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DareToEatAPeach · 22/03/2020 10:54
My carer actually makes soap, I know it's main ingredients are fat/oil and caustic soda (drain cleaner) I'll ask him for a simple recipe.
Please be careful. I make soap and you need a rock solid recipe that has been double checked by someone who knows or a knowledge yourself about the rate at which different fats react with c soda. It's a balance and, if you get it wrong, it leaves too much of the caustic ingredient 'free' in the end bar.
Soap takes a few weeks to mature before you can use it - though the hot proces method is ready to use much quicker.
Caustic soda burns skin so you do need to take precuaitons - i.e. wear protecting gloves and goggles.
DareToEatAPeach · 22/03/2020 10:55
savers.co.uk/ still appears to have a number of 99p shampoo options. Worth looking?
ErrolTheDragon · 22/03/2020 11:05
Caustic soda burns skin so you do need to take precuaitons - i.e. wear protecting gloves and goggles.
I did a chemistry degree - strong alkalis need to be treated with as much care as strong acids. Now is not the time for people to be doing anything unfamiliar which may be risky and which could hurt them.
stella1know · 22/03/2020 13:09
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/550575109/handmade-natural-soap-rose-geranium
i buy from this small shop and the soap bars
last ages on a soap dish drying between uses, and dont dry my hands out like liquid soap. Liquid soap isn’t actually proper soap, it is detergent mixed with water and other stuff which is why it is so much worse. Everyone will have cracked hands at the end of the month 😦
ClientQueen · 22/03/2020 14:46
Savers?
This is decent stuff https://www.savers.co.uk/XHC/XHC-Banana-Shampoo-400ml/p/776030
ErrolTheDragon · 24/03/2020 09:04
I just remembered this thread - DH has just placed an order with the chap we normally get our soap from at a farmers market. We get a boxful at a time as this glycerine soap turned out to be the one sort which doesn't kick of DHs eczema. Some of them are made with essential oils, they're all good though I wouldn't use the mint on my nethers. 
Their hand wash is nice too, I expect the shower gel is similar.
www.tigermuffinsoaps.co.uk/home
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