Beauty Natural Recipe Scent Soap

Beauty Natural Recipe Scent Soap

Until the early 1900’s, much of the soap used was made at home. Fats from cooking and butchering were saved until there was enough to make a batch of soap. This all changed in 1916 when a shortage of fats (a main ingredient in soap) occurred during World War I. As an alternative was needed, enterprising companies developed the first synthetic soaps called detergents. With a wide variety of oils available today, making your own soap is once again very inexpensive, and a good choice for those concerned about quality, health related benefits, and the environment.

Successful soap making today is a result of a much better understanding of chemistry, experience, and a wider variety of ingredients to choose from. Today's soaps are milder and better for skin thanks to the availability of vegetable and plant based oils.
Chemically speaking, soap is a salt. An acid and a base react with one another and are neutralized to form a salt or soap. A more basic explanation is: oils or fats combine with Sodium Hydroxide or “Lye” in a process called saponification to produce soap.

Hand made soap retains extra glycerin, known to soften the skin naturally. Glycerin is one of the best known humecants (attracts moisture to the skin). It is often extracted during the process of manufacturing commercially made soap, then sold as a valuable by-product. Natural ingredients are rarely used in commercially manufactured soap. If used at all, it is sparingly. One of the best advantages of making your own soap is that you are in charge of quality control. You decide which ingredients to use and how much.
 

Benefits of Beauty Natural Soaps

• Comfrey soap–known for its skin-healing properties and relief of sore muscles.
   
• Calendula soap–used for centuries as a skin softener. Can be used as a facial cleanser and by those with sensitive skin.
   
• Camomile soap–extremely soothing.
   
• Cocoa butter soap–contains a skin emollient that is wonderful for sensitive skin.
   
• Goat’s milk and buttermilk bars–used for centuries, milk bars are excellent for relief of dry skin, eczema and psoriasis (does not cure psoriasis, but substantially reduces the red scaly patches if used daily.)
   
• Oatmeal soap–gentle and soothing to irritated skin.

Natural Beauty Soap Recipes

Making Natural Soaps today is vastly different from soap making in the past. No longer is it necessary to leech ashes from a wood fire to make soap. Better yet, we don't have to collect animal fat or render tallow to make soap. This time consuming process has been replaced with a vast array of wonderful natural vegetable soap oils.

Handcrafted natural soap is a luxury. Pure vegetable soap contains no detergent like commercial bath soaps. If you would like to make your own natural soap here is a beginners recipe that Lizzie Candle has used. This Natural Soap Recipe is very inexpensive and likely you will find most of the ingredients at the super market or your local health food store.

Oils

24 ounces olive oil (not extra virgin)

24 ounces coconut oil

38 ounces vegetable shortening

Alkaline Solution

12 ounces sodium hydroxide (lye) Red Devil Brand-Not Draino

32 ounces spring or distilled water

Fragrance or Essential Oil

4 ounces of your favorite fragrance

dried ground herbs (optional)

You will need the following equipment.

Safety Goggles

Rubber Gloves

Scale to weigh the ingredients

A one gallon stainless steel or enamel kettle, not alluminum

Glass or plastic wide mouth pitcher to hold water and lye

A two cup plastic or glass measuring cup

Wooden spoons

Stainless steel wire whisk

One accurate glass thermometer that registers between 80-100 degrees F.

Plastic shoe box for your soap mold. Spray with vegetable spray so soap will release easily.

2 towels to cover your soap

One jar of vinegar in case you splash lye on your skin. Vinegar will neutralize the lye.

You will need several hours of time to make your soap.

Keep in mind that lye is caustic. Lye causes burns to skin, and can blind the eyes so use

Caution!!

Put on your rubber gloves and goggles. Weigh out 12 ounces of lye (sodium hydroxide) into the two-cup measuring cup. Weigh 32 ounces (2 pounds) of cold water in glass container. Slowly add lye to water (best done outside) stirring gently. The lye will heat the water and release fumes. The fumes dissapate quickly, but turn your face away so as not to inhale the fumes. Set aside and allow the lye to cool.

Weigh out 24 ounces of coconut oil and 38 ounces of vegetable shortening into the metal kettle. Melt these oils over low heat and stir frequently. Remove from heat after the oils have melted and add the 24 ounces of olive oil.

When your lye has reached a range of 95-98 degrees and your oils are at the same temperature, add the lye in a slow steady stream to the oils. Use the metal whisk to stir the mixture. After about ten minutes you will notice a change in your mixture. This is called saponification. The mixture will appear like thin cream. This is called tracing. Tracing occurs when droplets of soap will stand up on the surface. When this happens add your fragrance and stir well. Be ready to pour natural soap in your mold.

Cover your shoe box with the two towels and set asside undisturbed for eighteen hours. The soap will go through a gel stage and a heat process. At the end of this period uncover the soap and allow to sit for another 12 hours.

If you measured accurately and followed the directions there should be no problems. But if your soap has a deep oily film on top the natural soap cannot be used because it has separated. This is dissappointing if this happens. This will occur if your measurements were not accurate.

You are now ready to unmold your natural soap. Turn the box over and allow the soap to fall on a towel or clean surface. Cut your soap into bars. Allow the natural soap to cure in a cool dry place for approximately four to six weeks before using.

Herbs can be used for cooking, for medicinal or for aromatic purposes: Beauty Natural Recipe Scent Soap

Mind, body and spirit are one.

