Soapmaking today....

Here at Faerie Made we make our soap via the cold process method. What does that mean?

What it means is that we take a fat (in our case vegetable oils and nut butters) and combine with an alkali solution (sodium hydroxide aka lye and water), to make soap. Of course, here we add more than that. W also add pure plant based essential oils, clays, herbs and botanicals, milks, honey, mineral pigments and on ...

After combining the oils, lye and liquid, we blend the solution adding our additives until we hit "trace" which means it is emulsified and ready to pour into the mold.

We cover the molds, let sit over night then the next day we cut into logs and further into bars. We then let them sit for weeks before wrapping to sell.

That's the easy way of stating it.

So I thought that it would be a good idea to take a few pics and Show what I am talking about ... hopefully we can get them in order.