Melt the soap base ( you can use your microwave to do that).
Add the liquid soap and glycerine and stir the mixture.
Add the apple fragrance oil, red colour and cinnamon and stir well.
Pour the mixture into moulds and let it harden overnight
After the soap has fully hardened, remove from mould and it is ready to use.
Foaming liquid soap
Recipe
245ml Castile liquid soap base
5ml vitamin E
10 drops of lemon oil
10 drops of Lavender essential oil
Directions
Mix the ingredients thoroughly and use.
Exfoliating cream soap:
Nice soapy and creamy soap that is soothing to the skin.
Ingredients
3.5 ounces of creme soap base
1 teaspoon D- Limonene
1 teaspoon fine pumice
2 teaspoon orange peel granules
5 drops of orange essential oil
Pure distilled water.
Directions
Mix all the ingredients except distilled water in a glass bowl. Use pure distilled water to thin out the mixture into your desired constituency. Store in a glass jar.
Soap is the salt of a fatty acid. This salt is the product of the combination of an acid and alkali and it is different from the type of salt we eat.
The acid used in soap making is known as fatty acid, while the alkali is generally sodium hydroxide or caustic soda.
Saponification is the process of making soap, when the fatty acid is mixed with the alkali it produces a tablet of salt and glycerine which is the soap.
How soap cleanses
When soap combines with water it acts as a surfactant, The surfactant has water soluble and oil soluble parts. Due to this property, soap molecules can surround grease or dirt particles and bring them into the water to be washed away.
Why you should make your own soap
Glycerine is a bye product of soap making and it’s function is to soothe and clean without irritation.
Commercially made soap are made in a cost effective way, making this type of soaps able to clean but hash on the hand and skin because it lacks glycerine.
Making your own soap helps to regularise the soap making ingredients to your advantage.
Soap making ingredients
Basic materials used for soap making are fat and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) with the addition of essential oils and fragrances to personalize your soap.
Fat can be animal or plant fat. Fat of cow, goat, buffalo is ok. Suitable fat from plants include the various types of cooking oil such as
To add moisturizer to soap you can add glycerine. Some glycerine is already produced in the saponification process.
Beeswax is an ingredient to to harden the soap, salt can also be added to hasten it.
Borax and sugar are added to give the soap bubbles.
Types of soap
Novelty soaps:
These soaps are made for children. They are mild on the children’s skin.
Perfumed soaps:
Strong scented soaps
Guest soap:
As the name implies, they are small sized soaps used in hotels, motels, guest houses by guests in the bathroom. They can be taken home by the guests.
Beauty soaps:
These soaps are special soaps that beautify the skin by removing wrinkles, spots, makes the skin clearer and so on.
Medicated soaps:
These soaps are designed to treat all kinds of skin infections, such as acne, pimples, prickly heat, eczema and so on.
Translucent soaps:
These are soaps containing glycerine. These types of soaps are very gentle on the skin.
Transparent soaps:
A special type of soap that feels better against your skin when compared to other soaps.
Liquid soaps
As the name implies, these types of soap come in liquid form. As with solid bar soaps, some are suitable for bathing, others for washing clothes and others for washing dishes.
Vacuum Cleaner s are used to suck up dust, debris and even liquid waste from our houses and environment. Vacuum cleaners come in various shapes and sizes. The bigger they are, the more powerful they can suck up dirt.
How Vacuum Cleaners Work
Vacuum Cleaners consists of 3 major components;
The suction hose
The collecting bag or bin
The air blowing electric motor.
Vacuum Cleaner showing
The electric motor blows air Inside the vacuum cleaner. This creates a vacuum that then forces the dirt up the suction pipe into a collecting bar or container. The collecting bag or filter is porous, enabling air to pass through. If the air flow through the vacuum cleaner is impeded,it won’t properly suck up dirt. Note that as the dirt collecting bag fills up or the filters become clogged, the suction power of the vacuum cleaner reduces. It is best to empty the collecting bag when it is halfway full.
Troubleshooting your vacuum cleaner.
The most common problem of the vacuum cleaner that people often complain about is that it loses suction power. This problem is easy to fix. Remember that when airflow is impeded, the vacuum cleaner loses suction power. The number of ways airflow can be impeded is as follows;
The dirt/dust collecting bag is full
The vacuum filters are clogged
The suction pipe is blocked
Resolving the issue respectively is to empty the dirt/dust collecting bag, clean or replace the clogged filters , through the suction pipe.
Now, if the above remedies do not solve the problem, then the vacuum cleaner needs to be serviced by a qualified personnel.
When your submersible pump stops working, don’t just rush to call the technician for repairs. There are still some troubleshooting you can do yourself and save some costs.
Your submersible water pump should come fitted with a control box. Inside the control box is fitted a circuit breaker and capacitor.
control box of submersible water pump
The first thing you can do yourself if your pump doesn’t work is to open up its control box and check if the capacitor isn’t blown. In most cases this is usually the case. If it applies to you just replace the capacitor with an original one of the same type.
Sometimes it might be the circuit breaker that is faulty, you can replace that yourself too as well.
If it’s not possible to change only the faulty capacitor or circuit breaker, just change the whole control box.
If after changing the control box, the pump still doesn’t work or trips off after a while, then the problem might be with the pump itself. Get a technician to service it.
If the coil of the water pump has burnt, then it is advisable to buy a new one rather than repairing it.
To make about 320g of candle you will need the following quantities of materials;
Candle wax: 320g
Paraffin oil:10ml
Stearic acid:
Wick: 1m
1 mould
Procedure
Cut the candle wax into small pieces.
Place a pot on a cooker and set it on low heat.
Put all the pieces of candle wax into the pot and stir until it is all melted.
Add the paraffin oil and stearic acid into the melted candle wax and mix all together. You can also add colour at this stage if you like.
Remove the pot from the cooking heat.
Wait for it to cool for about 45 minutes, the mixture would have become semi solid by that time.
Place the wick inside the mould and ensure it is at the center of it.
Using a spoon, fill up the mould with the semisolid candle wax mixture, ensuring that the wick is approximately always at the center throughout the procedure.
Leave it in the mould for about 3 days for the candle wax mixture to fully solidify, then remove the mould.
