Homemade Hand Soap
This DIY bar soap is easy to make and there are endless scent and "add-ins" combinations you can try.
Ingredients
- 8 1 Inch Cubes Soap Base
- 30 Drops Essential Oil
- 1 Tablespoon Add-Ins Optional
Supplies
- Microwave Safe Glass Measuring Cup
- Wooden Craft Stick
- Coffee Grinder (Optional)
- Silicone Soap Mold
Instructions
- Carefully cut your soap base into 1 inch cubes and add 8 to a microwave-safe glass measuring cup.
- Melt soap base in microwave. Start with 30 seconds on high. Stir with a wooden craft stick, and then heat in 10 second increments (stirring between each interval) until soap base is melted. (This only took 40 seconds TOTAL for mine 30+10)
- Mix in 1 Tablespoon "add-ins" : coffee grounds, dried herbs, dried citrus peels, dried lavender, oats, etc. This recipe used 1/2 Tablespoon dried lavender and 1/2 Tablespoon oats, both ground with a coffee grinder.
- Add 30 drops of essential oil and stir. For this recipe I used 30 drops of lavender essential oil.
- Pour mixture into a silicone soap mold.
- Allow soap to cool and harden at room temperature, then pop them out of the silicone mold and they are ready to use.