Re: making olive oil soap (was Dental Victory!)

[Guest guest]

> Betsy, how do you make

> your soap?

>

I'll explain assuming you've never made lye-based soap and for others

that may be reading this. If you're a soap-maker, I don't mean to

insult you're intelligence. To make a pure olive oil bar, I add only

olive oil and lye (sodium hydroxide). I like the idea of adding

peppermint oil and may try that in my next batch. Get any book on

soap-making from the library. Look at the saponification table to

determine the proportions of olive oil and lye. Follow the

instructions for measuring, mixing, and heating the ingredients in

the book carefully because working with lye can be dangerous. It

takes a really long time for a pure olive oil soap to saponify, so

don't start right before bed time. I thought about adding some

coconut oil (use saponification chart to determine proportions) to

help the soap saponify quicker while adding a nice coconut flavor.

The coconut oil also contains some anti-fungal and anti-bacterial

components which would be nice in a tooth soap, also. Finding Red

Devil lye is the trickiest part. Lowe's sometimes carries it as well

as the smaller hardware stores like Ace and TruValue. I order mine

in bulk from Piggly Wiggly's website.

[Guest guest]

Hi Betsy, don't remember if I wrote a thank you, so , thank you!

Michele

>From: " Betsy " <bettysmith997@...>

>Reply-

>

>Subject: Re: making olive oil soap (was Dental Victory!)

>Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:51:37 -0000

>

>

> > Betsy, how do you make

> > your soap?

> >

>

>I'll explain assuming you've never made lye-based soap and for others

>that may be reading this. If you're a soap-maker, I don't mean to

>insult you're intelligence. To make a pure olive oil bar, I add only

>olive oil and lye (sodium hydroxide). I like the idea of adding

>peppermint oil and may try that in my next batch. Get any book on

>soap-making from the library. Look at the saponification table to

>determine the proportions of olive oil and lye. Follow the

>instructions for measuring, mixing, and heating the ingredients in

>the book carefully because working with lye can be dangerous. It

>takes a really long time for a pure olive oil soap to saponify, so

>don't start right before bed time. I thought about adding some

>coconut oil (use saponification chart to determine proportions) to

>help the soap saponify quicker while adding a nice coconut flavor.

>The coconut oil also contains some anti-fungal and anti-bacterial

>components which would be nice in a tooth soap, also. Finding Red

>Devil lye is the trickiest part. Lowe's sometimes carries it as well

>as the smaller hardware stores like Ace and TruValue. I order mine

>in bulk from Piggly Wiggly's website.

>

>

>

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