In a double boiler, melt glycerin soap base. Meanwhile, melt the shea butter seperately.
Combine the glycerin base, shea butter, and essential oil (if using).
Pour into molds. Cool completely before unmolding.
Using a heavy saucepan, melt the soap over low heat until it is liquid.
Remove pan from heat.
Stir in cinnamon oil and food coloring.
Pour soap into a mold and let it set for 3 hours.
Unmold and enjoy.
Break the glycerin in 1x1 inches squares.(some
Mix all three ingredients together.
Glycerin makes bubbles more resilient.
Make bubble wands out of pipe cleaners.
Don't throw the leftovers away, it gets better with age.
Mix pulverized laundry starch with cold water.
Pour in boiling water and stir quickly.
Cook the mixture over low heat about 3 minutes until the surface becomes glossy.
Remove from heat and add soap flakes and glycerin as a preservative.
Place the mixture in small jars and color with a few drops of different vegetable dyes.
Cut the bar of soap into small squares that will fit into the pump bottle.
Put them in the bottle (1/4 bar to 8 oz water) Add water to fill bottle.
Let sit an hour or two, shaking once in a while.
You will have a great liquid soap that will make your hands feel soft!
As you use up the liquid add more water until all the chunks of soap are gone.
Then add more soap!
The chunks of soap actually look pretty in the container.
I bet the high end stores come out with this in a few months!
Grate the soap, or chop into tiny pieces using a very sharp knife
Bend a coat hanger into a loop.
Mix detergent with water. Measure carefully, it makes a big difference.
Stir slowly.
Add glycerin.
Pour solution into frying pan, dip hanger loop and wave into the air.
The longer the solution sits, the better it gets.
Combine ingredients.
Glycerin will make bubbles iridescent. Blow bubbles through wire loops or spools.
To make lots of bubbles outdoors, place fly swatter in soapy water and swing it around.
Dissolve the can of lye in the water, stirring to cool it. The tallow should be neither warm nor hard.
Very slowly pour the lye into the tallow in a thin steady stream, stirring it all continuously.
Then without stopping, add the glycerin, lavender and ammonia.
Beat until creamy and smooth.
Pour into small forms.
When hard, it is ready to use.
Mix Dawn with water and glycerin in a dishpan.
Make bubble blowers from a straw, a kitchen funnel or a thin wire shaped in creative forms.
For spectacular bubbles, thread a string through straws to form a circle, dip in bubble solution and wave out a large bubble.
Prepare your soap molds: Spray a very light
cheese grater.
Melt soap in 4 cups of water
Using your food processor, grate the soap bars, if you want a
Gently mix soap with water.
Do not shake.
Pour into foam soap dispenser.
Note: I used Dawn dishwashing liquid (apple blossom anti-bacterial soap) with great results.
I did a test run first using 1 tablespoon soap to 4 tablespoons water.
Shred soap using a grater.
Place in a large bowl.
Add water. Microwave on High for 5 to 6 minutes or until soap is dissolved. Stir every 2 minutes.
Let cool.
Mixture thickens as it cools. Fill pump-type soap dispenser.
hat if you have been using unsalted butter, and/or unsalted
Save your broken pieces of bath soap by dropping in a quart jar with lid.
Keep closed.
When full, place soap in bowl in microwave.
Set on Medium power, about 10 minutes.
When soap chips begin to puff up, stir.
Do this several times.
Spray small plastic containers with pan coating.
When soap chips are melted, use a spoon back dipped in water to pat soup firmly down in containers.
Let dry overnight and cut to size if too large.
Let dry a week before use.
Make soap outside using an iron pot or enamel kettle.
Put water in kettle and carefully add the lye.
Avoid breathing the fumes.
Pour grease slowly into the lye water, stirring all the time with a wooden paddle or a wooden spoon.
Stir until the mixture thickens.
Let cool overnight and cut into bars.
Store in a dry place.
Grind the almonds to a fine powder in a food processor or coffee grinder and set aside.
Shred the soap and set aside.
In a heavy saucepan bring the water to a boil; then reduce heat to a simmer and add the shredded soap until it is melted.
Remove the pan from the heat and add the almond powder, almond oil, and vanilla fragrance oil, stirring until well blended.
Spoon the soap into a mold and let set for five hours or until hardened.
Use it in the shower!
Enjoy!