Handmade Soap

Creamy Olive Oil Soap Recipe

Creamy Olive Oil Soap 80% Olive Oil 20% Palm Kernel Oil 5% Sodium Hydroxide 1 Pound Recipe: 12.8 oz Olive Oil 3.2 Palm Kernel Oil 2.18 Sodium Hydroxide To figure water, a safe range would be to multiply the lye amount by 2.2. I usually use a range somewhere between 1.7 and 2.0 for figuring [...]

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Basic Olive Oil Soap Recipe

Basic Olive Oil Soap Recipe 60% Olive Oil 15% Palm Oil 15% Palm Kernel Oil 10% Coconut Oil 5% Sodium Hydroxide 1 lb Recipe: 9.6 oz Olive Oil 2.4 oz Palm Oil 2.4 oz Palm Kernel Oil 1.6 oz Coconut Oil 2.24 oz Sodium Hydroxide 2 lb Recipe: 19.2 oz Olive Oil 4.8 oz Palm [...]

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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 lotion [...]

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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 [...]

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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 molecules and [...]

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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 [...]

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