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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Beautiful Looped Swirl Soap

Print out a 4x6 recipe card Swirling is a soapers term for stirring color through lightly traced soap. Since swirling is really stirring, the less you stir, the better the color definition will be. To create a beautiful loop swirl the raw soap needs to be very liquid. Be sure that you choose a fragrance oil that will not accelerate trace. Gather all of your supplies so that they are at your fingertips and always line your mold before you mix the oils and lye. If you have to stop to line your mold or get supplies from another room, the soap maybe too solid to swirl. The mold used in this recipe is a "Baltic Birchwood Mold". . gather your materials Gather materials blend colorants Mix colorants blend lye and oils Add lye to oils mixing oil and lye to trace Blend oils and lye blending your colors Mix colored soap pouring the soap

Pour into mold

Pouring the color swirling the colors Swirling colors

Fully swirled

Cut into bars Hardware you will need: Stainless Steel Pot Bowl for measuring Oils Bowl for measuring Lye Ladle Qty 2 - 4 Cup Measuring Cups 1/4 - Teaspoon Measuring Spoon 1-Tablespoon Measuring Spoon Pitcher for Lye Mixing Stick Blender Swirling Tool Soap Ingredients: 34 oz Lard 20 oz Palm oil 20 oz Olive oil 17 oz Palm Kernel oil 5 oz Castor Oil 31 oz Distilled Water 13.10 oz. Lye 2 oz Distilled Water (for mixing with colorants) 3 oz Bramble Berry Lavender FO (3oz = 6 tablespoons)

1/4 to 1/2 tsp. of Ultramarine Violet 1/8 tsp. of Ultramarine Blue Swirling Tool anything goes: chop sticks, end of a plastic spoon, end of your thermometer (my favorite) step one Mix your lye so that it can start cooling. step two Measure your oils and melt them in the stainless steel pot. step three Using your measuring cup, mix the ultra marine violet, ultramarine blue and the 2 oz of distilled water. Set aside. step four After the lye and oils have cooled to between 110 and 115 degrees, slowly pour the lye into the oils. step five Using your stick blender, blend the oils and lye to a light trace. step six Add your Fragrance Oil. Mix lightly with your stick blender. step seven Ladle 4 cups of the raw scented soap into the measuring cup with the colorants and water. Mix with your stick blender. Pour half of the colored soap into the 2nd measuring cup. step eight

Pour the remaining uncolored raw soap into the mold. Then, starting with the first cup, quickly pour the colored soap lengthwise in a back and forth pattern (about 3 lines) then do the same across the width of the mold. The colored soap should pour through the raw soap. step nine With the 2nd cup, wait about 2 minutes, then quickly but gently pour the remaining soap in the same patterns across the length and width of the mold. Gently pour the soap so that the color sits on top of the soap in the mold. step ten Time to swirl! Make sure that the end of your swirling stick is touching the bottom of the mold at all times. Starting at the top right corner, going across the width of the mold, start making the loop pattern. Try not to overlap the loops. I do 3 loops per row and usually 4 rows per mold. Its just like scribbling. When you reach the bottom left corner, you are done. step eleven Cover your mold and insulate for 24 hours. After 24 hours cut the slab into bars. Let the soap cure for at least 3 weeks. finished bars The finished product: beautiful, looped swirl soaps http://www.teachsoap.com/swirlsoap.html
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Handmade Soap Industry in the Philippines

Though easy to make, soap business is hard to sustain. There are many ways to be involved in the soap industry: 1. Manufacturing - small scale (small business) - large scale (commercial) 2. Distribution and Marketing 3. Training 4. Supply of Raw Materials Manufacturing is easy to start. You do not even need to buy equipment. Your old kitchenware is good enough to start. The issue might be where to find raw materials. But this eBook on "How to Make Soap" in Philippines will tell you the cheapest places to get the natural chemicals you need for your soap. There are many issues in sustaining the soap business: 1. These days, many people are trying to enter the soap market. They are either distributors, wholesalers or manufacturers. Why? It's very easy to make and there are people available to teach you how to make soap. You can even learn how to make soap yourself without a need of any trainer. Hence there is a lot of competition. This competition also squeeze the margin of the distributors and business owners because they need to be a least competitive in pricing. Many manufacturers these days can easily copy formulations of the soaps that are sold in the market (handmade/organic/natural soaps). 2. The high cost of raw materials squeeze the profits of manufacturers and

distributors. 3. As your business grows, the harder it is to handle the production so there should be quite an allocation for expansion. Usually, when the expansion happens, there is also presence of higher fixed costs and additional labor. I'll write more about the issues in setting up soap business. But this bookis your easiest way to learn it: 1. How to start a business in Philippines, what are the rules and benefits? 2. How to make good soap? Invent a breakthrough formulation! 3. How to property price your product and more!
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Soap Making Trick 1

I've always considered soap making as a craft. I'd like to share with you some ideas I have in making creative soaps. Check out this soap. How do you make a soap similar to this?

Simple! Use a cheese grater. Well, not just any simple cheese grater. Choose one that has bigger holes on them.

