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Illuminations, illuminated objects and jewelry, ornate initials, unique pieces
Illuminations, illuminated objects and jewelry, ornate initials, unique pieces
Making your own homemade soaps
Why make your own soaps?
Because it's a fun activity to enjoy with children, when you're playing with decoration, colors and shapes...
Because it's a pleasure to make your own recipes, to imagine new combinations of scents or even materials....
Because you know what ingredients your soaps are made from: no dubious additives, no preservatives, no chemical colorants, just natural, even organic products...
For the bathroom, as well as for diffusing a pleasant scent throughout the home...
How is soap created?
Saponification involves a perfectly balanced mixture of fat and soda (pure soda, not the soda crystals used in household products). Different saponification techniques are possible, either hot or cold, to obtain the chemical reaction that produces soap and glycerine. In this chemical operation, the soda completely disappears to make way for soap and glycerine, which can be added to soap for its moisturizing benefits.
Complements and additions to soap
The aim here is not to produce homemade soap (a complex recipe using corrosive products), but to use glycerine bases that make it easy to use by melting and then pouring the heated preparation into a mold. These bases are called "Melt and Pour".
Different complements can be added to this base: colorants, fragrances, natural or even edible elements for cosmetic effects. Tocolor homemade soaps, we use either a colorant (stick or liquid - always check the composition if you want natural, non-chemical soaps), or a food colorant: powdered spices (turmeric, cinnamon, paprika and even chocolate!), clay...
Toperfume our soaps, we can use a few drops of essential oils (be careful with children), or replace the water (when necessary) with a tea of scented leaves (linden, mint...).
Foruse in cosmetics, exfoliating soaps are obtained by adding dried and coarsely ground leaves, almond powder... Vegetable oils (olive, shea) are added for a moisturizing effect: but be careful with quantities, for a successful soap, you need a precise dosage (the use of a small scale may be necessary) and carry out several tests before obtaining your personal recipe for homemade soap!
Different complements can be added to this base: colorants, fragrances, natural or even edible elements for cosmetic effects. Tocolor homemade soaps, we use either a colorant (stick or liquid - always check the composition if you want natural, non-chemical soaps), or a food colorant: powdered spices (turmeric, cinnamon, paprika and even chocolate!), clay...
Toperfume our soaps, we can use a few drops of essential oils (be careful with children), or replace the water (when necessary) with a tea of scented leaves (linden, mint...).
Foruse in cosmetics, exfoliating soaps are obtained by adding dried and coarsely ground leaves, almond powder... Vegetable oils (olive, shea) are added for a moisturizing effect: but be careful with quantities, for a successful soap, you need a precise dosage (the use of a small scale may be necessary) and carry out several tests before obtaining your personal recipe for homemade soap!