We make beldi - Moroccan soft soap with our own hands. We make beldi - Moroccan soft soap with our own hands Soft soap

Many cosmetologists for washing advise using not soap, but shower gels. This is due to the fact that soap has a harmful effect on human skin. When it is used, the normal pH balance of the skin is disturbed.

This feature of soap is explained by the fact that its main component is alkali, which causes great harm to the skin. It leads to dryness and flaking. In addition, the hardness of our water also makes a negative contribution. The skin after such washing loses its moisture and elasticity. There is a feeling of tightness and discomfort.

Soap contains sodium salts of fatty acids. As a result of the hydrolysis reaction, they create an alkaline environment. This contributes to the fact that the soap lathers well and has excellent cleansing properties.

However, soap breaks down the oils in the skin, leading to dehydration. In addition, the protective layer of its surface, which prevents the penetration of bacteria, disappears. We can say that soap deprives the skin of its natural protection - the "hydro-lipid film".

Especially harmful is cheap soap containing free alkali. But in expensive soap, its destructive effect is minimized due to the presence of fatty acids in it.

You also need to know that different skin types react differently to soap. The judicious use of soap for oily skin will cause minimal harm to it. Overdrying of the skin will not occur.

According to cosmetologists, soap is not a tool for permanent use. And after its application, a moisturizer should be applied to the skin.

Natural soap

Of course, today everyone prefers natural products. This also applies to ordinary soap. For its production, only three simple natural ingredients are needed. But the composition of modern soap usually includes a very large number of different components. Its chemical composition can hardly be called natural. It contains a variety of substances, as well as flavors, dyes, stabilizers and preservatives. On the other hand, industrial soap is cheap and is sold in any store.

Natural soap today in stores can also be easily found. However, not everyone can afford it, because. is quite expensive. Most often, such soap is sold by weight at a price of 100 to 400 rubles per 100 g.

And foreign-made soap is even more expensive - from 600-700 rubles. per 100 g. In the market of our country, the share of such products is no more than 5% of the total. This is due to the low demand for these products, which is explained by their high cost.

Producing natural soap is quite expensive. First of all, high quality natural oils are used for this. In addition, essential oils are added to such soap. And they are hard to get. Abrasives, plant fragments and other impurities are also needed for an exfoliating effect.

Complicates the production and glycerin. High-quality soap must be kept for a certain time in a room that has constant indicators of temperature and humidity.

But the greatest difficulty is the basis from which soap is brewed. In our country, these foundations began to be produced in the late 90s. Today, ancient recipes are most often used for this. But many manufacturers prefer to buy soap base in other countries, which also leads to the high cost of soap.

Industrial soap

Traditional soap refers to ordinary bar soap. In Russia, it still remains the number one cleanser. It should be noted that the same situation is observed today in Turkey, America, Ukraine and the countries of Eastern Europe. And in the countries of Western Europe this type of soap has long been used only as an original gift.

In the industrial production of soap, a complex of fatty components and their substitutes are used: light rosin, tall oil, synthetic fatty acids. At the same time, moisturizing oils are necessarily added to them. The quality of soap depends on how much coconut oil it contains. The more it is, the more expensive the soap will be.

The industrial production of soap is complicated by the need for huge energy capacities, as well as large areas for accommodating large boilers and specialized production and packaging lines.

Soft soap

The most common moisturizing ingredient is glycerin. Soap with its content is softer than usual. Most often outwardly it looks transparent or translucent. But buyers should be aware that commercially produced soap is not always of the highest quality. Glycerin is a very capricious and unreliable substance. Crystal transparency under such conditions can only be achieved by adding alcohol. First, alcohol is also harmful to the skin. Secondly, there is practically no soap in such a product.

The cream soap popular today is also characterized by increased softness, which is achieved by adding a moisturizer. Such soap, although it contains alkali, is more beneficial for our skin.

Soap without soap

Recently, soap-free soap has become more and more widespread in our country. Outwardly, it is no different from traditional bar soap. However, it does not contain alkali. This soap uses high quality surfactants as detergents.

