Not only wash, but also to decorate the interior

"Long live the soap fragrant! "- This phrase is more urgent for those who live today, at the dawn of the XXI century, far more than the contemporaries of the author. Then, almost a hundred years ago, soap perform only a washing function, and do not particularly care about the moisture, flavoring, and set the mood as bright cheerful cubes.

And it was by such a soap now difficult for us to go - even if they will not be rubbed in the shower, put as an accessory in the bathroom. Soap as a dull white skin searing brick today rarely used for hygienic purposes, because it was replaced by another - nice and smooth, transparent or translucent, marble, really fragrant, which is the result of manual work.

Handmade soap made even in ancient civilizations, and today such soap - this appeal to tradition, and the desire to surround his life to nature in all its manifestations.

Composition and manufacture

Any soap afford Compound soda solution (alkali) with fatty acids - vegetable or animal fats. Soap is prepared hot and cold way. Those bits of dull, familiar to everyone since childhood characteristic soapy smell hot cooked (boiled mass two to four hours). This soap has excellent detergent properties, it is ready for use immediately after curing. Soap cooked cold method differs significantly from the previous possibility of using natural ingredients, which in the absence of hard heat treatment does not lose its beneficial properties. Such hand-made soap can be given any color, smell, and even the image that will show off inside the transparent cubes. The only drawback for those who are going to prepare myself soap is - necessity of its holding for six to ten weeks, at least.

Oils used in soaps, are divided into major or basic and essential that give
product flavor. Also the soap include extracts of natural plants, giving it a positive disinfectant soap and even curative and additional aromatic properties or color. Clay - known cosmetic product, which finds itself in a piece of soap, giving it excellent cleaning and caring properties, but in this case the soap would not be transparent and characterized by matt. To improve the cleaning properties of hand made soap in it include abrasive particles then we are dealing with a soap-scrub.

If soap is used in the preparation of vegetable oils as a source of fatty acids to a saponification reaction by alkali, we obtain 90% of soap and glycerin is easily recognizable in the transparent bar. Soap, as he is appointed and the nature, washes, and glycerol remarkably moisturizes the skin, not allowing it to dry. But on the shelves you can find and opaque soap, and if it is not clay, then most likely, it is cooked with the addition of animal fat (tallow) hot. If you are partial to any products hand made, which has the right to be called a work of art, then you can choose a different soap, but if you want to get along with beautiful design more eco-friendly product - choose a transparent glycerine soap or clay.

Decorative properties

Get yourself a handmade soap, make sure that you do not have allergies, because a considerable amount of flavors, even though they are natural essential oil-origin may harm your health. If such a problem you do not, you can buy the soap for themselves and for their friends. Handmade soap - it lovely a present for a woman who will be able to use it as a cosmetic product and enjoy its aroma and original design.

Handmade soap - it is an excellent interior decoration. To serve this honorable goal in it add decorative elements that look very interesting in texture transparent soap bar, or make soap, which is completely in shape and color imitate any product, such as a chocolate bar or a slice of cake. Gourmets will definitely not stand in front of such magnificence, lying on a shelf cosmetic boutique. The main thing - to resist the temptation to try on a tooth is the creation of the master soap-boiler, because the temptation may be too great.

Eugene Zhirkina

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