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Shampoo bars are great to make and you can make your own. There are several recipes for shampoo soaps but a really superfatted oil rich soap is best for your hair because of the high amount of fatty acids, just like they would be great for your skin. It is super conditioning without being greasy for your hair and is a soft soap. Due to the high amount oils it does not lather alot. You can use by first working up some lather in your hands and then transfering the lather into your scalp and your hair.

Solid fizzing bath salts are great because not only do they invigorate the bather but they also can add a great fragrance. They definitely add some great excitement to your bath time. The solid fizzy bath salts are basically big effervescent tablets that are added to your bath to create bubbles and release fragrance. Since they are made out of salts they also add the benefits of having bath salt in your bath. They can come in a great deal of creative shapes and designs.

With confetti soap you can add slivers of grated transparent soap, which come in a huge variety of colors, to an opaque white soap base. You can use the transparent colored glycering soaps that are found in many bath and body stores and outlets. The first thing to remember is to grate the transparent soap and the white soap in separate containers. After melting the white soap following the general instructions for how to make hand-milled soap you add the transparent soap bits just before pouring the soap out into the molds.

After mastering the basic techniques of making soap you can have fun with colorants, but what exactly are colorants? Colorants are substances that are included in soap formulas to produce a color in the final soap bar. They can be a dye, which are water soluble and combine molecularly with the soap, or they can be a pigment and a pigment is not soluble in the soap nor in water. Pigments disperse throughout the soap and reflect and absorb light and do not chemically combine with the soap. It is important to keep in mind that however you choose to color your soap, that you use natural substances if you want to create a truly natural soap.

Cocoa butter is just a great moisturizer anyway and so when added to soap, these strong moisturizing attributes come through. Cocoa butter when added to soap tends to cut down on the fluffy lather, which is a good thing as the more lather, the more drying a soap is, so naturally the more you add of any of the butters, the less lather you’ll have. The soap will be creamy but the cocoa butter will also add hardness to the soap. So add some cocoa butter, even at 5% -10%, and enjoy!

One of the many drawbacks of winter are dry hands. But there is relief. You will need 8 oz of an unscented lotion, 10 drops of Patchouli, 20 drops of Sandalwood, and 5 drops of Carrot Seed essential oil. The easiest way to mix everything is to pour the lotion out into a bowl and then mix in the oils and then pour it back in the bottle. Patchouli and sandalwood just smell terrific and the carrot seed is fantastic for the skin. Borage and Evening Primrose are carrier oils that you can also add in small quantities to your lotion for soft, moisturized hands.

Nails benefit a great deal from providing them with a aromatherapy massage blend. Oils that you might want to include in your essential oil blend are tea tree, lemon, lavender, rosemary essential oils. You could put 2-3 drops of each into a dark bottle, add 3 (pierced) caplets of vitamin E and then add 1 oz of jojoba oil. You can massage this into your nails at bed time.

There are a variety of alternatives you can use to form your soap shapes apart from the common soap mold you pour the soap into. There is a 3-D design which totally encases your soap, soap trays where you can mold a few soaps at once, and soap stamps can be used as a signature for your soaps. You can also add a soap rope as well. Next time you are using a soap mold, think of what new creative mold style you might try.

Winter air is drying and unforgiving on skin. When using hand soap at this time of year, you want a soap that will cleanse but will also give a good amount of hydration to the skin. Certain ingredients increase the moisturizing abilities of the soap such as humectants. Honey is a very popular humectant and glycerin is another soap that has humectant properties.

There are many possible shapes, designs and patterns you can give your hand made soap so don’t think that you have to conform to the square shape, unless of course you like that. But do research the soap molds you could use and you will see a whole new world of design for soaps.