Can we chip and melt our household soaps and add our own exfolients?

Question

Can we chip and melt our household soaps and add our own exfolients?

Answer 1

Do you mean saving all those little scraps of left over soap

and melting them down?

This isn't a good thing to do anyhow because of the bacteria, etc., that's on your body stays in/on the bar of soap & would cross-contaminate whatever it's being remelted/reformed with.  that's why you'll find liquid soap in restrooms & kitchens of restaurants, restrooms & treatment rooms in clinics & hospitals, & in stores, etc.

reason you can't melt & remake the "soap" from the stores, is that it isn't soap at all.....

What you buy in the stores, the commercially produced "soaps", are really detergent, NOT soap. The same basic ingredients are used to make commercially produced "soap" that are used to make laundry & dishwashing detergent.

That is why the commercially produced "soaps" have all those ingredients on the label-all chemicals- & why those products leave you with dry skin-all the beneficial things like glycerin aren't there, or have to be added, but in such small quantities that they do no good.

Get some books at the library on how to make melt and pour soaps.

Once you have used good cold process soap, or M&P glycerin soap, you will see a tremendous difference in how your skin looks & feels & won't ever want to go back to store bought soap again.

Answer 2

Certainly. You could add various things to your melted soap and achieve the same purpose as expensive bought soaps.

Answer 3

Yes, you can reuse your soap scraps.  It's very easy to do but takes a little time.  Reusing soap is actually an established soaping method.  It is called Hand Milling or Re-Batching Soap.  I've done it many times myself.  Lots of soap makers save their little odd pieces of soap, like where they've beveled the corners, and they hand mill it to make a nice soap.  The best way to get these little scraps melted down quickly is to grate them with the grater from your kitchen.  I looked around on the net to find a good recipe for you and found an simple one for you to start with.  When you get your soap ready to pour into your mold, you can basically add anything you want to add for your exfolient, like sesame seeds, ground up oatmeal, this sort of thing.

http://www.eaudrey.com/milled.htm

Hope this helps!  Good Luck!!

Answer 4

yes you can ;)))