This Anti-Garlic or Kitchen soap bar recipe is known by other names as Fisherman’s Bar, Odor Remover, Coffee Soap, Coffee Scrub Bar, or Odor Eliminator Bar. What they all have in common is ground coffee beans and a scent, both known to remove odors from hands or all over. I first came up with this…
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hemp soap recipe
I make hemp soap as well and tested all sorts of various scents. Perhaps if we stuck to one scent, a popular but different than others, I may have sold more. One of the things soap makers do is look on the internet for scent combinations to try. This is what I had done for…
Basic Soap Recipes – my 6 at a glance
I tried a lot of soap-making recipes and decided to keep it simple with one main basic soap-making recipe. Sometimes I need a backup soap recipe depending on the oils on hand, resulting in 5 basic recipes. These recipes will make about 24 – 4 oz bars, you can cut the recipe in half, or…
#1 – Olive and Coconut, No Palm
Usually simpler is better, and an olive and coconut soap recipe, no palm, is an option. At the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm oil soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, I came up…
#2 – Olive, Coconut and Palm
In the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm oil soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, I came up with 6 very tried and true soap recipes. The only oil to not use in over…
#3 – Olive, Coconut & Palm Kernel
In the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm kernel soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, we came up with 6 very tried and true soap recipes. The only oil to not use in over…
#4 Olive, Coconut, Palm & Less Water
This particular olive, coconut, palm & less water recipe came about because of the Blackberry and Orange soap recipe. The finished bars were a little soft – usable, but a little softer compared to the other bars. It was concluded this was because of the huge amount of orange essential oil needed to obtain and…
#5 Olive, Coconut, Palm Kernel & Less Water
This particular olive, coconut, palm kernel & less water recipe came about because of the Blackberry and Orange soap recipe. The finished bars were a little soft – usable, but a little softer compared to the other bars. It was concluded this was because of the huge amount of orange essential oil needed to obtain…
#6 Castile, Just Olive
In the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm oil soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, we came up with 6 very tried and true soap recipes, well, except maybe this pure castile soap recipe…
Vanilla Soap Recipe
You can make vanilla soap only with a fragrance, as there is no vanilla essential oil. Although soap supply companies go to great lengths to make their synthetic fragrance sound like a true essential oil. They’ll use terms like “nature identical”. Most people love the scent of vanilla, and often this scent is added to…