Thread: Homemade Soap!!!!

If you have a Family Dollar store near you, they have a really good Old Spice clone for under $2

Can I just mix it in? I LOOVVVEEE Old Spice Scents.

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

Can I just mix it in? I LOOVVVEEE Old Spice Scents.

I would do that with VDH when I melted it, it was there in the background and not intense

Cool. May also try that with my current Cologne

Another thing to try is "Clearly Natural" soap bars that you can get at a Whole Foods store or other natural food stores, it's a melt-able glycerine soap and comes in many scents and also unsented, I added 1/4 tsp Bentonite clay for added slip, it worked well as shave soap.


Clearly Natural | Moisturizing Bar Soaps - Clearly Natural

I may try this one as well. UBERLATHER TIME!!!!!

Well, if you really want to know...

Most people "making" glycerine based soap and selling it online are using melt and pour base, something like this SFIC Shaving Soap Base

and then adding essential fragrance oils like these in various amounts Essential Oils - Wholesale Supplies Plus.com

and then calling them their own formula and setting a huge mark up. Some will tweak the base by adding bentonite clay or lanolin or Shea butter. Those are better. cold process hot process (rendering fat and using lye and what not) are superior but are a lot more work and take a lot more know how and space to make.

I found this out when a cold process soap maker friend of mine looked into reproducing some popular shaving soaps at my request. She's too busy filling orders for what she already makes to go into shaving soaps but she pointed me to some wholesalers in case I wanted to do it myself. I frankly don't have the funds necessary for the initial investment or I would.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

I WANT BACON!!!

If I'm not mistaken, Mama Bear Soaps already has a Bacon scented shave soap.

You can use a mouliner I think they're called. Those things that you use for grinding meat. They make a nice grated heap. You can then mix them together easily and add oils and stuff. I started researching the base for soaps, and found out a bit about tallow, lanolin, etc. .

For now I'm sticking to buying my natural soaps, so far I've used Madame Scodioli, Mike's and Edwin Jagger (Edwin Jagger's not handmade, just 99% natural).

Once I ground up Windsor soap and added a heap of Proraso Musgo Real and Glycerine to it and squished it into my scuttle. Worked a treat! (pictures)...

I love a nice Überlather too made in a bowl.

Hmmm good I ideas good ideas.. Will have to try some of these out!