Soap making recipes at home for beginners from the basics. How to make soap at home - basic recipe and variations. What is natural soap

Making soap at home recent times became very popular. This is understandable, the process of making soap with your own hands is so interesting, exciting and fun that it quickly draws you in and turns into a hobby. Half an hour of time and the result of labor is visible, and the color, shape and smell of soap depend only on your imagination and desire. And then you can use it yourself or use it as a gift.

So, first you need to properly prepare and collect everything you need.

To make soap at home, we need:

Soap base. You can find ready soap base, which is sold in specialized stores, or buy baby soap. If you want your soap to be transparent, then choose a transparent soap base, if matte, then choose a matte base accordingly. It costs about 200-300 rubles per kilogram. If you decide to get by with baby soap, then when buying it, choose the unscented option: baby soap has a very strong and specific smell, and this smell is almost not interrupted by anything.
Glycerol. It is sold in pharmacies and costs literally a penny.
The base oil of the future soap. You can choose almond, apricot, peach or olive.
Essential oils. You can take, for example, lavender, it relieves headaches, soothes and helps with insomnia. Or jasmine, it improves mood, or tea tree - a very strong antiseptic. Basically, whatever you like.
Dyes. Decide what color your soap will be, and then choose the dyes. To make the soap red, you can take red pepper, sandalwood red powder. To make it green - chlorovillipt, which is sold in pharmacies, or dry herbs. If you want to make orange soap, then add turmeric, if brown - chocolate, cinnamon and coffee. You can also add oatmeal, finely crushed nut shells, honey or propolis tincture, cream, milk or cream, small pieces of other soap, dried flowers such as marigold or roses, zest, ground coffee or coffee beans to the soap. There are also professional dyes, which can also be bought at a specialized store. Their colors are more varied and brighter than natural ones.
Sugar (for better soap melting).
Dishes for a water bath, where you will dissolve the soap base.
Forms for future soap. It is better to use ceramic or plastic, for example, children's sandbox molds. But if it is possible to buy ready-made specialized forms, then it will be very good.
Warm water or milk to dilute the soap mass (it is better to use milk).
Vodka, alcohol or other strong alcohol for spraying the surface of the soap. Spray gun for application.

Proportions for making soap at home

In the preparation of homemade soap, it is very important to maintain proportions. For a bar of soap weighing 100 g, add 3 teaspoons of base oil, 1 teaspoon of glycerin, 3-5 drops of essential oils.

Soap making instructions

So let's make soap. The soap base needs to be cut into small pieces so that it melts faster. If you have baby soap, then it must be grated or chopped in a blender. We put this mass on a steam bath, close it and begin to melt, not forgetting to stir occasionally. Add warmed base oil. When the soap melts, you need to pour water into the mass from time to time, but milk or cream is better. From water, the mass can foam and turn out to be liquid, and with milk it will melt to the creamy, jelly consistency we need.

In addition, if you overdo it with water, then your soap will exfoliate when it cools. Therefore, you should not be greedy by adding milk instead of water. Some experts generally advise not to add liquid, but to replace it with sugar, explaining that this way the mass melts better and faster on a steam bath.

When the mass is ready, you need to add essential oils and dyes. If you use store-bought dyes, then add literally 1-2 drops per 100 grams of soap base. Then stir and get the desired color. And you can also add special fragrances for soap, they are also sold in all specialized stores and cost about 100-200 rubles per jar. Now you can move on to pouring into moulds. If the surface of the mass begins to bubble, then you need to spray it with vodka or alcohol. After this, the molds need to be put to cool completely and “seize”. And then admire the soap you made yourself and brag about the result!

Making soap at home is of interest to most beginner soap makers, as it is a rewarding activity that is fun and does not take much time.

Making soap at home for beginner soap makers is attractive because of a number of advantages:

minimum investment to buy cheap equipment;
available manufacturing technology of the product;
the opportunity to enjoy the creative process;
the ability to create an environmentally friendly and natural product, unique in content and form;
an unlimited circle of consumers of the finished product (adults and children, men and women of any profession and status in society);
the opportunity to experiment, create something new;
the likelihood of receiving income from the sale of their products;
lack of competition due to the uniqueness of each product.

Disadvantages of homemade soap making:

the need to invest own resources in initial stage work;
search for points of sale and buyers;
the risk of allergies (boiling soap involves working with essential oils, chemical elements, therefore it is not suitable for people with sensitive mucous membranes and skin).

Materials and accessories

Making soap at home for beginners at the initial stage of work involves the cost of materials, appliances and tools. Their choice depends on the intended production technology of the product.

The foundation

As a base for soap, you can use:

a self-prepared mixture (the most time-consuming method, which involves observing safety precautions and having knowledge in the field of chemistry);
factory-made soap base;
unscented baby soap;
remnants and residues from ordinary soap (the most economical way).

The basics from different industries differ in a number of characteristics:

cost;
hardness;
cooling speed;
degree of naturalness (there are completely natural base masses to create an environmentally friendly safe product).

Most of the bases sold in specialized stores are glycerin, without alkalis in the composition, which compares favorably with the finished soap made at the factory. The glycerin base has a milder effect on the skin, forms a large amount of foam.

high quality the English base for soap is different, but it is expensive and hardens very quickly after melting, therefore it is inferior in popularity to Russian raw materials. In addition to them, there are soap bases from Belarus, Germany, China, and Bulgaria on the market.

The “SLS-free” mark on raw materials guarantees the absence of surface-active substances (surfactants) in it, which have a negative effect on the skin and mucous membranes.

For soap with a water-soluble image, it is advisable to choose an English base, a Belarusian product "Ideal" or Russian base"Myloff" for the top layer, because this way you can achieve maximum transparency of the product. The thinner the top layer, the clearer the pattern underneath is visible.

There are 4 types of soap bases:

Solid soap base. The most popular are classic white (including matte) and transparent base. The white base contains the pigment titanium dioxide. If necessary, you can purchase it separately to create white soap from transparent.

A transparent base allows you to create a soap of bright colors, a white base will give any dye a pastel tone. Also, vegetable oils, milk (goat or cow), mango butter can be added to solid bases. On sale there are bases created only from natural raw materials.

The basis for creating "swirls". When heated, it acquires a viscous structure without turning into a liquid. Thanks to this property, it is possible to create soap with unique patterns and inclusions from it.

