This basic soap recipe uses coconut oil and olive oil and is made in a crockpot or slowcooker. A simple and moisturizing recipe you can make at home!

This hot process soap recipe will give you the most beautiful green, refreshingly scented moisturizing and lathering soap ever! Everyone loves this soap, but I created this recipe with your manly man in mind! (Well, my own manly man, actually.) If creating hard bars of soap that last well, then this

Have you ever had soap seize up on you when you added a certain fragrance oil or additive? Have you ever had soap separate when in the mold due to not enough stirring? I think every soapmaker at one time or another has experienced one of these issues. I had something happen just the other day and

I will share two ways to render and purify tallow. Onetallow for cooking, or you can purify the tallow for beauty and soapmaking products.

Why add tallow to soap? There are some very good reasons! Let's take a look at why adding tallow to your soap recipe is a great idea.

Ready to try some DIY soap? This hot process in the crockpot is a quick method to make homemade soap. It's ready to use right away!

Hot process soap is my favorite type of soap to make! It's simple and fast, and this tutorial will walk you through all the important details.

It's easy to learn how to render tallow using the crock pot method! There are a few tips to know to make sure the process is easy and the beef tallow turns out well.

There are a lot of misconceptions about tallow soap so here's four things you should know about using animal fats in soap plus recipes to get you started.

We’re excited to welcome David Maren of Tendergrass Farms to RobbWolf.com with this guest post. He's written this great how-to for rendering your own delicious lard. Pork Lard is one of the most traditionally American fats that you can cook with. Until the 1960’s virtually every kitche

This natural bacuri butter & murumuru soap recipe is perfect for exploring new ways to use exotic ingredients in natural skin care and soapmaking recipes.

This hot process soap recipe will give you the most beautiful green, refreshingly scented moisturizing and lathering soap ever! Everyone loves this soap, but I created this recipe with your manly man in mind! (Well, my own manly man, actually.) If creating hard bars of soap that last well, then this

I will share two ways to render and purify tallow. Onetallow for cooking, or you can purify the tallow for beauty and soapmaking products.

This post is for advanced soap makers who have experience in Crock-Pot hot process and know how to safely work with lye. Mix oil and lye solution with a stick blender until just before a thick trace and add 2 teaspoons of turmeric powder (previously diluted in 1 tablespoon of warm water). Continue to mix until thick trace. Put the lid on the Crock-Pot and allow the soap to start cooking. Then follow your usual Crock-Pot hot process. Required Ingredients: gram Olive Oil 350 Coconut Oil 260 Aloe Vera Butter 100 Sea Buckthorn 63 Grapseed Oil 20 Castor Oil 10 Ricebran Oil 40 Turmeric Powder 10 Sodium Hydroxide 122 Distilled water 280 Total soap weight 1 255

This turmeric soap recipe will give you soap that ranges from a pale pinky-yellow to a deep burnt orange. Part of the Naturally Coloring Handmade Soap series

Tea tree oil soap naturally fights bacteria and acne for a beautiful complexion.

Let’s make soap! Are you ready? In this post, I’m going to describe both the cold and hot process methods. Both methods follow the same initial steps, diverging at the end. Home soapmaking is most often done today using the cold process method, but hot process is what was commonly used by our great-grandmothers. Both...Read More

I have been making soap for several years now but I had never made hot processed soap before this last weekend. If you are not a soap mak...

Soap making is super fun, but not if you're worried about doing it wrong! Start with this SUPER basic beginner bar to get your feet wet with soap making!

Have you ever had soap seize up on you when you added a certain fragrance oil or additive? Have you ever had soap separate when in the mold due to not enough stirring? I think every soapmaker at one time or another has experienced one of these issues. I had something happen just the other day and

How to Make Liquid Soap using the hot process method in a crockpot. This is a fun and simple way to create your own customized soap.

The day has finally arrived, to share this tallow soap recipe, my friends. It's amazing all the things you can do with a big blob of beef fat!

You can make a batch of plain soap in just a few hours with this no weigh 3 ingredient crockpot soap recipe. Use it as is or handmill for something fancy.

Here is a homemade soap recipe that your man will just love! It’s got woodsy overtones of pine and cedar, and seriously, men love these scents. Manly, courageous, and smelling of timber, you AND your guy will truly enjoy this handmade soap! I wanted to create a soap that men would just love to rec

You’ll learn how to make a natural, homemade soap using an easy, heat-free method. Cold process soapmaking uses a chemical reaction to turn a lye and oil

Since I have all that basil, I spent the weekend making three batches of soap with milk and dried, crushed basil. Homemade soap with milk from my cow and herbs from my garden–what could be better? I also did a few experiments. Every time you make soap, in fact, it’s an experiment. There’s always something...Read More

How to transform soap scraps, old soap, and failed recipes into beautiful new soap using the partial rebatch method. Involves mixing soap shavings into a new batch of soap. The soap scrap to new soap ratio is up to 1:2.5 -- that's the weight of soap scraps to the weight of new soaping oils. It can also be calculated as soap scraps being up to a maximum of 40% of the weight of the oils in the new batch. How much liquid you use to make the lye solution is up to you, but I'd advise not to water discount too much. I use a ratio of 1:2 lye to distilled water but you may wish to use more water. The recipe makes an 800 g (28.2 oz) soap batch.

Overheating Soap Every soapmaker will come across overheating issues at one time or another. Maybe you get in a hurry and mix your soap when the oils and lye are too hot. Or perhaps you purchase a new mold and over insulate it. It happens to

Here is a homemade soap recipe that your man will just love! It’s got woodsy overtones of pine and cedar, and seriously, men love these scents. Manly, courageous, and smelling of timber, you AND your guy will truly enjoy this handmade soap! I wanted to create a soap that men would just love to rec