Soap making.

MarkST · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:29

Made a few batches of soap a while back as a hobby, had a scientist go over the recipe i came up with to make sure it was safe, then got bored, the soap i made was brilliant though. I would like to start doing it again but costs a bit of money to buy the ingredients in bulk.

Marky · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:31

Count me out! I'd be scared I'd make some sort of acid soap that melts peoples hands off

Zefan · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:33

Marky said:
Count me out! I'd be scared I'd make some sort of acid soap that melts peoples hands off

You mean like a chemical burn?

Skeptic · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:38

I just buy from Nanny's Silly Soap. Great stuff.

Kazz · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:42

Edrof said:
I made jam recently. That's not the same as soap.

I made a Masala last week. Is that the same as soap?

Thorper · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:43

chipperhead said:
I was the owner of a Soap and Bath Bomb Factory.
I started selling the stuff on a market stall and eventually started making my own. This grew over several years starting from my garage to a 3000sq ft factory.
I used melt & pour soap and designed and built a Bath Bomb machine that could press thousands of Bombs per day.
I sold direct to shops but then also to distributors and abroad, I was then approached by the largest gift wholesaler in Europe to buy me out including equipment and more importantly knowledge. So I know a fair bit of melt & pour soap making.

I never went down the lines of hot & cold process soap.

This is the sort of stuff I designed and made:

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Mmmm, they look tasty :o

Crowort · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:51

Marky said:
Count me out! I'd be scared I'd make some sort of acid soap that melts peoples hands off

I can't work out if this is a joke or not. Since it is the pH being high not low that can make soap give chemical burns. For cheap but good soap replace the solid at room temp oils / waxes with lard.

233 · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:55

First rule of soap club is that we don't talk about soap

Russinating · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:07

chipperhead said:
*snip*

Looks like Lush's product range...

Turambar · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:38

http://teachsoap.com/
http://www.soapqueen.com/

Should cover it. Castile soap should be easy enough if you're comfortable using Lye and hot Olive Oil.

Van Hellseek · 13 Sep 2012 at 06:03

chipperhead said:
I was the owner of a Soap and Bath Bomb Factory.
I started selling the stuff on a market stall and eventually started making my own. This grew over several years starting from my garage to a 3000sq ft factory.
I used melt & pour soap and designed and built a Bath Bomb machine that could press thousands of Bombs per day.
I sold direct to shops but then also to distributors and abroad, I was then approached by the largest gift wholesaler in Europe to buy me out including equipment and more importantly knowledge. So I know a fair bit of melt & pour soap making.

I never went down the lines of hot & cold process soap.

I was under the impression that 'melt and pour' was easy to make, but relatively poor quality soap. :confused: