Starting your own soap making journey? Then you should start making melt and pour soap, by buying a soap making kit. If you feel adventurous, go for cold process!
However, advanced cold process soap, with swirls and special ingredients, should only be attempted after trying for the simple recipes first. Hot process, rebatch and liquid soap are more advanced processes, leave them for last. I would actually advice to try first to rebatch soap before going for hot process or liquid soap, so that you have a feeling of using heat while making soap.
These posts will give you a general idea about the different soap making methods, where to buy soap making supplies (and what to purchase first!), and -very important- soap making safety:
Then you can find below all related posts for each soap making process, and even a category only to troubleshoot soap. Everything you need to help you making soap at home!
Cold Process
The most practiced and widespread process to make handmade soap. It’s easy but it take weeks to use the soap
Ingredients
- Oil Properties for Soap Making
- Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
- Medicinal Plants For Skin And Hair Care
- How To Color Your Soap With Kitchen Ingredients
Tutorials
- Soap Basics for Cold Process Soap
- Learn To Make Cold Process Soap
- Soap Making Lye Water
- How To Formulate and Calculate Your Own Soap Recipes?
- How to Clean Soap Making Equipment
- How To Cure Soap: Unmold, Cut And Cure Bars
- How To Store Soap?
Hot Process
Cold process soap making with heat, that shortens the curing process
Ingredients
- Oil Properties for Soap Making
- Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
- Medicinal Plants For Skin And Hair Care
- How To Color Your Soap With Kitchen Ingredients
Tutorials
- How To Make Hot Process Soap
- Soap Making Lye Water
- How To Formulate and Calculate Your Own Soap Recipes?
- How to Clean Soap Making Equipment
- How To Cure Soap: Unmold, Cut And Cure Bars
- How To Store Soap?
Melt and Pour
The easiest, safest soap making process, but you don’t make soap from scratch… Unless you dare to make the soap base at home!
Ingredients
- Oil Properties for Soap Making
- Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
- Medicinal Plants For Skin And Hair Care
- How To Color Your Soap With Kitchen Ingredients
Tutorials
- Soap Basics for Melt and Pour Soap
- How To Make Soap Bases: With Simple Instructions
- How To Make Melt and Pour Soap
- How To Cure Soap: Unmold, Cut And Cure Bars
- How To Store Soap?
Rebatch
Reuse soap scraps, old soap, or soaps with bad looks to make a brand new fresh soap
Ingredients
- Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
- Medicinal Plants For Skin And Hair Care
- How To Color Your Soap With Kitchen Ingredients
Tutorials
- How To Rebatch Soap: For Cold Process Only
- How To Cure Soap: Unmold, Cut And Cure Bars
- How To Store Soap?
Liquid Soap
Handmade liquid soap from scratch! Yes, it’s possible to make at home
Ingredients
- Oil Properties for Soap Making
- Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
- Medicinal Plants For Skin And Hair Care
- How To Color Your Soap With Kitchen Ingredients
Tutorials
- How To Make Liquid Soap From Scratch
- How To Formulate and Calculate Your Own Soap Recipes?
- Soap Making Lye Water
- How To Make Liquid Soap With a Soap Bar
Trouble-Shooting
Your soap didn’t end up right? Troubleshoot it! These posts will help you with the most annoying problems
- Soap Acceleration: Causes, How To Avoid It Or How To Fix It
- Soda Ash in Soap: What It Is, How to Remove It
- How To Harden Soap