Jul 21, 2009

The Benefits of Homemade Soaps

By Jen Hopkins

Soaps are everywhere. Supermarkets can flood you with the variety of soaps they have. But this cannot guarantee to meet what you really are looking for in soap. No matter how a company takes pride of their beauty products when it cannot make your skin better, then it's no good. If commercial soaps cannot give you quality satisfaction, why not make your own homemade soaps instead?

Soaps are stones in the market - it's everywhere. It comes in variety. Name it, they have it. However, you may not find the soap that best suits your skin. What you might actually look lies in your own skill and creativity. Don't hesitate to give it a try, for it doesn't take a genius to make homemade soaps. All that is needed is you and your imagination.

Aside from it adds up moisture to your skin, saving money is among the benefits homemade soaps can give. All it takes is familiarity and expertise. Your spending money to commercialized soaps ends when you become more familiar with the procedures.

Oil, animal fat and lye are the main ingredients needed in making soap. Lye is the most dangerous element that needs to be handled properly. If not stored properly, it can cause damage like burns, and worst is death. Saponification is the process when lye is combined to other elements. It is one of the organic reactions when preparing soaps.

Your familiarity with the process will help you utilize other ingredients that you want, as well as your expertise will help you make and do things on your own. You create your product and get benefits out it.

Aside from you can experiment and add other elements that you want, you can also remain the humectants within the soap. Humectants like glycerine are extracted by most beauty companies on the process of making soaps. In doing so, what they give to their consumers is just clean but probably dry skin, while your homemade soaps can moisturize the skin.

You may find that getting back to nature is exactly what your skin needs and you don't have to buy expensive organic products to do it if you know how to make your own. Making your own soap can be beneficial for the rest of your family as well, especially if someone is allergic or has sensitive skin. Many commercial soaps are perfumed and actually irritate the skin and provoke allergic reactions.

With proper method on making soaps, you just don't give back to nature but also save your money that goes to department stores. Most of all, making homemade soaps enable you to practice your creativity that only human has.

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