Soft base. It is used when cooking scrub soap and soft soap (a product that has a pleasant texture, reminiscent of ice cream).

liquid base. It is ready for use in everyday life, and also serves as the basis for the creation of new hygiene products.

The liquid base from England "Liquid Crystal Concentrate" is especially popular. It cannot be used in its pure form due to high concentrations active substances in the composition.

Making soap from scratch with self-creation of the base is a laborious and harmful process due to the use of caustic alkalis, therefore, at home, it is advisable for beginner soap makers to use a ready-made soap base.

To brew a transparent soap, a transparent base is needed; to brew a matte product, you should choose a matte raw material. average cost 1 kg of base weight - 300 rubles.

If baby soap is chosen as the basis, it is worth buying fragrance-free options, since it will be impossible to get rid of its original aroma.

To make your own soap base, you will need 3 ingredients:

alkaline base;
liquid (decoctions of herbs, milk, purified water);
special oils for saponification.

Caustic soda is required to obtain solid soap. Alkali provides saponification of fat, in this case- base oil (any vegetable oil, in rare cases - lard).

The liquid is necessary to pre-dissolve the alkali and prepare it for mixing with fat. If you use milk or decoctions of useful herbs as a liquid, the finished soap will become useful, it will turn its natural color and get a natural smell.

base oils

Base oils enrich the soap, give it the necessary properties (moisturizing the skin, softening it, nourishing it). Soap without base oils will dry the skin, create a feeling of "drying out", lead to cracking and flaking. To enrich the product, you can also add cream, body milk, boiled milk and cream.

The main thing is not to get carried away with enriching substances, otherwise the soap will not foam well.

The most commonly used base oils are:

for hands: cocoa butter, shea butter, olive, palm, walnut, jojoba;
for normal facial skin: cocoa and avocado butter, olive and almond;
for dry facial skin: shea butter, evening primrose, wheat germ, rosehip, avocado, almond, castor;
for oily facial skin: apricot and peach seed oil, sweet almond and hazelnut;
for problem areas of the skin of the face: sea buckthorn or olive;
for the body: sesame, shea, almond, coconut, cocoa, olive oil.

Selection of base oils according to skin type

An oil is often chosen based on its effect on the skin:

withering - wrinkle-smoothing geranium oil;
with dryness - mint oil;
to saturate with vitamins - juniper oil;
for rough dried skin - lanolin oil;
to combat cellulite and give elasticity - orange oil, loofah, algae in combination with pieces of ground coffee.

Essential oils

Essential oils are used to give homemade soap a pleasant aroma. Instead, they also use confectionery and cosmetic flavors, coffee, chocolate, honey, dried fruit zest, parts of dried flowers. The downside of essential oils is that they dry out quickly. Therefore, they are added to soap at the end of preparation.

The choice of a particular oil depends on what healing effect you want to achieve. For example, lavender relieves headaches, has a calming effect; jasmine gives vivacity and improves mood; tea tree oil is effective in fighting bacteria.

You can choose the necessary raw materials depending on the scope of the soap:

For the skin of the hands, use any essential oil.
For normal facial skin, chamomile, jasmine, geranium, lavender oils are best suited.
Dry skin can be helped with essential oils of lavender, mint, jasmine, palmarosa and neroli.
Lemon, rosemary, cypress and geranium oils can reduce oily skin.
In the fight against problematic facial skin, essential oils of eucalyptus, tea tree, juniper, sandalwood and fir are effective.
Tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil, as well as orange, grapefruit oil are useful for the body.

Dyes

Thanks to dyes, you can color homemade soap in the desired shade.

The main features of the use of coloring pigments:

in a transparent base, the colors are saturated, in a white one - gentle and muted (with the exception of neon dyes);
several colors can be mixed to obtain the desired shade.

All dyes are divided into food and pigments:

Food colorings leave the soap transparent, do not add turbidity to its base and color it in rich bright shades. However, it is impossible to create a multi-color soap with their help, since the colors easily pass into other layers.

They are available in the form of powders, gels and oils. They are highly concentrated. Dosage of food coloring: 1 to 5 drops for 100 g of base.

Liquid dyes are more convenient to use. They are divided into classic colors and neon (more saturated and bright colors). Neon pigment allows you to get a bright soap even when using a matte white soap base. The disadvantage of liquid dyes is clouding of the base. The dosage of liquid pigments is from 5 to 7 drops per 100 g of base.

Natural dyes are safer

Ready-made dyes, sold in specialized stores, will color soap in brighter colors than its natural counterparts.

However, natural dyes are safer:

Red pepper or sandalwood red powder is needed for red color soap.
The green color is obtained by adding chlorophyllipt (easily available at the pharmacy) or dried herbs to the soap.
To give the product an orange color, you should use turmeric powder.
For a brown tint, add chocolate, coffee or cinnamon to the soap.

Pigments are more popular due to their versatility and wide range of colors. The main advantage of artificial dyes is the absence of color migration in the manufacture of a multi-layer multi-colored product.

Dry pigments are represented by powders. They are not well suited for making soap, as they often settle in it without dissolving. They can only be used if the soap base is prepared independently, since alkali does not corrode such a dye. The transparent base from them also becomes cloudy.

For 100 g of soap, 1/3 tsp is required. dry pigment, previously mixed with alcohol, oil or glycerin.

Pearlescent pigment (Mickey) is available in the form of powders. It does not need to be mixed with anything before use. You can use mother-of-pearl only on a transparent soap base, as it will not be noticeable on a white surface. Often they decorate the finished soap with fingers or brushes. It can also take away the transparency of the soap. For 100 g of raw materials, 1/3 to 1/2 tsp is needed. pigment.

High quality pigments "Zenikolor", produced in the form of a paste. They do not penetrate into different layers of soap and retain its transparency.

Conventional titanium dioxide, a white pigment, will allow you to transfer a transparent base to a matte if necessary. It is also necessary for the manufacture of a white base for swirls. For 100 g of soap base, you need to take 1/3 tsp. titanium dioxide mixed with oil, alcohol or glycerin.

Decorative ornaments, useful additives

For decorative purposes in soap are used:

glitters (large multi-colored sparkles added to transparent soap);

mother-of-pearl (pigment with iridescent color, used both for coloring soap and its decoration after manufacturing);
water-soluble pictures (for making soap with a pattern and inscriptions);
dried flowers and plants;
texture sheets and stamps (to create patterned patterns and relief on the surface of the soap).

