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Exfoliants For Soap Making

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To exfoliate your skin means to strip away the top layer of dead skin cells. Choose your exfoliants for soap making. Do you want an abrasive, gentle or moderate soap bar?

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Avoid This Soap Making Blunder

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You can avoid this soap making blunder by always checking your oils and fats for rancidity before using them! Don't overlook this, It will save you time and money!

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Recycle Bacon Grease Into Soap Bars

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Do you save your bacon grease in jars or cans? Don't throw them out! You can recycle bacon grease into soap bars. Just a few steps to process the grease before use.

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Surprising Soap Results With Turmeric

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Turmeric had surprisingly changed from a rusty orange color to a dark purple color due to the reactions during the saponification process in soap making.

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Easy Two Color Soap Bars

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Have you ever wanted to create a soap bar with two color stripes? If yes, then you'll find it's not that difficult and in fact it's really quite easy to make!

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Create A Soap With Abundant Lather

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There are two oils which are readily available and commonly used for soap recipes. These two oils will produce soaps with significantly more abundant lather.

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Goat Milk Soap Caveat

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Goat Milk Soap is very beneficial to the skin and excels in moisturizing capabilities however there is one caveat to understand when making goat milk soap.

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Does Your Soap Have Grit?

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Does your soap have grit, true grit? There is one key material that can be added to your soap to get your hands clean much faster. Do you know what it might be?

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A Mild Exfoliating Oat Soap

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Create a soap that has mild exfoliating properties using one popular breakfast item, oatmeal! Grind the oats to a fine powder and the exfoliation is very mild.

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How To Enhance Your Soaps

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Do you know how to enhance your soaps? Start by looking at the quality attributes. If you know how to modify the attributes you're on your way to customized soaps.

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Is Your Olive Oil Genuine

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Is your olive oil genuine or not? Find out by reading the packaging label for certain clues and certifications and do a simple home test on your olive oil.

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Apple Cider Vinegar Soap

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It seems impossible to make an apple cider vinegar soap, right? Knowing that apple cider vinegar is so acidic. The truth? Yes, it's possible to make an ACV soap.

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