Melta Organic Soap Base 1 kg

Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base: Your Foundation for Natural Soapmaking

Unleash your creativity and craft luxurious, gentle soaps with our Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base. Sourced from Belarus, this high-quality, solid opaque soap base offers an exceptional foundation for producing organic, skin-friendly soaps. With a balanced pH of 8.5 - 9.5 and a carefully selected INCI list that excludes harsh SLS, it's the perfect choice for artisanal soap makers and professional crafters seeking a natural, easy-to-use option for their creations.

Description and Key Features

The Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base is designed for effortless soapmaking, allowing you to focus on customization without the complexities of cold or hot process saponification. Its solid opaque form melts down smoothly, providing a consistent and reliable medium for your additions. The pH of 8.5 - 9.5 is well-suited for a cleansing product, helping to ensure effective cleaning while remaining gentle on the skin.

This organic soap base is distinguished by its SLS-free quality, catering to the growing demand for natural and milder formulations. Its INCI composition includes:

• Glycerol (Glycerin): A powerful humectant that attracts moisture to the skin, ensuring your finished soap is hydrating and prevents dryness.
• Propylene Glycol: Acts as a humectant and solvent, helping to ensure the soap remains stable and easy to work with.
• Water: The essential solvent that forms the base of the soap.
• Lauric Acid & Stearic Acid: Fatty acids derived from natural sources, contributing to the soap's hardness, lather, and cleansing properties.
• Sodium Laurate & Sodium Stearate: Soaps formed from the reaction of lauric and stearic acid with sodium hydroxide, providing the cleansing action.
• Sodium Sorbitol: A sugar alcohol that acts as a humectant and humectant, further enhancing the moisturizing properties.
• DEA Coconut Oil (Cocamide DEA): A mild surfactant and foam booster derived from coconut oil, enhancing the lather and conditioning properties.
• Sodium Hydroxide: Used in the saponification process to convert oils into soap.

This unique combination ensures a rich, creamy lather and a finished product that feels luxurious and nourishing on the skin.

Versatile Applications and Usage Areas in Soapmaking

The Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base is incredibly versatile, making it suitable for a wide array of handmade soap products and creative applications:

• Artisanal Bar Soaps:
  • Customizable Designs: Its opaque nature is perfect for embedding botanicals, exfoliants, or layered designs, allowing for stunning visual creations.
  • Aromatherapy Soaps: Easily incorporate essential oils or fragrance oils to create bespoke aromatherapy experiences, from calming lavender to invigorating citrus blends.
  • Exfoliating Soaps: Add natural exfoliants like poppy seeds, coffee grounds, oats, or loofah pieces to create invigorating scrub bars.
  • Moisturizing Soaps: Enhance its natural moisturizing properties by adding extra nourishing oils (like shea butter, cocoa butter, or avocado oil) or botanical extracts.
• Novelty and Themed Soaps:
  • Holiday Soaps: Create festive soaps with seasonal colors, scents, and shapes for holidays like Christmas, Halloween, or Valentine's Day.
  • Gift Soaps: Ideal for crafting personalized gifts for weddings, baby showers, birthdays, or corporate events.
  • Kid-Friendly Soaps: Safe and easy to use for children's soapmaking projects (with adult supervision), allowing for fun shapes and colors.
• Specialty Soaps:
  • Facial Cleansing Bars: Formulate gentle facial soaps by adding specific active ingredients like activated charcoal for detoxifying or gentle clays for purification.
  • Shampoo Bars (Solid Shampoo): While primarily for body, with careful formulation and specific hair-benefiting additives, it can be adapted to create solid shampoo bars.
  • Guest Soaps: Perfect for creating small, elegant guest soaps for hotels, bed and breakfasts, or personal use at home.
• Spa and Relaxation Products:
  • Bath & Body Sets: Create cohesive product lines by crafting matching soap bars to complement bath bombs, body lotions, or scrubs.
  • Hand Soaps: Produce high-quality, gentle hand soaps for daily use in kitchens and bathrooms.

The Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base simplifies the soapmaking process, enabling both hobbyists and commercial producers to create premium, skin-loving products with ease and confidence. Its worldwide shipping availability ensures access to this exceptional base for soap artisans across the globe.

Cosmetic Recipe: "Gentle Oat & Honey Moisturizing Soap Bar"

Craft a soothing and hydrating soap bar perfect for sensitive skin, featuring the Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base.

Instructions for Preparation:

1. Preparation: Ensure your workspace is clean, and all equipment (cutting board, knife, heat-safe measuring cup or bowl, stirring spoon, soap mold) is sanitized.
2. Cut the Base: Carefully cut the Melta Organic SLS-Free Melt & Pour Soap Base into small, uniform cubes (about 1-inch size). This helps it melt more evenly and quickly.
3. Melt the Base: Place the soap cubes into a heat-safe measuring cup or bowl. Melt the soap base slowly using a microwave (in 15-30 second bursts, stirring in between) or a double boiler method. Avoid overheating, as this can lead to loss of moisture and a less translucent soap. Melt until just liquid, with no solid lumps remaining.
4. Add Additives: Once the soap base is fully melted, add the Sweet Almond Oil, Liquid Honey, and Colloidal Oatmeal Powder. Stir gently but thoroughly to ensure all ingredients are well combined and the oatmeal is evenly dispersed. If using, add the Lavender Essential Oil now and stir again.
5. Pour into Mold: Carefully pour the melted soap mixture into your silicone soap mold.
6. Remove Bubbles (Optional): If you see any air bubbles on the surface, lightly spritz with rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) to pop them.
7. Cool and Set: Allow the soap to cool and harden completely at room temperature (this can take several hours, or even overnight). Do not put it in the freezer, as this can cause condensation.
8. Unmold: Once fully hardened, gently flex the silicone mold to release your beautiful, homemade soap bar.

Recommendations for Use:

• Customization: The beauty of melt & pour soap is its ease of customization. Feel free to experiment with different essential oils, fragrance oils, natural colorants (like mica powders or spirulina powder), and exfoliants to create unique soap bars.
• Additives: When adding oils, ensure they are within the recommended 1-5% range of the total soap base weight to avoid making the soap too soft or oily. For this recipe, the oils and honey are well within this range.
• Temperature Control: Always melt the soap base slowly and avoid excessive heat. Overheating can burn off the natural glycerin and lead to a harder, less moisturizing soap.
• Packaging: Once unmolded, it's best to wrap your finished soap bars tightly in plastic wrap or shrink wrap. This prevents the soap from "sweating" (glycerin drawing moisture from the air), which is common with glycerin-rich melt & pour soaps.
• Shelf Life: With proper storage and the use of fresh additives, homemade melt & pour soaps generally have a shelf life of 6-12 months.
• Safety: Always wear appropriate protective gear, such as gloves, when handling the hot soap base. Ensure proper ventilation.