Making your homemade soap, with natural ingredients, it’s possible … and easy! Here are 5 saponification recipes to reproduce at home.
Scrub, shampoo, mask, toothpaste, deodorant … Everything is made at home provided you have the right ingredients and a little patience. And it also applies to soaps! In addition to being ecological, the House soap is also very economical. The principle of saponification is summed up as follows: a base, a fatty substance, a liquid. Note that making a soap from A to Z requires the use of soda. A dangerous product to handle with care. To avoid any inconvenience, here are some tips: bring up with gloves and protective glasses, always put the soda in the water and not the opposite, place yourself outside or in a ventilated space, protect your worktop …
Oat and borage soap
Ingredients :
- 200 g coconut oil
- 650 g olive oil
- 50 g rapeseed oil
- 50 g sunflower oil
- 50 g borage oil
- 136 g of caustic soda
- 330 g of water
- 4 g of peppermint essential oil
- 15 g of lavender or lavandin essential oil
- 15 g of Eucalyptus Globulus essential oil
- 10 g oatmeal
Preparation Steps:
- Weigh the soda, dissolve it in 330 g of water and put aside
- Melt the coconut fat, then add the liquid oils
- Weigh essential oils while the soda solution and oils cool
- Finely grind oatmeal using an electric coffee mill
- Incorporate them into essential oils
- Once the two mixtures reach approximately 45 ° C, pour the soda solution into the oils and mix well
- Incorporate essential oils and oats by mixing
- Pour in a mold
Citrus soap
Ingredients :
- 250 g coconut oil
- 150 g virgin palm oil
- 150 g shea butter
- 450 g olive oil
- 136 g of caustic soda
- 350 g of water
- 5 g Ylang-Ylang essential oil
- 15 g lemon essential oil
- 15 g of grapefruit essential oil
- 15 g Bergamot essential oil
Preparation Steps:
- Weigh the soda, dissolve it in 350 g of water and put aside
- Melt coconut, palm and shea butter fats, then add olive oil
- Weigh essential oils while the soda solution and oils cool
- Once the two mixtures reach approximately 42 ° C, pour the soda solution into the oils and mix well
- Incorporate essential oils and mix well
- Pour in a mold
Coffee soap
Ingredients :
- 280 g coconut oil
- 130 g shea butter
- 60 g cocoa butter
- 30 g of beeswax
- 450 g olive oil
- 50 g castor oil
- 136 g of caustic soda
- 330 g of coffee (liquid)
- 8 g sage essential oil
- 8 g thyme essential oil
- 33 g soft orange essential oil
- 1 tablespoon of ground coffee
Preparation Steps:
- Weigh the soda, then dissolve it in 330 g of cooled coffee and put aside
- Melt coconut, shea, cocoa fat with beeswax, then add the oils
- While the soda solution and the oils cool, weigh the essential oils and add the ground coffee
- When the two mixtures reach approximately 45 ° C, pour the soda solution into the oils and mix well
- Incorporate essential oils with ground coffee
- Pour in a mold
Recipes from the book I create my natural soapsLiving Terre editions.
Honey and rosewood soap
Ingredients :
- 450 g olive oil
- 250 g coconut oil
- 100 g of sunflower oil
- 108 g of soda
- 302 g of water
- 10 ml of pure rosewood essential oil
- 2 tablespoons of liquid honey
Preparation Steps:
- Weigh coconut fat and melt it in a double boiler
- Put protective glasses and gloves and open the window to weigh the soda in a glass
- Weigh the water in a carafe. Prepare a basin of cold water. Carefully pour the soda into the water while mixing with a spatula. When all the soda is dissolved, place the carafe in its cold water bath to reach 29 ° C
- Add the olive oil and sunflower oil to the liquefied coconut fat. The whole must also reach 29 ° C
- When the two mixtures are at all temperature, pour the soda solution into the oils
- Mix with the blender in one hand and the spatula in the other until the appearance of the trace
- Stir in pink clay and liquid honey slightly heated to the mixer
- Incorporate the essential oil into the spatula
- Pour in a mold
Purifying soap
Ingredients :
- 450 g olive oil
- 250 g coconut oil
- 100 g of sunflower oil
- 108 g of soda
- 302 g of water
- 10 ml of cedar wood essential oil
- 5 ml of juniper essential oil
- 3 ml of cypress essential oil
- 1 tablespoon of fine green clay (optional)
Preparation Steps:
- Follow the previous recipe to step 6
- Once the trace is obtained, incorporate the green clay into the blender and then the essential oils to the spatula
- Pour in a mold
Recipes from the book Make your natural soapsJouvence editions
