Soap “from scratch” Having mastered the two methods of soap making described above, experienced soap makers move on to the third, the most difficult, but which allows you to control all stages of work and select individual ingredients. Homemade soap making “from scratch” involves working with

Matte soap Matte soap is obtained from vegetable and mixed fats; you can melt baby soap or take soap

Honey soap Let's prepare a moisturizing soap with the aroma of honey, this soap is very soft, taking a bath or shower with it will bring great pleasure! Ingredients 300 g of soap base 50-100 ml of milk or cream 30 ml (2 tbsp.) base oil 2-3 Art. l. honey (put some

Oatmeal soap Natural oatmeal gently exfoliates dead skin, which promotes its renewal, and almond oil moisturizes and makes the skin silky.Ingredients 100 g matte base 1 tsp. almond base oil 2-3 drops vanilla

Soap in layers To make soap in layers beautiful, you need to choose a high-quality soap base and proven dyes. The most common drawback, possible due to untested dyes, is the flow of color from layer to layer, mixing of colors. First of all

Whipped soap Sponge cake This airy light soap lathers perfectly and moisturizes the skin. Ingredients baby soap or soap base – 100 g almond oil – 1 tsp. fragrance “Biscuit” or “Tiramisu” – 3-5 drops (you can take extract of natural

Classic Beldi with eucalyptus “from scratch” Gentle, soft, but at the same time deeply cleansing soap for the skin, with regular use it improves its appearance so much that it becomes clear why this soap has gained such popularity. Classic Beldi recipe

Cream soap Every soap maker knows that when making soap from a base of healthy oils, you can add no more than 1 tsp. per 100 g of base. If we add more oils, wanting to make the soap more nutritious, then the base simply “pushes out” the oil and the soap is coated on the back side

Salt soap Salt soap is an excellent skin care product. They can be washed and used for tonic, health and beauty treatments. This soap will give the skin tone, smoothness and velvety. It is important to know that it acts as a scrub, mechanically

Soap “Fantasy” Ingredients: grape seed oil – 10?% jojoba oil – 11.1?% castor oil – 10.8?% coconut oil – 47.6?% olive oil – 15.9?% superfat – 10?% water – 38?% alkali – 89.09?%+1.2 g (if citric acid is used) citric acid – 2

Musk soap 1 kg of base (neutral or base soap, made by cold or hot process) 1 g of orris root powder 30 g of sifted musk 200 g of bergamot oil 70 g of benzoin essence dye Grind musk with orris in a mortar

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- traditional black Moroccan soap, used in the oriental bath - Hamam. Up to 30% of its composition is herbs. Real Beldi is a black, fragrant, creamy soap.

Beldi perfectly cleanses the skin, opens pores, and “pulls out” all impurities and toxins. Thanks to the eucalyptus essential oil included in its composition, it has a beneficial effect on the entire body as a whole.

Classic Beldi soap is made from olive and palm oils with the addition of essential oil and ground eucalyptus leaves and special Ghassoul.

We invite you to do this healing.

Beldi soap recipe:

• soft soap base - 100 gr.
• pharmaceutical eucalyptus leaves - a pack;
• eucalyptus essential oil - a few drops;
• grapefruit essential oil - 2 drops;
• olive oil - 1 tsp.

Eucalyptus leaves must be ground in a coffee grinder. Heat the soft soap base and add olive oil and essential oils of grapefruit and. Mix well.

After this, add the ground leaves. Add as many of them as you need. The darker the soap, the better. However, do not forget that the soap should still be creamy. Mix thoroughly again and transfer the mixture into a nice non-metallic jar. The healing soap is ready.

How to use Beldi soap

In the bath, when the body is already sufficiently steamed, apply the soap evenly to the face and body and leave for 3-5 minutes. Then massage lightly and rinse off the fragrant soap with warm water. After this, you can carry out a body peeling procedure using, for example,

Real Moroccan beldi takes a long time and is difficult to prepare. The result, they say, is worth it, and the process itself is very entertaining, but not everyone is ready to turn their own apartment into a small chemical laboratory. But it’s always possible to cook soapy herbal and clay slurry from baby soap, oils, clay and herbs, although it’s also not nearly as easy as you might like.

