Making homemade liquid soap

Making homemade liquid soap is not as challenging as you may think. With just a few ingredients and a little bit of time, you can make your own liquid soap right in the comfort of your home. If you are looking to save some money, or just want a fun project to do at home, you can create a homemade product that works just as well as commercial-grade soaps at a fraction of the cost. You will need to spend some money upfront, but you can make several batches of soap with the ingredients.

Bar soap works great in a shower, but can be a little tricky when used at the bathroom sink. The bar of soap may look slimy and unappealing to guests that come in to the home, and use the bathroom. Liquid soap is easily accessible through a pump, and much less messy. Liquid soap would be more ideal to use in a bathroom that guests are going to frequent. Individuals can make their own natural homemade liquid soap at home.

Soap making has remained unchanged over the centuries. The ancient Roman tradition was to take rain water, potash and animal tallow, turning it into a cleansing agent. There are many legends about how soap was discovered. Some say that after a heavy rain fall on the slopes of Mount Sapo, the water mixed with the animal fat and ashes around an important sacrificial alter. According to legend this trickled down to the banks of the Tiber River where washer women noticed that the substance made their job easier and the wash cleaner. Making soap was a long and arduous process. First the fat had to be rendered, that is melted and filtered to remove any non-fat solids. Then the potash solution was added to the hot fat. Since water and oil do not mix, this mixture had to be continuously stirred and heated sufficiently to keep the fat melted.Slowly a chemical reaction called saponification would take place between the fat and the hydroxide which resulted in a liquid soap. When the fat and water no longer separated, the mixture was allowed to cool. At this point