Herbal soaps created for the enhancement of not only ones beauty, but handcrafted herbal soaps help cleanse the body, while invigorating your senses. Herbal soaps whether homemade or purchased, provide increased cleansing power, soothe and help protect the skin in a beautiful, natural way. Using pure essential oils in soap blends, along with additional almond oil, for extra moisture is always the best move

Vegetable oils are very good for your skin, providing necessary moisture while allowing your skin to breath.

Commercially made soaps usually contain animal products such as tallow or lard, as well as many undesirable chemicals and synthetics. These can play havoc with your skin, exacerbating existing conditions and causing others such as clogged pores, dry skin, rashes and more. In most cases, the glycerin has also been removed.

Your skin readily absorbs what is put on it, good or bad. It is one of the quickest ways for chemicals - or nutrients- to enter your body. Be mindful of what you put on your skin, the largest organ of your body.

Some Herbal Soap Recipes

BASIC SOAP MIXTURE

The basic recipe is used throughout, with various ingredients added. Once you have had some practice, you can create your own combinations using this recipe :

· 375g caustic soda

· 1 kg water

· 750g coconut oil

· 1,2 kg vegetable shortening

· 750g olive oil

UNSCENTED CALENDULA BABY SOAP

Steep 115g dried or semi-dried calendula flowers (pot marigold) in 115ml olive oil in a jar, sealed, for two to three weeks, then strain oil. A faster method is to steep dried calendula flowers in water and use strained infusion in place of all or part of the water called for in the recipe (Or combine both methods). This makes a very mild baby soap.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 120g calendula-infused olive oil

COMFREY AND ALOE VERA SOAP

The comfrey root gives the soap a special healing, soothing quality as well as a beautiful dark violet colour. Collect and dry enough comfrey root to produce 110g ounces of powder (about a 1 foot root). Roots must be thoroughly dry before you pulverize them in a food processor.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 60g lavender oil · rosemary oil · aloe extract

· 110g comfrey root powder

GARDEN MINT SOAP

In the heat of summer, peppermint soap is a good choice. It has a way of cooling the hottest skin and easing mild sunburn. When travelling long distances, keep a 'sniffing bar' of peppermint soap on the dashboard to keep you awake.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 120g peppermint oil

LEMON VERBENA SOAP

Add a small amount of lemongrass oil to lemon vinegar oil to fix scent.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 120g lemon verbena oil

· 15g lemongrass oil

· 30g turmeric for colour (optional)

CHAMOMILE AND LAVENDER BABY SOAP

This soap has proven very effective against nappy rash.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 15g chamomile oil

· 120g lavender oil

ROSEMARY MORNING SOAP

Rosemary works wonders as a pick-me-up first thing in the morning.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 120g rosemary oil

· 55h each powdered dill weed and rosemary

GENTLEMAN FARMER SOAP

The cornmeal in this soap gives it a rough texture, perfect for scrubbing. Follow the general instructions for making the soap mixture, then blend 2 cups of the soap mixture with the cornmeal and whip it with a wire whisk to remove lumps. Return this mixture to the soap kettle and stir in the essential oils before pouring the soap into mould.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 110g ground cornmeal

· 90g lemongrass oil

· 30g cedarwood oil

MR SPICY SHAVING SOAP This shaving soap has a high percentage of cinnamon oil, which stimulates and lifts the beard for a close shave. This soap is tricky to make as the cinnamon oil must be dribbled in quickly while stirring or it will streak the soap. This soap also thicken unusually fast, so be ready to pour it into the mould as soon as you've stirred in the oil and the optional ground cinnamon.

· 1 quantity basic soap mixture

· 120g cinnamon oil

· 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon (optional)

Soft Herbal Soap using dry herbs:

For use in baths or washing hands.

1 1/2 cups dried Herbs

1 1/2 quarts water

2 cups shredded pure soap (like Ivory)

1/2 cup borax

In an enamel saucepan, combine the Herbs and water. Bring to a full boil. simmer for about 30 minutes to release the oils of the Herbs. Re-heat slowly and add the shredded soap and borax. Stir while adding the last two ingredients. Boil gently for about 3 minutes. Cool. Pour the soap into covered containers of your choice.

For the strongest aroma, use Herbs like rosemary, lavender & thyme. The oils from these Herbs seem to linger on your skin longer.

I like to make these soaps into tiny soaps shaped like different things.......circles, squared, seashells..stuff like that. I then tie them up into colored netting and decorate with ribbon and silk flowers and give as gifts. They can be used to wash with or just as sachets. ( A simple way of doing this is using ice cube trays and filling the 1/3 full only. Let them set, then just simply twist and pop them out.)

Another way of using these soaps for gift giving is to get smaller (or larger) sized mason jars with the screw on lids. Fill the jar with little shapes of herbal soaps , close lid, and decorate with ribbon and silk flowers.

The best gift of all is the one you present to yourself when you use this herbal soap.

Green Apple Beauty Natural Recipe Scent Silky Soap

If you don't care for bars of soap on your counter, perhaps making your own silky soap is something to consider. It costs pennies, all the ingredients are very easy to come by and you can fill up every pump dispenser in your home quickly and easily.

Green Apple Silky Soap

1 cup unscented liquid soap or shampoo
1/4 cup water
several drops fragrance oil
green coloring (available at most good craft stores)
salt

This recipe is very simple to follow. Simply combine liquid soap and water and stir until it is thoroughly mixed. Add your coloring and scent a few drops at a time until the color and scent is achieved. Pour shampoo into a bowl and add the water. Stir until its well mixed add the salt and fragrance. The salt in this recipe acts as a thickener.

Add a little at a time until your soft soap is the thickness you desire.