Some handmade soap are made with the riches ingredients and not made with something
that was a ‘melt and pour’ type of soap. The ‘melt and pour’ soaps are not true
handmade from scratch soaps. If
the soap includes glycerin than by the chemical makeup of soap and glycerin,
the soap has been made by sodium hydroxide or a strong alkali product.
In addition, a lot of homemade soaps boast that they do not contain lye and
if this is so, than you can bet that you are going to be getting a bar of
detergent, which, for several people, is very drying to their skin.
Handmade soaps that used to be made in farms and cottages in early American
imes were known as ‘lye soap’ and are now known as a harsh bar of soap. The main
reason for such a bad reputation for these bars of soap was because they
contained a large amount of caustic in them. Back then, there was no such
thing as soap chemistry or knowledge of the chemical structure of soap. In
order to get real homemade soaps, lye must be used however; lye is not found
in any of the bars of soaps in the homemade soap’s finished product because
the lye reacts with the oils and forms glycerin’s and soap.
Saponification is the literal translation from Latin meaning ‘soap making’
with the root word sapon meaning soap. Soap making was an art form back in
the ancient Babylon near 2000 to 2800 BC.
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