Using my Melt and Pour Soap

[missesshand]

Ok, so I admit I am a newby. Most of my "soap making" has included the use of Dr. Bronner's. Well my husband insists it isn't as "sudsy" enough and I would prefer something a little thicker. So long story short I bought a few different melt and pour bases from BulkApothacary.com. Here's the part where I get confused and just can't seem to Google the right thing. I want to use these soap bases to make my own body wash. So I need to know how you are supposed to use a melt and pour soap. It seems to me if I just melt it, it will just harden again.
I also know that the soap base's ingredients already include fixed oils, like coconut, palm, hemp, glycerin, etc., so I don't think I should add anything like that. I do want to use this to make a baby wash and I know Chamomile and Lavender is good, so I'd like to incorporate those. Do I just add water? Then it will spoil quicker, correct? I don't know! Please help! roblem:

 

[dagmar88]

Melt and pour soap will make bar soap, not body washes.

 

[lsg]

If you want to make your own body wash, you will either have to make your own liquid soap using potasium hydroxide and oils; make your own body wash using surfactants and other ingredients or buy a liquid base from a supplier. Many suppliers offer concentrated bases:

http://www.wholesalesuppliesplus.co...ID=332&CategoryID=1468&CategoryName=Body+Wash

http://www.brambleberry.com/Liquid-Bases-C15.aspx

http://www.brambleberry.com/Liquid-Bases-C15.aspx

 

[melstan775]

Bramble berry carries a Castile paste that you can melt down and dilute to make your own Dr. Bonner type wash. And if you want to thicken it you can get an emulsifier or add dissolved salt to it. Just a lil bit salt though, a few teaspoons.

Melt and pour soap base is a premise bade for bar soap and is made to regarded as it cools. You can also add sugar to it for a solid sugar scrub.

 

[DeeAnna]

I know you didn't ask about this but I have to chime in -- Please read up on the safe use of essential oils and fragrances before formulating products for infants. I would err on the side of no scent if it were me and my baby.

 

[missesshand]

ahhh



That makes sense and would be why I can't find anything lol. So then does anyone have any good recipes for a liquid base soap? I don't want to make y own using lye and all that. What's good to put in with Dr. Bronners to make it creamy?

EOs

I know you didn't ask about this but I have to chime in -- Please read up on the safe use of essential oils and fragrances before formulating products for infants. I would err on the side of no scent if it were me and my baby.

Thanks for the advice and it is good! I have done pretty extensive research on EO's , and use them regularly!

 

[dagmar88]

http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.nl/2013/02/weekend-wonderings-decyl-glucoside.html

 

[allieg3381]

I don't understand why not. If most homemade body wash recipes call for grating a bar of soap and adding water and whatever else to make it a body wash. Why can't you do the same thing when you make the bar soap from the melt & pour base? Technically you could take a chunk of the melt & pour base and make the body wash. What's' the difference between the bar soap it makes and other bar soap?

 

[DeeAnna]

Can't speak about M&P, but I do know grated bar soap in water will eventually turn into a goopy gel (aka "snot"). It won't stay a nice syrupy liquid. The only liquid soap that makes nice liquid soap is made with KOH.

 

[Denise0610]

I don't understand why not. If most homemade body wash recipes call for grating a bar of soap and adding water and whatever else to make it a body wash. Why can't you do the same thing when you make the bar soap from the melt & pour base? Technically you could take a chunk of the melt & pour base and make the body wash. What's' the difference between the bar soap it makes and other bar soap?

I make body wash for friends and family from my melt and pour base literally everyday and it comes out beautifully!

Ok, so I admit I am a newby. Most of my "soap making" has included the use of Dr. Bronner's. Well my husband insists it isn't as "sudsy" enough and I would prefer something a little thicker. So long story short I bought a few different melt and pour bases from BulkApothacary.com. Here's the part where I get confused and just can't seem to Google the right thing. I want to use these soap bases to make my own body wash. So I need to know how you are supposed to use a melt and pour soap. It seems to me if I just melt it, it will just harden again.
I also know that the soap base's ingredients already include fixed oils, like coconut, palm, hemp, glycerin, etc., so I don't think I should add anything like that. I do want to use this to make a baby wash and I know Chamomile and Lavender is good, so I'd like to incorporate those. Do I just add water? Then it will spoil quicker, correct? I don't know! Please help! roblem:

I make body wash from melt and pour daily and it comes out beautifully. I melt a bar in a pot of a few cups of boiling water then cover for 8-10 hrs … stir and adjust to the consistency you desire. I add honey while it’s hot so it will melt into the mixture and then when cool I add my essential oils and anything else I desire (almond oil, jojoba oil, vitamin e etc). I also add mica powder if I want to change the color. All my family and friends use it and we’ll never switch back. Our skin looks phenomenal!

 

[DeeAnna]

This is an ancient thread, and the OP hasn't been on the forum since 2014, so I doubt your comments will reach them.

There are melt-and-pour bases made with synthetic detergents and others made with lye-based soap. Some M&P bases might work great as a pourable cleanser, but others might not, so it's good to mention the specific base that is working so well for you.

 

[akseattle]

I make body wash for friends and family from my melt and pour base literally everyday and it comes out beautifully!


I make body wash from melt and pour daily and it comes out beautifully. I melt a bar in a pot of a few cups of boiling water then cover for 8-10 hrs … stir and adjust to the consistency you desire. I add honey while it’s hot so it will melt into the mixture and then when cool I add my essential oils and anything else I desire (almond oil, jojoba oil, vitamin e etc). I also add mica powder if I want to change the color. All my family and friends use it and we’ll never switch back. Our skin looks phenomenal!

@Denise0610 , it had not occurred to me that a body wash could be made from melt & Pour. But, after reading your post, I googled to see if anyone else does this. I found a video by Creative Bath Labs. She said she tried like 20 recipes but settled on the one in her video. It looks super simple. She says she tried many bases and that they all worked. She gave a list to all her ingredients with a link to be able to buy them. She used a Primal Elements soap base. Her body wash looked a little too thick and too opaque. for my taste for a body wash. She started with a white base. I don't have an SLSA, so I wouldn't run out the door and make this tomorrow. But, I am curious and I actually have some Primal Elements base in my basement. Do you use start with a clear base or a white base? Do you adjust the consistency with water?