Homemade Soap Making Recipes and Articles: DIY Natural

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Learn What Felted Soap Is & How Simple it is to Make

Learning how to felt soap is simple! Felted soap is a bar of soap wrapped in wool. This creates an exfoliating bar lasts longer and is easier to hang on to.

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Coloring Your Soap with Pigments, Oxides, and Micas

Pigments, oxides, and micas are soap colorants that will help you achieve gorgeous color in your homemade soaps. Let’s learn how to use them to get the color we’re after.

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What Is Masterbatching And Why You Should Do It

Masterbatch is an easy way to speed up your soap making, or just about any other craft project process. Learn how to masterbatch the soap making process.

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Learn How to Make Salt Soap and Salt Brine Soap

Today we will teach you the difference between salt soap and brine soap. We also include a DIY salt soap recipe along with a DIY brine soap recipe. Enjoy!

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DIY Shaving Soap Recipe: Better than Shaving Cream

DIY shaving cream doesn’t work as well as DIY shaving soap. Find out why and learn how to make a natural homemade shaving soap that gives you a really close shave.

Several Ideas for Making Your Own Travel Soaps

I make DIY travel soap so I can ensure I have a natural, chemical-free soap while traveling. I don’t like to bring full-sized bars because they take up too bulky and real estate is at a premium when traveling!

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5 Ways To Make Homemade Bars of Soap Super Hard

When people make DIY bar soap it often turns out too soft. We have the solution! Follow these 5 tips to make your bar soap hard and it will last much longer!

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Six Ways To Cure Cold Process Soap Faster

Curing soap takes awhile and can test your patience, but there are a few things you can do to speed up the process. There are also things to avoid that can slow the curing process even more. Let’s take a look.

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Simple DIY Bath Jelly Soap Recipe for Kids

This is a fun bath jelly soap recipe the kids love. It’s a wiggly soap that makes bath time more fun AND gets them clean in the process. And what could be better than that? Enjoy this recipe!

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The Secrets of How to Make Soap in a Slow Cooker

Learn how to make soap in a slow cooker. Our basic cold process recipe of water, lye, and fat can be used for crock pot soap. It’s a great base recipe for creating many awesome soaps, and it’s a simple process that doesn’t take a lot of time or effort.

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Soap Making: Weight Vs. Volume Measurement

In soap making, should you make measurements using weight or volume? The question may sound simple, but it is the subject of MUCH debate! The good news is, the answer ends up being similar on both ends of the argument.

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Learn How to Make Your Own Silicone Soap Molds

There are two ways to make homemade soap molds out of silicone and we’ll show you how to do both. Both involve a bit of work and time, but the results are inexpensive and so satisfying! You can use clear or colored silicone for your molds.

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25 More Soap Making Tips for Intermediate Soap Makers

You all know I love making soap, I’d be happy I could do it all day! I’ve been doing it for a long time now, and because experience is a great teacher, I’m ready to share even more of my soap making tips with you!

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Sustainable Alternatives To Palm Oil In Soap Making

If you don’t want to use palm oil but still want to make soap, there are some good alternatives. If you do use it we recommend sustainably-sourced palm oil that is organic and RSPO certified. Do you use palm oil, or some other alternative? What are your thoughts on the subject?

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