Beldi recipe

• 1 piece of baby soap (100-150 g),
• 3-5 bags of green tea, optionally with natural additives,
• 1 tablespoon vitamin E oil solution,
• 2-3 tablespoons grape seed oil,
• 1-2 tablespoons of St. John's wort oil,
• 3-4 teaspoons of fine table sea or regular salt,
• cosmetic clay,
• ground oatmeal,
• ground pea flakes,
• dry herbs (chamomile, calendula, sage, celandine, colorless henna...),
• 1 teaspoon tea tree essential oil,
• 20-30 drops of eucalyptus essential oil.

It is better to take baby soap not from Nevskaya Cosmetics or Johnson & Johnson - they smell quite noticeably when cooked, and the original product is not at all fragrant. Although herbs brewed in soap will smell very specific in any case, you need to be prepared for this.

Brew green tea with 2/3 cup boiling water and let cool covered. Then remove the bags and squeeze them out.

Mix vegetable (not essential) oils and vitamin E with salt and combine everything with green tea.

Grate baby soap on a fine grater or grind in a blender and pour salty and rich green tea.

Cover everything with film and let it swell on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. When the soap swells, melt it completely, stirring gently, in a water bath.

Grind dry herbs in a coffee grinder or blender, mix with oatmeal and pea flakes and heat in a dry frying pan.

Pour the cooled herb mixture into the melted soap mixture and let simmer for another 15-20 minutes.

Remove the soap from the steam bath and add cosmetic clay. Let the almost finished beldi cool to about 40 degrees and add esters to it.

Transfer the finished product into a clean, dry jar with a tight lid. It would be a good idea to first disinfect the jar and wipe it, for example, with pharmaceutical salicylic or formic alcohol.

Beldi can be used immediately or allowed to “ripen” for another 5-7 days on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Use it to wash your face, massaging it onto makeup-free skin. Leave on your face for 2-3 minutes and rinse with plenty of water. Can also be used on the body, especially where you have problem skin.

Sometimes it is recommended to add crushed activated carbon to beldi for oily skin. But this, of course, is completely for beauty extremes.

If even boiling soap, oil and herbs is cosmetically too much for you, try replacing the soap with any gel wash for sensitive skin. Here you can also try gels for intimate hygiene, for example, Lactacid.

You don't have to cook anything, just mix it.

Moroccan herbal soap Beldi is one of the main beauty secrets of Morocco. This traditional soap is made from olive oil and infused with a variety of cleansing essential oils and herbs. In each region of Morocco, the recipe for making soap is different, only the olive oil base remains unchanged.

I will write more about Beldy soap and its unique cleansing properties in reviews of traditional types of soap, but today let’s see how you can make it yourself at home.

Moroccan Beldi Soap for Hammam

Beldi soap recipe:
80% olive oil (240 grams)
10% coconut oil (30 grams)
10% shea butter (30 grams)

114 grams water
53.9 grams potassium hydroxide
overfat - 8%

Ground eucalyptus leaves and dry ginger - 1/3 by weight of oils

Technology for preparing Moroccan Beldi soap:

1. First, prepare the workplace, all components, and tools.

2. Weigh solid oils, if they are in the recipe. Our recipe contains solid oils - shea and coconut.

Weighing solid oils

3. Weigh the olive oil. And then we put all the oils to melt in a saucepan over low heat, stirring occasionally.

Weighing the olive oil

4. While the oils are melting, we prepare a solution of alkali - potassium hydroxide. This process is documented in detail in the topic - How to prepare a potassium alkali solution.

5. Meanwhile, the oils have melted and the potassium hydroxide solution has been prepared. We measure the temperature of the potassium alkali solution and adjust the temperature of the oils to it (it is better to cool the oils). I mixed at an oil temperature of 28* C.

