The Art Manufacturing Soaps And Candles

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 12:39 pm

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Learn about the history of soap and candle making, view illustrations of the top machines used in the late 1800's for making homemade soaps and candles, and relive a part of history as you read information shared by some of the leading soap and candle manufacturing experts of the late 1800's!
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The Art Manufacturing Soaps And Candles

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Getting Started – How Is Soap Made From Scratch

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 5:41 am

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Making soap is not really a complicated process. With the availability of equipments and raw materials out there, you will find it easy to do and it will enable you to personalize your bath soap that has the scent and mildness you want for your skin on your entire body.

For at least 2,000 years, humans have been using soap in order to clean themselves. Today, you will find that almost every household all over the world has bath soap.

At its most basic, soap is basically a cleansing agent made from animal fats or from salts of vegetables. This is an anionic surfactant which is used with water in order to wash and clean. Soaps come in bars or it comes in as viscous liquid.

Soap basically consists of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, which is normally obtained by reacting oils or fats with a strong alkaline solution.

Just how is soap made from scratch?

To make soap from scratch, you will need to have 2 basic ingredients. The first is lye, which is a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide. The second ingredient is fat, which can be obtained from various oils, such as coconut oil, olive oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, and hemp oil. Depending on your preferences, you can use any type of oil you like. Keep in mind that coconut oil produces the most lather while olive oil offers the mildness in soap. Most people use a combination of palm, coconut and olive oil as it offers hardness to the soap and mildness.

Back to making soap from scratch, the method used here will be the cold process. Like the name suggests, it does not require heat in order for you to make the soap. In this method, soap is made from scratch by letting the lye react with the fats, which initiate saponification. After this method, the soap is then allowed to settle for several weeks in order to remove some of its moisture content.

After getting it settled, the next step in this particular soap making process is to purify the soap by removing the sodium choloride, the glycerol, and the sodium hydroxide. These are unwanted chemicals in the soap and you can easily remove it by boiling the soap in water and re-precipitating it by using salt. After that, you can dry the soap using vacuum dryers.

After drying the soap, you can now compact the soap to pellets and also add the fragrances of your choice. If you like, you can add bits of sand or pumice in order to give the soap a scouring quality, which is great for removing dead skin cells and promote exfoliating on the body. This will reveal healthy and live skin cells, which will make your skin glow and look healthy.

If you want your soap to have color and anti-bacterial properties, you may want to use nanoscopic metals. In most cases, people use titanium powder to get these effects. These types of soaps are extremely white. Silver, aluminum, and nickel are rarely used but they have anti-bacterial properties.

These metals have electron-rubbing behavior, which will strip electrons from the surface of the bacteria, which eventually kills the bacteria. Sometimes, the metals will remain on the skin for a long time after washing, which prevents bacterial contamination, which is perfect for getting rid of bad body odors produced by bacteria.

As you can see, making soap from scratch is really not that complicated. All you need are fats and lye and you are ready to start making your very own soap using the cold process.

There are other processes in making soaps, which can shorten the amount of time required in making soap but the cold process is very popular as this will really get you to really make soap from scratch.

Homemade soaps are great because you have absolute control on the substances or the ingredients you put in the soap. You can choose what scent you want in your soap and you can choose the property of the soap. In addition to that, you can be sure that your soap is healthy for your skin.

Getting Started How Is Soap Made From Scratch

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Hottest Investment Plays in North America: Oil and Gas Bulletin

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 at 12:44 pm

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The great oil and natural gas rush is on! With crude oil more than $70 a barrel and new technology coming online, the Canadian oil fields are exploding with junior producers whose stocks are doubling in months or even weeks. Better than the Dow!
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Soap Factory intro for Oceanic viewers

Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

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Natural skin care products that do not harm us or our environment. Bug-B-Gone is a chemical free way to keep the mozis away during the wet months. Natural Soap and Kukui Nut Lip Balm are great for your skin. www.hawaiianbathbody.com These products are hand made in Hawaii at the North Shore Soap Factory. Welcome to green products made in Hawaii.

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Latest Natural Soap Auctions

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at 12:34 pm

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Hey, check out these auctions:

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Latest Essential Oils Auctions

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

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Hey, check out these auctions:
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Man’s Hidden Accessory: Perfume and Its History

Monday, October 18th, 2010 at 10:59 am

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Perfume is as much a must in fashion as fabrics, cut or trends are. Perfume literally means 'through smoke' or per fume. Perfumes are signs of royalty and elitism. The ancient Egyptians were the first to use it for vanity purposes followed by the Chinese, Hindus, Israelites, Arabs, Greeks and Romans. Perfumes were mainly used for religious purposes during their burial or ceremonial rituals.

In the New Kingdom, it was mainly used for festivals or preludes to lovemaking. Since perfumes were symbolic of prestige, the Christian era did not promote the use of it but the Islamic people kept it alive. It was only revived during the medieval period.

Islam has had great influence not only in the use of perfume but in its processes. Islamic countries have been known to be the first to use distillation to extract the fragrance of nature. Muslim countries have also been the first to experiment with different raw ingredients in making perfume such as herbs and spices. Since their trade extends as far as other Eastern countries, they had greater access to foreign spices, herbs and fruits to be used for perfuming.

Many even consider it as a religious obligation to use perfume as Muhammad said: "The taking of a bath on Friday is compulsory for every male Muslim who has attained the age of puberty and (also) the cleaning of his teeth with Miswaak (type of twig used as a toothbrush), and the using of perfume if it is available."

The first modern perfume was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth of Hungary and was distributed throughout Europe known as Hungary Water.

