I'm making soap, ask me anything!

[Moochy]

[tjdee]

1. Is it expensive/hard?

I always figure it takes expensive equipment and ingredients and a billion years.

What do you store the soap in when you're done? How long does it keep?

What kind of soap are you making now? Is it better than storebought soap? Are you basically making handsoap? Could you make shower soap?

Oh my lord, I just had question diarrhea. :silly:

[supernova]

3. You can make glycerin soap

fairly easily. All the supplies are at Michaels or A C Moore. You can make enough soap to last a year or more for about the cost of one designer bar.

[Moochy]

5. Hand soap. and we'll see if it even works :)

No expensive equipment, a hand mixer, some Lye and some vegetble oil + olive oil recipe I found. Plus I'm using some oils extracted found from a rabid mongoose in the neighborhood. It will impart the frenzied strength of the mongoose.

from http://waltonfeed.com/old/soap/soap.html
Use a blender. The more finely the lye and fat molecules are intermixed the faster they will saponify. Using a blender, the trace stage can be reached in minutes instead of hours. Don't use an upright blender unless you don't mind millions of tiny air bubbles being permanently whipped into your soap. Use the hand-held type instead. With one of these, even your most stubborn oils should trace within 20 minutes. Sometimes, you can get a trace with animal fats in just a couple of minutes. Anyone who has sat around for hours stirring a batch of soap will be ecstatic with this.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. The first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Why?

I mean, isn't soap cheap enough...?

I'm all in favor of homecrafing. Made my own beer, wine, cheese, etc. But...soap?

[Moochy]

6. Olive oil soap with coconut oils and rabid mongoose oil

dee lightful!

[purr]

7. I make candles always wanted to try soap..

Is it equally as easy?

[Moochy]

10. Looks like it is

From the recipe I have you just need some lye vegetable oil, and some olive oil. I'm making my without any animal fats, since rendering blubber isnt something I'm up for this afternoon. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Wow....Why? (nt)

[Moochy]

9. Because I'm Lyeing

This was a copycat thread. :P

[Lochloosa]

11. Moochy. You may want to try to find this book if you like making stuff

Henley's Formulas for Home and Workshop
Published by Avenel Books, NY
Edited by Gardner D. Hiscox, M.E.

It has over 10,000 forumulas, trade secret food and chemical recipes.

Has an extensive section on making soaps and other cool things.

Originally compiled in 1907 and revised in '27.

[Moochy]

16. Cool, It never hurts to have more how-to books!

Sounds like its in the public domain. The website I cited earlier had some neat recipes with just vegetable oils.

It's on my list of books to grab on ebay. $12 for a used copy!

[Lochloosa]

18. You will like it. Has some really cool stuff in it... a fun read.

[flamingyouth]

12. What scents?

:)

[Moochy]

17. Besides the rabid mongoose musk?

To counter the rabid mongoose musk scents... :+ I've added some cooling mint oils, and some lemon oils and milled oatmeal.

:P

[Maddy McCall]

13. I want some oatmeal soap, but I don't even know where to buy it.

The kind with ground oatmeal in it. I just love it.

[Deja Q]

14. Can you smoke it once it's made? :D BTW, love your smile!

:)

[Moochy]

19. I could smoke it

Maybe I could use this liquid smoke, Tom Collins mixer, pie crust and cloves.

Tom Collins Pot Pie {ms}

ingredients:
pie crust
cloves
tom collins mix
instructions:
add cloves and tom collins mix to pie crust

makes 1 serving

+1 Simpsons Reference!

[Initech]

15. Is it made out of human fat?

Fight Club reference +1!

[Moochy]

20. eeew

Sushi anyone?



http://www.lww.com/product/?WA7173

One-Pound Fat Replica

This grossly dramatic Life/Form® replica of one pound of human fat is a shocking but strongly motivating attention-getter. Made of pliable, long-lasting vinyl plastic, the replica has a profound memorable effect

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Mine was better.

:P