53 Natural Colorants for Soap Making
While color may be a purely aesthetic feature of soap, it adds interest and variety, allowing you to show your crafting creativity. You can use micas, liquid dyes, and oxides,…
Making Candles and Soaps
The Types of Salt Used to Make Homemade Bath Salts
Making bath salts is an easy and gratifying craft that will transform your bath from an everyday experience to a spa-like retreat. In addition to ingredients like baking soda, starches,…
How to Label Your Soaps for Sale
If you’re making soap for sale, it’s important to label it properly. Not only do consumer want to know what’s in the product they are buying, but it’s important to…
How to Make Wine Glass Gel Candles
Making Wine Glass Gel Candles Ivo Noppen / Getty Images You may say “in vino veritas” but with these wine glass gel candles, you’ll also be able to say “vinum…
Create a Basic Homemade Soap Recipe
So you want to make some homemade soap? Just like consulting a cookbook, starting out by using a recipe from a book or website is great. It’s good to learn…
How to Keep Body Butter From Melting
If you make your own body butter and noticed a problem with your product liquefying at warmer temperatures, then it’s time to go back to the drawing board and tweak…
How to Safely Clean Your Soap-Making Tools
Finally, you have made your own perfect batch of soap. It has been measured, heated, blended, swirled, and finally poured into the mold. You cover the mold gently with a…
How to Make Candles: A Beginner Guide
While candles can make your home feel cozier, they don’t last forever and can be a little pricey. It’s easy to learn how to make candles; they contain three main…
Using Teas and Herbs in Your Homemade Soap
While you can make your lye solution with brewed tea, many soap makers like to use ground tea leaves in their soap instead, either as an additive or as a…
Use a Pre-Mixed Lye Solution in Soap Making
If you are into crafting and making your own soap, you are probably familiar with using dry/powdered lye for soap making. If you want to try something new or cannot…