How To Make Homemade Soap
Today’s feature tip is from MillerSoap with Miller’s Homemade Soap Page. If you ever wanted to learn how to make your own soap–this is the place for you!
I have been making our soap for over 30 years and in the beginning we got some of the materials from raising our own beef. Since getting hooked up with the Internet and reading about what other folks were doing, I’ve found sources for both animal and vegetable fats that have really opened up other possibilities for recipe combinations. We’ve gotten spoiled using our own soap… it leaves you clean without feeling dry and itchy. I’ve given it to friends who have allergies or skin conditions and they have found it to help them in clearing up the problem. If you have any of the latent chemist in your soul…you will LOVE watching the transformation as you mix the lye solution into the fat and continue to watch it change as it cures! No one can walk by a table of curing soap, without having the uncontrollable urge to pick up a bar to touch and smell it.
You’ll find an astonishing amount of soap making information including:
- Frequently Asked Questions about soap making
- Troubleshooting section if your batch doesn’t turn out
- Several PDF downloads available (basic procedures, all vegetable soaps, where to find ingredients, etc.)
- Both traditional methods and modern techniques provided
- How to design and create your own soap recipes
- All vegetable soaps and recipes
- Recipes using animal fats
- And much more!
I’m so pleased with this discovery, the webmaster has put together a phenomenal amount of info! Don’t forget about this great homemade soap resource too: How To Make Soap which includes instructions for making your own soap cutter.
You might also be interested in the bunch of homemade laundry detergent recipes.
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19 Jan 2008 at 12:57 pm
I have made my own soaps for about 10 years and I love the creative aspect! I have come up with some very luxuriant soaps! Making your won soap can get expensive (like when you use almond oil, walnut oil, lanolin, beeswax, olive oil, coconut oil, cocoa butter, essential oils, and powdered oatmeal all in the same batch of soap!!!), but ohhh what great soap!
I found a small meat processing place that will give me all the suet I want for free (I just have to pick it up and tote it out, unpackaged by them), then I have frozen it until i want it. I render it down, strain, place in molds, then when cool, wrap and freeze for when I need it. This make sit very convenient. Even though the tallow is frozen, it is easy to break off chunks, weigh them, and melt them down.
Hope this is helpful for those of you who cannot believe the high price of suet in grocery stores!