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Bar Soap Making Procedure & Ingredients (How To Make Laundry Bar Soap At Home From Scratch)

Published on February 29, 2020

Step By Step Instruction For Making Laundry Bar At Home. The Procedure And Instruction You Need Is Included

How To Make Laundry Bar Soap At Home From Scratch

In this extra special project, I will show you how I make my homemade laundry bars from scratch.

Note: This is not the cut and melt project, it is something I did from scratch and I am proud to tell you that it came out beautifully even much much better than the synthetic laundry bars we buy from store.

I used 2 oils, lye, borax and lemon essential oils. See the full recipe below

Homemade Bar Soap Making Ingredients

Distilled Water – 149 gram
Lye – 76 gram
Coconut oil – 315 gram
Palm Oil (Sustainable one) – 140gram
Borax – 28 gram (dissolved in hot water)
Lemon Essential Oil – 2 tablespoons

Homemade Bar Soap Making Procedure

Melt the oils (coconut oil and palm oil)
Prepare your lye solution, if you don’t know how to make one, watch the video below

Once your lye solution and oil reaches 53 degree celcius, pour the lye water into the oil.
Add your borax into the mixture
Even though I missed this part in the video, add a little bit of boiling water to the borax so as to allow it to dissolve before adding it into the lye and oil solution.
Using an immersion blender, blend until a trace forms.
Once a trace forms, add 2 table spoons of Lemon Essential oil
Mix with a spatula thoroughly and pour into the mold
Allow it to sit between 6 to 24 hours before unmolding
Allow your soap to cure for 2 to 4 weeks before using.

It takes this long for saponification to complete.

During this period, all the water and lye will have evaporated.

You can now use your soap to wash.

Here is how the soap came out 2 hours after.