How to Make Lip Balm

If you are looking for an even easier recipe for how to make lip balm than my previous recipe look no further. This is a great lip balm recipe that I sold by the masses.

How to Make Lip Balm:

2 parts sweet almond oil
1 part beeswax

Melt the beeswax in a 2 cup pyrex measuring bowl in the microwave. Then incorporate the sweet almond oil. You can add sweetener and flavoring (see previous post for more information regarding those and more complete instructions). Pour into containers and let set up. It really couldn't be any easier.

My friend that I talk about on my website How to Make Soap who let me watch her make soap tried this recipe and wanted to know the secret of my recipe. Her recipes were more sticky and not as moisturizing. I told her the ingredients and she couldn't believe how simple it was. Try this recipe and you will see for yourself!

Make Shea Lip Balm

Would you like to make shea lip balm? I have a very easy recipe that is nourishing and moistuirizing. You can make shea lip balm in any size amount because I am going to give you the proportions for making any size batch you want. Here is the recipe:

Shea Lip Balm
1 part sweet almond oil
1 part shea butter
1 part natural beeswax

Instructions:

Melt the beeswax and shea butter in microwave in glass microwave safe bowl (use a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup). Once they are melted you can add the sweet almond oil. I like to purchase lip balm sweetener and flavor oil from Sweet Cakes for my lip balms. They also have containers for your balm. You can use the small white tubes because many people like them. However, Sweetcakes also sells clear lip pots. I LOVE the way the lip balm looks in the lip pots!
You can add a cosmetic grade pigment to color the lip balm from The Pigment Lady. Don't add too much pigment, because unless you add additional ingredients the pigment tends to settle at the bottom of the lip color before it is cured. I like to keep my lip balms simple with fewer ingredients, so I just go for soft colors with the pigment.

You can pour the lip balm directly into containers from the measuring cup. Do this quickly before the balm sets up. If you have lip balm setting up, just throw it back into the microwave again until is it re-melted. One tip for pouring into the lip balm tubes -- use masking tape to tape several of the tubes together. This keeps them upright (they like to tip over) and makes for fast easy pouring. Be sure to pour the lip balm into the tube until it is very mounded on the top as the balm tends to settle once it cures.

Lip balm cures quickly in relation to soap. Overnight will do the job.

If you would like soapmaking help, you can check out my website at How to Make Soap.

How to Remove Soap Scum

The key to managing soap skum is to realize how it forms. Soap skum is caused by the presence of hard water. Hence, soap skum is greatly dimished when you have soft water. This is due to the fact that hard water does not lather soap well. So when you try to lather up in the shower, you are actually using way more soap than you need. The excess soap creates the skum. Additionally, the minerals in the hard water also are deposited with the soap resulting in a skum that may be difficult to remove.
There are many different cleaners on the market, but many contain chemicals that I do not want to breathe, and I definitely do not want to expose my family to. If you prefer to make your own, try the following recipe:
Mix

½ cup vinegar

1 cup ammonia

¼ cup baking soda

1 gallon hot water

Wear rubber gloves and work in a well-ventilated area when using this powerful solution. Apply it to your shower walls with a sponge. If necessary, scrub with a brush to remove all the skum and rinse well.

The secret is....... to let any solution work before you start scrubbing. For heavy buildup, it can take 15 minutes or more for a solution to penetrate and soften the skum, so wet it down and leave it to soak. You may have to re-wet it from time to time to keep it moist. Once it has softened, scrub it off with a stiff brush or white nylon-backed scrub pad, and rinse.

Never mix laundry bleach with ammonia. A chemical reaction will produce toxic gases.

With soap skum, prevention is the best solution. Fiberglass enclosures can be waxed with automobile wax after cleaning to leave a slick surface that helps repel soap skum and hard water scale. However, do not wax the bottom of your shower or tub. It will make it too slippery. Ceramic tile can be wiped down with lemon oil for the same effect. It is also a good idea to use a window squeegee to whisk the water off the walls before soap skum has a chance to stick.

I hope these ideas and recipe help you in your quest: how to remove soap skum.

For a great soap that never makes your skin feel dry and itchy after showering, check out my website at How to Make Soap. You can learn how to make fabulous soap with your very first batch!

Thanks to http://www.solutions.psu.edu/ for information on the content of this article.

Homemade Goat Milk Soap

You can take any basic cold process soap recipe and turn it into homemade goat milk soap. How do you do this? You do this by substituting goat milk soap for the water.


If you check the MMS Lye Calculator at you will see that they do not recommend any change in the recipe for liquids if it is water or milk.

I also checked the Columbus Food Lye Calculator and there is no change in liquid amounts for milk versus water there either.


More lye calculators can be found at:

Cranberry Lane

and

Brambleberry

I have successfully substituted milk for water in all of my recipes and never had any trouble. So making homemade goat milk soap will be easy if you take an existing recipe that you know will work and substitute the water for goat milk. If you have tried this already without much success, I would recommend that you view my video. I will lead you step by step through more than one way to create goat milk soap. You can view an introduction at my website How to Make Soap.

