5.23Debby+how to make soap?

How to make soap?

To make cold process soap, you'll heat your choice of oils in a soap pot until they reach approximately 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, you'll slowly add a lye-water mixture and blend the soap until it thickens to trace. After the mixture reaches trace, add fragrance, color, and additives, then pour it into a mold.

simply put:

Mixing: Mix the oil with the lye to begin the saponification process.

Shaping: Pour the mixture into molds and allow to set.

Curing: The soap is cured for several weeks to harden and complete the chemical process.

Is soap biodegradable?

A soap is generally considered to be biodegradable as long as at least 90% of it breaks down into water, carbon dioxide and biological material within six months of being discarded.

how does soap work?

When you wash with soap and water the soap molecules grab on to the fat molecules and pulls them off the skin into the rinse water. When your rinse the skin the fat and germs are removed from the skin. Therefore, the main reason why soap works to cleanse and sanitise is it literally washes everything off the skin.