Soap making

products per page
products per page

Make your own homemade soaps!

Natural soap making allows for a harmonisation of multiple benefits for each product. Soaps are made by mixing vegetable oils and butters with an alkali such as caustic soda. Essential oils bring properties to soaps but scented oils are just as viable.

For the record...

Soaps are the oldest known surfactants; it is the reaction of an alkali on a fatty substance that makes it possible to obtain this result.
Their history began over 5,000 years ago, but the first synthetic surfactant did not appear until 1916.


Soap bases

Of vegetable origin, our soap bases benefit from a range of quality products!

Solid base

Simple to create from a solid base, your soaps will benefit from greater customisation to colour them, perfume them with scented oils or add active ingredients. These Melt & Pour bases are ideal for creating soaps with your children.

Simply melt your base, add perfume, colouring agents or active ingredients and then pour the result into the moulds provided.

The result is a cocooning but also very greedy product, with a softness and moisturizing properties that cannot be ignored.

Liquid base

The liquid base is composed of saponified oils. The soap molecule has a very different structure from that of solid soap: The soap will remain soft and will not harden. It is therefore the hot saponification process that will achieve the desired result. Some perfumes will liquefy and change the appearance of your soaps.


Saponification

Saponification is a chemical reaction between a fat (vegetable or animal butter) and an alkali or strong base. The latter is either soda for solid soaps or potash for liquid soaps.

Cold soap saponification

Particularly ecological because of the low energy input required to manufacture it, cold saponification does not pollute the environment and is naturally hydrating.

This technique consists of not cooking the mixture of the fat and the base. The fats are just mixed at room temperature or not. After mixing and moulding the paste, it usually takes 48 hours for the oils to turn into soap and glycerine. Thanks to this method, not all oils and butters are saponified and therefore have an excess fat status (superfat). Suitable for all skin types, they are beneficial to the hydration of the epidermis.

By modifying the properties, the soap can be more or less foaming and more or less mild depending on the ingredients. The fragrance affects the colour of the final product but also the saponification process (the trace). The important stages of cold saponification are the trace, the colouring and the durability of the soap in addition to its natural moisturising properties.

The only danger to your soap-making desires is the corrosive lye, which can cause problems if present in excess and thus create a caustic soap. It is therefore advisable to test your soaps with PH test strips. The ideal PH is around 8.

Hot saponification of soap

This is an ancestral method used to make Marseille soap or Aleppo soap for example. Hot saponification is more likely to moisturise the skin by adding ingredients whose properties are preserved after saponification.

The technique consists of cooking the soap paste at a high temperature to accelerate saponification to obtain a hard soap with a short drying phase.

Start your DIY handmade soaps now

Do you want to start making your own soap? We offer you a whole range of products for this. Quality products, but above all, support in your creative process with our soap guides and assistance for all your questions.

Subscribe to our newsletter

To take advantage of our discounts and read more about our latest news

Information on the processing of personal data

Carrier < 30 kg France Europe International
Colissimo logo 48 à 72 hours 3 to 5 days 1 to 2 weeks
Options: at home, relay merchant, post
DPD logo 24 à 48 hours 2 to 3 days -
Options: shipped at home, relay
Chronopost logo 24 à 48 hours
 1 to 2 days -
Options: shipped at home, relay
UPS logo - 1 to 2 days 1 week

If you want to know more and know our prices outside Metropolitan France, click here