We can say that this type of soap is a solid gel for washing. This product is intended mainly for those who care about the health of their skin, but do not like to use liquid soap.

Soap-free soap is suitable for different skin types, depending on the additives it contains. The most popular example of such soap in our country can be called Dove. It contains about 20% glycerin.

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Now a new hobby is gaining momentum all over the world (women are especially passionate about this, of course, for obvious reasons) - do-it-yourself cosmetics, handmade cosmetics. You can cook at home not only soups and cereals, you can cook soap, cream, make shampoos and tonics at home. The process of creating your own cosmetics is insanely exciting, and, among other things, very useful, because you get exactly what YOU need, taking into account all the individual characteristics and “Wishlist”. With this article, I open a new section in which I will talk about how to make your own soap, cream, shampoo. Let's go from simple to more complex, we will gain experience and skills, and then everything will work out!

The easiest and fastest thing you can do without special equipment and buying the necessary ingredients is to make baby soap. Or - to make a "digest". What we need. The very first and most important thing is baby soap 🙂 Choose soap without additives. Although this is difficult to do, most baby soap is with cream, some kind of herbs, etc. We also need a liquid with which we will dilute this very soap. The easiest way to use milk is that soap disperses best in it, besides, milk is rich in microelements, softens the skin. The liquid is taken at least 1:1 to the weight of the soap. Those. for 100 grams of soap we take 100 grams of milk. If the original soap is too dry, more liquid may be needed. Of course, you don't have to use milk. You can use just water (although what's the point?), Or a decoction of herbs (already better). You can use a decoction of chamomile, string, oregano, mint - in a word, any herb that has the necessary properties. Is your skin soft and sensitive? Take a string or chamomile. Is your skin oily, inflamed? Take calendula, celandine (just remember that celandine grass is poisonous, you need to brew carefully, in low concentration!). Need to dry out your skin or shrink your pores? Something astringent will do - oak bark, bird cherry.

To soften the skin, you can add care oil to the soap. Olive, sesame, almond, grape seed - any base oil. For 100 grams of original soap, you can add 1-1.5 teaspoons of oil, it’s not worth it anymore - the soap will lose in soapiness and foam. What else can be added to the digest? Yes, a lot of things 🙂 Honey, pollen (previously dissolved in a small amount of liquid, which is poured in advance). Powdered milk, cream. Ground herbs (as a mild scrub), cosmetic clays/muds for better cleansing, ground coffee for a harder scrub (this soap is good for problematic "cellulite" areas). You can add menthol (this soap is good in the heat). You can add ground oatmeal for a gentle scrub and soften the skin. And of course you can add essential oils. You can make different soaps - for washing, for problem areas, for the whole body. In a word, a huge field for creativity 🙂

Let's get back to the process of overcooking baby soap. We rub the soap on a grater. It is only necessary to take into account that if the soap is dry, it will “dust”. If you have a food processor, you can use it. When the soap bar turns into, half the job, it can be considered done 🙂 Pour the crumbs with warm milk (after adding the liquid, the soap starts to smell unpleasantly of alkali - do not pay attention, after the soap dries, this smell will disappear). We mix. Now there are 2 ways - either immediately put in a water bath, or leave for a couple of hours for the crumbs to swell, and then put in a bath. I chose the second way. After 2 hours, the mass thickened so much that it was no longer stirred with a spoon. I had to add more milk. Then I added more sea buckthorn oil (anti-inflammatory, healing, regenerating + gives a beautiful color), and put it in the microwave for a few minutes. In total, it turned out 3 minutes - fractionally, 30 seconds each (I took it out and mixed it). When the mass became more or less homogeneous, I added a few tablespoons of honey, essential oils of grapefruit and lavender, and spread it into molds.

Let me tell you about molds. Almost any container can be used as molds - disposable plastic lunch boxes, soap dishes, yoghurt cups, juice tetra bags, Pringles cans. I really like silicone molds for baking. You can get any soap from them, because. they are soft, and of course any mold needs to be greased with oil. You can use the one you are going to add to the soap, you can just sunflower.