Soap is also supplemented with caring components to give it certain properties:

for scrub soap: oatmeal, poppy seeds, ground herbs, sugar, nutshell crumbs, ground coffee or coffee beans;
for a therapeutic effect: parts of medicinal plants and herbs;
for a tonic effect: fruit zest, honey;
for mild skin care: skin milk, creams, cream, milk, propolis tincture;
for nutrition and hydration: vegetable oil, honey, herbal decoction, glycerin.

Often used in making homemade soap different types cosmetic clay

It is advisable to choose fillers based on the characteristics of the skin:

Lanolin, wax and glycerin are useful for the skin of the hands.
Cosmetic clay, ground coffee and herbs, and milk will help maintain the health of normal facial skin.
Milk, glycerin, cosmetic clay, herbal decoctions will help reduce dryness of the skin of the face.
Activated carbon, cosmetic clay, camphor alcohol, extract from calendula, chamomile, propolis will reduce the greasiness of oily facial skin.
With the help of cosmetic clay, eucalyptus leaves, activated charcoal, herbal decoctions, you can reduce the number of rashes on the skin.
Ground coffee, sea salt, clay, honey and tar can support the beauty of the skin.

To improve the quality of soap, the following ingredients are used:

Useful material	Properties	Substance examples
plasticizers	For plasticity and foam formation.	Honey, glucose, sugar, sorbitol.
acids	For product hardness and antibacterial effect.	Citric, lactic, succinic acids.
Lanolin	For a softening effect.	Lanolin.
Glycerol	Hydration.	Glycerol.
Oil	Enrichment.	Shea butter, avocado.

Fresh fruits, berries, vegetables, plants should not be used as useful components, as they will quickly rot and spoil the soap. Instead, it is better to use dry fruits, leaves, herbs, petals, flowers, ginger powder.

Molds, alcohol and accessories

For improvement appearance soaps often use medical alcohol: it prevents the appearance of air bubbles on the surface of the product, allows you to fasten layers of multi-colored soap. For this purpose, it is sprayed onto the soap after pouring into molds.

Making soap at home for beginners and experienced soap makers is impossible without the appropriate equipment:

enameled and steel pans;
pots for melting the soap base;
plastic and glass containers for the microwave oven;
spoons;
whisk;

measuring cups;
kitchen electronic scales;
a small spray bottle for spraying alcohol;
soap molds.

Forms can be used:

special molds for soap;
silicone baking molds;
plastic molds for playing in the sandbox;
plastic containers for fermented milk products;
small plastic elastic containers.

The most convenient are flexible silicone molds, as it is easier to get the hardened soap out of them. Containers and tools used in the manufacture of soap must not be used for cooking.

Tips for home soap makers:

When you start making soap, you need to prepare all the ingredients and tools: the product hardens quickly, and you need to work quickly.

Dyes, additional components, flavors must be selected before the start of production, and not during the process itself.
Pigments and perfumes should be used minimally so as not to get too strong a smell or a body-coloring soap.
Baby soap will melt faster when sugar or honey is added to it.
You can remove air bubbles from the surface of the product by spraying alcohol on it.
1 tsp glycerin, when added to 100 g of soap base, will eliminate the excessive fragility of the soap.
It is advisable to grease the molds with oil: then it will be easier to remove the soap from them.
If the product turned out to be excessively soft, next time it is worth adding less liquid during its manufacture.
Soap can be easily cut with any knife, previously used in hot water and dried dry.

Quick way to make soap for beginners

How to make soap with your own hands at home - for beginners, it is advisable to practice with the easiest recipes: this way you can understand the features of the cooking technology, how to work.

Recipe:

Finely chopped base must be melted in a water bath.
Base oil is added to the liquid hot mass at a dosage of 3 tsp. per 100 g of the product.
Next, add milk to the mass to form the consistency of thick sour cream.
After complete melting, the liquid is removed from the heat. Essential oil is poured into it (2-3 drops), 1 tsp. glycerin, pigments, fragrances, useful components.
After adding all the components, the soap must be poured into molds, treated with alcohol and left until the mass hardens.
After 2 days the soap will harden. You can take it out of the container and start using it.

honey soap

Components:

base (matte or white) - 100 g;
liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
flavor "Honey" - 5 drops;
yellow dye - 3 drops.

How to make soap with your own hands: a step-by-step recipe for honey soap

Cooking:

The crushed base must be melted.
After melting, pigment is added to it.
Then you need to cool the product a little and pour honey and flavor into it. They should not be added to a hot mixture in order to preserve their beneficial properties.
The resulting mass must be quickly poured into a container. The product freezes within 1 hour.

coconut

Components:

soap base - 125 g;
coconut oil - 1 tsp;
coconut flakes - 12 g;
almond oil - 7-8 g;
sugar - ¾ tsp;
lavender essential oil - 3 drops.

For the product, only white ingredients are taken so that there is an external resemblance to coconut.

Cooking:

It is necessary to melt the crushed soap base.
Add coconut oil to the melted mixture.
Almond oil, essential oil, coconut flakes are added to the mixture.
At the end of the process, sugar is added, then everything must be quickly mixed and poured into molds.
The spilled soap will harden after 3 hours, after which it is ready for use.

Chocolate

Components:

base - 100 g;
ground coffee (not brewed) - 1 tsp;
cocoa or chocolate - 1 tsp;
milk - 1 tsp;
avocado oil - 3-4 drops;
fragrances - optional.

The soap will turn out to be three-layer: for this, each layer must be poured separately. The first layer will be coffee, the second - chocolate, the third - with milk. The shape for filling should be simple - in the form of a circle, square, triangle.

Cooking:

Melt the base in a water bath.
It is necessary to add oil to it, mix until smooth.
Divide the resulting liquid into three equal parts, pouring into separate containers.
In the first bowl (the bottom layer of soap) you need to pour coffee, add coffee or vanilla flavoring. After thorough mixing, pour into a container. The soap should be allowed to harden a little for 5-10 minutes.
Pour cocoa and chocolate flavor into the second bowl, stirring. After that, it is necessary to sprinkle the first layer of soap with alcohol and pour the second layer of soap mass.
The upper milk layer is prepared in a similar way. It is possible to add fragrances "Fresh milk", "Vanilla", "Caramel" or "Coconut".

