Aromatherapy

Oily Skin

If the sebaceous glands are excreting excessive oils, result will be an oily skin.

This is characterized with a shiny appearance, and the pores appear to be in medium to large sizes. Oils skin is more liable to blemishes.

Apart from this, this particular skin types is less sensitive and is commonly thicker as compared to other skin types. Recommended soap scents for this type is rosemary scent.

Rosemary has antiseptic qualities that gently regulate the oils production without the tendency of drying the skin. Additionally, it dynamically excites tissue circulations, lymph drainage, and skin metabolism.

Combination Skin

This skin types exhibits regular oil production on the face. You will notice that your nose and forehead are somewhat oilier compared to other areas in your face, and your pores appear to be small to medium sizes.

If you have this skin type, then you are endowed with medium thick skin with an even tone. Lavender Rose Geranium and Versatile Lavender scents are best for this type of skin. These are beneficial for normal skin types as rose geranium increases blood vessel circulations beneath the skin’s surface.

Aromatherapy More Types

• Normal to Dry Skin

Naturally, dry skin lacks the luster oil, water, or even both. It is indicated by a tight feeling and visible flaking. Usually, dry skin is easily irritated and very delicate. It comes with a matte finish with no sheen, and at some point, it feels rough to touch. Best soap scents will be Sandalwood Blend, a classic pick for dehydrated and dry skin. It essentially relieves skin inflammations and itching, while acting as antiseptic.

• Dry/Mature Skin

Mature skin oftentimes commences at around 40 years old. In this particular period, cell and glandular activities normally slow down, which results to dryness, wrinkles, fine lines, the indications of aging. Soap products suitable for this type of skin are those with anti-wrinkle blend like those with fennel, carrot seed, myrrh, and frankincense. These primary ingredients strengthen muscle tones, increase skin elasticity and enhance cell removal. These rejuvenating elements provide just the adequate benefits to dry and mature skin.

Pamper Yourself

You just came home from a long day and you feel really down and tired. It seemed like things have gone wrong. Well, all you need at times like this is a warm, and soothing bath to relax and calm your turmoil senses.

To provide you with an exhilarating feel and utmost relaxation, fill in your tub with scented soap bubbles or simply use scented soaps with just the right scent that you need. You do not really have to stress yourself of transforming your bathroom into some inviting spa-look. All it takes are just soaps and scents.

There are indeed wide collections of scented soaps and gels out in the market. You can have all the scents that you want. You just have to take your pick from the selections of these widely available products. For anyone with sensitive skin type, take the glycerin soap with scents.

Or if you prefer the aroma of vanilla or tea rose, then suit yourself and experience the magic of these attractively wrapped soaps as they add beauty to your every bathe. However, if you opt for long showers than just soak in the tub, then go for shower gels as they too are packaged with delicious aromas.

Aromatherapy Scents

List of scent variations are classified into:

• Woody
• Cool
• Warm spice
• Minty
• Sweet
• Fruity
• Citrus spice
• Tropical
• Floral

Woody scents are:

• Cupid’s Beau
• Lavender & Cedarwood
• Sandalwood

Cool collections include:

• Aloe Vera
• Mint & Cucumber
• Tea Tree & Calendula

Warm Spices are the scents of:

• Coconut & Russian Amber
• Cupid’s Beau (also)
• Honeycomb

Minty aroma are brought by:

• Lemon & Eucalyptus
• Mint & Cucumber

Sweet fragrances are carried through by:

• Chinese Lily
• Cranberry & Orange
• Honeycomb
• Jasmine
• Jasmine & Rose Art
• Jasmine & Rose Heart
• Violet

Fruity flavor scents of:

• Cranberry & Orange
• Mango
• Orange & Bergamot

Citrus spices as offered by:

• Citronella
• Lavender & Tea Tree
• Lemongrass
• Lemongrass & Ginger
• May Chang
• Melissa
• Patchouli & Geranium
• Patchouli & Ylang Ylang
• Sea Kelp & Ylang Ylang
• Tea Tree, Lemon & Coriander

Tropical feel as provided by:

• Coconut
• Coconut & Russian Amber
• Mango
• May Chang

Floral beauty of:

• Chinese Lily
• Flower Garden
• Jasmine
• Jasmine & Rose Art
• Jasmine & Rose Heart
• Lavender Art
• Lavender Heart
• Neroli
• Rose & Geranium Art
• Rose & Geranium Heart
• Violet

The aromatherapy scents of soaps are generally therapeutic and contribute a lot to your welfare and sense of well-being and euphoria. Soap with a magnetic scent is sure to leave your body cleansed, refreshed, smooth and soft.

