Guest guest Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 No. I've spent a lot of time researching this, so if you get any positive answers I'd be delighted. But I really don't think there is such a thing as chemical and lye-free soap. If it lathers and washes you, there IS chemicals or WAS lye in it, no way round it. And the great unwashed insist on foaming bath products - you could attempt a re-education programme I suppose - good luck! I personally believe that lye soap is the best and gentlest option, if cured correctly. It's certainly the most traditional type of soap and there should be no lye left in the final product. I've been making my own for a few years, and it's marvellous stuff, I happily use it for my kids and my own sensitive skin. Lots of fun to make too for anyone who enjoyed chemistry lessons at school - I get total respect at home on soapmaking days! But you'd need to get cracking if you wanted it ready for Christmas bazaars as it will need 4 weeks to cure and you have to make a few batches to learn what you are doing. You can always make face/body scrubs (oats, lavender, kaolin type things or based on seasalt) or lots of other possibilities if not keen on lye soap. But don't be fooled by glycerine soap bases, they really are a dubious mix of chemicals. Robyn Bullen@... wrote: >Does anyone out there have a decent recipe for making soap that doesn't >contain lye and/or other chemicals but still does what it is supposed to do (lather >up/wash your body). Fiddler - do you have anything you'd like to >share? Any advice or sources of suppliers of raw materials gratefully received. >The soap doesn't necessarily have to be therapeutic, we just want to make some >to sell at Christmas bazaars, etc. > >Thank you in advance, > Bullen MNIMH, MCPP >SE London > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hi , I have 'made' some soap to sell many times before, but stuck with the difficulty of ingredients of the base, as well as probable restrictions on making such things from scratch, I ended up buying in a glycerine base of both clear and opaque soaps. I just melted them down, added herbs, essential oils and natural colouring like alkanet root, cocoa powder etc and sold them. I made one with palmarosa and rose essential oil in opaque soap base with alkanet for colour and pink rose buds on the top (pushed into semi-soft soap) that sold like hot cakes. All you need then is a mould- I used tupperware boxes and lined cake tins to great effect. Good luck, Love Hannahx Soap making Does anyone out there have a decent recipe for making soap that doesn't contain lye and/or other chemicals but still does what it is supposed to do (lather up/wash your body). Fiddler - do you have anything you'd like to share? Any advice or sources of suppliers of raw materials gratefully received. The soap doesn't necessarily have to be therapeutic, we just want to make some to sell at Christmas bazaars, etc. Thank you in advance, Bullen MNIMH, MCPP SE London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hi again, Just to clarify matters, these kinds of soaps from glycerine bases can look lovely and certainly sell well, but they are very definitely full of dubious chemicals. Although no more so than the rest of the toxic slurry that people spread over themselves in the names of hygiene and beauty, and don't we all make compromises? Just don't imagine that they offer a safer alternative to lye soap - except that I suppose the lack of toxic fumes is an advantage for the people actually making it. Robyn Hannah Barton wrote: >Hi , >I have 'made' some soap to sell many times before, but stuck with the >difficulty of ingredients of the base, as well as probable restrictions on >making such things from scratch, I ended up buying in a glycerine base of >both clear and opaque soaps. I just melted them down, added herbs, essential >oils and natural colouring like alkanet root, cocoa powder etc and sold >them. I made one with palmarosa and rose essential oil in opaque soap base >with alkanet for colour and pink rose buds on the top (pushed into semi-soft >soap) that sold like hot cakes. All you need then is a mould- I used >tupperware boxes and lined cake tins to great effect. > >Good luck, >Love Hannahx > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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