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I am new to this forum. If I should go to WAHM or crafts or something please tell me and I will ask a mod to move the thread. My hubby is committed to bar soap, I am tired of his bellyaching..... so. I am gonna give in and get him bar soap for his shower, the kids and I will continue my homemande stuff and castile soap. How could I make some natural bar soap?
 

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I have hundred upon hundreds of bar soap recipes. It's pretty easy to make. Can you tell me what you're looking for - moisturizing, basic etc. I can give you the absolute most basic recipe or can help you with something a bit more fancy.
 

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Please pm me several. A basic, moisturizing and one that I can add essential oil to, lavendar for bedtime, tangerine or bergamot for morning and tea tree oil for his face prone to breakouts.

Thanks, Pm me or post here.

THANK YOU< AO MUCH!!!

Do you recommend any books?
 

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millersoap.com has a lot of great info. Including what different oils do in soap which is really useful. You can find some lye calculators at different sites (brambleberry.com has one) which you can use to make your own recipes.

for beginners the Handmade Soap book by Country Living is excellent. It has very basic recipes that are pretty easy to understand and most only use about 3 different oils (coconut, palm and olive)

For more complicated stuff the Soapmakers Companion is great but it gets pretty complicated and some of the recipes call for luxury oils which are pricey when you are first learning and might really have an "oops"

You should be able to add Eos to any recipe **BUT** I just want to warn you, citris EOS can fade pretty badly in soap, it can be tough to get tangerine and bergamont to stick. It is sad...you might want to save those for bath oils or maybe even make bath bombs for those. I made tangerine bath bombs once and they were super yummy!

Lime and litsea EO, I had better luck with and lemongrass, while not technically a citris, works very nicely in soap.

For acne, tea tree, a mint like peppermint or spearmint and lavender are great together and the mint makes it a nice morning bar.


What type of oils do you have availible??
 
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