The psychological benefits of scents in soaps are truly relaxing and soothing to the senses and nerves. Thus, soaps and scents is indeed one amazing combination that yields equally exceptional benefits and perks with your aromatherapy times.

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Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is the aptitude of pampering the spirit, mind and body with natural aromatic elements picked out from Nature’s luscious garden as incorporated into soaps, lotions, and any other bath and body products. A three thousand practice.

It is even one of the renowned beauty and relaxing regimens applied worldwide by most people.

Also, aromatherapy serves as an exploration and discovery of creativity and technical knowledge.  Cognition of oils’ varied characteristics and exciting combination of scents are part of creative expressions.

Scientifically, aromatherapy is apparent from being able to discern subtle differences of essential oils as components of aroma chemicals and how they influence the many human body organisms.

The aromatic substances of pristine essential oils are impetus for positive changes in both human body and mind.

•  What scents can do to:
  

            The mind…

There are indeed significant oil aromas that stimulate the integral part of the brain responsible for inflicting emotions.  An oil molecule can be akin to a key, in which it opens up the lock-like structures of the olfactory nerve in the nostrils.  The effect of the aromas will be immediately passed onto the limbic system wherein memories, emotions, and pleasures are stored and perceived.  Upon stimulation, the limbic system will then release chemicals that have an impact on the entire central nervous system.

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Endorphins affect sexual responses and minimize pain while serotonin will counteract anxiety.

Breathing in essential oils helps attain an amiable emotional balance.  In turn, a balanced emotional state yields some therapeutic effect on problems particularly the stress-related issues.  You may enhance your emotional and physical welfare with the use of the essential oils through diffusion or direct inhalation.

If immediate relief is sought, direct inhalation is best applied.  Like for instance in relieving stress, you just need two to five drops of chamomile unto a handkerchief and position it below your nose and inhale through it.

Due to their buoyant nature, these essential oils will easily disperse into the air.  A ceramic vessel or an aromatherapy lamp, which is designed with a basin to contain a mixture of essential oil and water, is a wonderful approach to diffusing scents.  The small basin is heated underneath with a light bulb or a candle.

Spreading out relaxing oils such as chamomile, sandalwood or rose can very well ease patients’ anxieties while waiting for their turn to see their doctors in the lounge or waiting area.  Or, to ward off untimely sleepiness, use uplifting oil scents like lemon, basil, or peppermint particularly in offices.

• The body...

Scented oils can easily be absorbed by the skin, in which it travels through individual cells, up to hair follicles, wherein the oils go through the sebaceous glands and then interact with the natural emollients of the skin.  The oils’ chemical properties can be deodorizing, toning, balancing, and cleansing.

The essential oils increase the aesthetic dimension of the healing effects brought upon by massage therapies, facial steams, compresses, foot and body baths.  And since they are concentrated, the oils must be liquefy composing only two to three percent of the mixture, either in bath water or carrier oil like jojoba, or sweet almond.  However, there are certain oils that must be carefully suited for more magnificent skin benefits.

The skin, being the largest visible organ must be very well taken cared of as it reflects so much of one’s well-being, and at the same time, it protects from the constant barrage of toxins and pollutants.  The scent of lavender oils offers a toning, balancing, cleansing and deodorizing effects, aside from it being though of as the skin’s optimum skin oil.

In addition, it is relatively safe to use even up to 20% of dilutions.  It fights oily skin types while soothing out and replenishing dry and flaky skins.

• The spirit..

