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4 Beautiful Holiday Soap Recipes

4 Beautiful Holiday Soap Recipes

I’m very excited to be able to share with you this year’s holiday soap recipes. Like my Fall soap recipes, I’ve put together Holiday and Christmas soap recipes each year for a while. These are part of the Frugal & Healthy DIY Holidays event. I’ve been brainstorming and have come up with 4 new recipes...

4 New Fall Soap Recipes

4 New Fall Soap Recipes

For the past few years, I’ve put together Fall soap recipes and Christmas soap recipes. I have to tell you, after putting together around 15 Fall soap recipes I had to sit and think for a while to create something new. After all, I will not use fragrance oils to make toxic scents. Even with...

How to Hand Mill Soap and Why

How to Hand Mill Soap and Why

Some of you may have heard of the term French-milling or hand-milled soap before, but are unsure of what it is, how it’s different from other soap processes, or why anyone would want to hand mill soap. Hand-milling is a valuable skill to know, whether you are a soap maker, someone who wants to be...

How to Make Poison Ivy Soap with Jewelweed

How to Make Poison Ivy Soap with Jewelweed

I was so excited to make this Anti-Itch Soap that as soon as my husband walked in the door I declared, “I made Poison Ivy Soap!” He looked at me oddly and said, “I hope you didn’t put poison ivy in soap, Kelly.” That made me laugh. I guess he doesn’t know what I’m going...

A Green Tea Face Soap that Finally Reduced Puffiness

A Green Tea Face Soap that Finally Reduced Puffiness

I’m really excited to be able to share another great face soap recipe. This green tea face bar is made with vegan ingredients that nourish, reduce inflammation, cleanse, detox, and speed healing from acne. A natural face soap recipe is so important today when so many cleansing bars or liquids are full of questionable or...

Champagne New Year’s Eve Soap Recipe

Champagne New Year’s Eve Soap Recipe

This is a beautiful New Year’s Eve soap recipe. I gave it a pink and white swirl for an elegant look throughout the bar, for continued beauty throughout the use of the soap. And just for fun, add champagne! Really, the only reason I would add champagne is as a fun gift idea. The small...

3 Fall Soap Recipes – Easy with herbal coloring

3 Fall Soap Recipes – Easy with herbal coloring

September is a great month to start making these Fall Soap Recipes. After three to four weeks, they’ll be ready in time to use during October and November. They’re also great as holiday gifts for teachers, Fall get togethers, and Thanksgiving. The past few years, I’ve shared a number of fun soap recipes for Autumn....

4 Soap Recipes for Dad – Happy Father’s Day

4 Soap Recipes for Dad – Happy Father’s Day

Handmade Soaps make wonderful gifts.  The show you took a lot of effort into the thought behind the gift, and the person who received the gift can think of you every day as it’s being used. For those reasons, I’ve had fun putting together these 4 Soap Recipes for Dad. After all, Father’s day is...

How to Make Antibacterial Hand Soap

How to Make Antibacterial Hand Soap

I get a lot of requests for liquid soap. I’ve been making my own versions from soap scraps for years. Making into an antibacterial hand soap is a simple process. The end product is a creamy, great smelling hand soap with anti-bacterial properties derived from essential oils. So let’s get started! There are other ways...

Glycerin Soap Recipe from Scratch

Glycerin Soap Recipe from Scratch

I’ve been wanting to tackle a glycerin soap recipe for some time now. Most recipes you find are for melt and pour. The problem with melt and pour is that you have no control over the ingredients. While melt and pour glycerin soaps are often better than a lot of other melt and pour soaps,...

CBD Soap Recipe – Pain Relief Soap with lavender essential oil

CBD Soap Recipe – Pain Relief Soap with lavender essential oil

I’ve had everyone from relatives, co-workers, to people online ask me if I would make a hemp oil or CBD soap recipe. After all, it’s supposed to do wonders for joint pain when applied topically. I put together a hemp soap recipe when I first started making soap, back before it was even popular, because...

Apple Cider Soap Recipe for Fall

Apple Cider Soap Recipe for Fall

I’ve had a number of people ask how to add apple cider to soap, so I’ve put together a tutorial for this pretty apple cider soap recipe. Apple Cider Soap makes a great Fall decoration AND a great gift! This apple cider soap recipe contains apple cider, madder root for a brown swirl, and essential...

Natural Pet Shampoo – Cold Process Soap Recipe

Natural Pet Shampoo – Cold Process Soap Recipe

Pets can be very sensitive to products that are applied to their skin. Their bodies have to filter out toxins, just like people. Even though they can handle a lot of bacteria in their gut, they can get sick and bogged down by perfumes and chemicals and lose energy and vibrancy. No one wants to...

Charcoal Soap Recipe – Peppermint Layer and Swirl Cold Process Soap

Charcoal Soap Recipe – Peppermint Layer and Swirl Cold Process Soap

I had a lot of fun making this soap.  I’ve been wanting to make a charcoal soap recipe with a peppermint scent and white specks or swirls for a while now. I like the white on black or black with white highlights look.  It just seems that peppermint fits.  Of course, you can add whatever...

5 Herbal Shampoo Bar Recipes

5 Herbal Shampoo Bar Recipes

My 7 Homemade Shampoo Recipes has been a huge hit over the years.  It’s definitely time to give you more recipes …again, all in one place. These shampoo bar recipes are 100% natural, pure, healthy, and palm free. I’ve added a few vegan options for you as well. These Herbal shampoo bar recipes are made...

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