Comments on: Homemade Liquid Soap

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:35:39 +0000

Magic. I was frustrated and I left my watery soap disaster on my counter for about 3 hours. I decided to whip it once more with the stick blender and I walked away one more time. Came back about 30 minutes later and it was white and thickening into a nice looking soap!

So pretty much my last step in the recipe was to send a frustrated message to TL and then poof… problem solved. You ladies are so magical.

By: Tomato Lady

Tomato Lady — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:10:41 +0000

Hi Jen–I’m terrible at liquid soap myself. Ivory may be able to trouble-shoot this for you. (When I make liquid soap I just grate up a bar of my soap, cover with warm water and let it sit overnight–total cheat).

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:33:34 +0000

Oh Tomato Lady. I’m botched this recipe twice. I was able to make the lavendar rosemary soap like a charm but this one has got me bamboozled!
It got too hard in the jar so I had to kinda melt and chip it out. I went ahead and diluted it with distilled water and it doesn’t seem to be getting thick at all and it’s not white.
I was wondering if it may have to do with the temperature that I poured the lye water in. You stated to pour it when they were cool enough to touch. I was waiting till about 110 degrees.

Any thoughts or shall I try try again? I’m very new at soaping and your blog has inspired me so much to make things at home. I love it!

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By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:43:02 +0000

Another question, please: You say this makes good suds? Does it cut grease properly for dishes?

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:55:45 +0000

I am new to soaping myself but have learned that vanilla additives will typically go brown. Did you use vanilla for fragrance, Lonna?

By: ANA

ANA — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:47:09 +0000

sounds great, but is this soap ready to use??

By: Tomato Lady

Tomato Lady — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:35:36 +0000

raeofsunshine–No aluminum, and if your lye/water container is plastic, make sure it is a thick plastic. Stainless steel pans are good. Enamelware tends to have nicks exposing the underlying corrosive metal, so be careful with those kinds of pans. Hope this helps!

By: raesofsunshine

raesofsunshine — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:54:47 +0000

Do you need to use a certain type of pan for the soap making and mixing of lye and water? I thought I’d heard about not using anodized pans…or something to the like.
What kind of pans to your recommend?

By: Frugal Kiwi

Frugal Kiwi — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:10:25 +0000

Hi Ivory,

Have you tried using this for hand washing dishes? I’m guessing so since you say you use it for everything, but thought I’d ask. I’ve been looking for a recipe for dishwashing soap for a while now.