All you have to do is look for old soaps (unused ones that still look good). An old soap with color is suitable especially if the color is complementary to the base soap's color. Or, you may also use scrap soaps. Steps: 1. Grate your scrap soaps. Just grate up to 1% weight out of the total weight of the whole soap mixture. 2. Sprinkle the grated soap to the mixture 1 to 2 hrs after you have poured the mixture into the mould. Note that the mixture has to be slightly viscous already so that the grated scrap soaps would stay on top of the mixture. 3. After 3 hours to 4 hours, gently press the grated scrap soaps to the mixture. 4. Wait for 2 to 3 days (until your soap because hard enough to be taken out of the mold).
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Monday, August 18, 2008

How to Make Soap in the Philippines

This book contains all the most significant information for soap making in the Philippines. Contents include: 1. Formulations and soap recipes 2. Supplier lists 3. Types of oils 4. Soap making equipment 5. Safety and troubleshooting measures in soap making 6. Costing and Pricing 7. Packaging Ideas and so much more! Learn how to make soap and build a small business here in Philippines! For business consultations, please contact bizventures15@gmail.com You can have this book for only Php 500! Payment modes: Paypal, Credit card, Wire Transfer, Bank Transfer, Western Union
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

History of Soap
The origins of personal cleanliness date back to prehistoric times. Since water is essential for life, the earliest people lived near water and knew something about its cleansing properties - at least that it rinsed mud off their hands.

A soap-like material found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800 B.C. Inscriptions on the cylinders say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is a method of making soap, but do not refer to the purpose of the "soap." Such materials were later used as hair styling aids. Records show that ancient Egyptians bathed regularly. The Ebers Papyrus, a medical document from about 1500 B.C., describes combining animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to form a soap-like material used for treating skin diseases, as well as for washing At about the same time, Moses gave the Israelites detailed laws governing personal cleanliness. He also related cleanliness to health and religious purification. Biblical accounts suggest that the Israelites knew that mixing ashes and oil produced a kind of hair gel.

The early Greeks bathed for aesthetic reasons and apparently did not use soap. Instead, they cleaned their bodies with blocks of clay, sand, pumice and ashes, then anointed themselves with oil, and scraped off the oil and dirt with a metal instrument known as a strigil. They also used oil with ashes. Clothes were washed without soap in streams. Soap got its name, according to an ancient Roman legend, from Mount Sapo, where animals were sacrificed. Rain washed a mixture of melted animal fat, or tallow, and wood ashes down into the clay soil along the Tiber River. Women found that this clay mixture made their wash cleaner with much less effort. The ancient Germans and Gauls are also credited with discovering a substance called soap, made of tallow and ashes, that they used to tint their hair red. As Roman civilization advanced, so did bathing. The first of the famous Roman baths, supplied with water from their aqueducts, was built about 312 B.C. The baths were luxurious, and bathing became very popular. By the second century A.D., the Greek physician, Galen, recommended soap for both medicinal and cleansing purposes.

After the fall of Rome in 467 A.D. and the resulting decline in bathing habits, much of

Europe felt the impact of filth upon public health. This lack of personal cleanliness and related unsanitary living conditions contributed heavily to the great plagues of the Middle Ages, and especially to the Black Death of the 14th century. It wasn't until the 17th century that cleanliness and bathing started to come back into fashion in much of Europe. Still there were areas of the medieval world where personal cleanliness remained important. Daily bathing was a common custom in Japan during the Middle Ages. And in Iceland, pools warmed with water from hot springs were popular gathering places on Saturday evenings.

Source: http://www.cleaning101.com/cleaning/history/
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The right soap mold

This is a soap mold. It's made of wood and it's formica-lined (to make it easier to take off the soap) once it dries. This mold suits 100 soaps at least, from 90g to 135g bars. This mold can be customized easily by a local carpenter for less than Php1000. If you make soap just for personal use, you don't need this type of mold. You can use old plastic containers, tupperwares or old plastic ice cream containers. Just make sure you do not use aluminum containers as the NaOH solution and oil mixture would still react with the aluminum as the soap cures. If you use plastic containers, sometimes, the soap just falls off of it when you turn it around. It's best to put some cling wrap as you pour the soap to its mold. This way, you can easily demold the soap after 2 to 3 days. Sometimes though, if you didn't put

the plastic cover properly, the soap would take the shape of the improperly placed plastic.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

How to Make Soap

I started making soap when I started complaining about the dryness of my skin even just after having a shower. I have looked for moisturizing soaps in the grocery but found them above my budget. Fortunately, I got into soap making through a good friend. I used to buy soap from her first but got increasingly interested in making my own. I have certain extracts and other natural ingredients that I want in my soap so I had to make one. I researched all over the internet, read books and attended a government-led soap making seminar. After a time, I have accumulated voluminous amount of research material. I put my research into practice, too, by being involved in the handmade, natural soap industry. Now, I'd like to share my knowledge to everyone interested in making their own soap. It's not rocket science and even ten-year olds can do it. If you are interested in making soaps, feel free to email me anytime at valuesourcer@gmail.com
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How to Make Soap

I started making soap when I started complaining about the dryness of my skin even just after having a shower. I have looked for moisturizing soaps in the grocery but found them above my budget. Fortunately, I got into soap making through a good friend. I used to buy soap from her first but got increasingly interested in making my own. I have certain extracts and other natural ingredients that I want in my soap so I had to make one. I researched all over the internet, read books and attended a government-led soap making seminar. After a time, I have accumulated voluminous amount of research material. I put my research into practice, too, by being involved in the handmade, natural soap industry. Now, I'd like to share my knowledge to everyone interested in making their own soap. It's not rocket science and even ten-year olds can do it. If you are interested in making soaps, feel free to email me anytime at bizventures15@gmail.com

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