HOW TO MAKE HANDMADE SOAP

Lye calculator is one of the most important tool for cold process soap making. If you want to create your own handmade soap recipe , the lye calculator will help you to quick calculate with 100% correctly.

These are great lye calculators online I would like to recommend
1. MMS lye calculator
2. Soapcalc
3. Bramble berry lye calculator
4. Summer Bee Meadow lye calculator

**For creating your own soap recipe, firstly , let's read How oil types effect the soap properties.
**And learn more about superfat and water discounting here

List of example oils using in cold process soap making
Apricot Kernel Oil - moisturizing and conditioning properties
Avocado Oil - regenerative and moisturizing properties 
Babassu Oil - emollient
Borage Oil - conditioning and produces a stable lather in soap
Calendula Oil - regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties. 
Camellia Oil - high in vitamin E (conditioning)
Canola - conditioning  
Castor Oil - conditioning
Cocoa Butter - conditioning
Coconut Oil - hard bar, cleansing and full lather.
Corn Oil  
Crisco
Emu Oil    
Evening Primrose Oil - wonderfully conditioning
Flax (Linseed) Oil
Grapeseed Oil - conditioning
Hazelnut Oil - moisturising
Hemp Seed Oil - moisturising
Jojoba Oil - high in vitamin E (conditioning)  
Kokum Butter    
Kukui Nut Oil - conditioning
Lanolin    
Lard    
Macadamia Nut Oil - produces a stable, conditioning lather in soap.
Mango Butter - moisturizing properties
Meadowfoam Oil - wonderful moisturizing and rejuvenating properties. 
Mink Oil
Monoi de Tahiti    
Mowrah Butter    
Neem Oil - anti-bacterial, anti-septic & anti-viral and moisturizing properties.
Olive Oil - conditioning, stable lather. 
Palm Kernel Oil - a hard soap bar, cleansing bar with a full lather.
Palm Oil - often used to replace lard & tallow to make all vegetable oil soaps. produces a hard bar with a stable lather.
Plum Kernel Oil - emollient properties 
Pomegranate Oil - moisturize  
Pumpkin Seed Oil - skin healing properties.
Red Palm Oil - moisturising and healing properties. 
Rice Bran Oil - Rice bran oil is effective for keeping skin smooth. 
Rosehip Seed Oil - anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation qualities.
Safflower Oil    
Sesame Oil    
Shea Butter - promotes skin regeneration.
Sunflower Oil - moisturizing, regenerating, and conditioning. 
Sweet Almond Oil - produces a stable and conditioning lather in soap. 
Tamanu Oil
Tallow (beef)    
Walnut Oil    
Wheat Germ Oil - produces a bar with a stable, conditioning lather.

Then you select which oils you like to add to your recipe , after that use lye calculator to calculate how much lye should add to your recipe...finish!!