A nose-friendly and sweet smell generates a mysterious and alluring presence especially in a particular room, as it wafts like a prayer or wish.  Essential oils are thought of as the archetypal breath of plants, caught in a jar.  The frankincense oil is popularly used in prayers and meditations for many centuries now.  Its balsamic and rich aroma deeply penetrates into the depths of the lungs, providing a slow, calm and relax breathing, essential for meditating.  Why not try using frankincense the next time you venture out in a spiritual habit.

Aromatherapy Positive Effects It Has

Essential oils offer positive effects on every aspect of your being.  Their unique blends and properties enhance the spirit, mind and body.  Thus, aromatherapy is the scientific application and most imaginative and clever use of essentially scented oils in order to create marvelous changes in people’s lives on therapeutic, mystical and aesthetic levels.

• Identifying Skin Type

It is just as significant to know your skin type for you to easily distinguish what soaps and scents are best suited and applicable for your skin.  In spite of the positive effects of these products, compatibility is a must and must be fairly given attention to.  If these body products do not blend in wonderfully with your skin, whatever its benefits will surely be unnoticeable.

Therefore, soap benefits do not fare much if it is not compatible with the skin type.  To expound any information on the different skin types, the following are presented with concise outline of the different skin types for soap and scents with aromatherapy.

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Soap Making Part 2

Welcome back to soap making here in part two we are going to be talking about both hot and cold processes of soap making, heat is necessary for saponification.

Saponification is typically used in referring to the reaction between a metallic alkali to oil or fat in forming soap.

The cold process of soap making is done with a temperature that is above the normal room temperature to be certain of fat liquification and it is required that the fat and lye be warmed always after mixing to be certain the soap is saponified completely.

Contrary to the cold process, the hot process can be of use immediately since fat and lye can be saponified quickly due to higher temperatures used in the process.

Hot process is then used if utmost purity of the lye is questionable, and may use the natural lye solution called potash.

One desirable benefit of the hot procedure is not needing the precise concentration of lye solution for an adequate success of the procedure.  In the cold process, it requires the exact lye concentration to ensure of a skin-friendly and mild products.

• Hot Process

In this method, fat and lye are boiled at 80 to 100 degree Celsius until the occurrence of saponification.  The maker can tell by tasting or just by simply looking at it.  Saponification can be known once tasted if the distinguished taste of the lye had disappeared, while in just looking at it, an experienced soap maker can tell if gel stage and complete saponification had occurred.  Once saponification occurs, sometimes putting salt will precipitated the soap and extra liquid will be drained.  After which, the hot, still soft soap will be molded.

• Cold Process

In using the cold process in soap making, the soap maker will have to check first in the saponification chart the saponification value of fats used, as this will be used to compute the exact amount of lye.  Excessive unreacted lye will result to an extremely high level of pH and possibly irritate or burn the skin.  However, if there is no sufficient component of lye, the soap will understandably be oily and greasy.  That is why, for the most part, soap makers formulate 3-15% excess of oils for all lye to react and whatever excess fat will be left for conditioning benefits of the skin.

The lye will be dissolved in water, and fat will be mixed in the resulting solution.  Let it cool to 80-90 degrees Fahrenheit.  Stir in the lye and fat mixture until “trace.”  Trace is when the two substances become thicken and cloudy in appearance.  (With new technologies, a stick blender for a speed-up process does this.)  After thorough stirring, it will be expected that the mixture would become like that of a thin pudding.  As the mixture began to thicken, additives such as fragrance oils, herbs, essential oils, botanicals and oatmeal may be added.

The batch will then be put into varied molds, be kept warm with blankets or towels and will be left to further saponify for another 18-48 hours.  During this period, it is just normal that the soap to undergo “gel phase,” wherein the once opaque soap will be transparent for a few hours and then will turn opaque again.  The soap is expected to yield off heat after the trace.

After the entire insulation period, the soap is already hardened enough to be taken out from its mold and is ready to be cut into whatever desired shape of size.  In this period, it is already safe to make use of the soap because saponification is already complete.  Moreover, soaps that are cold processed typically hardened for about two to six weeks on a drying rack depending on its water content though.

