About This Course
What You'll Learn
- Understand the science of saponification and soap chemistry
- Master cold process, hot process, and melt-and-pour techniques
- Formulate recipes for different skin types and preferences
- Work safely with lye and other soap-making chemicals
- Create beautiful designs using natural colorants and additives
- Properly cure, package, and label your soap products
- Start selling your handmade soaps as a business
Course Curriculum
0. Introduction to Soap Making
Understanding what soap making is, the types of soap making, history, and essential safety precautions.
1. Ingredients and Their Properties
Oils, fats, lye, and additives - understanding the building blocks of soap with video tutorial.
2. Formulation Principles & Recipe Development
Saponification, superfatting, balancing properties, and creating your own recipes with video tutorials.
3. Soap Making Techniques
Cold process, hot process, and melt-and-pour techniques with demonstration video.
4. Fruit & Botanical Soap Recipes
Complete recipes for Papaya, Lemon Turmeric, Honey Rice Milk, Calendula Honey Oat, Lime, Watermelon, Blueberry, Aloe Vera, and Tomato soaps with video tutorials.
5. Classic & Specialty Soap Recipes
Lavender, Palm Free Vegan, Falling for Autumn, Coffee Taiwan Swirl, Coconut Milk Raspberry, Cucumber Mint, and Ginger Sea Moss soap recipes with video tutorials.
6. Baby & Gentle Soaps
Super gentle baby soaps, creamy milk soap recipes, Coffee & Cocoa soap, and Cooling Cucumber soap with video tutorials.
7. Activated Charcoal & Specialty Soaps
Activated charcoal cold process soap recipe for detoxifying, deep-cleansing bars with video tutorial.
8. Herbs in Soap Making
Comprehensive guide to 30+ herbs for soap making including Aloe Vera, Rosemary, Lemongrass, Ginger, Turmeric, Rose Petals, Calendula, Chamomile, Lavender, Tea Tree, and many more with formulation guides.
9. Color and Fragrance Techniques
Natural and synthetic colorants, colour stability, mica, oxides, ultramarines, fragrance types, essential oils, and scent profiles.
10. Soap Shaping, Design & Finishing
Mold types, embedding, layering, swirl designs, cutting techniques, and finishing touches with video tutorials.
11. Curing, Packaging & Business
Soap drying methods, packaging options, product testing, pH testing, and quality control for your soap business.