Coffee scrub soap

Components:

base - 100 g;
ground coffee - 1 tsp;
fragrance "Vanilla" - 3 drops.

Cooking:

The crushed base is melted in a water bath.
Pour coffee into the liquid mass and mix.
After removing from heat, add fragrance.
Pour soap, sprinkle with alcohol on top.
The soap will harden after 3 hours, after which it is ready.

Coniferous

Components:

base - 100 g;
spruce essential oil - 6 drops;
green pigment - 3 drops;
crushed to a powder state chamomile grass or needles - 1 tsp;
fir oil - 1 drop;
alcohol.

Cooking:

The base needs to be melted down.
After melting, add chamomile or pine needles and mix until smooth.
Next, you need to remove the soap from the fire, add the dye, essential oils and stir.
Soap can be poured into molds by spraying alcohol on the surface.
After 3 hours the product is ready for use.

Lemon

Components:

base - 100 g;
essential lemon oil - 5-6 drops;
dried lemon zest - 1 tbsp.

Cooking:

The crushed base must be melted in a water bath.
Add lemon zest to the liquid mass, mix thoroughly. Do not stir quickly to avoid bubbles.
Remove the mixture from heat, add essential oil to it.
Next, you need to pour the product into the container, let it harden for 4 hours.

Tar

Components:

natural base - 100 g;
calendula oil extract - 1/3 tsp;
birch tar (sold in any pharmacies) - 1.5 tsp;
essential mint oil - 5-8 drops;
formic alcohol (for spraying).

Cooking:

The base is crushed and melted in a water bath.
Calendula extract is added to the liquid mass. The mixture should not be hot, otherwise the beneficial properties of calendula will disappear.
Tar is added, after that the mass must be thoroughly mixed until smooth.
After the mixture has cooled, it is necessary to add mint essential oil to it to soften the sharp smell of tar.
The finished mixture is poured into molds and sprinkled with alcohol to remove bubbles from the surface.
Tar soap cools for a long time, so you can keep it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to speed up the process.

lavender

Components:

soap base - 100 g;
lavender essential oil - 4-6 drops;
dried lavender flowers - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

The base is melted in a water bath.
When the base becomes liquid, essential oil is added to it - 4-6 drops and dried flowers.
The product is placed in a container for 4 hours before hardening.

Soap making is a fascinating process that results in a beautiful and useful product that is constantly in demand. Therefore, novice soap makers, even those who make soap at home, should think about how to turn this hobby into an exciting income-generating project.

Article formatting: Natalie Podolskaya

Video about homemade soap

How to make soap with your own hands:

Homemade soap making is gaining more and more popularity these days. And this is understandable, because making soap with your own hands is an unusually interesting and profitable process that quickly draws you in and turns into a favorite hobby.

Perhaps everyone who has ever tried to make soap at home falls in love with this exciting activity. At first glance, it seems that it is very difficult to make a beautiful fragrant soap on your own, but in fact everything is very simple. We invite you to get acquainted with this technology and make real homemade soap.

Soap at home - its benefits

There are plenty of reasons to make soap at home. After all, handmade soap is an environmentally friendly and natural product, unique both in form and content. Unlike store-bought soap stuffed with chemistry, homemade soap does not dry the skin, but cares for it.

You can add natural supplements to it according to your skin type. It can be a variety of vegetable and essential oils, honey, herbal decoctions, citrus peel, natural coffee, oatmeal, seaweed, flowers, chocolate pieces, loofah, etc. At the same time, you and your loved ones will always be confident in the effectiveness and naturalness of homemade soap, because, like homemade food, it is made with soul and only from quality products.

In addition, making soap is a real creative process. The form and content of homemade soap depends only on your imagination. It can be just cute multi-colored pieces of fragrant soap or a whole work of art. Let's take a closer look at the process of making soap at home.

How to make soap at home

Homemade soap ingredients. So, to make soap you will need:

Soap base. You can purchase a special clear or white soap base from a specialty store, or you can use regular baby soap. White soap base is practically no different from baby soap, except that it has no smell. But the transparent base will make a very beautiful transparent soap. But for beginners, it is better to practice on children's soap.

Base oil - almond, olive, peach, apricot, it can be anything. Essential oil. The choice of oil depends on the needs of your skin. For example, tea tree is suitable for oily and problem skin, orange will saturate the skin with vitamins and get rid of cellulite, ylang-ylang will rejuvenate sensitive skin. Dyes. You can purchase soap dyes or use food coloring. You can also give color to soap with the help of natural products: cocoa, chocolate, fruit and vegetable juice.

Additives. In order to give your soap additional properties, you can add various additives to it: glycerin, cream, honey, herbal infusions, dry flowers. And if you want to make a scrub soap, add ground coffee, oatmeal, ground nut shells, etc. Dishes for a water bath. Soap molds. You can use any molds: confectionery, children's, special molds for soap, any plastic or ceramic containers. Alcohol for lubricating the surface of the mold. Warm milk, decoction or water to dilute the base.

How to make soap at home. So, now that everything is prepared, you can start cooking soap.

The first step is to cut the soap base into small pieces or grate baby soap, this will help them melt faster. Now melt the soap base in a water bath, stirring it occasionally. Add base oil to the soap at the rate of 3 teaspoons per 100 grams of base. While the base is melting, it is sometimes necessary to add a little milk or cream to get a creamy mass. Instead of milk, you can add a drop of water or a decoction of herbs, but water can lead to exfoliation of the soap. And it is best to replace water and milk with sugar, this will allow the base to melt faster and better.

When the soap base is completely melted, remove it from the heat and add the various ingredients: 5 drops essential oil, a teaspoon of glycerin, dyes, flavors, coffee and any other ingredients of your choice. Now you need to pour the soap into a mold and sprinkle the surface of the soap with alcohol from a spray bottle, this will remove the bubbles on the surface. We leave the soap in the molds until completely solidified, you can put it in the refrigerator or a cool place. After about 2-3 days, the soap will dry completely and be ready to use. We take it out of the molds and brag about the result!

Homemade baby soap

Soap making is a very interesting and very exciting process, and a whole book can be written about the benefits of handmade soap.

This is the first soap I made about two years ago.

Today I can more or less make any soap from the base, I am learning how to make soap from scratch (but that's another story).

For everyone who is interested in this topic, I want to tell you how easy it is to make homemade soap from baby soap.

