Dangriga Urban Farming Ideas: Soap Making at Home for Kids

Easy Soap Making at Home for Kids

ENCOURAGING FAMILIES TO STAY TOGETHER
(this is a nice way for families to bond and experiment together during lockdown)

The product will be safe for everyone to use.

Materials

- Soap base (any unscented soap or glycerin soap base). Store bought baby soap can work as base. Castile soaps may also be sold at your local supermarket.

- Oats powder

- Olive oil or coconut oil

- Vitamin E oil (or capsule)

- Coloring

- Optional - honey or aloe vera

Instruction

1. Grate soap using a fine grater or shave using a knife

2. Blend oats in blender until powdered

3. Use extra virgin Olive oil or locally made coconut oil (can find at local market)

4. Vitamin E can be bought at the local pharmacy

5. Experiment with colors you can find at home (powder - annatto/recardo, paprika, cinnamon, turmeric, cocoa, neem, sage, spinach, etc.) or a few drops of liquid coloring (that is safe to use on skin - read label). Beets and carrots can be used.

*This makes it more exciting.

You can add essential oil if you like (this can be found at the local pharmacy)

*if you do not have some of these (e.g. neem, spinach, sage) in dried form, simply leave them out in open sunlight for a day (you can speed this up by putting into oven on low heat)

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- Warm soap base on stove top or in microwave until melted. Be very careful.

- Quickly add in all the ingredients and stir constantly until all are mixed in completely.

- Pour mixture into a mold (preferably a silicone mold). If you do not have one, simply use a cupcake pan.

- Leave the soap to harden (castile base soap hardens quickly. If using glycerin base, you can put in refrigerator to solidify faster.

- If using a cupcake pan, you may need to heat the bottom of the pan to loosen the soap to enable it to come out (you can use a water bath). You will simply need to bend the silicone container to get the soap out.

Recipe

1 cup grated soap base

1/4 cup oats powder

1 1/2 tablespoon olive or coconut oil

1/2 tsp vitamin E or 1 capsule

Coloring - you decide on this (don't go over 2 tbsp of powder or 5 drops of liquid)

2 tbsp. honey or 2 tbsp. aloe vera gel (optional)

You are free to experiment.

All these materials are safe to use on the body.

Most, if not all, can be found at home.

Enjoy a refreshing and moisturizing bath with the soap you made at home

Kaydoc's experiment

I made two kinds of soap using a castile soap base and a glycerin soap base.

(Both unscented)

Picture #1 - Castile soap (white). Glycerin soap base (transparent)

Picture #2 - materials I used (Top left to right: neem infused in coconut oil, grated castle soap, vitamin E oil. Bottom left to right: Oats powder, Glycerin shavings)

I made my own neem oil that I used in the recipe. I got fresh neem leaves and blended these in a magic bullet. I added these into a bowl of coconut oil.

Blended neem leaves in coconut oil

I warmed the oil in a water bath (added to a pot of boiling water). I strained off the liquid (using a cheesecloth to remove leaves) into a mason jar.