Thread: Homemade products???

Loved the attatched thread on home made bay rum!

most of it sounded good enough to drink.

I heard somewhere that traditionallye soap works very well. Simply mix your chosen oils with Lye (caustic soda for cleaning drains), i don't know the amounts, and leave for a few months for the lye to evaporate out of the hardened soap, apparently it as the best for being kind to the skin too.

I have no idea wherre i read it though, may even have been on here somewhere. my memroy isnot so good.

Did I mention that already?

Actually, the lye gets converted when it saponifies the oils into a soap. We just let ours "rest" for a week or two, and it's just fine. We also test our batches with pH strips to make sure it's balanced before using.

That is the basic idea, but the importance of getting the right quantities of the right oils is what I was getting at. At the moment I still haven't found the right oils to create long lasting bubbles. It may be because I use 10% coconut oil which bubbles loads but the bubbles are big and pop too quickly.