How to thicken liquid soap is one of the conundrums that all liquid soapers face, especially new ones.
What's your answer? How do you thicken your liquid soaps?
Salt? Borax? A thickening/jelling agent?
Lots of soapers need your advice!
Hello...em...except borax ,what else ingredient we can use? and how muach? Thank u
What ratio do you use with Borax and when do you add it? Do you soaps come out thick like shower gel or thinner than that?
Thanks!
Whoa, thanks so much for that, I am really glad to know that Borax neutralizes. That sounds to me like you could use it for making a deodorant soap as well. My husband won't use the homemade soap because it is not a deodorant soap. I wonder if this would work for that?!
Well I for one will be looking foraward to hearing the answer to that! :) I happen to have a bottle of potassium hydroxide sitting here waiting for me to get my courage up.
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I just tried thickening liquid soap with Borax for the first time...Great Success! I am delighted with the results and so are my friends who have tried the soap. I used instructions that I found on page 43 of Catherine Failor's Making Natural Liquid Soaps. I have used this now both in my hand soap and my bath & body soap. The thickening (at the same rate of Borax to Soap stock) was more extreme in the hand soap (sunflower and coconut oil) than the bath & body soap (olive, coconut, almond, and castor oils). Of course Borax has other positive aspects like low price, easily available, stabilizes lather, and neutralizes. I am hoping that the good results of this attempt are consistantly duplicatable.