soap is a homemade staple

This morning I cut my soap

mould open to slice the new bars to store in a

box for a few weeks.

I have been making soap for 2 years

and hubby and I really love it.

We both are very sensitive with

lotions and soaps from retail providers.

This recipe I use consists of

olive oil, coconut oil, almond milk;

I put in a few sprinkles of

YL essential oil Northern Lights

Black Spruce in the mixture. This oil is
a smell I love and great for the skin.

It is science though.

Making soap requires Lye.

Also making glycerin to use for

making soap requires Lye.  

After 6 weeks of

storing the new made soap

the Lye saponifies which means it is no

longer in your soap.  Even though you don't like
the idea of it Lye is what makes soap.

you need some equipment:

food weigh scale

food thermometer

soap mould

soap cutter

hand held immersion blender (or smart stick)

a big pot set aside for just

mixing your soap oils and liquids and lye

this is the best part of making your own soap

you can choose your own moulds.  I choose the

long wooden mould I ordered on line as

it makes one big long log and I can cut my own

size of bar.

I have flopped one new recipe I tried as
the oil I used was sunflower and canola oil
it never took the canola oil.  That was my error
in not checking the oil before using.

I now have a good almost never fail recipe!