Natural Soap Making Recipes, Tutorials & Ingredient Guides
Discover tested handmade soap recipes for every skill level, from gentle baby soaps to specialty bars like salt soap, shampoo bars, and seasonal creations.
Making your own homemade laundry soap is one of the easiest ways to save money while reducing the number of chemicals used around your home. When I first started making natural soap, it was because of severe eczema and sensitive skin issues. Over time, I also began making my own laundry soap because many commercial…
Face Masks Cleansing with Mud Face Masks has been around since ancient times. Clay Masks help to remove the impurities from your pores and tighten them while toning your skin.
Activated Charcoal Soap Recipe Learn how to make Activated Charcoal Soap with this easy DIY Soap Recipe
Dead Sea Mud Soap contains the salt and mud from the Dead Sea which are known to be beneficial for our skin and bodies. Just soaking in a bath of Dead Sea Salt once a week can help to remove toxins from our body….so why not clean with a bar of soap made with this…
Making coffee soap is one of my favorite ways to turn something simple into a really useful, skin-loving bar. If you’ve ever wondered why you’d put coffee in soap, the answer is pretty simple—it works. Coffee grounds add a gentle exfoliation that helps remove dead skin cells and leaves your skin feeling smooth and refreshed….
Making Halloween soap can be so much fun. Using melt and pour and some colors you can get the kids involved. I used to do this with my grandkids when they were young, they so wanted to make soap just like Grandma, so I would buy melt and pour and molds and they would create…
Melt and pour soap making is one of the easiest and safest ways to make homemade soap. Unlike cold process or hot process soap, you don’t need to handle sodium hydroxide (lye), and there’s very little measuring or complicated mixing involved. This makes it a great option for beginners, kids’ projects, or anyone who wants…
Over the years, I’ve created many cold process soap recipes. Some turned out too soft, others too hard, and a few didn’t hold up well in the shower. After plenty of experimenting, I always found myself going back to a few dependable favorites. These are the 5 basic cold process soap recipes I use…
When I first started making soap, I used a balanced recipe of olive oil, coconut oil, and palm oil — and it worked wonderfully. Over the years, depending on ingredient costs, supply availability, and environmental considerations, I developed six tried-and-true soap recipes. But there’s one recipe that always sparks debate: Pure Castile soap. You would…
If you’ve never tried making salt soap, it’s a little different from a traditional bar of handmade soap. Adding salt creates a firm, dense bar with a distinctive feel, and Himalayan pink salt gives the soap a beautiful appearance. For this recipe, I chose Himalayan pink salt, but you can use regular salt as well. …