using natural products from the comfort of your home and by using your own hands you can start your skin on to a new road of success.

Soap making has been a past time for several centuries. Soap making is wonderful when you want to find a new and exciting hobby to start, you want lovely skin, or you want to give away great gifts to your friends and family.

Lets start by finding out the typical tools and ingredients you will need in order to make your own natural soap.

Equipment required for basic soap making:

· A double boiler or a pot and lid on top of a slightly larger pan.
· Soap molds (plastic or metal - tupperware, pvc pipe, drawer organizers, jello molds, candy molds, loaf tins, etc.). You can choose which ever type of mold that you desire.
· Rubbing alcohol in a spritz bottle (removes any excess air bubbles and works as an adhesive for embedding objects or layers).
· 1lb of clear soap base 

Instructions:

Melt the soap block in a double boiler keeping it covered with a lid to prevent moisture loss. You can also melt the soap block in the microwave on a low setting. Avoid hot temperatures.
You can now add scents to your soap. If you have a favorite type of perfume or cologne this would be the perfect time to add a few drops, but not too many. 

This is also a perfect time to add any other additives you may want to place inside of your soap. For example: honey, oatmeal, toys (for embedding), oils ect. However, fresh or dry flowers are not recommended because they will cause the soap to become rancid and dried out.