Homemade Soap Recipes have been compiled from numerous books I have collected and borrowed from my adoring mother, Williemae. Her love of natural beauty products and home remedies has inspired me to create this website.
Enjoy the following Homemade Soap Recipes and check out my page on milk bath recipes for great baths using natural ingredients! There are many benefits of making your own cleansing products including no added chemicals or man made agents that may harm your skin.
TIP: You never have to add the coloring or scents if you have sensitive skin when making Homemade Soap Recipes. This is a nice addition to any soap bar if you choose to.
Being a diabetic for 13 years with very sensitive skin, I have searched hard for more natural and sensitive body care products to use. Homemade Soap Recipes is the best way I have found to clean and care for my body. Natural, all by my hands, I have made soap to clean and added herbs for the many benefits they give me.
You will be so proud when you create your first bar of soap with Homemade Soap Recipes! It is so much fun to create and be able to use what you have made! Have patience, and most of all, have fun making soap with Homemade Soap Recipes!
Rules to Follow When Making Homemade Soap Recipes:
Always add Lye to water, Not the water to the lye!
Get your containers for your Homemade Soap Recipes ready by either greasing them or lining them with plastic wrap so they are ready when you need them.
Never use aluminum when making your soap.
Always use enamel, stainless steel, or iron to make your soap in.
Never allow your curing soap to sit in a drafty area. It will be hard and flinty.
Make sure your soap molds for Homemade Soap Recipes are 1 1/2 to 2 inches thick.
If too thin, soap will curl.
If too thick, soap is hard to handle for cutting.
Miracle Soap
10 3/4 ounces of lye crystals
4 cups of cold water
27 ounces of coconut oil
34 ounces of olive oil
24 ounces of vegetable shortening, NOT lard, butter, or margarine!
1/2 ounce scented oil
1 wide mouth jar
1 enamel or stainless steel pan
1 wooden spoon
Measure 10 3/4 ounces lye in plastic container. Slowly add lye to 4 cups of cold water in the wide mouth jar. Completely dissolve crystals. Temperature needs to be 95 to 98 degrees, no more or less for this recipe.
Melt the shortening in enamel pan. Add coconut and olive oil to melted shortening. Temperature of oils needs to be 95 to 98 degrees also. When lye mix and oils are the same begin adding lye solution to the oil mix.
Stir constantly until mixture traces.
Add scented oils once it starts tracing.
Pour in molds and cover with a blanket. Lay on flat surface for 24 hours covered with blanket.
Uncover and let stand in non drafty area for another 24 hours.
This recipe makes a pliable soap when removing from molds.
Cut and wrap as you wish.
Allow to cure for 2 to 3 weeks before using. Test on small area of skin always before using your soap.
Olive-Almond Soap Bar Recipe
A beautiful mild bar, enriched with almond meal. It's an excellent skin cleanser. It is a golden color.
6 1/2 ounces lye
18 ounces distilled water
12 ounces olive oil
18 ounces lard or vegetable shortening
12 ounces coconut oil
2 ounces powdered almond meal (Substitute: Bran or cornmeal, finely powdered.)
Scent: 4 droppers oil of bergamot
4 droppers oil of rhodium
Color: 10 drops yellow food coloring
Add lye to the water solution and reach temperature of 90 to 95 F.
Heat fats to 90 to 95 F.
Add lye mixture to fats and stir constantly until it traces.
Just before adding this to soap molds, add the almond meal, scent, and color.
This recipe makes 10 to 12 large bars of soap. It has a pattern of birds, flowers, and leaves on its surface. The result of being poured into a mold with a patterned cloth on it.
Beautiful, amber-colored bar enriched with honey. It smells musky and mysterious.
6 1/2 ounces lye
20 ounces distilled water
40 ounces tallow
8 ounces coconut oil
2 ounces honey
Burnt-sugar coloring to suit your taste, but not over 2 ounces.
Scent of your choice.
Follow basic procedure for soap making.
Add the lye to water and adjust temperature to 110 F.
Melt the fats to 98 F.
Pour the lye mix into the fats.
Stir until it traces.
Just before adding to molds stir honey, scent and coloring to mix.
have been compiled from numerous books I have collected and borrowed from my adoring mother, Williemae.
