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Handmade Soap

About Our Soaps

Our soaps are not only gentle, but cleansing, lather (creamy or full-bubbles, which may depend on your water type) and smell lovely as well as being pretty enough to display. We also choose oils which are moisturizing so you don’t leave the shower feeling as if you need to slather on a layer of

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Lotion Percentages – Simple lotion making instructions

Many different oils can be combined in varying percentages to create an endless variety of lotion blends, each with their own qualities benefiting your sking in different ways.
To read about the oils we commonly use and their beneficial qualities, read Ingredient and Oil Properties for Soap, Lotion, Serums, Bath and Body.
For our basic lotion recipe,

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Soap Science 101 – Making Handmade Soap

How handmade soap is made – the process.
All soap is made with a chemical process called, Saponification.
Simply put, a liquid mixture containing sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) is mixed with choice oils/fats/butters. It then goes through the chemical process called saponification. Mixed in the correct proportions and all of the lye mixture

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Ingredient and Oil Properties for Soap, Lotion, Serums, Bath and Body

Ingredient and Oil Properties for Soap, Lotion, Serums, Bath and Body

To help take the mystery out of the ingredients listed in soap, lotion, serum or other products you have received from Momma Muse (or other handmade bath & body companies), here is a list of the commonly used ingredients by common name, label name (the

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Handmade Soap – made and curing

I have been buried in pounds of soap the past week. A couple years ago, I made several soaps using Rice oil… it made for a very nice soap. But, because I have to have it shipped in, I switched back to Olive oil. However, the price of Olive oil has risen

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Lavender, Tea Tree, Oatmeal Soap Recipe

This is one of my favorite soaps. It’s a very simple recipe. Consistently creamy lather. A wonderful face soap.
Lavender soap with Tea Tree Oil and Oatmeal
Ingredients:
Olive Oil – 75%
Palm Kernel Oil – 25%
Lye (sodium hydroxide) – 6% discount
Water or goatmilk (or other preferred liquid) amount per your soap calculators recommendation or

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