Soap Making Purification and Finishing

In purifying soaps, its most common process includes the removal of sodium hydroxide, glycerol, and sodium chloride.  These elements are taken out by boiling the soap curds in plain water, and at the same time precipitating it again with salt.

The soap will then be removed most of its water content.  Traditionally, this procedure was done with a chill roll, the kind that produced soap flakes usually used way back between 1940’s and 1950’s.  However, vacuum dryers and spray dryers replaced the process.  With an approximate value of 6 to 12% moisture, the soap will be packed in small pellets.  The pellets will then be ready for the finishing.  It is the process wherein raw soap pellets are converted into salable products that usually come in bars

These soap pellets will be added with fragrances or other materials and will be blended in a mixer or the amalgamator.  The mass will be discharged into a refiner in which, with an auger, will force the soaps into a very refined wire screen.  And then, the soap will pass through a roller mill from the refiner, in the same manner as calendaring plastic or paper, or manufacturing chocolate liquor.  The process is not done yet for the soap will be passed through another refiner to plasticize further the soap mass.

Soap Making Vacuum Chamber

Right before it is thrust out, it will have to pass through a vacuum chamber for the entrapped air to be removed.  After which, it will be extruded into blank or long log, and then will be cut to desired lengths, then will be passed to another metal detector before it is stamped to shape with the use of refrigerated tools.  It will then result to pressed bars, which will be packaged in a lot of ways.

Pumice or sand may also be added in making a scouring soap.  However, this technique is usually used in manufacturing hygienic soaps.  The scouring agent works in removing dead cells of the skin surface.  The process is then called, exfoliation.  There are already a broad range of new materials and ingredients used in making exfoliating soaps.  These materials are indeed effective, but still, they do not offer the rough edges of pumice. Hope you enjoyed soap making part 2 not go out there and make some soap!

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Soap Making

Evolution, changes…  these are the only constant things in this world.  From the ancient times to the present, everything certainly has changed.  Gone are the old ways and the new ones are in control.  Among these developments are the methods of soap making.

Soap making had begun in the seventh century as an entrenched craft in Europe.  Soap makers then guarded their business secrets closely to protect it and as a precautionary measure of preserving their industry.

Both animal and vegetable oils were used along with plants’ ashes and fragrance.

Until gradual increase and demand for soaps were incessant and different variations were available including soaps for shampooing and shaving, as well as laundering and bathing.

The soap manufacturing businesses at the early times were centered on France, Spain and Italy since these countries had a steady supply of the needed raw materials like the olive oils.  It was in the 12^th century that the English people began making soaps.  The business went so great that by the year 1622, King James I authorized dominance to a certain soap maker for $100,000 per year.

By the 19^th century, soaps were already taxed as luxury items in many countries.  And when the high rate of taxes was taken out, soaps were available to everybody even the ordinary and the bourgeois.  Cleanliness standards really improved.

Commercial soap making was introduced into the American colonies in 1608 when several soap makers from England arrived in Jamestown, Virginia.  However, soap making essentially remained a household chore for a few number of years.  Professional soap makers regularly collected waste fats from every household in exchanged to some soaps.

The big leap in financial soap making happened in 1791 when Nicholas Leblanc, a French chemist, patented a procedure for making sodium carbonate or soda ash from an ordinary salt.  The soda ash is an alkali taken from the ashes that had a fat mixture to cast soap.  The procedure, which was called, the Leblanc process produced innumerable quantities of inexpensive yet good quality soda ash.

Meanwhile, the science of contemporary soap making was given birth 20 years later when another French chemist, Michel Eugene Chevreul, discovered the relationship and chemical nature of fatty acids, glycerine, and fats.  His studies constituted the basis for the soap and fat industry.

Furthermore, another essential aspect to the growth of the soap making technology was the invention of Ernest Solvay in the middle of the 1800’s.  Solvay was a Belgian chemist who started out the ammonia process, which used sodium chloride or the typical table salt, in making soda ashes.  The procedure reduced the costs of using alkali, while increasing both quantity and quality of soda ashes for manufacturing soaps.