Measuring oil temperature

6. Now that the temperature of the oils and the alkali solution is the same, slowly pour the potassium solution into the oils while stirring and stir well.

Pour lye solution into oils

7. The soap mass began to look like liquid jelly.

Looks like liquid jelly

8. We begin to mix it with a blender. The mass thickens almost immediately and it may seem like a trace. This is wrong. The mass is constantly stratified.

Mix soap with a blender

9. You need to stir the beldi soap little by little, with breaks, giving the technique a rest and the soap to think)) Mix again with a blender, let it stand - the mass begins to separate again. This is fine.

Continue mixing with blender

10. Knead again. When kneading, the mass may look like this in lumps.

Soap could be like this

11. And up close, the soap mass that has not reached the trace can be very similar to semolina porridge:

The mixture looks like semolina porridge

12. Put the soap aside and let it rest. Meanwhile, take dry eucalyptus leaves and ginger and grind them to powder in a coffee grinder. The original traditional beldi uses eucalyptus, but we can put any herbs we want. They can be dry or fresh.

13. After about two to three hours, the soap mass finally becomes smooth and homogeneous - the trace looks like that of soap cooked with sodium hydroxide.

Homogeneous and smooth soap mass

14. Pour the crushed herbs into the soap mass and mix.

Add chopped herbs

Stir

Now we put the soap in the container where it will be stored. The soap is liquid, pasty, and does not harden. The herbal soap in the container may become hot. At first the soap is light yellow in color, then upon contact with air it gradually darkens.

Beldi soap matures for about a month. It has an excellent creamy lather and powerful cleansing properties. It is especially good to use Beldi soap for its intended purpose - in the hammam, but a Russian bath is also suitable.

Beldi is a mild African healing soap used to heal the skin of the face, body and head. It is prepared from medicinal herbs based on olive oil with the addition of essential oils. For production, an ancient, time-tested African Berber recipe is used.

How and where to use beldi?

Soap has a number of miraculous properties - cleanses the skin of dead cells, nourishes, improves blood circulation, and increases tone. At home, it is used in the hammam (oriental bath) instead of many spa treatments. At home you can make beldi with your own hands. The manufacturing process involves saponification of olive oil using potassium alkalis. Additional ingredients can be very different, depending on the desired properties of the soap.

Beldi is usually used in spa treatments in a hammam or sauna, but at home it has a powerful effect. The main requirement is steamed skin.

• After taking a bath, apply a small amount of black mass to the entire body and face and leave for 10 minutes.
• After time has passed, you need to arm yourself with a body brush or a rough washcloth and rub yourself well in a circular motion.
• You should be extremely careful with your face, avoiding the area around the eyes. Thus, in addition to all the healing effects of the soap itself, good peeling is also carried out.
• Removing dead epidermal cells helps the skin breathe and prepares it for better penetration of other cosmetics.
• After rubbing, rinse off the remaining mass with warm water and apply your usual lotions or body creams.
• After the procedure, blood microcirculation improves, metabolic processes accelerate, and detoxification occurs.

Improving hair growth with beldi

To improve hair growth, Beldi is used as a scrub mask for the scalp. It is necessary to carefully apply the product to the skin, avoiding contact with hair, massage and leave for 5 minutes. The mask will improve blood circulation, nourish hair follicles, and stimulate new hair growth.

Beneficial features

Soap consists only of natural ingredients and has many beneficial properties.

• Suitable for any skin type.
• Nourishes and moisturizes even very dry areas.
• Improves and evens out tone.
• Relieves inflammation.
• Fights problems - acne, pimples, acne.
• Normalizes the functioning of the sebaceous glands.
• Has an antiseptic effect.
• Cleanses pores.

Like other cosmetic procedures, the use of beldi has contraindications: infectious diseases, elevated body temperature, cancer, high blood pressure, thrombophlebitis, violation of the integrity of the skin.

