Soap Making

Soap Making as a hobby can be very rewarding and with a little practice you can make the most wonderful bars of soap to use as gifts. The only limitation to what you can make is your imagination and the time spent in it’s actual manufacture. The first method is called a cold process and is the method described in my two recipes. An alternative to them is by using ready made glycerine soaps which you melt down before adding your colour or fragrance. This is a quick method and although far easier than doing the full process for me does not produce the same quality in the finished item. However for those of you with small children who want to make soap it would be the ...  Read the complete review

My Nan makes soap. Not the fancy kind like you buy in shops like Lush, all colourful and textured and looking good enough to eat. My Nan uses an age-old technique, no doubt taught to her by HER grandmother, called "saving up all the old slivers of soap to make a brand new bar." This, quite simply, is genius. Everyone hates the last few days of a bar of soap. The once proud bar sits forlornly in the dish, cracked, discoloured, it's Imperial Leather sticker peeling and faded. Trying to use it for even rudimentary ablutions is a minefield. Will it crack in two during vigorous lather production? Will it get trodden on, and secure ...  Read the complete review