To be honest, there are no particular difficulties in making soap. Here it is important to learn a few basic rules of technology and turn on your imagination. And over time, gaining experience, you can become a great soap maker.

And now a simple master class for everyone who decides to try to make their first soap from the simplest ingredients.

So, we will cook moisturizing milk soap from baby soap.

Compound

You will need 100.0 of the simplest baby soap.

Be sure to pay attention to its composition, it should be without additives, flavorings, adding cream, otherwise there will be unpleasant moments when cooking soap, but we don’t need them.

100.0 milk

1 tbsp olive oil

a couple drops of your favorite essential oil (I used cinnamon and vanilla) can be omitted.

1 tbsp honey or sugar

Tableware

Firstly, you will need to build a water bath, for this, in a larger saucepan, pour water and dip a smaller saucepan into it.

Instead of a small saucepan, I had a heat-resistant colander in which I placed a plastic bowl for melting soap.

Stick or spoon for stirring.

Metal grater.

And a soap mold lubricated with oil.

As a mold, you can adapt a silicone mold for cupcakes, a plastic jar of soap. The main thing is that you can then get your soap.

I have replaced a real soap mold with a jar of cotton swabs.

We are just starting, we are trying to make soap, so we don’t have accessories, we manage with improvised means).

So let's get started.

Cooking

To begin with, we will rub our soap on a fine grater, fill it with hot milk and leave it for a couple of hours.

Ideally refrigerate overnight.

Then we put our soap shavings in a water bath heated to 50 degrees. Add honey or sugar (these are melters). And stirring occasionally, avoiding boiling, dissolve it until a homogeneous mass (without lumps). We take it off the fire. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 3 drops of essential oil to the melted base. Stir and pour the mixture into the mold.

Let it cool for 15 minutes and then put it in the refrigerator.

When the soap hardens, take it out of the mold. We try to do this carefully by pressing on the bottom of the form. If it is difficult to remove, you can lower the mold for a couple of seconds in boiling water (but make sure that the water does not get on the soap itself), and then resume trying to get the soap.

Dry the finished soap on paper for a day. So it will get rid of excess moisture, harden and become usable.

Now pack it or leave it for personal use. That's it, your first homemade handmade soap is ready!

Approximately the same technology is used to make any other soap from baby soap. It is enough to turn on the imagination, add other oils: coconut oil, apricot, rosehip, macadamia, etc. (in the same proportions), natural dyes and flavors, and you will get your own homemade and very healthy soap.

Beautiful, fragrant, natural, healthy handmade soap - what could be better? This soap is good in every way: healthier, cheaper, and more aesthetically pleasing.

Handmade soap is also a great gift that can be created for a specific person.

In every sense, homemade soap making is a positive, exciting, interesting and not particularly difficult process.

A bit of theory

It is known from the school chemistry course that soap is made from alkali and fat. Approximately 2.5 thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians not only used soap, but also wrote down recipes for its preparation on clay tablets.

The modern process of making soap at home is much easier, it is not necessary for beginners to make soap from scratch.

Handmade soap: recipes, photos

The solid soap in question (and there is also, as we know, liquid soap) can be made by yourself using the so-called “base” and using the “hot” or “cold” cooking method.

Advice. To gain experience and fill your hand, it's easier to start with a soap base and a hot method.

A simple recipe for homemade soap using the hot method is available to all beginner soap makers. How to do and in what way? As a basis for your future soap masterpiece, use either a store-bought base or regular baby soap. It is advisable to take baby soap that is not colored, odorless - ideal if you decide to make cosmetic soap for washing your face.

Purchased base, as a rule, can be white or transparent. Transparent is used for cooking glycerin soap, it also turns out transparent. Beginners are advised to start soap making with an opaque base.

Tools and utensils

To create the simplest soap and dishes, you need ordinary. You will get a water bath using two saucepans - a larger one and a smaller one. An immersion blender, a measuring cup, a stirring spoon, an ordinary kitchen fine grater for vegetables will come in handy.

You may also need:

scoop;
sieve;
plastic bags;
syringe;
alcohol thermometer;
work dressing gown, apron;
newspapers, paper towels.

Important! Dishes for soap making should remain so - it will no longer be possible to cook food in it!

The saucepan in which the soap is prepared must be made of stainless steel or enameled. Aluminum, copper, pans made of other metals will not work.

The raw material for making soap should fill your saucepan by at least 8 centimeters. But a particularly large amount of raw materials in the dishes is not needed. Make sure that the soap mass does not splatter when cooking or mixing with a blender.

To give shape to the future author's soap, take any molds, jars, trays- what is at hand. You can also use silicone confectionery molds and children's molds for sand cakes and even Lego elements. Do not limit your imagination, use whatever you see fit.

About safety

There are a lot of recipes for making soap on the Internet. Often, the authors do not pay the attention of users to what kind of soap - from scratch or on the basis - they will cook.

Read recipes carefully and pay attention to how soap is made.. This is important because making soap from lye and fat can be harmful to health. Safety precautions, no matter how it sounds, must be observed.

Also, when preparing ordinary soap in a water bath, so that air bubbles do not form, the soap poured into molds is sprayed with alcohol. Here, too, it is necessary to observe safety so as not to accidentally burn them. And, when preparing soap, cover, if possible, all surfaces with newspapers. Otherwise, soap splashes will have to be scrubbed with vinegar for a long time.

Types of soap that can be brewed

It is possible to prepare any soap, with any additives, components, soap for various purposes. Its composition, shape, color and smell will depend only on your imagination.

You can create:

simple natural healthy baby soap;
soap-peeling, scrub;
soap-shampoo;
shaving soap;
soap for beard and mustache;
beer and wine;
with seaweed;
medicinal tar;
dressing fruit and vegetable;
many other types of homemade hand-made detergent.

Soap for babies

It is commonly referred to as Castilian, or Castilla. Cooked as “zero”, or taken with a base of baby soap, as well as with a standard base, adding olive oil, chamomile decoction. You can add shea butter or tea tree oil.

For children, do not put herbs in soap. And decoctions are brought in the form of herbal tea bags or in gauze bags, “rinsing out” the bag in an almost finished soapy mass.

Also, essential oils and fragrances do not go into this soap.