Making beldi with your own hands: 5 recipes

You can prepare African cosmetics at home using simplified recipes

Lemon Beldi for cellulite

1. In an enamel container, mix grated baby soap (100 g) and herbal decoction of nettle leaves (30 ml).
2. Place over low heat, stirring thoroughly until melted.
3. Add 50 ml of strong chamomile infusion and a small handful of crushed eucalyptus leaves.
4. Without removing from heat, pour in 40 ml of olive oil.
5. After mixing the mixture, remove from heat and leave to cool slightly.
6. Meanwhile, prepare the zest of one lemon. After cooling, add zest and 2-3 drops of fir oil to the mixture.
7. Transfer the mixture to a glass jar and leave to thicken in a cool place.

Stir the mixture thoroughly before each use.

Coffee for exfoliating skin

1. In an enamel pan, mix 120 g of crushed unscented soap (preferably for children) with 35 ml of strong green tea.
2. Melt it over low heat and add 40 g each of sage leaves and olive oil.
3. After the mixture has cooled, add a tablespoon of coffee grounds and a few drops of lavender and fir oils. The resulting mass should be stored refrigerated.

Nutritious honey beldi

1. Melt 100 g of soap or soap base in a saucepan, add 100 ml of green tea, 20 ml of olive oil and the same amount of sea buckthorn oil, chopped herbs - 1 tbsp. l. sage and chamomile flowers.
2. Keep the mixture on low heat for 2 minutes and turn off.
3. Add 10 g of natural propolis and mix thoroughly. Store in a cool place.

Aromatic eucalyptus

1. Dissolve 100 g of crushed fragrance-free baby soap and 100 ml of brewed green tea, 20 ml of olive oil in a water bath.
2. Add 50 g of ground eucalyptus, 1/2 tsp. dry ginger.
3. Remove from heat, cool.
4. Add 30-40 drops of eucalyptus oil into the cooled mass. Pour the mixture into a container with a tight-fitting lid. Leave in a cool, dark place to ripen for 2 weeks. The finished mixture will turn black.

Moroccan beldi from scratch

The traditional version is a little more difficult to prepare than the previous ones, but it is quite possible.

• Cold pressed olive oil – 300 g.
• Coconut oil – 60 g.
• Soybean oil – 40 g.
• 8% superfat – 20 g of apricot kernel oil and 12 g of castor oil.
• Purified water – 152 g.
• Alkali KOH – 79.66 g.
• Dried eucalyptus leaves – 100 g.
• Eucalyptus oil – 8 g.

Place olive, coconut and soybean oils in a water bath until smooth. Remove and cool. At this time, mix water with lye and strain through cheesecloth or a plastic sieve. When the mass has cooled to water temperature (it is important that the difference is minimal), mix everything with a blender for 2-3 minutes. Leave the resulting mixture to sit for 20 minutes.

The mass should separate, after which we mix everything thoroughly again for several minutes and again leave for 20 minutes. The consistency should be thicker than after the first whipping.

For the third time, stir everything and set aside to infuse. Such beatings may be required 4-6 times until the mass acquires a sufficiently thick, smooth, homogeneous consistency. Once again we make sure that the base has not delaminated. If everything is fine, then continue cooking or stir with a blender until the mixture stops separating.

We prepare the remaining ingredients - grind the dry leaves into powder, measure out a clear amount of oils.

If during this time the soap mass remains thick, homogeneous and plastic, then add components. If it becomes liquid again, then beat with a blender again.

After mixing with all the ingredients, the soap should be covered with a cloth and left to infuse in the air for a day. After this, it should be transferred to a container with a lid and put in a cool place to ripen. This process lasts a month. After the expiration date, the soap should acquire a dark, almost black color with high foaming properties.

Cooking beldi “from scratch” at home is a rather complex, labor-intensive and lengthy process. But beautiful, well-groomed skin is worth all the effort!