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Soap home-made - with goat's milk
January 26, 2020
You tried Once do alone soap In home? Not I have here on thinks remelting ready
soap base, but soap making from the base, from fat and sodium hydroxide (soda lye).
Soap I've been doing for several years and I can't imagine it like before I could get around without them. I choose oils, from which will be my soap, fragrance, color and even Shape. I'm having fun the selection of ingredients. It is important to know that the selection the ingredients cannot be accidental. Fats have different values and affect the softness or foaming of the soap. Olive oil will affect the soap differently than rapeseed oil, etc. The ratio of oil to hardened fat also matters. So it's good to use the proven ones at the beginning regulations.
It's great fun and it is like making muffins, with the difference that the final effect of our work will not be eaten, but washed with it.
How would you try?
This very much simple, and when you get into practice you will find that preparation it's pretty fast - maybe beyond cleaning, it takes more time. Probably 2 to 3 hours the first time. But it's like that everything - training makes perfect. Just like home-made cupcake dough, it takes longer when you make it for the first time than when you get used to it.
The color and shape of the soap depends on your imagination and preferences. On the Internet you can find various molds and natural dyes for soap. Not only is it fun, but you can also give your family and friends. There is only one important point, sources say differently, me when making cold soap, I always wait at least 4 weeks before using it. It is a matter of stabilizing the pH soap and avoid the risk of skin irritation. To be sure, you can do a litmus test to check the pH of the soap.
PH scale is 14 degrees. If the reaction of the substance is similar to 0, this he has got the most acidic reaction there is. 7 is a neutral reaction, a anything above 7 down 14 is alkaline. Our the skin has acidic and may vary between 4 and 6 pH. Soap good for skin it should be alkaline and have a pH between 7 and 9.5.
In the past, traditional soaps were made from good quality oils. Their task was to cleanse and moisturize the skin. Apparently, the longer the soap matures, the lower it is pH. One of the traditional soap is Aleppo soap originating in present-day Syria.
Even traditional, gray soap, which has an alkaline pH has better composition than most, cute, colorful and fragrant drugstore soaps. Composed of these beautiful shop "cubes" they come in various fragrance compounds and preservatives that can additionally dry out and sensitize the skin . Laundry soap is considered to be hypoallergenic, however it will also dry out the skin due to its alkaline nature.
They are most recommended for skin care natural soaps, made for oil-based or glycerin soaps. Glycerin soaps are slightly more similar to skin reaction, a at the same time it is good for her moisturize.
If you feel encouraged to do so own Soaps from scratch, remember about a few extremely important issues.
ATTENTION!
Base production soaps is NaOH (hydroxide sodium). work with hydroxide sodium (NaOH - lye soda) is charged danger. Lye is corrosive and is used to clear pipes. Its fumes are poisonous. If you work with lye, you need to protect your skin, eyes and lungs. Work at well-ventilated place, away from children and animals. Ideally, wear garments that have long sleeves, long legs, and if it will be destroyed you will not feel sorry for it.
Important note, always fill sodium hydroxide for water - not the other way around!
Below You will find basic recipe for soap, you can use water instead of goat's milk - preferably distilled ( you can buy it at the stations petrol).
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See the video how to make goat's milk soap - it's easy and gives a lot of satisfaction.
Soap
with goat's milk
INGREDIENTS:
350 ml of olive oil ,
100 g vegetable "hard" fat (e.g. butter shea, aloe vera butter, cocoa butter),
250 g coconut oil ,
220 ml frozen milk (you can to use water distilled - some people use tap water, rainwater, and even dissolved snow, it is important how clean the water you use is),
100 g of lye (sodium hydroxide - NaOH),
15 ml of essential oil , e.g. lavender (oils can speed up the hardening process to such an extent that the mass hardens in the bowl before pouring it into the molds. At the beginning, I propose proven lavender oil. With time, as you gain experience, you can use other essential oils).
EQUIPMENT:
Best complete whole i destiny only for making soap. Lye is corrosive so if though a bit will get myself down eating maybe to have this very tragic consequences for health. After finished work place, In which did you soap very Exactly clean up, you can also neutralize the surfaces rubbing them with vinegar.
hand blender,
long wooden or plastic spoon (for mixing lye with milk / water),
a large metal ( NOT ALUMINUM ) or plastic bowl in which you will mix the lye solution with fats,
tall glass container (can be jar), in which we will mix the lye with water,
a pair of thick rubber gloves - protection against possible burns with lye,
eye goggles and face mask,
vinegar apple,
food thermometer - preferably waterproof, it can be confectionery, great if you have two, it will be easier,
measuring cups and a scale for measuring the amount of fat, water and NaOH,
soap molds (it is easiest to remove the ready-made soap from silicone ones),
a saucepan or a pot to dissolve fats,
disposable towels,
towel to cover the soaps in their molds when they mature by the first ones 48h (choose the towel that maybe break).
A METHOD OF PREPARING:
Prepare the molds in which you will pour the soap mass. It is important that they are ready in advance. When you combine all the ingredients, the mass begins to harden, so if it hardens before pouring into the molds, you will probably not be satisfied.
Wear protective goggles, mask and gloves . This is important because the vapors of sodium hydroxide dissolved in water (lye) can irritate the respiratory system and eyes. Gloves will be useful when your hand accidentally comes into contact with caustic lye.
Measure the amount of water (or if you have milk cubes prepared) and lye. Insert the container in some drafty place she passed from children and animals. It is best to put it in a sink or in a bathtub glass container / jar, in with which you will mix NaOH (lye). If the glass breaks with a corrosive substance, it will not do any harm. Slowly pour NaOH into the water and stir until everything is mixed will dissolve. Important!!! We always put sodium hydroxide in the water - never the other way round! The lye vapors are poisonous so don't lean on them and don't inhale them. IN When NaOH is combined with water or milk, the lye solution may be around 60 degrees C, and it must cool down to 35-40 degrees C so you have time for preparation of fats.
Put the lye solution in a safe place to let it cool down to 40-35 degrees Celsius
Measure out the fats and it will melt them all Total. Remember that you will not fry fries, you only make soap so do not boil fat, heat it up enough to dissolve the hard fats.
When the fat and the lye solution have a similar temperature (approx. 35-40 degrees C) pour the fats to high bowls. Then start slowly pouring the solution lye down fat and mixes, until you will get consistency similar to pudding. On this stage you can to add oil ethereal, dye, flower petals etc. and again mix thoroughly.
Fast pour into prepared molds before the mass solidifies in the bowl.
Put the soaps in their molds for 48 hours, some people wrap them in foils and covers towels, so as to keep the soap warm. Remember that the soap at this stage can still be corrosive.
After 48 hours, remove the soaps from the molds, if they require slicing into smaller portions then do so now. The next ones put aside in airy place. Put on paper towels and cover your soaps to keep them from dust. They should not be packed in foil or plastic boxes, soaps need to breathe during storage. The aging process usually takes about 4-5 weeks. During this time, the soap loses its caustic properties, turning it into a caring and beneficial effect. During this time, it also hardens, dries and softens. All this time, he must be out of the reach of children, animals and laid-back people, curious family members.
After approximately 4 weeks, the pH can be checked soaps. For this purpose, it is best to use a litmus paper. We put the paper on the slightly moistened one surface soaps. We check the pH on the scale has reached our soap. The soap that is obtained in the home production process using the cold method most often reaches the pH within 7 -10. This is the correct pH and with such soap, we can safely wash.
I know the above explanation seems scary and long, but it's like making pancakes - you can do long description with many details, and making pancakes is not difficult at all.
Watch the video on how to make soap at home. It really is simple.