Pine tar soap has been proven effective against several skin diseases such as psoriasis. Pine tar can be included in your lye soap recipe. This would make it a pine tar soap recipe which has medicinal as well as hygienic uses.

Why Pine Tar?

Pine tar is the end product of pine wood carbonization due to extreme heat. Commonly used as wood preservative, it has always been a traditional solution for treating animal wounds and infections.

Today, some doctors are prescribing the use of pine tar soap as topical medicine for some skin diseases. It is being widely used against skin psoriasis. People who have dry skin can also benefit from pine tar soap. The natural oil of pine wood is retained during carbonization. So, it could help your skin by adding moisture to it during application.

You can easily incorporate pine tar to your homemade natural lye soap recipes. This will add value to your soap because it now possesses anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.

Where to Find Pine Tar?

There are many websites that sell pine tar. Usually these are sites that are concerned with animal health problems. You can easily purchase online and usually there are no required minimum quantities for your purchases. If you want to experiment with pine tar soap recipes, you can go to those websites and order your pine tar packet.

There are also health and beauty shops, especially skin salons, which are offering pine tar. Most of these salons however already have pine tar soaps. So they might offer you their product instead.

How to Make Pine Tar Soap

There are no special procedures in producing natural pine tar soap. If you already know the steps in natural lye soap making, then all you have to do is add a portion of the pine tar when you cook the oils. During the mixing process, you incorporate the other portion of the pine tar to the soap mixture and it is done. Your finished product is now composed of medicated pine tar soap bars.

To ensure that your pine tar soap recipe will be effective against psoriasis and dry skin, then you have to carefully measure its proportion against the total amount of the soap mixture. Depending on the quantity of your mixture, the pine tar component should be not less than 20% - 25% of the solution. Lesser quantity of pine tar component will make your soap ineffective against skin diseases.

On the other hand, be sure that your pine tar soap recipes will not exceed beyond 25% of the mixture. The finished soap will become too harsh for your skin. Also, your final mixture might not form properly so it will just go to the trash can.