Natural Soap Making Recipes, Tutorials & Ingredient Guides
Essential oils have been used for centuries in traditional wellness practices to support relaxation, emotional balance, and daily comfort. Extracted from plants, flowers, leaves, and resins, these concentrated plant oils form the foundation of aromatherapy — a gentle, sensory-based approach to supporting well-being. When used properly, essential oils can be enjoyed through diffusion, diluted topical…
One of the easiest, most affordable, and most enjoyable products I ever made for markets and events was perfume oil. I simply took my top 10 best-selling soap scents and turned them into roll-on perfume oils. They were beautifully packaged, easy to make, and consistently popular — selling for $12.95 each. Perfume oils require no…
Perfumes are designed to smell beautiful — but many people are starting to ask an important question: Are perfumes toxic or potentially harmful? The answer isn’t black and white. Some conventional, store-bought perfumes contain synthetic fragrance blends made up of dozens of undisclosed chemicals, while natural perfume oils made with essential oils typically offer greater…
Safe Use in Soap Making & Household Cleaning Essential oils are widely used in natural soap making and household cleaning for their aroma and traditionally studied properties. Some essential oils have been researched for antimicrobial activity in laboratory settings, which has led to their popularity in natural cleaning products and handcrafted soaps. It’s important to…
You can make your own antibacterial soap with this complete all-points-covered recipe. Those antibacterial brand name soaps contain a chemical called “triclosan”. this is a nasty chemical developed to kill germs and bacteria on contact. I did not realize how rampant this chemical was being used, without our knowledge or permission, onto and into our…
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…
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…
What is trace and soap? Trace is the time when the saponification of the lye, water, and oils have become soap. It is at this stage when the soap base is thicker and doesn’t start to separate if you stop stirring. It will continue to get thicker from here on in. Now is also the…
What is superfatting soap? It is about making the soap a little more moisturizing. In theory, the extra oils added at the end, at trace, will be less saponified by the lye and create free-floating oil in the soap that you can feel. I tested this by separating a soap I just made, putting half…
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…