Learn to make beautiful bath and body products from scratch. Here you find free tutorials for making cold process soaps, bath bombs, body butters, face masks, serums and a lot more.
I’ve been resisting using handmade soap on my face for the longest time. My own handmade soap mind you – where I know exactly how it’s made and what went in. I always had in the back of my mind what had been drilled into our heads at esthetitian school: “Never ever use soap on your face”.
I could see, that for someone with very oily, acne prone skin a nice bar of charcoal tea tree soap could be beneficial, but for my dry and sensitive skin? Uh, no thanks.
…Beware: After 5 weeks of cure time I noticed the two bottom layers starting to fade. I’m working on an updated tutorial for you, in the meantime I hope you find this information helpful nonetheless.
Indigo is an interesting natural colorant to work with in cold process soap. As with most natural colorants you never quite know what you’re going to get. The color results can vary greatly from greenish to grayish blue depending on the type of indigo used and how it’s incorporated into the soap.
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I’ve had quite a few requests for a shampoo bar, so I’ve been going through my notes to find an easy recipe for you guys.
Isn’t a shampoo bar the same as a body bar, you ask?
Not exactly. This is what I’ve learned over the years: A great shampoo bar makes a good body bar, but a great body bar does NOT make a good shampoo bar….
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Yeah, we’re finally here! I’m going to show you how to make soap today, how exciting! Well, lets get to it – and don’t miss the detailed photos of each step of the process toward the end of this post….