The Soap Making Made Simple Mini Course...

Soap Making Safety!

Welcome To Day 6 of the Soap Making Made Simple Mini Course!

Today is a very necessary lesson for your soap making hobby or future business.  And, yeah, I know it's not particularly exciting.  But, I don't want you to have any accidents while making your own soap.

So, we're going to cover some safety precautions you need to take while making soap.

Almost anyone can make soap, but because it involves caustic chemicals when using the cold process, it is important to consider safety.  Before you begin, you should review the following saftety precautions.

Soap Making Safety Tips

Ensure that you have covered your workspace and the floor with newspapers. This will be invaluable should you spill any lye mixture or the liquefied soap. Gather all of the necessary equipment in that stopping to find something in the middle of the process may jeopardize your soap.

More importantly, it may also cause you to rush or to make do without something not meant for soap making, thus creating opportunities for accidents and poor soap quality.

Save your lye-mixing containers for lye. As mentioned earlier, lye remains in the container even after you have cleaned it. Therefore, the container would pose a real health risk should anyone use it for food.

Be sure you keep the containers in a safe location and that you have them identified and distinctive from cooking or food storage containers.

When making soap, keep the container with your lye mixture away from the edge of your workspace and away from where children or pets can access them. By placing the lye securely on the countertop or workstation, you will also avoid knocking or bumping it off.

Finally, be sure you have a safe location to store your curing soaps. Lye remains corrosive until fully cured. Therefore, it is crucial that lye be kept well out of reach of animals and children.

All right, that should give you an awareness of some of the safety issues associated with cold process soap making. In Soap Making Made Simple you can also learn safety considerations regarding:

• Selection of equipment (p. 32)
• Hardening lye (pp. 32-33)
• Heating fats (p. 34)
• Equipment use and maintenance (p. 34)

As you can see, we take safety seriously and explain everything you need to know in great detail.

That's a wrap for today.

Just remember...

You could be making your own great soap right now.  Make it for yourself... or make it for  beautiful, unique gifts for family and friends.

If you're in a hurry to learn much, much more about the necessary safety precautions you must take, consider giving "Soap Making Made Simple!" a try.

And...

Don't miss the next lesson - Creating the Perfect Workspace!

So, be sure to check your email in a few days for more great soap making info!

Regards,

Dave Cushion