Essential Oils for Soap Making
A Beginner's Guide to Soap Making
The supplies, ingredients and safety gear you need to start making soap, with a simple first recipe built on a 30/30/30/10 oil ratio.
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Soap Making: Essential Oils or Fragrance Oils?
How essential oils and fragrance oils differ in soap making, where each one works best, and examples of both that hold their scent in a bar.
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Soap Making: What is the Gel Phase?
What the gel phase is, how it changes the color and hardness of a bar, and how to encourage or avoid it with temperature and insulation.
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3 Soap Making Methods
How melt and pour, cold process and hot process soap making differ in technique, cure time, appearance and safety precautions.
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Soap Making: What Is Superfatting?
To superfat a soap recipe is to add extra oil that will not react with the lye. Here is how SAP values work and how to calculate a 5% superfat.
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Soap Making FAQ
Plain answers to the questions new soap makers ask most, from lye and the three soap making methods to superfatting, gel phase and blending essential oils.
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Fall Soap Recipe
A lye soap recipe on a 30/30/30/10 oil ratio with a 5% superfat, scented with frankincense, clove bud, cinnamon bark, ginger and bergamot.
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DIY Candy Corn Soap
A three-layer candy corn soap made with shea butter melt and pour base and vanilla cream fragrance oil, with tips for clean, well bonded layers.
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Using Essential Oils for Soap Making
Usage rates, timing and ten essential oils that work well in soap, with notes on how each one smells and behaves in a blend.
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