Soap peeling

Use it to eliminate dead cells exclusively on intact skin. It is possible to add ground grains, seeds, various herbs, honey, clay, crushed coffee beans and even sea sand. It is recommended to add no more than a teaspoon per 0.5 kg of base soap.

Loofah is used as a scrub(natural washcloth). This soap looks very impressive and works effectively.

Remember! When entering the loofah into the soap, it should not be wet!

Shampoo soap

It is known that soap cannot properly wash hair. But this does not apply to homemade soap.

For it, oils with improved foaming are used. They do not leave a film, do not dry the skin, and have a beneficial effect on the hair.

The basic oil components in such homemade soap are castor, coconut, olive.

It is also possible to use the following types of oils, which are introduced at the end of the melting of the soap mass:

Oil type	Hair type
Oil type	fatty	Dry	Thin
Burdock (soflora). Washes well. But it can make a bar of soap not solid.	+		+
Olive. Nourishes hair well.		+
Coconut. Has a good cleaning effect. On dry hair, shampoo soap with coconut oil is used sparingly.	+	+
Castor. Excellent foam. Usually soap based on it ripens for several months. But you can use it after 4-6 weeks of ripening.			+
Sunflower. Rich in vitamin E. Washes off well.	+	+	+
Grape seeds. Leaves no film.	+		+

Shaving soap

Suitable for men and women. When cooking, add 1 - 2 tablespoons of glycerin to the thickening soap. It softens the vegetation, making it easier to shave.

As one of the main oils take:

olive;
coconut oil;
Palm;
sunflower oil;
castor;
almond oil;
avocado.

The last two have a caring effect. Pouring such soap into molds, they are filled by 2/3, leaving room for foam.

Important! When cooking soap for a beard and mustache, an increased content of wax is introduced into it. Soap with wax allows you to shape a mustache or beard, wax fixes the desired shape.

Wine or beer soap

Alcohol - beer, wine and even champagne are also appropriate in homemade soaps. Before entering the mass, alcohol is boiled so that its vapors evaporate. When making soap, use large containers, as the mass with wine or beer may foam. Usually such soap is brewed from scratch, adding drinks as a liquid component.

In the finished soap, you can hear a slight smell of beer. Wine in color and smell is felt weakly. The color of wine soap is brown. For a red tint, dyes are used.

Seaweed soap

Algae can be found in specialized stores.

They are added in crushed form and dry in a thickening soap base. It is also possible to add sand. The finished product has a slight smell of algae.

Tar soap

Ready factory tar can be used as a base. To enhance and improve the smell, juniper and various coniferous essential oils are usually added. However, they appear weakly due to the smell of tar.

When cooking soap, essential oil is introduced into a ready-made, slightly cooled mass.

It is recommended to cook soap with similar components from scratch, using the main components in the form of caustic soda (alkali) and some kind of fat. In this case, each of the vegetable or fruit additives will not spoil, but only improve your soap, giving it its color, smell or useful qualities. Due to the high pH level in fresh soap, this component will play the role of preservatives for plant elements.

When cooking soap using a ready-made base, which is more convenient for beginners, adding fruit and vegetable components will not give the desired result. It does not matter how long, for example, tangerine slices will dry. By introducing them into the soap mass during cooking, after a while, already in the finished bar of soap, such a component will be covered with unwanted mold. Soap will be spoiled, its positive effect is zero.

Making soap from the base for beginner soap makers

Fascinating homemade soap making is a definite technological process to be mastered at the initial stage.

It will require:

soap base (base);
basic essential and cosmetic oils;
dyes and flavors;
soap molds;
hydrolates (floral waters);
scales with the smallest division value;
thermometer, kitchen whisk or stirring sticks.

Foundation preparation

Weigh - exactly according to the recipe - desired volume soap base.
Grind the base by cutting with a knife or grating.
Dissolve the base in a water bath or in the microwave. Do not allow the base to boil. The temperature of the main soap mass should be no higher than 60 - 65 degrees. Use a thermometer.
The base should dissolve well, “bloom”. Use a stirring spoon, stick, whisk, or mixer.

Introduction of additional components

Remember that citrus smells disappear especially quickly from the bouquet. More persistent - lavender, mint, ylang, benzoin, bay. The aroma of patchouli is well heard and retained.

Mint, lavender, lemongrass are suitable for herbal soap. In shampoo, it is good to use bay, ylang essential oil.

Final stage

After the introduction of all the necessary ingredients into the composition, the soap making process is considered complete. The soap mass is poured into prepared molds.

Regardless of the origin of the mold, it is recommended to line the inside with a cellophane film. A regular package will do.

Remember: to remove air bubbles on the surface of the finished soap, it is sprayed with alcohol from a spray bottle. Cellophane in the form - before placing soap in it - is also sprinkled with alcohol.

At room temperature, the soap is left to ripen for a day. If after that it is not possible to remove the product from the mold painlessly, the molds can be wetted with a stream of warm water, the pieces of soap should come out.

If this does not help, cool the finished soap to room temperature and move it to the freezer for several hours. The soap will come out of the mold well. If the piece is large, after removing it from the mold, it is better to cut it, so it will ripen faster.

After two to three days, your soap will be completely ready for use.

Homemade soap recipes

And now - some affordable recipes for making soap at home.

"Mountain Lavender"

Subtle lavender aroma will calm, help fight insomnia, helps with migraines.

Need to take:

soap base - 100 gr.;
butter (butter) cocoa (base) - 5 gr.;
almond oil - half a teaspoon;
lavender essential oil (EM) - 3 - 4 drops or fragrance (flavor) "lavender" - also 3 - 4 drops;
lilac gel food paint (blue can be) - 1 - 2 drops;
dry lavender flowers for decoration;
mold for the finished product.

Soap making progress:

Chop up the base. Melt in the bath or in the microwave in a heat-resistant bowl.
Add base oil, mix quickly.
Add dye, mix the mass.
Let the base cool down a bit. Introduce lavender EO, almond oil, flavoring.
Pour the finished liquid soap mass into a mold, fill it with dry lavender color.
Leave to dry at room temperature.
Remove the cooled soap masterpiece from the mold, shake off non-stick dried flowers.

Technology nuances:

Instead of flavoring, you can take lavender hydrolate. This is a more delicate composition. Good for sensitive skin.
Sprinkle with dried flowers after the soap has thickened a little. But have time to decorate with flowers before a film appears on the surface of the soap.
Dried flowers should not fall directly into the base. In this case, they will lose their natural color, become dirty brown.

