Soap

If you are going to make transparent soaps, it would be good if you already had some experience in making soaps. At least you made cold soap. Making transparent soaps is the most complicated process in making soaps and certainly not something to start. In essence it all comes down to the recipe process and it is not impossible for a novice to bring it out. Everything is possible! However, to understand and master the whole technique, you need certain experience, understanding and knowledge. Only then will it become an adventure through which you are learning and enjoying! The process of making transparent soaps coincides with one part with a cold process of soap making. A detailed description of the cold process is described in the "Soap Making Process". You should follow all the initial steps to point 8, ie until the soap mass is mixed with a rod mixer and traces it. When you perform point 8, you are ready for a process that will lead you to transparent soaps. The continua...

The game of light makes transparent soaps the most beautiful among all the soaps! Transparent soaps consist of crystals that stop in their growth and sunlight can penetrate through the soap. During saponification, each soap passes through the colloidal phase. Colloid is similar to gel, made up of larger molecules, but small enough to remain suspended in a liquid medium without deposition at the bottom. As soap cools, long fibrous crystals begin to develop. These crystals are increasing, they become more and more and more overlap. The light rays can no longer pass through the soap, the translucency (transparency) of the colloid condition disappears and the soap becomes mutant. Transparent soap is made by a warm process. The procedure is quite the same as any other soap obtained by the hot process. The difference is only in one moment, and that is when the soap passes into the colloidal phase. All the soaps during the preparation pass through the colloidal phas...

Transparent soaps are the most beautiful thing you can do when making soaps. Flower Among Soaps! This would be a pinnacle of skills in making soaps. The problem with these soaps was the lack of information. Transparent soaps do not have a long history and are made only for two hundred years. Compared to classic soaps it is very short since people have been making soaps for two thousand years. Companies that managed to make transparent soap kept the recipe as a business secret. That is why it is no surprise that until recently there were no recipes or guidelines for making these soaps. What might have existed was confusing and they always falsified certain parts of the process. Only in the recent times somehow they began to circulate information. On the internet you can find enough information for a solid start. That's how I started. I am sure that my experience will serve many people and that the matter will be further developed. I do not believe in keeping information and therefo...

Soap has cleaned us for centuries, but few people understand what is actually happening. When your soap is an important food item in the household and rely on it, I think it is important to clear up with the principle of soap cleansing. The principle of cleansing lies in the molecular structure of water, oils and soaps. Water is a bipolar molecule. One of its ends, two hydrogen atoms, is positively charged; the other end, the oxygen atom, is negative. This bipolar nature gives the water the character of cohesion or mutual attraction between the water molecule. This feature is most noticeable when the drinking glass is filled with water to the top. The water is actually standing over the edge without spilling. The mutual attractiveness of a water molecule makes water incompatible with oil. This is because the oil has an electrical charge that is uniform. In oil there are no positive and negative poles of the molecule. In order to connect the water and the oil, it is necessary to look s...

Before entering warm process it would be good to master the basic process of making soap (cold process). The essence of the warm process is that you finish the saponification by cooking, not by drying as in a cold process. The cold process is better in the sense that highly valuable oil ingredients remain preserved and are not destroyed by thermal treatment. In the event of liquid soap must apply hot process. These pictures and process were written just when I was making liquid soap. Hot-prepared soaps are immediately ready for use. Cold process are exactly the same moment to mix a solution of the base, and distilled water. In a hot process, you can already mix it in an inox pot where you will cook. This means that prepared and washed oils are immediately put into an inox cooking pot and added to the solution of the base. So add the solution to the oil, not the reverse. You do not have to wait for temperature equalization as in the cold procedure, as everything is still cooked. With ...

Adding fat to soap is an important procedure if you want to alleviate the effect of soap and utilize the properties of high quality oils. Such a process will also alleviate the pH of the soap produced. Keep in mind that greasy soaps are less clean, softer, but are more comfortable for the skin. When making soap, in soap always add fat by calculating the discount. To make the soap acceptable for the skin, this procedure is indispensable. Calculation of discounted prescriptions is the standard method for making soaps and all about discounting discount calculations is described in the "Calculation of Ingredients" section. There is another way of adding fat soap that is by adding fat when mixing the soap trace. The scrubbing process by adding trace oil will work when you want to further soften the soap and utilize the properties of high quality oils. In other words, the base will not spoil those high-grade oils that you added later on. Before that you...