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Younger generations are always looking for new and inventive ways to be more eco friendly and cost saving. One of the best ways to do this is to make your own natural soaps at home. By doing this, you will need some supplies but you also get to choose what fragrance, if desired, and what quantity you would like to produce.

Making your own natural soap can bring your peace of mind in two effective ways. You are no longer be a part of the chemical pollution that is harming the environment as the soaps are produced industrially and you can ensure that the ingredients you are using to make a soap are all natural and won't do any harm to your skin.

Making soaps might be time consuming but if you can make a handful of soap at a time it will be beneficial for your skin care and your pocketbook. You can use one of these three oils; like palm oil, olive or coconut oil as ingredients. You have to mix up this oil with water and lie. All you have to do is heating lye and water separately from the oil. When both lye and water meet the desired temperature they will combine together. You would want to stir or whisk this mixture until you are able to see stir lines on the top.

This is almost similar to making a pancake batter and the batter forms a raised line on top when a spoon is drugged across it. That is the consistency you are looking for. Once this consistency is fulfilled you would want to add the natural ingredients you have collected to make the soap your own. For instance, you can add beeswax to make it smooth or even cocoa butter to soften the skin. To make a successful natural soap though, you want to make sure to only use natural ingredients.

When you have instilled the ingredients you have collected you have to pour the soap mixture into pre-oiled molds. Normally the molds are brick shaped or tubular and you have to make sure that they are pre-greased with a vegetable oil otherwise when you try to remove from the molds they may not slide out easily without breaking. The soap mixture needs to be left in the molds to form for about 24 to 4 hours.

By this time the soap making procedure will go through many changes, for example, it may darken in color or even begin to bubble and might get warm. These changes are natural when the lye/water/oil mixture is set to rest after being emulsified together. This setting period of time neutralizes the soap and makes it fit to set into the chosen mold. Once again, it is absolutely important to remember that the molds should be made oily otherwise you will not be able to remove the soap from the molds easily to continue the process.

You will need to get a cool, dry place ready ahead of time to let your soap place after you have released it from the mold. The soaps then can be cut into any desired shapes and then needs to be placed on wire racks lined with preferably wax paper, and then set in the dry, cool, dark place to cure.

The whole curing process varies from 3 to 8 weeks. But when this curing process is done and the soap has dried out all the moisture it left, you will finally reach to a finished product. Most people are confused what they are using for their body washing and become relaxed knowing that the soaps they are using to clean their bodies and faces with are healthy and environment friendly to the community. This lesson can be passed to our next generations to come and is really a precious one.