Soap "Tar" medicinal

It will ideally help dry small wounds on the skin, cope with pustules, acne, inflammation.

Need to take:

soap base transparent - 100 gr.;
jojoba oil, base - a third of a teaspoon;
birch tar - 1.5 teaspoons.

Soap making progress:

Grind and melt the base.
Introduce birch tar and jojoba base oil. Mix well until a homogeneous mass.
Pour the brewed soap into the prepared mold.
After half an hour - an hour to get the soap out of the mold. Let it ripen for another day. After ripening, it can be successfully used for hygienic and medicinal purposes.

Technology nuances:

Remember that meltable soap base should not be allowed to boil.
The mold for soap and the surface of the finished product are treated with alcohol from a spray bottle to prevent the formation of air bubbles. Alcohol cannot be replaced with vodka, it does not remove air bubbles from soap.
When cooking tar soap, EO and fragrances are not needed, because the tar itself has a strong smell that cannot be interrupted.
The process of cooking medicinal tar soap will take no more than 1 hour. It is necessary to store this soap in polyethylene, out of direct sunlight.

A piece of soap made for a specific person is both a pleasant gift and a hand made product, which is especially appreciated on the market today.

At home, on your own, you can prepare an environmentally friendly and healthy soap for your own health according to simple and affordable recipes. Hand made soap is always a fascinating, useful activity and a wonderful form of relaxation.

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Watch an interesting video below - this is a small master class on making two types of handmade soap:

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Content

The demand for handmade foaming products is getting higher every day. Soap gained popularity not only because it looks beautiful and unusual: this factor was also influenced by the fact that such products do not contain chemical substances which can harm the skin.

Soap making at home for beginners - recipes

To make soap with your own hands, it is not at all necessary to own a soap factory, because you can make a personal hygiene product at home. Soap making for beginners involves several ways to create decorative products, they differ in the type of main component - the base, into which you can then add natural dyes, scrubs or essential oils.

What are they made of

Animal and vegetable fats or fat substitutes can serve as a raw material for obtaining a soap base: rosin, tall oil, synthetic fatty acids, naphthenic acids. Before making soap, you need to know that the process is based on the saponification reaction. This means that hydrolysis occurs under the action of alkalis. esters fatty acids with glycerol, and as a result, salts of alkali metals and fatty acids, a trihydric alcohol, are formed.

What do you need for soap making

After looking at all kinds of soap recipes and choosing the most suitable one from them, check if you have prepared all the necessary ingredients and inventory:

water (or other liquid required by prescription);
kitchen scales;
two mixing dishes;
means for protecting hands and eyes;
oil, fat;
caustic water;
two thermometers;
spoons for mixing and measuring;
molds for handmade soap;
beaker;
blender (if possible);
disposable towels.

How to cook at home

There are several ways to cook a personal care product with your own hands:

Use a ready-made soap base (some recipes recommend taking even the remnants of old remnants). The component is melted, ingredients are added to it, according to the recipe, then new pieces are formed.
Rubbed with ordinary baby soap. Milk and water are added to the crushed mass, everything is melted together in a microwave oven (or a water bath is built), combined with the components indicated in the recipe and poured into molds.
Creation from scratch, i.e. without a foundation. The method implies that you yourself can make natural handmade soap from glycerin, oils, alkali and other additives.

Liquid soap at home

The production of hygienic soap is a process whose technology must be followed. So, to cook it with your own hands, you need to prepare:

a pot that is not used for culinary purposes;
glycerin - 1 tbsp. l.;
dyes (optional);
essential oils (1 or 2 types) - 3-4 drops each;
soap base - 1 pc.;
herbs (mint, chamomile, rose petals).

To make homemade soap, you need to carry out the following manipulations:

Prepare decoctions of herbs: pour the collection with 10 tablespoons of filtered water, boil the liquid for 2 minutes, leave for 30 minutes. Strain the infusion, add 10 glasses of water.
Grate a bar of baby soap to make 1 cup shavings. It is important to take the product without additives or other fillers.
Pour the broth into the pan, send the soap base there. Do not turn off the fire until the chips are dissolved, while it is important not to digest the mass, otherwise it will not have the desired density. Cool the mixture, remove the foam, pour in the glycerin.
To the solution drip essential oil (two types can be used). If you want the product to be colored, then natural dye must be added at this stage.
Pour the finished homemade liquid into a container with a dispenser.

From remnants

A step-by-step master class shows that the process of turning old remnants into a new original product (as in the photo) is not too laborious. Knowing how to weld it from remnants, you can create natural product unusual airy texture. For cooking you will need:

titanium dioxide diluted with glycerin (white dye);
essential vanilla and rapeseed oil - 6 drops each;
sandal - 3 drops;
alcohol;
transparent base - 120 g;
remnants - 120 g.

The manufacture of such a product, as in the photo, involves the use of remnants of chocolate and different colors. Check out how to make such an original product:

Separate the remnants. Grate some of the chocolate color. Mix the chips with half the base, cut into small cubes.
Melt the workpiece by placing it in a water bath and covering the container with cling film.
Grease a silicone mold with rapeseed oil.
Pour the melted base into a glass, add vanilla oil and 0.5 tsp there. rapeseed. Beat the contents into foam using a mixer, then pour into a mold.
Similarly, melt the colored remnants with the remaining base. Pour the mass too, mix with white dye, 3 drops of sandalwood, 0.5 tsp. rapeseed oil. Whisk into foam.
Sprinkle the already frozen first layer with alcohol, pour the whipped foam over it. You can decorate with small chips.
After solidification of all layers, remove the bar from the tray, cut it.

Liquid household

Numerous positive reviews confirm that homemade gel based on a solid piece of laundry soap is a great option for washing even in a car. For manufacturing you will need:

soda ash - 50 g;
essential oil - 4 drops;
grated soap mass - 0.5 tbsp.;
water - 1 l.

The process of preparing a homemade gel for washing things from any material is not at all complicated:

Send the soap shavings into the boiling water, without stopping stirring, wait until the product dissolves.
Pour soda, mix the components until a jelly is formed, casting a mother-of-pearl.
Cool the mass, drip a little essential oil.

