My trips and tricks can cut your soap making cost, time and effort by half!

aking home made soap need not be a difficult process. Natural hand made soap can be made quickly and cheaply in as little as one hour (depending on the formulation) as soon as one understands the basics. After you learn how to make home made soap, all you need are the correct ingredients. And the proper techniques, of course. This is because soap is the product of a specific interaction between different chemicals. Therefore, it is very important that these ingredients are mixed together in the right amounts and the correct sequence.

You too can make soap at home without too much fuss. People have been manufacturing soap long before specialized machines for soap making were invented. Archaeological evidence has been found that the ancient Babylonians were among the first to make soap using a combination of water cassia oil and alkalis. The citizens of ancient Egypt created their soaps from animal fats, vegetable oils and alkaline salts and used these soaps for bathing and for cleaning wool. A full-blown soap factory has even been found in the ruins of Pompeii – complete with already made bars of soap. Even ancient Arabs were able to make their own soaps using various vegetable and aromatic oils.

All that information was presented to make a point: simply put, it is quite easy to make homemade soap even if you don’t have specialized, high end equipment. You can employ the standard, time-honored cold process which simply involves mixing lye and sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide with properly measured amounts of fats or oils. As the name cold process implies, this does not require heating of the ingredients. You can also personalize your homemade soap by adding essential oils, herbs and fragrances. You can then allow this mixture to cool in their moulds overnight.

One of the most popular methods of making homemade soaps is the "melt and pour" system, wherein one melts a ready made soap mix and adds their own preferred ingredients to personalize the soaps. The base mix is easy to create and is actually being sold in most handicraft goods outlets and is extremely cost-effective. After the base mix is heated, it is easy to add moisturizing oils, milk, or other spices to spice up your soap and add to its benefits. Once this has been done, you can then pour it into the mould of your choice.

There are a multitude of advantages to using homemade soap.

It is therefore no wonder that an increasing number of people would now choose to make their own homemade soap rather than buying it commercially.

How exactly can you make soap successfully, without the fuss, and without the waste that you would normally spend for from Do It Yourself kits? I will share with you secrets I have found from years of research. I’ve studied the process, tried what does not work, and found what really does work more effectively than any other processes.

In this book, you will learn:

	The best vegetable oils to use for specific types of lathering and hardness of your bars.
	Step-by-Step Instructions on Cold-Process, Hand-Milled and M&P Soap.
	A Shopping Guide for your first batch of soap.
	How to save your botched batch of soap.
	A secret that will allow you to make more soap with less base.
	How to speed up your soap making.
	A list of 30 soapmaking oils and their benefits.
	The basics of pH and how it affects your skin.
	Advanced soapmaking techniques for those who would like to improve their present soap making skills.
	Techniques on sorting and packaging.
	Skin and hair soap recipes you can make from scratch.
	Skin and hair soap recipes you can make from scratch.
	And many more!

Are you ready to join the thousands who have enjoyed this healthy, time-saving and cost-effective breakthrough?