Soap Making Fast Growing

Along with the addition of power in operating factories, these scientific inventions and discoveries, made soap making as one of the fast growing industries in America by 1850.  Also, because of its popularity and vast availability, soaps eventually became another luxury item and a daily necessity.  With its widespread use, the developments for milder soaps, bathing soaps and even for washing machine soaps were unstoppably growing.

But it was not until 1916 when soap making chemistry made another breakthrough with the introduction of synthetic detergents, which were developed in Germany.  The move was in response to the lack of fats as the basic soap material during the World War I.  Today, synthetic detergents are simply known as detergents.  The synthetic detergents are referred to as non-soap cleaning and washing products chemically put together from different raw materials.  The demand for certain cleaning agents that are totally different from an ordinary soap, that would not form any soap curd or any insoluble substance, also pave the birth for detergents.

Household detergents in the United States began in 1930’s but were not that successful until the end of World War II.  During the war, primary components for soap making such as oils and fats were interrupted, and increasing need of the militaries for a cleaning substance that would work bests even with seawater and cold water advanced the research regarding detergents.

The first ever detergent was used for laundering fine fabrics and hand washing.  The all-purpose laundry detergents came about in 1946 in the United States.  It was when the first detergent containing a combination of builder and surfactant, was introduced.  The surfactant is the chief cleaning ingredient of detergents.  Builder, on the other hand, aids the surfactant to function more efficiently.  The phosphate compounds used in those first detergents proved to improve performance, thus, making them more appropriate for cleaning soiled laundry.

Around 1953, gross sales for detergents had surpassed sales of soaps in the US.  Currently, either detergent only or combined with soap can be found too in several liquids and bar forms for personal cleansing uses.  Ever since the progress and achievements attained by builder chemistry and detergents, new product forms have continually emerged.  Developed cleaning products are easy to use and are efficient, not to mention safe for the environment and consumers alike.

Some of those innovations are summarized as follows:

1950’s

• Dishwasher powders
• Liquid laundry
• Hand dishwashig
• Fabric softeners (with added rinse-cycle)
• Detergent with add-on oxygen bleach

1960’s

• Pre-wash stain and soil removers
• Laundry powders with enzymes
• Enzyme presoaks

1970’s

• Liquid hand soap
• Fabric softeners (with added wash-cycle and sheets)
• Multifunctional products (such as detergent and fabric softener in one)

1980’s

• Detergents specially made for cooler water wash
• Dishwasher liquids
• Laundry powders (concentrated)

1990’s

• Ultra liquid and powder detergents (concentrated)
• Ultra fabric softeners
• Dishwasher gels
• Cleaning and laundry product refills

In today’s era, the most renowned soap making procedure is called the cold process technique or method, wherein fats like that of an olive oil react with the presence of lye.  The olive oil is the fruit oil from the olive tree, a traditional crop from the Mediterranean Basin.  And lye is sodium hydroxide, or otherwise known as sodium hydrate or caustic soda.  It is a metallic base caustic soda that forms an alkaline solution once dissolved in solvents, particularly water.

Soap makers at times applied the melt-and-pour process.  In this procedure, pre-made soap base will be melted and will be poured into individual molds.  However, this method is not actually considered real soap making.  There are other manufacturers though who use other procedures like the archival hot process, in making soaps like the clear soaps or glycerin soaps.

Soap Making Swedish Chemist

A Swedish chemist called Scheele back in 1779 first noted glycerin.  Glycerin was then considered as the sweet principle of fat.  However, it was a French chemist named Michel Eugene Chevreul, as mentioned earlier, who studied soap production chemistry and applied the name “glycerin”.  He also found out that this “sweet principle” is the common denominator of fats and oils.

Soaps are deduced from fats or oils.  A common ingredient in most soap is the sodium tallowate, and it is actually derived from a beef fat.  Soaps may also be made out of vegetable oils like that of palm oil resulting to a softer finished product.  A soap made from 100% olive oil can be called Marseille soap or Castile soap.  Castile may also be applicable to soaps with mixtures of oils, but with a higher rate of olive oil.

