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I have wanted to try my hand at making my own DIY foaming hand soap for a very long time, and now that I’ve actually done it, I have no idea why I waited so long. Not only is this DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe incredibly easy to make, the ingredients I bought will last me a very long time; the first thing to run out will be the Castile soap, after 16 batches.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
- Foaming Hand Soap Dispenser– I reused one I already had, but you can buy new as well.
- 1/4 cup Unscented Liquid Castile Soap
- 1 teaspoon Vitamin E Oil
- 10-15 Drops Thieves® Essential Oil… While I am using Thieves, you can certainly substitute this with your favorite oil/oil combination
- 3-5 Drops Orange Essential Oil (Optional) (Wondering which brand of essential oil you should use? Check out this post… And no, I’m not selling anything 🙂 )
- Approximately 6 oz. Distilled Water
*Please note that I am making a recipe for an 8 oz. dispenser, if you are using a different size, adjust the recipe accordingly.
Directions:
Start by mixing your Vitamin E oil and Thieves essential oil (or other essential oil(s) of your choosing) in a small glass bowl. This is also where I added my Orange Essential Oil.
Once your oils are thoroughly combined, add in the Castile soap, and stir.
Pour the soap and oil concoction into the foaming hand dispenser, and then slowly add the distilled water until the dispenser is filled, leaving room for the pump to be added.
Prime the pump until you see a lovely looking lather of foaming soap.
… and done. I decided to make a vinyl label just to add a little something to the, otherwise, plain bottle.
The total cost of making this foaming hand soap, with no questionable ingredients, was less than $2.50 for 8 oz. … not so bad 🙂
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Would this work in a regular soap dispenser?
Unfortunately this will not work in a regular soap dispenser. When using a foaming dispenser, you dilute the soap WAY down, which allows the foaming dispenser to create the correct consistency. If you were to put this in a regular dispenser, the soap would be incredibly watery.
Thank you for sharing this! Just wanted to ask though if Vitamin E will act as the preservative?
Vitamin E will extend the shelf life of the soap, based on the information I could find. Your question got me to do a bit of further research though, and I found this article, which you may also find interesting. It seems vitamin E does help to preserve products, however, the cost is more expensive, which is why some companies don’t use it, and it may not work quite as well as synthetic alternatives. Here’s the article link: https://crunchybetty.com/the-crunchy-chemists-love-affair-with-vitamin-e/
Glad to know Castile soap works, I, have a large bottle of it and hadn’t thought to use it as hand soap! For years, I have been making my own foamy soap by refilling the foam pump bottle with several squirts of liquid hand soap and water. I look for the good quality olive oil hand soaps at stores like Marshals’s/tjmaxx/Homegoods. I have even discovered that actual foaming soap can be diluted down even further and still work. I like Method foaming soap, and I would say I can probably get at least four bottles worth out of one by saving an empty one and filling it about 1/4 full of foam soap from another bottle and then adding water. Definitely a way to stretch a dollar!
I really is amazing how little soap you need in comparison to water 🙂 I used to you just as you did and add liquid hand soap and then water to leftover foaming hand soap dispensers, however, I like knowing exactly what’s going into my soap AND I like being able to switch up the scents I’m using by changing up the oils used 🙂
Thanks for sharing this. I swear by Thieves… it is awesome!
I love it too… and it just smells amazing!