Oatmeal Exfolliating Soap

Oatmeal exfolliating soap is a must in the arsenal of seasoned soap makers. I have lots of clients who suffer from dry itchy winter skin and oatmeal exfolliating soap helps slough off dead flaky skin, revealing skin that is smoother and more radiant. There are several different ways you can incorporate oatmeal into your soap. I will list a few ways:
Put some whole rolled oats into your soap. A litle goes a long way when it comes to exfolliating properties. I usually make a batch of soap that cuts into 32 - 4 oz. bars. I would add about 1 cup of whole oats to this size batch. You can adjust the amount for the batch size you make. You can add these oats to one of your very best selling soap recipes and wah....lah.... it is now an oatmeal exfolliating soap.
Put a layer of whole rolled oats on the top of your soap right after you pour the sold in a big soap loaf mold. Push down slightly so it will adhere. When you cut the soap into bars, one end will have the oats on it. This will be the scrubby end of the bar, the rest will be smooth and creamy.
Blend your oats in a blender for finer particles. This makes the soap even more abrasive as you have many more (be it finer) particles in the soap. Again, a little will go a long way.
Blend your oats very fine and sift them. Use only the fine particles. The oatmeal is still noticeable in the soap, but less abrasive. If someone has sensitive skin, they can still use this soap by lathering the bar on their hands and then soaping their body with their hands. For more exfolliating power, just rub the bar on the skin.
You can add oatmeal to any soap recipe and you can use whatever fragrance you want in your soap (I prefer Lavender Essential Oil). These are just some ideas how you can turn any soap into an oatmeal exfolliating soap. I tend to branch off in new directions in soap making using best selling fragrances and recipes, because you know customers will buy them. Try adding oatmeal to your best selling soap and see what happens!
If you are not a seasoned soap maker, and need help with basic soap making, check out my website at How to Make Soap

Best Moisturizing Hand Soap

One of my most requested and best moisurizing hand soap recipes would be called "Moisture Rich." I like to use this soap myself in the shower because it is so moisturizing. What's the secret ingredient? Shea butter. Here is my recipe:

25 oz. olive oil

10 oz. coconut oil

10 oz. palm oil

5 oz. shea butter

16 oz. water

7 oz. lye

I make this soap a little differently than my other soaps. I melt the olive oil, coconut oil and palm oils together. I incorporate the lye/water solution into them. When the solution is at very light trace, I then incorporate the melted shea butter. I like to incorporate this at this point, hoping that most of the shea butter will not react with the lye and retain it's moisturizing properties. I do not use any fragrance in this soap because I like to offer a few fragrance-free soaps. I like to use LIGHT olive oil so I get a very light (almost white) color bar of soap. This recipe will produce 16 4 oz. bars of soap (about 4 pounds). The smallest amount I normally make is 8 pounds of soap (or about 32 bars), so if you are a seasoned soap maker I would double the recipe. If you are new to soap making you can check out my website at How to Make Soap where I have an on-line or DVD video soap making tutorial. You can watch me make soap right in my own kitchen.

Oatmeal Exfolliating Soap

Oatmeal exfolliating soap is a must in the arsenal of seasoned soap makers. I have lots of clients who suffer from dry itchy winter skin and oatmeal exfolliating soap helps slough off dead flaky skin, revealing skin that is smoother and more radiant.

There are several different ways you can incorporate oatmeal into your soap. I will list a few ways:

1. Put some whole rolled oats into your soap. A litle goes a long way when it comes to exfolliating properties. I usually make a batch of soap that cuts into 32 - 4 oz. bars. I would add about 1 cup of whole oats to this size batch. You can adjust the amount for the batch size you make. You can add these oats to one of your very best selling soap recipes and wah....lah.... it is now an oatmeal exfolliating soap.
2. Put a layer of whole rolled oats on the top of your soap right after you pour the sold in a big soap loaf mold. Push down slightly so it will adhere. When you cut the soap into bars, one end will have the oats on it. This will be the scrubby end of the bar, the rest will be smooth and creamy.
3. Blend your oats in a blender for finer particles. This makes the soap even more abrasive as you have many more (be it finer) particles in the soap. Again, a little will go a long way.
4. Blend your oats very fine and sift them. Use only the fine particles. The oatmeal is still noticeable in the soap, but less abrasive. If someone has sensitive skin, they can still use this soap by lathering the bar on their hands and then soaping their body with their hands. For more exfolliating power, just rub the bar on the skin.

You can add oatmeal to any soap recipe. Use whatever fragrance you want in your soap (I prefer Lavender Essential Oil). These are just some ideas how you can turn any soap into an oatmeal exfolliating soap. I tend to branch off in new directions in soap making using best selling fragrances and recipes, because you know customers will buy them. Try adding oatmeal to your best selling soap and see what happens!