Here is a description of the process for those who are interested in the topic of how laundry soap is made by the direct method:

Based on vegetable and animal fats.
The components are boiled in special digesters, then soda is added to them. The result is a viscous liquid - soap glue, consisting of glycerin and soap mass.
After solidification, it is cut and labeled. The numbers 40-70% say how many fatty acids are contained in one bar.

There is also an indirect method, which consists in treating the obtained adhesive soap with electrolytes. This is done with a solution of caustic alkali and sodium chloride. The consequence of exposure to these components is that the liquid is stratified. The top layer - the soap core - contains about 60% fatty acids, and the bottom layer is an electrolyte solution with glycerol.

Soap making from scratch at home

For beginners who are interested in how to make soap without a soap base, it is recommended to start the practice with a cold method. The recipe data must be entered into the calculator - so you can find out the exact ratio of alkali and water. So, to do this at home, you need:

linseed oil - 10%;
coconut and palm oils - 20% each;
overfat - 7%;
olive oil - 50%.

It is worth noting that overfat is added to protect human skin, and the oils in the composition, reacting with alkali, form soap. How to make a homemade product? Follow everything step by step:

Measure out all the ingredients (without water and alkali), combining them in a saucepan. Melt at 50 degrees.
Place the required amount of alkali in ice.
Make sure that the temperature of the alkali solution becomes the same as the temperature of the oils.
Using a sieve, pour the lye into the oily liquid, then beat the mass with a blender so that it becomes like cream.
Pour the liquid into the mold. You can make a beautiful inscription or draw a pattern. Once the product has hardened, it is ready for use.

Soap base

Organic soap is worth making at least once, if only because it will moisturize the skin much better than what you buy in the store. Knowing the intricacies of the process, you can not only provide your family with natural hygiene products, but also make a gift set by tying the original products with a ribbon. To make soap at home you will need:

essential oils;
flavors;
soap base;
alcohol;
the form;
dyes.

The process of creating an original soap, as in the photo, is not very complicated:

Prepare the base: grate or finely chop.
Melt the product by sending it to the microwave (experienced soap makers recommend putting the workpiece in a water bath). Remember that she should not be allowed to boil.
To the completely dissolved mass, add oils, selected flavors. Mix everything together.
Sprinkle the form with alcohol, then pour the finished soap mass into it.

How to make tar soap at home

This product is often used to treat lichen, various skin diseases, dandruff or psoriasis. You can buy this useful hygiene product in the store, but it’s very simple to do it yourself:

Mix 100 g of grated baby soap with half a teaspoon of honey, 5 drops of any essential oil, 10 ml of tar.
Leave the components in a water bath, wait for them to melt.
Pour the soap blank into molds, leave for 3 days.

Ideas for soap making

Most of the recipes for self-made soap can be used even by a beginner in this field. Modern ideas for soap making help everyone to create odorous and harmless skin care products. Products can then be used for personal hygiene purposes or, beautifully designed, presented to loved ones just like that or on the occasion of a holiday.

With photo

You can create a wonderful product from an old photograph, dried flowers and a few more components:

transparent base - 100 g;
apple flavor - 4 drops;
hop sprigs with cones;
titanium dioxide - 0.33 tsp;
macadamia oil - 0.33 tsp

The process consists of the following steps:

Print a black and white photo on water-soluble paper, cut it according to the size of the form.
Melt the base by adding flavoring and oils to it. Put the form on the picture, pour a little soapy mass inside.
Focusing on the image, put a branch of hops on the bottom of the form. Cones "drown" so that they do not stick out.
As soon as everything starts to harden, sprinkle with alcohol.
Pour a thin layer of base.
Place the photo on the form, turning it face down. The photo should be completely covered.
Remove the scales from the cones, fill them in, mix.
Add titanium dioxide to the mass to color the base, pour in the oil mixture and flavoring.
Sprinkle the cooled soap in the form with alcohol, fill in the last matte layer. After hardening, carefully remove the product.

DIY scrub soap

An anti-cellulite or skin care product that will additionally moisturize the skin is easy to make yourself. The scrub is obtained by mixing the main (sour cream, honey, cream) and abrasive (coffee grounds, finely ground apricot pits) parts. For example, a do-it-yourself coffee scrub can be made from:

basics - 180 g;
sea salt - 2 tbsp. l.;
ground coffee or grounds - 2 tbsp. l.;
olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
boiled water - 0.5 tbsp.

Cooking steps should be performed step by step:

Melt the soap shavings, pour oil into the mass first, then water in small portions. Stir the mixture all the time.
After a couple of minutes, the mass will become plastic and homogeneous.
Pour salt with coffee into it, mix.
Send future soap in greased molds for 3 days. When you get it, the bar should be dry, of a dense, uniform consistency.

lavender

This product has bactericidal, relaxing and antiviral properties. Try to cook it from lavender oil, because it is not only healthy, but also has a wonderful, mesmerizing aroma. For cooking, you must have:

base - 100 g;
a mixture of oils (2-3 types) - 5 g;
lavender flowers - 1 tsp;
essential lavender oil - 15 drops.

The bar can be made in any shape you like, but before that, the liquid must be properly prepared:

Melt the grated base by building a water bath.
Add selected oils, dried flowers of the plant to the mass.
Treat the silicone mold with alcohol and pour the resulting mixture into it.
Leave the liquid until it hardens, then remove finished goods and put them in a dry place. After 6 hours, you can use it for its intended purpose.

With glycerin

Products can be poured into molds with any images, but first you need to prepare the following ingredients:

a mixture of oils (soybean, coconut, castor, safflower) - 800 ml;
lye - 115 g;
distilled water - 140 g.

Check out how to make DIY glycerin soap step by step:

Add lye to water, stir. Let the solution cool down to 65 degrees.
Heat the oil mixture to 57 degrees.
Combine the liquids, bring the mixture to the consistency of a pudding, using a blender.
Keep the resulting mass warm for 3 hours. When the solution reaches the gel phase, it will look translucent, like petroleum jelly. Stir.
Next, take some product and try to dissolve it in hot water. If it dissolves, then you can continue. If it forms a lump or there are pieces floating on top, then you need to stand longer.
Add 370 g of 70% alcohol and 85 g of liquid glycerin.
Combine 225 g of sugar and 140 g of water, boil until the sugar crystals are completely melted. Pour into soap base. Stir, cover, cool slightly.
Pour soapy liquid into molds, cover with foil, leave for a week in a dry place.
Cut the bars into pieces.

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