All Natural Soap -- 5 Tips For Better Soap All natural soap beats commercial soap, because of what it has in it, and what it doesn't include too. Getting the right combination of ingredients in soap involves some basic knowledge and understanding about the key parts of soap. Here are 5 ideas about making superior soap without spending piles of money.
Getting The Basics Right Exotic ingredients are only necessary for soap already beyond the ordinary. High-priced ingredients really aren't necessary to make luxury soap. Often strange ingredients are used in an attempt to fix soap recipes that really don't work very well anyway. Simple recipes using coconut, palm and olive oils can beat many high dollar recipes if the soap is designed properly. There is really no need for sugar in soap or rice bran oil or emu oil or even shea butter for that matter.
Coconut But Not Too Much Making natural soap that really lathers well requires coconut oil or it's equivalent, palm kernel oil. That doesn't mean soap without coconut oil won't lather. It will. It's just that if you want big bubbles and lots of them, you really want to use coconut oil. Palm kernel oil substitutes well for coconut oil but nothing else really does‌ But you want to limit the amount of coconut oil in soap, since using too much produces soap that really cleans too well. It cleans so well that the oil on the skin is removed, which results in a drying effect.
Enough Smell To Work Often recipes call for too little scent oil. Use too little oil for scent and you make soap that has no smell and you just wasted whatever scent oils you used. Carefully look at the scent oil amounts and use plenty to avoid wasting money.