Handcrafted Goat's Milk Soap

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Being a crafty type that's not crazy about cleaning, I've found soap to be one of the best things to make as it cleans up after itself! Plus it's something everyone uses, and my friends and family are always asking me for more.

You'll find here a collection of the resources I have found beneficial in working with melt and pour soap.

I have not yet tried (but want to someday) making my own soap base, I have only purchased melt and pour bases.

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Soap Resources

Sites I've found useful to get supplies and ideas.

Wholesale Supplies Plus: Great packaging.
Craft Lobby: Good fragrances and lots of colors.
Go Planet Earth: Lots of cute molds.
Chemistry Store: They have very nice goats milk soap base and a wide variety of scents.
Teach Soap: Lots of great information on soap making, including an active forum!
Flexus Molds: Flexible molds are very easy to work with.
GloryBee Foods: A wide variety of additives.
Papermart: Source for tissues paper and other packaging supplies.
Cranberry Lane: Tutorial for working with embeds in loaf soap.

New Wikipedia

Soap is an anionic surfactant used in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning, which historically comes either in solid bars or in the form of a viscous liquid.

Soap consists of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids and is obtained by reacting common oils or fats with a strong alkaline solution (the base, popularly referred to as lye) in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by the base, yielding alkali salts of fatty acids (crude soap) and glycerol.

Today, soap is often replaced by other cleaning agents, such as synthetic detergents.

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