A variation of butters and quality oils are can also be applied in the procedure like coconut oil, olive oil, hemp oil, palm cocoa butter and shea butter to name a few.  Oils used by a particular soap maker has a truly unique blend and characteristics that will provide variable and distinct qualities to numerous handmade soaps, as well as to its lathering, hardness and mildness.

To cite an example, the olive oil yields mildness in soaps, palm and coconut oils provide hardness, while the coconut oil give off rich lather. Look for part 2 of soap making on our blog.

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Make Soap

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This takes the form of a crystal-like powder that is mix in water, and can be added to another product for a richer lather.  This works perfectly for Shredded Soaps, shampoos, and Melt & Pour Spa.

Aside from these classifications of soaps, they too come in varied designs, colors and purpose.  Soaps in funny and amusing shapes are more popular especially as tokens for any occasion.  Examples of popular designs widely available are stars, ducks, happy kitty, grope on a rope, honey and oat, it’s a boy soap, it’s a girl soap, jelly baby soaps, jigsaw-inspired soaps, lucky dip, mini rose, octopus, polka dot feet, hand-shape soap, rooibos and bergamot, prayer book, Scottish thistle, seashells, skull and bats, sheppy soap, strawberry, teddy in bed soap, unicorn family soap, Wellington boots, wiggly worm, wizard soap, and so many other designs and shapes of these soaps.

These soaps may be for personal use, or as favors for occasions such as weddings, birthdays, Christenings or anniversaries.

Another make soap important factor to why soaps are a hit are their colors.  Apart from shapes, attractive colors add grandeur and elegance to soap.  Just as akin with the sizes, shapes and forms, colors come in variant as well.  Anyone who wishes to make a soap either for personal or for business can have vast choices of colors from these categories:

• Liquid soap making colorants
• Oil based soap making colorants
• Sparkle colors
• Water based soap making colorants

Liquid Soap Making Colorants  

These are used either for soap making or soap paints.  They may act like stains when used as soap paints and absorb into the soap bar.  Its common uses are for coloring shampoos, Bath Fizzies, and lotions.  Colors available are:

• Black
• Cola
• Crystal blue
• Emerald green
• Grass green
• Jade green
• Lemon yellow
• Mauve
• Orange
• Pretty Pink
• Purple
• Sampler kit
• Sapphire blue
• True red
• Turquoise
• Violet
• White

Make Soap Oil Bases

Oil Bases Soap Making Colorants

These color types are what you will need for a beautiful finish product.  They may be used for any oil-based applications.  These will definitely provide that classic look and suave appeal.  You can have your choices of the following colors:

• Golden apricot
• Lemon custard
• Raspberry
• Rolling meadows
• Sampler kit
• Sky blue
• Violet

Sparkles Colors

Just as the name implies, these vibrant shades will add an interesting glow and shimmer to your soaps, lotions and even shampoos.  These elements have a metallic additive that’s very fine, gorgeous, and really glittery.  Take your pick from these glitzy colors:

• Blue
• Blush
• Copper
• Coral
• Gold
• Iridescent blue
• Orchid
• Pearl white
• Pink champagne
• Seafoam
• Sienna
• Sunshine yellow
• Twilight blue

Make Soap With Water Based

Water Based Soap Making Colorants

These soap making dyes are definitely what you are looking for.  These are especially best for Bath Frizzies to give amiable shade to any bath water that is sure to provide a delightful bathing experience.  Their colors may have similarities with that of Liquid Colorants but this type comes in their powerful and original powder form.  Color shades preferences are:

• Emerald green
• Lemon
• Crystal blue
• Cola
• Grass green
• Orange
• Jade green
• Pretty pink
• Purple
• Sampler kit
• Sapphire blue
• True red
• Violet
• Turquois

Soaps are not just a necessity, but rather, an ambrosial mean to treat oneself.  These may just be little things but with really huge significance to anyone particularly in this era wherein soaps have its own spot, both industrially and domestically.

They do come in small packages, yet with different alluring factors that make each of them so interesting.  Their colors and shapes are just among the few elements that make them globally interesting, but a soap’s dearest value is its ultimate function of disinfecting and getting rid of unwanted dirt and toxins off from any physical being and things. Make soap and have fun.

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