Home Crafts - Fun and Creative Ways in Making Soaps

You are looking for ways to bond with your kids during their vacation without resorting to the usual activities like going to the malls or eating out. Aside from the fact that these can be very costly, you want this vacation to be productive and memorable to the whole family. This is when you found out about various home crafts suggestions on various sites online. Your dilemma now is what to pick among the many good choices. If you want to create something that will be useful, you may want to learn more about making soaps.

There are four methods that you can choose to adapt with this activity. You can go about it through the melt and pour method, cold process, hot process and the rebatching.

Melt and pour. This can be done by melting pre-made blocks of soaps and adding the fragrances of your choice in the process. You may not have that much control with the ingredients, but this is the easiest method and it is very convenient as well. You can get the pre-made blocks of soap that are unscented and have no color on various craft store or at soap sellers online. You will melt the soap base using a double boiler or you can do this in the microwave oven. When it has melted, you only have to add the fragrance and color of your choice, place the mixture into mold and wait until it hardens.

Cold process. This is the most common method of creating soaps. You are in control of the ingredients, but you need to follow procedures religiously to succeed in the task. You first have to heat the oils on the soap pot. When it has reaches about 100 degrees, you then have to slowly add the lye and water mixture. You need to blend the mixture until it reaches the trace. At this point, you will add the fragrance, additives and color and pour it on the mold. When the soap is already hard, you need to give it four weeks to cure before you can use the product.

Hot process. This is another variety of the cold process and its only difference is that with this method, the soap needs to be cooked.

Rebatching - With this method, you will use bars of soap and grind this. You will then add milk or you can also use water, whatever you prefer and re-blend everything.

Whatever method you choose, the task will surely make your kids' vacation truly memorable and worthwhile.