Many people nowadays are considering studying how to make homemade soap as this particular craft is getting increasingly more speed. There are so many reasons to make your own soap - firstly, it is less expensive to make your own soap at home. But since all of the components are natural, it doesn't have a harsh drying influence on your pores and skin. Almost everyone I have given one homemade soap to has told me that they don't want to ever again return to regular soaps.

If you wish to get into this yourself and find out how fun it is to do, you'll find yourself addicted soon. Consider yourself warned. In any case, here's how the overall system works.

All soap is created from mixing sodium hydroxide (also known as lye), a natural chemical together with some sorts of fats or oils. Examples could be coconut oil, shea butter or coconut butter, olive oil, and many others. You can find many natural oils which can be used for soap making and mixing them together in various ratios leads to many exciting kinds of soap in many variations.

Add to this the fact that you can also include essential oils and aromas, coloring and dry herbs and flowers, plus you can shape and mold the final soap into bricks, circles, American states or whichever shape you prefer -- and you've also opened a serious opportunity for creative expression and making the type of soap that says something about you.

If you want to make homemade soap, then the steps are:

1. You make a lye solution by mixing lye and water in the right proportion (usually marked in the recipe), letting it cool to room temperature.

2. You then take a pot, and heat it to melt the oils and fats which are solid at room temperature, and also warm the liquid oils.

3. Add the lye, stir with a stick blender until it reaches 'trace', the state where all the components have irreversibly mixed together and the chemical process of 'saponification' has begun.

4. Add the essential oils, herbs, and coloring and mix them in.

5. Pour the soap into your prepared molds to set.

6. After 24 hours, take them out and put them on racks and leave to cure. After around four weeks of curing your soaps are ready to use.

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