Soap Making Recipes: A Step-By-Step Guide to Natural Soap Making for Beginners. Learn How to Make Organic Homemade Beauty Products for Any Season While You Are at Home (DIY Beauty Recipes Book 1) by Julia Green

Author:Julia Green [Green, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9. Natural Additives, Colorants & Scents

Additives

Milk makes soap very creamy. It can however be very tricky to use milk in soap. Due to the intense and sustained heat of the chemical reaction of the lye, the proteins and fats in the milk burn and the milk can turn a dark yellow or orange color. Because of this you may have problems getting your soap to trace and your soap can even smell burnt or like sour milk. There are still options if you want to add milk, you can freeze the milk until it is slushy and then slowly add the lye. You can also add milk after trace. You can use liquid milk or powdered milk. If you use powdered milk, dissolve it in a small amount of water or oil, to make it easier to incorporate into the soap.

Coffee, Tea and Juice can be used in your soap making imparting their color and aroma. Depending on the type of soap you want to make, you can use these liquids in the lye solution or add them in concentrated or powdered forms at trace.

Honey has amazing humectant and antimicrobial properties making it a wonderful ingredient for soap. Add honey at trace, mixing well to combine.

Exfoliants can be added to soap at trace. How much and which type of exfoliant depends on the purpose of the soap. An oatmeal face soap will have a small amount of very finely ground oatmeal, where a hand soap for gardeners may include quite a lot of cornmeal. You can add many different types of exfoliants to your soap: Ground spices, dried herbs and flowers, ground nuts, seeds or flowers. Add exfoliants at trace so they stay evenly suspended throughout the soap.

Botanicals make lovely additions to soap and lend texture, visual appeal and aroma. Add them at trace. Some common botanicals you can use include: lavender, chamomile, rose petals, citrus peel, parsley, green tea & mint.

Vitamins and Skin Nutrients help the skin to stay healthy and fight the effects of aging. Vitamins and Skin Nutrients that you can add at trace include: Vitamins A, C & E, B-Vitamins or B-Complex, Selenium, and Biotin. You can buy these in liquid form or grind up tablets.

Scents

To perfume homemade soap, there are a lot of fragrances that can be purchased online or from your local grocery store. The following are fragrances that can be used for soaps that are homemade.

Vanilla, coconut, peppermint, rose, sandalwood, orange, lemon, chocolate, honey, Jasmine dream, cherry blossom, apricot, apple, apple pie, argan, cinnamon, lavender, cacao, mango, acai berry, applejack and peel, apple berry spice, banana raspberry, black raspberry banana, black cherry, cinnamon and cloves, Egyptian musk, grapefruit citrus, Japanese cherry blossom, jasmine, lilac, lemongrass, orange fresh, orange peel, pineapple express, sweet peaches, tangerine vanilla, vanilla butter, wintergreen, and warm apple pie.

The list is endless. You can order any fragrance of your choice online to use for your homemade soap.

Coloring Your Soap

Homemade soap, when finished without color, is translucent and almost transparent when cured.

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