Handmade and handcrafted Natural cold-processed and hot processed soap recipes and instruction. No artificial ingredients or fragrances, but only healthy methods and ingredients: Shampoo bars, body bars, face bars, acne and eczema bars.
Being able to design your own soap recipe is fantastic! You are no longer inhibited by someone’s else’s ideas, favorite oils to use, or even batch size amounts. Instead, you make all the decisions. Want a large 36 bar, 9 pound batch? Great, start designing. Want to use the oils you have in the house...
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...
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....
How to substitute oils in soap recipes is probably the number one question I get on a weekly, if not daily, basis. It stands to reason. You have a fun looking recipe and are excited to try it, but then you see that it has one or more oils that you don’t have on hand,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Adding little flares and decorations to your soap making can give your projects that special touch that shows your personality; like pencil line soap! It can also be very exciting to try something new within your designs and accomplish something beautiful that you’ve never tried before. Adding a pencil line to any soap is actually...
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...
I get a lot of questions every week, almost every day, about how to make soap. One of the biggest questions I get is if you can make soap without lye. This gets into the differences between various soap processes: Melt and Pour vs Cold Process soap seems to be the biggest confusion. I thought...
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...
A lot of people like to make hot process soap, because they know it will be ready to use as soon as it cools. It’s a great way to get kids involved, and a quick way to get your family natural soap to use right now. Hot Process Soap Making Tools Hot process soap making...
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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