Detailed instructions on how to make natural soap yourself.
About 100 recipes from avocado lemongrass soap to lavender mint soap with cocoa butter and silk soap to Viennese shaving soap with green clay and lemon washing balls.
In addition to the soap recipes interesting additional information, modern production methods but also manufacturing methods of the past.
Use of kitchen appliances, production of soap models, shapes and colours.
Herbs and plants for soaps, oils, fats and vegetable butter.
Storage, use in natural cosmetics, recycling.
Sources of supply, overview tables of fatty acids of various vegetable oils and fats.
The art of soap making has existed for thousands of years, but in the last few decades it seems to have been somewhat forgotten. Modern, handmade natural soaps consist of fine vegetable oils such as olive oil, almond oil, coconut oil. Who likes, spoils itself with an extra portion of avocado oil or shea butter, the selection is enormous. The oils are saponified with a strong lye (NaOH). With a little planning and a good scale, making a fragrant, handmade bar of soap in your own kitchen is not witchcraft.