Soap Making

 I found a few videos on it when I was looking up how to make bath bombs on About.com.  I like that site. 

Try here, it should have some links for supplies.

I am working on saving a couple of buckets to make my own laundry soap myself :)

Truley

I am working on saving a couple of buckets to make my own laundry soap myself :)

I think my mom would love that idea!! :)

I priced it, the bar of soap was about $1.49, the borax was like $3.59 and the washing soda $2.69. Total, about $10 to make a couple gallons of laundry soap if you take in account water and anything else you add. The "soap" does not have suds and it suppose to do a good job.

Here is the link:

http://www.thefrugalshopper.com/articles/detergent.shtml

 Hmmm... I wonder what is special about that bar of soap?  It gives you a few different subs to use in place of it, but they seem pretty vague.  I have about 5 bars of some kind of soap that I really don't like in my cupboard, I wonder if i could use those. 

I tried the whole soap making thing and my first couple batches didnt come out to well just simply because it was hardening before I could swirl in color and stuff.  Once I started using the double boiler it works better.  I just did melt and pour as the cold press seems difficult and much more involved.  The books I got were "Everything Soapmaking" and "Smart Soapmaking" I think.  The Smart Soapmaking is really for the cold process soap and not really melt and pour. They have little kits at Michaels and stuff but the soap base isn't really good and doesnt lather very well.  Yahoo has groups for soapmaking and you can join that and learn from the gang there.  I only made a few batches and havent had the time to make some in a while.  Maybe this weekend :)

Huskymom, there are a few different bars you can use, lever 2000 and Ivory are a couple that come to mind, basically if you use it on your body it should work. I will try and find the site that listed the other bars.

This soap making business is getting more interesting by the day. Where can you find lye?

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