France is well-known to have a solid perfume business. A lot of established perfume makers test their products in France where people have a better knowledge of scents. King Louis XV court was well-known for its heavily perfumed atmosphere where the gloves, fans and clothing of courtesans were dredged with the liquid. This was used mainly to hide body odors that were a result of hygienic practices during that time. It is also in France where glass bottles heavily accented the value of the perfume.

The South of France was known as the center of the perfuming business where they waylaid a great amount of land to be used to grow flowers for extraction.

Up to this day, France is the center of perfume trade. Famous perfume lines as that of Christian Dior, Nina Ricci, Chanel, Balmain and others have followed since.

Man's Hidden Accessory: Perfume and Its History

Perfume is as much a must in fashion as fabrics, cut or trends are. Perfume literally means 'through smoke' or per fume. Perfumes are signs of royalty and elitism. The ancient Egyptians were the first to use it for vanity purposes followed by the Chinese, Hindus, Israelites, Arabs, Greeks and Romans. Perfumes were mainly used for religious purposes during their burial or ceremonial rituals.

In the New Kingdom, it was mainly used for festivals or preludes to lovemaking. Since perfumes were symbolic of prestige, the Christian era did not promote the use of it but the Islamic people kept it alive. It was only revived during the medieval period.

Islam has had great influence not only in the use of perfume but in its processes. Islamic countries have been known to be the first to use distillation to extract the fragrance of nature. Muslim countries have been the first to experiment with different raw ingredients in making perfume such as herbs and spices. Since their trade extends as far as other Eastern countries, they had greater access to foreign spices, herbs and fruits to be used for perfuming.

Many even consider it as a religious obligation to use perfume as Muhammad said: "The taking of a bath on Friday is compulsory for every male Muslim who has attained the age of puberty and (also) the cleaning of his teeth with Miswaak (type of twig used as a toothbrush), and the using of perfume if it is available."

The first modern perfume was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth of Hungary and was distributed throughout Europe known as Hungary Water.

France is well-known to have a solid perfume business. A lot of established perfume makers test their products in France where people have better knowledge of scents. King Louis XV court was well-known for its heavily perfumed atmosphere where the gloves, fans and clothing of courtesans were dredged with the liquid. This was used mainly to hide body odors that were a result of hygienic practices during that time. It is in France where glass bottles heavily accented the value of the perfume.

The South of France was also known as the center of the perfuming business where they waylaid a great amount of land to be used to grow flowers for extraction.

Up to this day, France is the center of perfume trade. Famous perfume lines as that of Christian Dior, Nina Ricci, Chanel, Balmain and others have followed since.

Mans Hidden Accessory: Perfume and Its History

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Best Perfume for Women

Sunday, October 17th, 2010 at 11:54 am

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For thousands of years, women have been spraying, splashing, and spritzing fragrances onto their skin. It has always been appreciated by men, and it probably always will be. There is just something about the smell of a good perfume. While these fragrances were originally made from animal parts, which does not sound pleasant in the least, they were later made from flowers. Flowers and plants that provided wonderful smells. By mixing the different breeds of flowers, you could concoct quite the floral aroma. And this is exactly what people all over the world did for centuries. This was some of the best perfume for women ever.

Nowadays there are much more intricate processes involved in order to create the best perfumes for women. First of all, there are countless synthetic fragrances made these days. By combining all sorts of odd ingredients, scientists are able to create wonderful smells that make men come a running. Needless to say, this is a massive industry at this point that earns billions of dollars every year. Major cosmetic companies like Lancome, Este Lauder, and Chanel are banking off of some of the best perfumes for women. Not to mention all of the other companies like Aveda, Origins, Prescriptives, Davidoff, and Gucci. There is really no limit to these designer fragrances.

When it comes to shopping around for the best perfume for women, you have to keep one thing in mind, first and foremost. This is that different women will appreciate different fragrances. There is simply no two ways about it! This is why there is such a plethora of perfumes and colognes on the market today. People everywhere appreciate different scents and aromas. Now, you can check out review websites in order to see what the top rated perfumes for women are. However, all this really means is that they sell more, which means more women wear them. Do you really want to wear one of the most common fragrances available today? Probably not!

Websites like FragranceX.com offer a grand selection of the best perfumes for women. You do not even have to deal with many of the high prices or rates that other distributors demand. After all, these can be quite annoying at times. Especially if you have a specific amount you are willing to spend on perfume. After all, these fragrances can range anywhere from $10 to several hundred dollars. How much are you willing to pay? It is always prudent to smell perfumes and fragrances for yourself, in person. This way you can actually determine what it is you like, and do not care for. This clearly varies from woman to woman. Find out for yourself before you buy.

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Natural Soaps

Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

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SOAPS: Plein Air Life: These are amazing homemade products!!! :) Like Lush soaps, all natural!

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at 4:39 am

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2 SOAPS: Plein Air Life: These are amazing homemade products!!! :) Like Lush soaps, all natural! Plein Air Life

Hi hi friends! You probably already know this, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE homemade soaps! I am always on the lookout for amazing homemade soap companies. Two years ago I attended the Hermosa Fiesta, which is Southern California's largest Arts and Crafts Fair and remembered I purchased a strawberry lip balm from a vendor called Plein Air Life. I immediately googled to see if Plein Air Life had an online store and I was absolutely ecstatic to find out they do have a website and stores too!

If you love homemade soaps, candles, sugar scrubs, lotions, body sprays, lip balms, essential oils, fragrance oils, and body balms made with nature's finest ingredients you should definitely visit Plein Air Life!!!

Plein Air Life:

http://www.pleinairlife.com/

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Plein Air Life Spicy Pumpkin Pie Handmade Soap 5oz. $5.99