Soap Making ProjectWe've spent one day in our lives to making our own soaps. Exploring the art of handmade soap making, we went through several steps to get the soap ready:
Step 1: Soap Making Project: Our equipment, ingredients and understanding of the golden rules of soap making at home(digital kitchen balance scale, plastic and metal containers, oils, sodium hydroxide, wooden stick, hand mixer, small saucepan, forms, fragrances, rubber gloves)
Step 2-1: Soap Making Project: Oil mix weighting(coconut oil, olive oil, grape seed oil, sesame oil and whatever you want to add)
Step2-2: Soap Making Project: Oil mix weighting(use 10% more oil mix solution than it needs for the reaction)
Step 3: Soap Making Project: Preparing sodium hydroxide solution(adding sodium hydroxide to water, placing a plastic container in snow to cool it down)
Step4: Soap Making Project: Melting oil mix in a water bath ( small saucepan)
Step 5-1: Soap Making Project: Combining oil mix with sodium hydroxide solution
Step 5-2: Soap Making Project: Mixing soap with a wooden stick
Step 5-3: Soap Making Project: Step 5-3 Mixing soap with a hand mixer( may add fragrance and additional ingredients)
Step 6: Soap Making Project: Preparation of soap making forms 
Step 7: Soap Making Project: Soap forming time to pouring the mixture into the forms
Step 8: Soap Making Project: Soap should stay in forms from 7 to 10 daysStep 9: Soap Making Project: Our final product - handmade soap
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Interesting Link:
Soap Making Workshop at Grassroots-Riverdale
Soap Making w/Kimberley Wilson
Grassroots-Riverdale
372 Danforth Ave (steps away from Chester subway station) Toronto
Jan. 26, 2010 @7:30 p.m.
Pre-registration and payment is necessary to reserve a space. Register at either Grassroots locations or call (416) 466-2841. Space is limited to 20 people. Cost per person: $20
About the workshop:
In this workshop, you will be learning some of the ins and outs of handmade soap making, including techniques such as hand-milling and melt-and-pour soap making.
The materials used in this workshop come from organic sources when possible, and the soaps created are 100% biodegradable and palm oil free.
Participants will be given the opportunity to blend their own scents, which they can then add to their soaps. By the end of the night, those who have attended will be able to bring home their very own soaps!
About the host:
Kimberley Wilson started making soaps several years ago as a hobby and to give as gifts. In 2008, she decided to expand on her jewelry and accessory-making business by adding soaps to the products she sold.
ElectricFish soaps, bath/body products and accessories are all made using the same principles of sustainability and non-wastefulness that she strives to apply to everything.
Her soaps and bath products are crafted from organic, sustainable materials as much as possible, and are packaged using recyclable, re-purposed or biodegradable packaging.
Starting in early 2010, Kimberley’s products will be available on her Etsy page. Click here to view Kimberley’s “ElectricFish” products.
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