People with sensitive skin prone to inflammation, absolutely not suitable means in which there are many chemical additives: flavors, dyes, fragrances. But constantly using children's products is becoming boring. This article will tell you how to make soap yourself using natural ingredients. The result may surprise even the master himself, and the resulting product may even become an exclusive gift to a loved one.
How to cook soap at home
Today, people are trying to do everything with their own hands. You can also make soap yourself, as they say, “from scratch”. But the fumes released during the cooking of the soap composition are very harmful. And the likelihood of getting a chemical burn is considerable, since you need to cook soap from scratch using alkali. Therefore, it is best to use a ready-made baby product: there are no harmful additives and dyes in it. However, it should be sniffed when choosing the starting component, because the smell that already exists, it will be almost impossible to repel.
Ingredients
Since it is best to cook soap using healthy natural additives, you can advise using cool broths or infusions of herbs, fruit or berry juices, honey, milk, coffee, chocolate dissolved in water or broth as a liquid. In addition to the soap itself, the master will need some more glycerin or liquid paraffin. By the way, juices, chocolate, milk, coffee or honey will also become dyes. It is not necessary to choose one of this list; you can arrange, for example, chamomile tea and honey, honey and orange juice, coffee and a decoction of a string. In addition to pure juice, gruel from crushed berries will go into the sieve, and small seeds (for example, raspberries, strawberries, strawberries) will act as a scrubbing substance. Also, if we brew the soap ourselves with coffee, then the gum remaining after brewing the additive can also be added to the mass. This is one of the most effective and useful body scrubs. The composition for cooking is as follows: 1 bar of soap, 3 teaspoons of oil (glycerin or petroleum jelly), 200 grams of liquid. Honey, chocolate or juices are included in the mass of liquid.
Manufacturing process
Before cooking homemade soap, you should prepare two pots of different sizes for the device of a water bath. The bars of children's soap are rubbed, they prepare a rich herbal broth, melt chocolate or brew coffee - it depends on the choice of the master. It is best to make slices of different composition so that then they make a “cake” with a layer of them and even pour white “icing” on it. It should only be remembered that the soap does not harden immediately, but after a while, so it should be removed from the molds after a few hours. In a water bath, the prepared mixture is heated, constantly mixing the mass. After it reaches a state of homogeneity, you can remove the saucepan and add a few drops of natural essential oils purchased at the pharmacy.
Design of soap made at home
To pour the mass, you can use the children's paschoki for playing sand, baking dishes for muffins and cookies, ordinary porcelain cups or ice molds. Before filling the container, lubricate with oil or baby cream. You can pour the mass in several stages, so that the soap is multilayer, like a cake. But then you need to cook different masses with a time difference: you need to fill the second layer only after the bottom has hardened. If the multi-colored layers are poured almost one after another, then we get a kind of “pearlescent” effect - one color smoothly flows into another. You can decorate a bar of your own soap with a piece of orange or strawberries, putting the decoration on an almost frozen layer and pouring a little more mass so that the berry or piece of fruit is kind of “drowned”, but clearly visible. Believe me, this is very beautiful!