Personal hygiene is an important part of everyday life. Soap is most often used for bathing. Its wide variety allows you to choose the most suitable. Ash soap is an equally effective personal hygiene product. You can cook it yourself. How to make soap from ashes is described in the article.
What will it take?
Do-it-yourself ash soap is easy to prepare. You just need to prepare everything you need for this:
- Ash. It is obtained after burning wood. If it is resinous, for example, from spruce or pine, then ash is required, previously mixed with fat, to neutralize the resin. Replace this component will allow caustic soda, which is called soapstone.
- Water. It can be ordinary, but it is better to choose soft. Rigid enters into chemical reactions with alkali and partially neutralizes it.
- Fat. It can be fatty waste, lard, subcutaneous fat and various animal waste.
- S alt. You should choose a cookbook.
Based on these components, soap is made from ash. Hisused for daily bathing and washing. It perfectly fulfills its hygienic functions.
Cooking rules
The ash soap recipe is very simple. To do this, pour a little water into two containers: a large one and a slightly smaller one. Do not use aluminum cookware. Add ash to the water and boil for 30 minutes. During this period, a precipitate will appear - it is not applied. And the resulting liquid will be light lye.
The same amount of fat is added to the lye, after which the mixture should be boiled. Gradually add more lye. You should get a substance that can solidify during the test - liquid sweat soap or soap glue.
Next steps
You should take this soap glue, freed from greasy residues and sediment, and add table s alt to it. As a result of the reaction, a dense soap core appears - soda soap. The solution must be stirred by adding s alt. The core will expand until all the soap glue has been converted into it.
Then the finished soap from the ashes must be removed from the container and transferred to another boiler. The most concentrated lye, pre-boiled, and table s alt are added here. Ash soap becomes thicker - now it can be used for hygiene. But you can do this after removing excess lye, which is harmful to the skin. This technology is used to prepare, for example, birch ash soap.
Final stage
At the end, the resulting shaping substance is placed in a wooden box on a linen oranother canvas. Soap from the ashes should harden, lye should flow down. The product is cut into pieces and used at your discretion. Soap should be stored with grease.
All stages of the procedure, except for the first, should preferably be carried out outside, otherwise an unpleasant smell will appear in the room.
Ready-made soap perfectly cleanses the skin. It is much better than plain soap, which is usually used for personal hygiene. After the completion of the saponification reaction, there is no free alkali left. In contrast, a good handmade remedy always includes free oils and fats.
Usage nuances
Lye applied:
- For hair washing and personal hygiene. In this case, it is better to take lye made by a simpler method. To do this, water is passed through 1 portion of the ash. This lye is lightly concentrated and does not dry out the skin.
- To wash dishes. The above recipe will do, but with a stronger concentration. For this, 1 part of water is passed through several portions of ash. There will be strong and thick lye.
- For washing and cleaning. The lye made by the cold method is effective.
Concentrated lye is used in washing and cleaning, so it can dry out the skin. In the process of using it, it is advisable to use gloves or other hand protection.
The concentration of lye depends on the variety of plant used. For example, potassium carbonate is present in sunflower - 30-35%, in birch ash - 12%, and in buckwheat straw - 35%.
Receivedsoap provides saturation of the cells of the epidermis with microelements, vitamins and other valuable components. It perfectly cleanses, softens, nourishes the skin. With this soap, the color and condition of the epidermis improves. It also perfectly retains moisture, maintains skin elasticity.
The use of this soap protects the epidermis from hard water. It gives the skin tenderness, velvety, light aroma. Also, the remedy eliminates rashes, irritations. It can be used to perform a soap massage - for deep cleaning.
Difficulties
There may be some difficulties in making soap that are easy to fix:
- It is not uncommon for a layer of fat to appear on the mixture. It should be checked that the solution is at the right temperature to liquefy the fat. If so, heat the mixture further, adding 5% more lye water, and stir for 10 minutes. If the mixture is cold, then warm it up a little.
- It may be that the mixture does not coarsen for 3 hours. It should be heated a little more, turn off the fire, add melted fat (10%) and stir for 10 minutes.
- Often the mixture does not harden. It is important to ensure that hardwood ashes are used and not softwood ashes.
- Sometimes the resulting soap has a thin layer of white dust on top. Should be wet before use.
- The resulting soap may not work effectively the first time. It must be dipped in water and air dried.
It should be noted that in this recipeyou need hard wood ash, not soft wood. Then the cooking procedure will please, as well as the result. The resulting soap will become one of the best face care products.
Thus, ash-based soap can be easily prepared by yourself. The resulting product is effective for regular hygiene procedures.