After a day, it usually hardens, it can be removed from the molds and laid on paper towels to dry. But my soap turned out to be too soft, because. I added a lot of milk, and honey - and honey (and sugar too) - dilutes the soapy mass. If that happened, no problem. Put the molds with soap in the freezer for a couple of hours, and after hardening, remove the soap from the molds and lay it out to dry. I dry this soap for a long time, about a month after it becomes solid. Here is the soap that you see in the photos, completely hardened in about 2 weeks. And before that, it was like a thick dough - it stuck to the finger and wrinkled. Don't be scared if the same happens to you. It will certainly freeze - just give it time 🙂

Photo of the soap-re-cooking process 🙂 If something is not clear, ask 🙂

Soft is called soap obtained by saponification of fats with caustic potassium alkali. Various fats can be used: pork, beef fat, cottonseed, hemp, linseed oil, peanut, coconut, palm and other fats.

All of them have a rather liquid consistency and look like a light-dark green, brown or brown, translucent vitreous mass. To give the soap transparency, carbonic potash or soda is added.

Mild clear soap. For the manufacture of denser soap, oils containing stearic acid are used, as semi-cotton, conjut, olive and peanut oils; in addition, one part of soda alkali should be taken for three parts of potassium lye.

For softer soap use: hemp, linseed oil, blubber and only one potassium alkali. For so that the soap lathers well and had a better look, add 10-20% rosin to 100% oil.

Potassium alkali gives a greater yield of soap: so, 100 hours of hemp or linseed oil give 200-220 hours of potassium and 160-180 hours of sodium soap.

Soap making - technology

Varkamyl is made as follows: take 100 hours of linseed oil, 80 hours of a solution of caustic potassium alkali 38 ° B and 20 hours of a solution of potash 24 ° B. The alkali is divided into 4 parts: the first part is 20 ° B; the second 24° B; third 28° B; fourth 30 ° B. Soap is cooked in the same way as when cooking glue soap (indicated above), i.e. alkali is added gradually, as the previous part is combined with fats; a solution of potash or soda is added simultaneously with the third and fourth parts of caustic alkali.

The finished soap, when tested on glass, after complete cooling, becomes transparent, sticks to the glass, and a white ring forms around the drop of soap.

For greater density, 2-4% potato flour can be added to the semi-hardened soap.

To increase the yield, filling is added to the soap cooled to 70 ° C: talc, soda, potash, potassium and sodium liquid glass, potassium chloride, starch, etc.

Sodui potash, which serves to make the soap transparent and filling, is added in a 25° B solution towards the end of the soap-making operation. Soft soap in summer is more liquid than in winter, and this circumstance is taken into account when welding. In summer, more sodium alkali is added to potassium caustic alkali, in winter - less, or they are boiled only on caustic potash.

Mild soap with a natural core. Its manufacture requires fresh lard and good pure oils; for every 100 hours of oils and fats, you need to take 45-50 hours. a solution of caustic potassium alkali 50 ° B and 10-15 hours of potash. The caustic potash is diluted with water to 25° F, and boiled as directed with a transparent mild soap.

The soap mass is boiled until a transparent glue is obtained.

The finished soap is poured into barrels and left alone for 15-20 days at a low temperature, after which it is completely ready, and a kernel in the form of a grain is released in the soap.

Soft soap with an artificial core is made from cotton, linen, sesame, olive and peanut oils; in the form of an impurity, rosin 15-20% and sometimes olein are always added. The manufacturing method is the same as with transparent soft soap: first, a weaker alkali 16-18 ° B is used and boiling is completed at 26-28 ° B; for a greater density of soap, 15-20% sodium can be added to potassium alkali. To semi-cooled soap to obtain a core, add (1 hour per 100 hours) burnt lime.

Mild Soap Recipes

100 parts of linseed oil, 80 parts of cottonseed oil, 20 parts of rosin, 100 parts of potassium hydroxide solution 32 ° B and 25 parts of potash.

