Natural Homemade Soap Recipes
Who doesn't love natural, homemade soap recipes? Homemade soap usually contain nothing but natural ingredients, are inexpensive, last longer, and make wonderful gifts. Best of all, the possiblities for types and scents are endless.Below you'll find natural homemade soap recipes for several different types of soaps. This includes glycerin soap, lye soap, plus melt & pour soaps. The homemade soap recipes are from our collection and do not have an author. We have not made any of the soaps listed below, but will soon with a full report. Supplies and other resources for homemade soap recipes can also be found below.
Glycerin Soap Recipes
Some of the most wonderful types of homemade soap recipes are those which include glycerin. Glycerin will leave your skin very soft, and is completely natural. See below for resources on where to find glycerin.Simple Glycerin Soap Recipe
Glycerin Soap and/or Castille Soap Flakes--1 lb
Essential Oil--1/4 oz (7.5 ml)
Purified Water--1 cup
Herbal Tea or Hydrosol--1/2 cup
Melt glycerin in double boiler herbal infusion or hydrosol. Let cool slightly...it needs to be pourable. Add essential oil. Stir well. Pour into molds or saran wrap-lined box. Let harden, cut into bars. Smooth rough spots with knife.
Herbal Glycerin Soap Recipes
1 pound Glycerin
1/2 ounce fragrance oil or 1/2 to 1 teaspoon essential oil, amount depends on oil used.
1 T. herbal powder of your choice and/or 1 T. dried flower of you choice
Melt the glycerin in the microwave until completely disolved. This usually takes one to two minutes. Avoid stirring as much as possible because stirring causes bubbles. Pour in herbal powder, dried flowers, and fragrance oil while still in liquid state. Stir lightly to evenly distribute the ingredients.
Pour in the mold of your choice and let set for 1 to 2 hours or longer if desired. If you have trouble with the bar releasing from the mold, place in the freezer for a few minutes and the bar should release easily. I have found that the bar of soap lathers better when it is allowed to cure for 3 to 7 days before use.
This recipe yields 4 - 4 ounce bars of Glycerin Soap.
Lye Soap Recipes
As popular as glycerin has become, some still prefer to use lye in their homemade soap recipes. The following are lye soap recipes found in our collection.
Oatmeal Soap
10 oz. palm oil
4 oz. coconut oil
2 oz. olive oil
1/4 c. oatmeal, run through the blender or coffee grinder
2 oz. lye
1 c. water
Scent (optional)
Mix lye and water and set aside to cool. Melt palm oil and coconut oil together and set aside to cool. Mix the olive oil and oatmeal. When the lye reaches 100 degrees and the fats are 120 degrees, pour the lye into the fats and stir until it traces. Add the oatmeal, and stir until well mixed. Pour the soap into molds. Allow to sit for 24-48 hours. Unmold and cut if needed.
Olive Oil Soap
16 oz. pure olive oil
2 oz. lye
6 oz. water
Heat oil to 150 degrees and add the lye to the water slowly while stirring with a wooden spoon.Mix lye solution and oils when the oil is at 120-130 degrees and the lye between 90-100 degrees. Mix them together until it comes to a trace. Pour it into a mold and let set 72 hours before unmolding. You can add scents, colors, herbs, etc. at trace.
Melt and Pour Soap Recipes
Homemade soap recipes CAN include Melt and pour soaps as an ingredient. Add your own special touch with these melt and pour soap recipes. This type of soap can usually be found in craft stores.Lemon Cheesecake Soap
This soap will make a wonderful gift for any occasion. And it's all done using melt and pour glycerin soap. You'll need the opaque type, which is colored white by the mineral titanium dioxide, and the translucent [clear] kind. The reason for this is that to get a proper cheesecake effect with the ‘graham cracker crust', you must be able to seal the corn meal so that it isn't loose.
The amount used for this particular recipe calls for a 1 cup mold. Naturally, you can increase the measurements as needed. In fact, if you choose to make slabs of cheesecake, you can either find a round plastic mold, or a triangular mold. Triangular molds will be in at least three parts and are used by ordinary people for storing meals. Soapmakers see them a bit differently!
Equipment:
Opaque and Translucent glycerin melt & pour soap, Double boiler, Kitchen scale, Wooden spoon, Cutting board, Plastic soap mold[s], Wax paper, Cling wrap
Ingredients:
6 ounces opaque soap, 2 ounces translucent soap, 1 tablespoon yellow cornmeal, sliver of yellow soap colorant, 10 drops lemon essential oil
Instructions:
1.Slice up the translucent soap and put in double boiler. Make sure the soap is completely melted before adding the scent. Don't put in the cornmeal at this point. Also, it's not necessary to add any colorant-the clearer the better! Lemon essential oil will add a yellow tinge, and translucent soap already has a yellowish color anyway.
