Making Traditional Bar Soap Guide

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How to Make Soap 

Everything you need to know about formulating traditinal cold/hot process soap

Designing and making your own range of soaps can be fascinating, fun and rewarding and lead to beautiful skin as well as the potential of starting your own business.

This fully-comprehensive instructional guide has been carefully compiled using our knowledge and experience of over 20 years.  It leads you through making your own range of soap products which can be tailored to suit different needs. 

Content:

Lye safety
Making soap using the cold, hot, slow cooker and no cook methods
Equipment needed
Key oils and butters used in soap
Fatty acid characteristics and how they can impact your soaps
Saponification explained
Soap calculators
Testing the pH of your soap
Storing, curing and cutting your soap
Using essential and fragrance oils and blending
Superfatting  your soap
Moulds
Colouring and colouring techniques
Adding botanicals to your soap
Using fresh and dried fruit in your soap
Substituting the lye water for other liquids
Wrapping and packaging your soap
Rebatching your soap
Troubleshooting
Recipes

 

The recipes included can be modified to suit individual requirements.

We promote the use of natural ingredients where possible, but where there is a synthetic ingredient that we feel gives a more professional finish to a product we will include those too.  

Whilst we don't specifically focus on organic ingredients should you wish to substitute an ingredient - for example coconut oil for its organic version, you are completely at liberty to do so. 

 

Format:

Beautifully formatted, fully illustrated PDF files with some video inserts.

 

After purchasing you will be sent an email with links to access, download and save the documents.

 

By purchasing this electronic download you are deemed to have accepted our Terms and Conditions. 

 

"Can I really make a business out of making and selling products?"  Click here to see a list of businesses set up by Plush Folly students.

 

 

Contents:

The recipes included can be modified to suit individual requirements.

 

We promote the use of natural ingredients where possible, but where there is a synthetic ingredient that we feel gives a more professional finish to a product we will include those too.  

 

Whilst we don't specifically focus on organic ingredients should you wish to substitute an ingredient - for example coconut oil for its organic version, you are completely at liberty to do so. 

 

Format:

Beautifully formatted, fully illustrated PDF files with some video inserts.

 

After purchasing you will be sent an email with links to access, download and save the documents.

 

By purchasing this electronic download you are deemed to have accepted our Terms and Conditions. 

 

"Can I really make a business out of making and selling products?"  Click here to see a list of businesses set up by Plush Folly students.

 

 

 


This guide will teach you the following topics:

Lye safety
Making soap using the cold, hot, slow cooker and no cook methods
Equipment needed
Key oils and butters used in soap
Fatty acid characteristics and how they can impact your soaps
Saponification explained
Soap calculators
Testing the pH of your soap
Storing, curing and cutting your soap
Using essential and fragrance oils and blending
Superfatting  your soap
Moulds
Colouring and colouring techniques
Adding botanicals to your soap
Using fresh and dried fruit in your soap
Substituting the lye water for other liquids
Wrapping and packaging your soap
Rebatching your soap
Troubleshooting
Recipes

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