100 hours of bacon, 100 hours of linseed oil, 50 hours of cottonseed oil and 120 hours of caustic potassium solution 26 ° B.

50 hours of bacon, 150 hours of linseed oil and 250 hours of potassium hydroxide solution 25 ° B.

100 hours of peanut oil, 50 hours of linseed oil, 20 hours of bacon, 100 hours of olein, 250 hours of caustic potassium solution 26 ° B.

2 liters of cottonseed oil, 4 liters of linseed oil, 1 kg of rosin, 3.5 liters of potassium hydroxide solution 34° B, 1 liter of sodium hydroxide solution 38° B and 1 kg of potash.

5 liters of linseed oil, 1 kg of rosin, 2.5 liters of caustic potassium solution 50 ° B, 0.5 kg of soda and 0.5 kg of potash.

Mild soap usually has a green color, which is achieved by adding olive oil to soap; green color is also dyed by the addition of chlorophyll; yellow and brown colors are dyed with turmeric root (sold as a spice in stores) or cheap aniline dyes.

The word "beldi" in translation means black.

This soap is traditionally made from olive oil, various essential oils and various oils.

The composition of herbs in different regions is different, but the basis of beldi is always the same - it is olive oil.

Beldi is one of the main beauty secrets of Moroccan women.

It is prepared only by hand, using natural ingredients.

From this article you will learn:

Beldi soap - cooking recipe

Beldi soap has a characteristic smell and consistency, it is similar to softened butter, so it is very easy to apply to the body.

Beldi cleanses, moisturizes and nourishes the skin.

Beldi soap is considered a means for bath procedures, as it is able to activate blood and lymph microcirculation, cleanse the skin, expanding pores, and saturate it with useful components.

As a result of the use of Beldi, the skin becomes smooth and soft, its color evens out.

Beldi soap recipe

I offer a recipe from baby soap, it is easy to prepare and anyone can handle it.

Ingredients:

• 100 grams of baby soap without additives
• 20 grams of olive oil
• 20.0 grape seed oil (if not available, take 40.0 olive oil)
• 1 tsp finely ground leaves of eucalyptus, thyme, chamomile, spruce needles, ground ginger root
• 100 ml green tea infusion
• 3 drops of eucalyptus essential oil and 3 drops

Cooking:

1. To begin with, all herbs must be poured with boiling water (about 50 ml) and closed with a lid.
2. Grate baby soap and pour green tea infusion (about 3-4 tablespoons)
3. Put this soap mixture in a water bath and melt without boiling, stirring the soap, gradually adding tea infusion.
4. It is necessary to melt until the state until the mass turns into a consistency similar to sour cream (see.
5. Then add olive oil and grape seed oil, mix very thoroughly.
6. Now you can add the cake of herbs along with the infusion.
7. Mix thoroughly, cool slightly and add essential oils. The consistency of beldi should be similar to softened butter.
8. Once again, mix everything thoroughly and transfer to a jar with a lid.
9. Store in a cool place, stir before use
10. Such a natural remedy can be prepared from a variety of herbs, with the addition of other oils, honey, healing mud, algae, etc.

Beldi Liquid Soap Recipe

To learn how to make beldi liquid soap, see this video. It is very interesting!!!

How to use beldi soap?

According to tradition, beldi is a remedy for a Turkish bath (hamam), but in our life it can be used in an ordinary bath and even in the shower.

• The first thing to do is to steam the body well. Apply beldi all over the body and face, leave for a few minutes and lather.
• Dead cells of the epidermis are hydrated under the influence of this soap, which makes them easier to exfoliate during peeling, which you must do by rubbing the entire skin of the body with a bath mitt.
• After such a massage, it is necessary to wash the skin with warm water, blot with a towel and, if desired, apply oils (apricot, jojoba, olive, etc.)

This procedure can be performed daily or as often as you need. The effect will be amazing in any case.

I think that those who decide to try to cook beldi on their own will really like this remedy. I just love this soap!

And maybe someone will tell you an interesting recipe for making beldi?

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