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Learn how to make your own soap

Easy Cold Process Soap Recipes for Beginners
Are you new to Cold Process Soap Making? These simple CP recipes are a great way to wet your feet! We will keep adding recipes to this page, so please check back soon!


SAFETY REMINDER!
Remember, the lye water mixture is always added to the oil and not vice versa.


If you are new to cold process soapmaking, please purchase a book and read about the serious safety issues associated with lye. A good book to start with is Susan Miller Cavitch's "The SoapMakers Companion." When handling lye, please use gloves and goggles and do not breathe in the fumes.


General Instructions:
1. Suit up in safety goggles, gloves and long sleeves.
2. Add the lye to the water. Stir well taking precautions to not breathe in the fumes. Set the mixture to the side and allow it to cool to approximately 110F. You can put the lye water mixture outside if you are not in a well ventilated area.
3. Add all your oils together and melt. Allow them to cool to approximately 110F, or within 5 degrees of the lye water.
4. Add the lye water mixture to the melted oils, carefully. Stir vigorously until trace occurs. Trace looks like a thin pudding. A stick blender will help speed trace along. If you are stirring by hand, these recipes may take up to an hour to trace.
5. Pour your traced soap mixture into your molds. Pop out after 3 to 5 days and allow to sit for a full 4 to 6 weeks to cure and finish the saponification process.


Beginner 4.5 pound Soap Recipe - makes just under 4.5 lbs of soap

16oz Canola Oil

16oz Coconut Oil

16oz Palm Oil

6.9oz Lye (5% superfatted)

15.8oz Water


Beginner 6.5 pound Soap Recipe - makes just over 6.5 lbs of soap
5oz Canola Oil
5oz Castor Oil
32oz Coconut Oil
32oz Palm Oil
11 oz Lye (5% superfatted)
24.4 oz Water