Homemade Shampoo: 25 Easy DIY Recipes to Cleanse and Moisturize Your Natural Hair by CliShea B

Author:CliShea, B. [CliShea, B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: CliShea
Published: 2017-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

kernel oil

Gives extra lathering and moisturizing qualities

olive oil

Sensitively conditions and moisturizes

palm oil

Hardens bar for long shelf-life

soybean oil

Conditioning bar with stable lather

shea butter

Difficult to use compared to other oils; luxurious moisturizing qualities

sweet almond oil

Moisturizes and conditions the skin

2. Lye and Water – to make soap, oils must emulsify with lye which begins with the saponification process.

Sodium Hydroxide or lye is an inorganic compound commonly found in household cleaners. It’s available in various forms such as flakes, pellets and powder. In soap making, lye is mixed with water to make a lye solution. Mixing water and lye causes a dramatic increase in temperature.

It’s highly caustic and has the potential to burn the skin. The mixture of water and lye also creates fumes, which should not be inhaled. With all these, it therefore becomes very important to take every safety precaution when dealing with lye.

Outlined below are some basic lye safety tips that we can follow:

Always wear proper safety gear. This includes eye goggles, gloves, long sleeved shirt and long pants. Some even use surgical masks to avoid breathing in any fumes.

Mix lye in well ventilated areas. You can mix either outdoors if the weather permits it but if not, make sure to open windows and the fan on when mixing is done indoors. Its recommended that your kids or pets are not in your soaping space to prevent distractions.

Always add lye into water and not the other way around! Adding water to lye is potentially disastrous! Doing this can cause the lye to expand or erupt out of the container.

Measure the correct amounts. It’s important to know the correct amounts of lye and water to be used when making soap. It used to be a trial and error methodology to identify these ratios but nowadays, there’s a number of lye calculators online to help you get your measurements correctly.

Use an appropriate mixing container. It is best to make your lye solution in a sturdy, heat-resistant glass or plastic containers. Avoid metal containers as lye reacts to these metals and produces harmful reactions.

Store lye properly. Make sure that your lye containers are properly labeled with readable signs. Warnings should be clearly visible to remind people not to tamper with the lye. They should also be kept in shelves or cabinets that are out of reach of children.

If you get lye on your skin. Remove all contaminated clothing and flush immediately with running water for about 15 – 20 minutes. Then seek medical attention. It is best to still be looked at by specialists.

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