Coming from Castilia or Castile, countryside in Spain where it originally came, a mottled, white, hard and fine soap, purely made from soda and olive oil hails. This soap may be slow and less to lather, yet it is made abundant and rich because of its main ingredient, the olive oil.

They are popularly known as castle soaps. They are gentle and an ideal first soap for the babies. As contrasting to animal fats, castile soaps are created completely from olive oils as this vegetable is among the highly used component in making soaps.

The castile soap recipe is not complicated to gather and make. In fact, you can make two-pound castle soap through the simple instructions on making soaps.

To get started with your castle soaps, you must complete the entire list of castle soap recipe first. You need 1.8-pound 100% olive oil. They must be pure. You also need one ounce of pearls of beeswax, as this will give the bar soap a silky grain. Aside from that, to complete your Castile soap recipe are the four ounces of lye or sodium hydroxide and 10 ounces distilled water.

To begin the soap making process, dissolve the beeswax in an olive oil until the temperature reaches about 120 degrees. You may add the sodium hydroxide, stirring the mixture well. Then add this stirred mixture to the beeswax or oil mixture when this gets cool at 120 degrees.

Continue to stir the mixture until you can find no trace. After that, you may pour the mixture in a mold.

The castile soap recipe may also be added with additives. One instance is the dried chamomile. One fourth of a cup of this will add trace and fragrance to your Castile bar soap.

Other fragrances to add to your Castle soap recipe are the scents, oils and extracts of orange, eucalyptus, rose garden, citrus blend, rosemary and calendula. The pure olive oil that composes the Castile soap makes its lather a little different than other soaps made of other ingredients. Usually, castle soaps are slimy than creamy and foamy.

Meanwhile, there has been a warning that castle soaps are high in alkalinity level. That is why the classic castle soap recipe is not suggested for washing hairs. The human skin has an acidic pH level of 5 or 6. The Castle soaps have 9 though some contain about 7. To avoid skin irritations and damage, you should ask the soap maker regarding the pH.