Learn how to make a Whipped Soap Base Recipe from scratch. Whipped soap bases are a blend of ingredients that give you a pliable, light and fluffy soap base. The Whipped Soap base is easily customized to create a whole bunch of different recipes with just a few ingredients.
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I personally enjoy making the whipped soap base myself instead of buying the foaming bath butter or foaming bath whip. It is often called a foaming bath whip because it is not technically ‘soap’. In order to make a true soap, you need to use oils and lye and it goes through the saponification process. Instead of going through that process we use surfactants in this recipe.
What to add to a whipped soap base?
The exciting part about making a whipped soap base is that you can make so many different things from it. You can add butters and oils to make a moisturizing and luxurious soap. In addition to adding oils and butter, you can add sugar or salt to make an exfoliating whipped soap. Now the fun part is adding your fragrance oils and colors to really add some aesthetic appeal to your soap.
Ingredients to make Whipped Soap Base from scratch
Sodium Coco Sulfate (SCS)
Sodium Coco Sulfate is a anionic surfactant. It comes in noodle and powder form, the powder would heat up a little quicker than the noodles do. SCS makes for a dense creamy foam in your whipped soap base. It is derived from coconut oil and is easily dispersed in water.
Caprylyl Capryl Glucoside
Caprylyl Capryl Glucoside is a liquid non ionic surfactant that is in liquid form. It make a lot of bubbles in this soap base. It is an excellent solubilizer, which will help you later when adding oils and butters to this base.
Stearic Acid
Stearic Acid is used to help stiffen up this soap base. We need it to have a little bit of a thicker consistency so that it will hold its whipped shape. Stearic acid leaves a velvety and slightly waxy consistency.
Vegetable Glycerin
Vegetable glycerin is a humectant, meaning it draws moisture and holds it to your skin. It is great for making the consistency of this bath whip more pliable.
Preservative
It is important that you add a preservative to your whipped soap base because it does have water in it. If you do not add one, this is only going to be good for a few days before you start growing some nasty bacteria in it. I am using Germall Plus in this recipe at 0.50%. The percentage that you need to use may vary depending on the preservative that you use. Just adjust the percentage to what your preservative calls for.
How to make Whipped Soap Base from Scratch
Weigh all of your ingredients on a kitchen scale and place them into a crock pot on the high setting. (If you prefer, you can also use a double boiler).
Allow you ingredients to melt completely, this is going to take a while. Periodically come in a stir the surfactant mixture up.
Remove from the crockpot and allow to cool.
Once the whipped soap base is cooled down, add your preservative and mix well.
Package.
How to make your own Whipped Soap Base using just 6 ingredients! (includes recipe)
Equipment
- Scale
Ingredients
- 1.6 ounce | 10% Distilled Water
- 3.20 ounce | 20% Vegetable glycerin
- 1.50 ounce | 9% Caprylyl Capryl Glucoside
- 8.60 ounce | 53.7% Sodium Coco Sulfate
- 1.09 ounce | 6.8% Stearic Acid
- 0.08 ounce | 0.5% Germall Plus
Instructions
- Weigh all of your ingredients on a kitchen scale and place them into a crock pot on the high setting. (If you prefer, you can also use a double boiler).
- Allow you ingredients to melt completely, this is going to take a while. Periodically come in a stir the surfactant mixture up.
- Remove from the crockpot and allow to cool.
- Once the whipped soap base is cooled down, add your preservative and mix well.
- Package.