How To Make A Soap Base At Home Transparent Soap Too!

Table of Content

• A Few Notes on Making Glycerin Soap
• Will this soap base sweat?
• Step 3: Add Essential Oil in Melted Soap Base Mixture
• Benefits of Homemade Transparent Soap Base
• Natural Colorants
• So, What’s The Secret To Make Transparent Soap Base?
• High Temperature Is Key
• Are these soap bases clear (transparent)?

You can make substitutes, Laila, but remember to stay within the same SAP range. There is already about 30% coconut oil, so I wouldn’t add more or that. And argan oil is very expensive, but can make a great soap. The SAP of that is .191, well within the range. Avocado oil too, can be used, but may be costly. Mix all of the oils together and heat to 135°F – it's easiest to use a slow cooker for this.

Es­sen­tial oils (se­lect­ed de­pend­ing on the de­sired ef­fect from the prod­uct). You can use vodka, Simone, if you can find one that is 50% or higher. You want to get as close to 70% as you can. The temperatures I used were in Fahrenheit. There are many sites on the internet that have conversion charts. I have to use them since i can’t do it in my head.

A Few Notes on Making Glycerin Soap

The look and appearance of the Transparent soap make it look luxurious and rich, unlike other ordinary soaps. Transparent glycerin soaps are versatile and easily customizable as you can use different fragrances, coloured pigments, essential oils, etc. you can get your unique Soap Bars. The soap base looks like ice or glass, enabling to make very cute transparent soap bars. Step 14 – Once you declare it done, it is time to scent, color and mold. I didn’t add scent because I was going to use this as embeds for cold process soap. I did add a bit of blue mica to turn it green .

After you have successfully completed this introductory recipe, you will have the experience working with HTHP and solvents. You can work with different solvent solutions, unique oil and butter blends, and can create a soap that has the properties and performance you desire. For decades we have made beautiful hot process soaps with a process we call High-Temperature Hot Process or HTHP for short.

Will this soap base sweat?

Step 12 – Add the sugar solution to the crock pot and mix. Cover and cook for 30 minutes – 1 hour longer. Step 2 – Weigh the lye and distilled water into two separate containers.

You’ll soon discover why homemade soap is better than store bought. • After you have molded your soap, cover to protect from debris and surface wrinkling, and allow to cool and harden. If you freeze your soap, it will initially sweat due to thawing and condensation. This is normal and will assist in the hardening process.

Step 3: Add Essential Oil in Melted Soap Base Mixture

NOT PROOF, example a vodka that is 80 proof is only 40% alcohol. I started blogging in 2008, sharing soap recipes, design tutorials and publishing articles on various topics of soapmaking. Step 13 – You can check the clearness again if you want. You can then decide to add more alcohol or sugar solution. But I was tired of cooking it at this point! Lol I declared it ready for the next step.

I used 500 grams of oils and 500 grams of solvents. Our transparent soap recipe can be melted, colored and fragranced and the design possibilities are endless. Follow along and learn how to make a DIY transparent soap base. Remember to Dilute the Essential oils before adding them into the melted soap base. The sales clerk really gave me a funny look when she rang it up.

Benefits of Homemade Transparent Soap Base

Leave the soap base undisturbed and uncovered overnight or for 12 to 24 hours, to allow the soap time to completely cool and harden. If needed, use a fork to break up any unmelted bits, to help them melt faster. They may need another 5 or 10 minutes to finish melting. A main benefit of commercial bases are that they’re designed for ease of use. You can’t control ingredients and sometimes they can feel drying on your skin, but they’re more predictable than homemade base, and they are easier to work with in many ways. However, I find that my homemade bases need higher temperatures to melt, plus they harden up faster, so you have to work quickly to get the soap colored and in the mold.

Soap bases can be di­vid­ed into hard, liq­uid and soft types. The first type are used for mak­ing clas­sic hard soap, the sec­ond are suit­able for sham­poos, show­er gels and so on, while the third are used for mak­ing scrubs. If we look at the chem­i­cal for­mu­la, soaps are sodi­um salts of fat­ty acids, which are ob­tained by the al­ka­line hy­drol­y­sis of fats. Silicone molds work well because they peel off the soap easily. You must wrap it right away or it may collect moisture from the air and bead “sweat” on the surface.

When I was making my print book, Easy Homemade Melt & Pour Soaps, I made a LOT of soap using ready-made soap base. Many of my personal favorite projects included a blend of arrowroot and aloe vera – I loved the creamy feel and boost to lather that it gave soap. As a bonus, I noticed that those soaps seemed to sweat less, or not at all, even when I accidentally left them unwrapped during a stretch of rainy days.

This helps to spread the heat evenly and prevent soap base from burning. You can also use a double boiler to melt your soap base. (After all, it’s just soap you’re cleaning off your supplies.) Just soak the molds in hot water, rinse and dry well. Be very careful as alcohol has a low flash point and can start on fire.

It contributes to soap with stable lather and soap hardness. The one we use in this recipe is of vegetable origin, processed to be in pure form, separated from other compouds. Step 3 – You don’t have to let it cool down. Pour the lye solution into your melted oils/glycerin and blend to trace. You can cook your transparent soap in a crock pot. I used Jackie’s tip of using Press & Seal wrap to cover the crock pot to reduce water/alcohol evaporation.