https://ohlardy.com/many-benefits-soap-making/ Learn. Nourish. Live. Fri, 13 May 2016 18:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://ohlardy.com/many-benefits-soap-making/#comment-573638 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 06:03:26 +0000 https://ohlardy.com/?p=11539#comment-573638 I have been making my own soap for many years now. I give it away to all my friends and co-workers. It has 4 ingredients: biodiesel glycerin, sodium hydroxide (lye), coconut oil, and water. The resultant bars are soft and only last about 6 – 7 showers. Since it is plentiful, I didn’t mind. But I wondered if I could make the bars last a bit longer by somehow making them harder. So I added some sodium lactate. That did the trick. It hardened up the bars nicely. I wondered if I could harden them up even more. So I reduced the amount of coconut oil and added lauric acid. Wow! What a difference that made! Now my bars are nearly as long-lasting as commercially made soaps. The get me super clean, leave my skin nice and smooth, and cost me about $.30 each! I make eighty (that’s 80) 8.2 oz bars (that’s more than a half pound each) in about 35 minutes. It’s awesome! I’ll never go back!

]]> https://ohlardy.com/many-benefits-soap-making/#comment-562246 Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:25:04 +0000 https://ohlardy.com/?p=11539#comment-562246 I have five favorites. I is coffee and cocoa with lemon oil. Good antioxidant, wake me up and cellulite. 2. Cucumber and jojoba and emu oil very gentle face soap. 3. Himalayan salt and kelp. It smells so good and the salt is an excellent scrubber. 4 turmeric and roseh soap an excellent antioxidant soap. 5. Carrot & avocado with tea tree oil it is so moisturizing, but also good for skin conditions. I could keep naming them down.

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