what are the basic ingrediants to make soap?

Question

keep it simple, no sub products, all the originals

Answer 1

some turkey and chicken broth, rice cut up biscuits for dumplings, oh heck you said soap

Answer 2

Basic Method
[A. This first write-up is taken from Hulda Clarkís book, "The Cure for All Diseases," pages 529-530.]

A small plastic dishpan, about 10" x 12"
A glass or enamel 2-quart saucepan
1 can of lye (sodium hydroxide), 12 ounces
3 pounds of lard
Plastic gloves [really; use eye-protection too]
Water

1. Pour 3 cups of very cold water (refrigerate water overnight first) into the 2-quart saucepan.
2. Slowly and carefully add the lye, a little bit at a time, stirring it with the a wooden or plastic utensil. (Use plastic gloves for this; test them for holes first.) Do not breathe the vapor or lean over the container or have children nearby. Above all _use no metal_. The mixture will get very hot. In olden days, a sassafras branch was used to stir, imparting a fragrance and insect deterrent for mosquitoes, lice, fleas and ticks.
3. Let cool at least one hour in a safe place. Meanwhile, the unwrapped lard should be warming up to room temperature in the plastic dishpan.
4. Slowly and carefully, pour the lye solution into the dishpan with the lard. The lard will melt. Mix thoroughly, at least 15 minutes, until it looks like thick pudding.
5. Let it set until the next morning, then cut it into bars. It will get harder after a few days. Then package.

If you wish to make soap based on olive oil, use about 48 ounces. It may need to harden for a week.

Answer 3

Lye, fats and a liquid, usualy water.

You need a fat, this can be anything from vegietable to animal fats. Lye, this can be purchased at a store or create your own from wood ash. Lastly, you will need water. If your lye is not in liquid form, you will need the liquid to put it in. Do not reverse the order and put liquid in lye!

You will need to have your lye mixture and fat at the same (+/- 2 degrees), temprature between 95 and 110 degrees farenhight.

Remove the fat from heat source, if you haven't already.

At this point you add the lye mixture to the fat and then stir, stir, stir and stir some more. You'll be done when a little of the mixture, when dribbled from a spoon, is distinguishable from the rest of the mixture in your pot. This is called trace.

Now, put your mixture into a container that can handle high heat, cover with cardboard or butcher paper, place in an out of the way spot, cover with an old blanket (to proctect it from getting cold too quickly) and leave it for 24 to 72 hours. Longer times are needed for some fats. 24 hours for most will do fine. DO NOT PEEK or you will ruin your soap!

When you uncover your soap, look for liquid. If you see any toss it out. That liquid is lye and will burn you.

If you do not see liquid, turn out your soap and cut it into bars and then let it air dry. It will take at least a week to get the PH balanced so you won't get burned, some will take even longer.

If you can handle a bar without it stinging you or causing a rash, it's safe to use. However, you should let it complety cure for a full 6 months to a year.

Answer 4

Are you Tyler Durden?

The common process of purifying soap involves removal of sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, and glycerol. These impurities are removed by boiling the crude soap curds in water and re-precipitating the soap with salt.

Most of the water is then removed from the soap. This was traditionally done on a chill roll which produced the soap flakes commonly used in the 1940s and 1950s. This process was superseded by spray dryers and then by vacuum dryers.

The dry soap (approximately 6-12% moisture) is then compacted into small pellets. These pellets are now ready for soap finishing. Soap finishing is the process of converting raw soap pellets into salable product, usually bars.

Soap pellets are combined with fragrances and other materials and blended to homogeneity in an amalgamator (mixer). The mass is then discharged from the mixer into a refiner which, by means of an auger, forces the soap through a fine wire screen. From the refiner the soap passes over a roller mill (French milling or hard milling) in a manner similar to calendering paper or plastic or to making chocolate liquor. The soap is then passed through one or more additional refiners to further plasticize the soap mass. Immediately before extrusion it passes through a vacuum chamber to remove any entrapped air. It is then extruded into a long log or blank, cut to convenient lengths, passed through a metal detector and then stamped into shape in refrigerated tools. The pressed bars are packaged in many ways.

Sand or pumice may be added to produce a scouring soap. This process is most common in creating soaps used for human hygiene. The scouring agents serve to remove dead skin cells from the surface being cleaned. This process is called exfoliation. Many newer materials are used for exfoliating soaps which are effective but do not have the sharp edges and pore size distribution of pumice.

Answer 5

lye is the main ingredient in the most basic soap. but as far as other ingredients and different kinds of soaps it just depends on who is making it.

Answer 6

Animal fat, Hydrochloric acid, and usually something to make it smell nice!

...I think

Answer 7

http://www.ehow.com/how_5911_make-homemade-soap.html

Answer 8

glycerin, lye

Answer 9

didn't you see fight club?