How Do You Prepare Oils To Make Homemade Lye Soap?
Mixing the oils to make lye soap is a matter of precision and preparation. After choosing the recipe, purchasing all of the ingredients, it is time to mix the different oils together to make lye soap. Weigh all the ingredients carefully before mixing and place in a convenient location. Mark off each ingredient and weight on your recipe card as you go along. Place the pitcher on the scales and put the scales to zero. This ensures that weighed ingredients do not factor in the weight of the container. Pour coconut oil into the empty pitcher still sitting on the scale. Often coconut oil needs a 10 to 20 seconds in the microwave to loosen it out of the original container. Use a spoon to add the cocoa butter, canola oil and beeswax, in that order, to the pitcher and make a note of the exact weight on your recipe card or on paper. You’ll need exact measurements. Tip the pitcher full of oils into a medium stainless steel saucepan, making sure to get every last drop of mix out of the pitcher. T