If you are not a seasoned soap maker, and need help with basic soap making, check out my website at How to Make Soap

Herbal Natural Soap

Another one of my favorite soaps is an Herbal Natural Soap I call Herbal Scrub. I like to make this soap with the soap recipe from my DVD and I add a few extra ingredients to it. I like to add 1 -2 tablespoons of poppy seeds (not too many or your soap will be too abrasive -- ask me how I know!). I also color the soap a greenish color. You can either use a small amount of green pigment which I get from the Pigment Lady (she's no longer in business), or you can use a very small amount of chromium oxide. I like to try to stick to the natural pigments, but you can use whatever you wish. I have found that most individuals expect an herbal natural soap to smell like the herbal essence shampoo, so I use the Purely Herbal Fragrance Oil from Sweetcakes. Again, follow the recipe from my DVD (or use your favorite recipe) and use the same amount of Fragrance Oil as that recipe recommends. Purely Herbal FO was one of Sweet Cakes tops sellers for years. This soap is a good seller and looks very beautiful. I think you can be successful in the soap making business with offering about a dozen soaps. If each of your dozen soaps is a very good seller, then you do not need to keep a huge inventory of hundreds of different kinds. I like to offer about a dozen of the same best sellers on a regular basis, and offer a hand full of specialty soaps seasonally. I think you will find this Herbal Natural Soap to be a welcome additon to your soap making business.

If you would like more information on soapmaking you can check out my website at How to Make Soap

Organic Natural Baby Soap

Organic natural baby soap can be expensive to buy and difficult to find, but you can easily and inexpensively make your own at home. The benefits of making your own organic natural baby soap is that you know exactly what ingredients are coming in contact with your baby’s skin. There will be no harsh chemicals and fragrances to irritate baby. One good recipe for making organic natural baby soap would be as follows:

Organic Natural Baby Soap Recipe
15 oz. Organic Olive oil
5 oz. Organic Palm oil
5 oz. Organic Coconut oil
3.5 oz. Lye
8 oz. Water
You can choose to add organic baby food oatmeal (about ½ cup) to your recipe or you can leave it out. Baby food oatmeal is very smooth unlike regular oatmeal or even finely blended oatmeal.
You can keep the soap free of any fragrance or you can add Lavendar Essential Oil. Lavendar is frequently added to baby items because of its calming effect. Essential Oils are natural versus a fragrance oil which is synthetic. I would avoid a fragrance oil or you will not have organic natural baby soap. You would need about 1 oz. of Essential Oil.
This recipe makes 8 – 4 oz. bars of soap. If you do not wish to make this much you can cut the recipe down, but I personally think it is easier to make a bigger batch (like twice this amount) rather than a smaller amount.
If you have never made soap before and thought of making soap terrifies you, you can check out my website at How to Make Soap. I offer an on-line or DVD video soap making tutorial that show you how easy it is to make soap right in your own kitchen. Dozens have already learned how to make soap and many have started their very own soap making businesses. You can make organic natural baby soap yourself!

Loofah Soap Instructions

A brief outline for loofah soap instructions.

First begin with your favorite soap recipe. It can be a cold processed soap or a melt & pour recipe. You will need

• plastic PVC pipe (probably about a three inch diameter or so)
• loofah sponge (which is the inside dried membrane of the loofah gourd)
• your favorite soap recipe.

If you use a cold process soap, make sure you pour the soap while it is at light trace so it can penetrate into the gourd. Also be sure you allow the soap to saponify and cure 4 weeks.

Basically you get your items ready. You need to put your loofah into your PVC pipe and seal one end - which I do with freezer paper and masking tape. I use several short sections of the PVC pipe because it is easier to remove the soap from shorter sections than it is from a giant long pipe. When your soap is ready to pour, slowly put the soap into the mold. Again, I would seal the open end so there is no leaking. Insulate cold process soap and cool melt & pour soap. You will need to remove the soap, slice and cure. You may want to device a utensil with a round flat end that can push your soap out of the mold. You also may or may not want to lightly grease the mold.

This is a basic sketch that a seasoned soap maker will understand. If you are new to soap making you can check out my website at Easy Soap Making Steps. I offer an on-line tutorial or DVD which as helped dozens of individuals learn how to make soap. Many are now successfully running their own home-based businesses. 100% of the purchase price goes to help orphans through Impact Ministries International.

How to Make Dishwasher Soap

Making your own Dishwasher Soap is very easy. I have very hard water and have struggled to find a good dishwasher soap that cleans my dishes without leaving residue. Once I learned how to make dishwasher soap, I was finally a happy women. I use this dishwasher soap and I put vinegar in the rinse area of my dishwasher and my dishes look sparkly. Better yet I do not have to worry about harsh chemicals going down my drain.
Here is how you make your own dishwasher soap:
Mix together 2 cups baking soda and 1 1/2 cups borax. Fill the soap dispenser with this mixture for each wash. Fill the rinse dispenser with vinegar.