You may want to purchase a soap making kit from your local arts and crafts store, but if not, you can make a basic hand soap using ingredients already in your kitchen. To do this you will need a few supplies for mixing and molding your home made soap. Before starting, you will need to have various plastic molds, such as, plastic pudding or jell-o cups, butter containers, or cut off the bottom of plastic bottles. These items should be cleaned and dried. Use caution when using lye, it can burn your skin or damage counter tops, and do not use aluminum containers to mix your soap.
Follow the steps below and you will learn how to make your own hand soap.
1. You will need large plastic bowl for mixing the soap ingredients in, a wooden spoon, and plastic gloves to protect your hands from the lye mixture.
2. The soap ingredients include lye, vegetable shortening fat, water, and lemon juice. Once you have assembled your ingredients and supplies you can now make your soap, be sure to use your gloves before mixing the soap.
3. In a large plastic container place ¼-cup cold water, with the wooden spoon gently stir in 1 Tablespoon of lye.
4. Slowly add 1/2 cup of lukewarm melted vegetable shortening. Continue to stir until slightly thickened.
5. Add 1 Talbelspoon lemon juice stirring until thoroughly mixed together.
6. When mixing is completed, pour soap into the plastic molds.
7. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand for 24 hours.
8. Remove the wrap from the molds and let the soap air dry for 14 days.
9. Remove soap from molds.
10. This will make two medium bars of hand soap. To store wrap soap in plastic wrap or plastic container.
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