Tagged with 'soap'

Mar 6
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We Can't Stop Marveling at These Exquisite Soap Carvings

Artist Daniele Barresi has been practicing his craft since the age of seven.

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Dec 23
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A Simplified Process for Making Natural Liquid Soap

For making liquid soap, you still need an alkali, but in this case it’s potassium hydroxide, not sodium hydroxide, as in lye.

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Jul 26
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How to Make Soap at Home

With a few key tools and pieces of knowledge, soapmaking is no harder than most of the ambitious cooking projects we take on—and the results a...

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Dec 22
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Coconut-Lime Soap

This soap is made with coconut milk and coconut-lime fragrance oil. With the added chopped coconut and lime zest exfoliant on the edge, these bars ...

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Dec 22
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DIY Vanilla Latte Soap

If you’re a french press coffee drinker like I am then you’ve probably wondered if there was any way you could repurpose all of those leftover coff...

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Dec 20
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Juicy Orange & Sweet Rose a Cold Process Tutorial

To ensure that the Titanium Dioxide blends smoothly into the soap batter, we recommend micronizing it before dispersing it in oil. To micronize col...

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Dec 19
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Homemade Rose Vanilla Soap

Melt the shea butter soap base in 30 second intervals in the microwave until it is liquified. 

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Dec 19
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Bourbon Whiskey Vanilla Bean Cold Process Soap

First of all, I don’t make a lye solution with liquor. Usually when you make beer soap, you boil the beer to get rid of the alcohol and the carbona...

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Dec 8
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Easy Gingerbread Soap

Christmas is the perfect time for making up a holiday soap because soap makes such a practical DIY gift. 

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Dec 8
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How to Make Homemade Goats Milk Soap

So I decided I would try my hand at making my own soap – in my favorite scents. And if it is going to smelly yummy, it may as well feel yummy ...

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Dec 8
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Easy Homemade Honeycomb Soap Recipe

This homemade honeycomb soap recipe is so easy to make and is formulated with natural bee pollen praised for it’s natural skin soothing proper...

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Dec 3
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Easy Pumpkin Spice Soap

While I love this soap, and the way it smells!

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Dec 3
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Lemongrass & Coconut Milk Cold Process Soap Tutorial

Soapers who make vegan friendly handmade soap often get a little stuck in their soapmaking. Without additives like honey, milk, or silk, it can be ...

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Dec 3
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DIY Coffee Bean Soap

If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at soap making but found yourself a little put off by the thought of possibly losing an eye to lye, then thi...

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Dec 3
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How to Make Homemade Soap Without Lye

I get such satisfaction from making natural personal care products from scratch like my Nourishing Sugar Scrub, Healthy Lip Scrub, Homemade Foami...

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Dec 3
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Snow Soap with Indigo & Cambrian Blue Clay

So before we even make soap, we’re going to capture some fresh fallen snow for our soap, melt it down, filter it, and then get to work!

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Dec 2
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Coconut Lime Soap

This soap is made with coconut milk and coconut-lime fragrance oil. With the added chopped coconut and lime zest exfoliant on the edge, these bars ...

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Dec 2
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Vegan Soap

There are several recipes on this site that are made with vegetable oils only, but some of them also use additives such as milk, honey or beeswax.&...

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Dec 2
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Bamboo Charcoal Soap

Bamboo charcoal powder is prized in Asia for its skin care benefits. It’s great to use with any skin type, but absolutely heaven for oily skin!

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Dec 2
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How to Make Soap at Home: A Recipe for Kitchen Coffee Spice Bar Soap

But those soaps you buy in the store just dry my hands out and I hate using “anti-bacterial” hand washes. So, I set out to find a homemade solution...

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