Making soap with Just Life™ Malaysia
It might be come to me as a surprise that I still had these pictures down inside my hard disk, which I was supposed to share this experience out 1 year ago after the trip. In case you are wondering, throughout the enjoy of this journey, is to make an organic soap! Which of course some of you might already seen the end outcome, The Sabun Flower. The entire process of molding and shaping the soap is available for read on this page.
The end product. That are supposed to be placed on the Just Life shop in Ikano Power Centre, PJ for a short period of time to promote their products to the consumers.
We were taken to the actual place located somewhere in Sungai Buloh, Selangor. Pretty suburb area if you ask me. And actually the entire trip consists of other designers that is taking part in this.
One of the sample soap that we are anticipating. It could come various shapes depending on the condition of it’s being made.
We were given 2 tools in making and storing our end product, one being the mold to hold the hot soap, and the box below.
Custom made by the staff.
The backyard and the workshop/working place.
As soon as we’re there, there is this friendly old man that greets us and brings us into the working place behind the house. While he mentioned that making soap could be easy as 1,2 ,3, it might be hazardous to people if the mixture if not properly prepared! That is because as you can see from the pictures, there are several different bottles laying on top that you can use to determine the final colour and smell, and as well the texture of the soap itself, too little of it would be like you didn’t put anything at all, too much of it will be harmful to to people that is using it.
Once the ingredients is done, mixing will be made through this machine, just like your usual cake-making-machine.
Shortly right after the mixing is done, it is then poured onto this slow cooker for cooking?
Of course probably the cooking will take up to 3 – 4 hours. But the old man is really kind to provide us the cooked material beforehand.
Generally it would look something like this as for the base of the soap. All of us starts from here.
Everyone’s anticipating for their final outcome. There’s tuckloong there (Psst, he’s a male).
While all of us uses the same base, there are various outcome we can make out of it, namely different colour, texture and smell in it!
Everyone’s busy putting all the soaps inside the mold.
Some of soap hand-molded, good for looks, but you can’t really use it in real life.
Of course these are mostly excess from the soaps that we’ll be using, so we are allowed to play with these.
Some of these green grassy ingredients are actually meant to be used to give textures to these organic soaps. But not to extend with filling it entirely throughout the entire bar 
When the preparations done, we left all these soaps inside the mold to hot sun. It took approximately around 1-2 hours for it to harden itself.
While waiting, we are served with some really cool handmade snacks.
And some really delicious buns made through these stoves.
And served with these organic vegetables.
Ingredients made inside. I think if I’m not mistaken, it’s also known as Pitas from the Middle East.
Seems to be everyone’s favorite.
The garden that has all the plants.
I actually have no idea what these suppose to be, moon cakes?
The witty old man gives some speech while waiting for the soap be ready.
And after few hours of waiting, finally the soaps ready to be sliced into several blocks.
Or by using some tools, you can cut it into some really cool shapes that you want.
But generally it would be sliced through this tool.
And finally the soap bars are done! I’d hope that you enjoy the entire article here on making organic soaps, sure it doesn’t feel as silky as your usual commercial soap, but it’s made from chemicals thats proven safer and tender for the skin. Anyway if you are interested, you can head up to read on The Sabun Flower.
This is something totally unrelated to the post above, but just something I had right after the activity above 
Update August 25, 2010:
If you are interested to take part in this fun activity, feel free to contact Justlife Shop Malaysia to organise this:
Mail address:
justlife group sdn bhd (578913-X)
15 JALAN PJU 3/47 SUNWAY DAMANSARA
47810 PETALING JAYA SELANGOR MALAYSIA
Phone : +603 7880 8035 Mon-Fri 9am to 6pm
Fax : +603 7804 9466
Website : http://www.justlifeshop.com/Pages/contactus.aspx
If you are interested in following Mr.Martin’s update (The Baker), follow his blog at : http://my.opera.com/martinwprior/blog/
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hi manmeng, i am interested in making soap, i wish to know how to get to the place, which part of sungai buloh, do you mind to tell me?thanks