2. Pour the glycerin base into the mold. Add the cornmeal. You will have to mix it. Due to the small amount of translucent soap you're crafting, it will dry quickly, so you'll have to stir rapidly. The texture will be similar to that of Farina or Cream of Wheat. You will probably end up using your fingers or the back of the spoon.
3. An advantage to this soap is that you don't have to clean the pot after the first batch if you're not planning to change the color or scent! Add the opaque soap and the colorant.
4. Pour into mold[s].
5. Put in freezer for approximately one hour.
6. Remove soap from mold[s].
Melt and Pour Soap Recipes - Cookie Cutter Soaps
Melt and Pour soap base(opaque)
Scent (optional)
Color (must be liquid, like gels)
cookie sheet (must have at least a 1/2 in. edge on it)
knife (to swirl your colors)
cookie cutters
Melt down the soap base and scent. You can give the main base a color if you wish or leave it white. Pour the base on the cookie sheet and add colors and swirl them all over - be creative! When this dries, pop the block of soap out of the cookie sheet. Use cookie cutters to cut up the soap. There are lots of different things you can do with this. Some ideas:
Christmas Soap: Swirl red & green into white and use cookie cutters
Candy Cane Soap: Swirl red into white with peppermint scent and candy cane cutters
Easter/Spring: Swirl multiple pastels and find some fun cookie cutters
4th of July: Patriotic white soap with a beautiful red & blue swirl (find a nice star cutter!)
Melt and Pour Soap Recipes: Peach Tea Soap
1/2 lb. Melt and pour soap base (either type)
1 peach tea bag (take 1 tsp. of tea from this)
1 TB. Coconut oil
Peach FO (fragrance oil)
Peach colored dye
Peach shaped molds
Melt the soap base and coconut oil, stirring well. Remove from heat and add 1 teaspoon of the peach tea, peach FO, and peach dye (a tad of orange works fine). Pour into peach molds.
Peach Vanilla Soap
1 lb White Glycerin Soap Base
1 t. Sugar
1/2 t. Salt
1 t. Sweet Almond Oil
1 t. Peach Gel Colorant
1 T. Vanilla Peach Fragrance Oil
Melt soap base, sugar and salt in a double boiler.
Remove from heat and add sweet almond oil, colorant and fragrance oil to mix. Whisk until mixed. Pour into mold and lightly spray with rubbing alcohol.
After removing soap from mold, place on drying rack for 48 hrs, then wrap.
Sea Salt And Pepper Soap
1/2 lb White Glycerin Soap
1/2 lb Clear Glycerin Soap
1/2 T Table Salt
1/2 T Castor Oil
1/2 T Beeswax
1/4 Cup Sea Salt
2 T Poppy Seeds
1T peppercorn Fragrance
Melt clear soap in a double boiler.
Add table salt and ½ of fragrance to melted soap base. Pour into rectangle drawer divider so soap will be approximately 1/4 " thick. Sprinkle sea salt on top. When cooled cut into triangular shapes and place pieces in Debbie's Favorite Wilton mold.
Next, melt white glycerin in a double boiler.
Add castor oil, beeswax, poppy seeds and ½ fragrance to melted soap base. Pour over clear, sea salt soap triangles.
Supplies for Homemade Soap Recipes
Not all of the homemade soap recipes above have supplies which are easy to find. Luckily here online you can find just about anything if you have the time to search. Idea Queen has made it even easier by finding a great store with great prices for many of the ingredients you see above which can be used for the above homemade soap recipes, plus other bath products you make at home.At Shamanshop.net, we were able to find the following products:
- Castor Oil
- Beeswax
- Poppy Seeds
- Palm Oil
- Coconut Oil
- Olive Oil
- Essential oil (very large list)
While shopping at Shamanshop.net, be sure to use their very handy search function for finding specifically what you are looking for. Idea Queen highly recommends this store based on our personal shopping experience. Easy check out, fast shipping, with a secure shopping cart. When we purchased our products, we had a wonderful experience with this company!
One option for buying natural supplies is from Mountain Rose Herbs. You'll find lots of essencial oils and other important ingredients for making your own natural products.
MotherNature.com
Another option for natural supplies is Mother Nature. A great source of bulk supplies and other natural products!
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