12 inspiring homemade soap recipes-learn how to make soap at home

by **Nanneerose** Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:37 am

Making soaps at home is truly a fun activity; moreover, it can be rewarding too if done in the right way. The excerpt highlights how to make homemade soap and get the best results for the hard work. You can use these soaps for daily use and even present it to your loved ones on special days. Let us see how you can do it in a fun way –(For detail of each recipes click on image source)

1: Simple handmade soap:

You need:

Sodium hydroxide – 398 g

Oils –

Coconut 382 g

Lard – 460 g

Olive – 2000 g

You need oils so that various bases can be made for the soap

These are the core ingredients; other requirements include the equipment or the tools only. Extra ingredients like 4.5 cups of water or goat’s milk can help in getting a better soap.

Keep the liquid in the freezer with lid so that slushy consistency can be obtained – take the solution and add the oils in it, and heat the solution on low flame. Meanwhile you can make oatmeal – you have to add the oatmeal or herb mixture before adding sodium hydroxide. Make sure you have taken all the precautionary measures before adding hydroxide. Mix both the solution until you get a state of mayonnaise. Do not forget to add fragrance oil for soap before adding the mixture to beautiful soap molds.

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2-Spice and Coffee Soap:

Does not the name allure you? It sounds so ravishing right – you will love making such homemade soap, it is simple to make one. However, do not forget, this kind of soap is made under hot process method.

Things that would require include:

Coffee

A teaspoon of ginger, cloves and cinnamon each

Essential oils like lemon grass, orange or ginger etc.

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3: Fruit soap

Ingredients you would need

Silicone forms

Stock soap

Essential oils ( two or three)

Perfumes – fruit that you like

Vitamins E and A

Colorants,

Take 100 grams of stock soap, cut into pieces, melt it in a microwave and then put into a bowl. Add the essential oil and vitamin drops. Also, add the colorant (your choice) and mix it well. Lastly add the perfume and add the mixture in the soap mold.

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4: Herb handmade soap:

You need:

Essential oils – coconut, caster, canola

Lye

Water

Coloring agent

Herbs

Crisco

You can get the finest type of herb handmade soap by using these ingredients.

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5: Lye soap:

Firstly, you need to make a lye solution – it has to be according to the quantity of the water.

Now, you need to make the fat solution – for this you need to heat various oils together. Let both the solutions be settled at room temperature.

Mix both and continue to stir with blender – do not stop until traces start to appear. Add the mixture to the handmade soap mold and leave it for a day. This is the way of making cold process soap.

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6: Coconut oil soap:

It is one of the amazing DIY handmade soap recipes – coconut oil soap is an excellent homemade dry laundry detergent. You simply need the basic ingredients and some tools to come up with your desired product – click on the link given below to get detailed information about the process.

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Give your mom or sister the beautiful surprise by handing her homemade citrus soap – it looks so beautiful that you can even imagine. All you need is some glycerin soap, lots of colored citrus fruit extracts and related fragrance and soap molds. You can make the soap by following a general process and let it acquire a beautiful shape. Get a nice soap try from the market and place it in the bathroom – it would certainly allure all.

7: Citrus and herb soap:

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8: Milky Rose petal soap:

You can add rose petals to the basic soap mixture and get the lovely shapes made out of the frozen bar. Do not forget to invest in beautiful soap molds because they make the soap look beautiful and pleasant.

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9: Olive oil soap:

This kind of soap is wonderful for treating skin issues – therefore, if you have acne or skin issues, you can use this soap to treat any it. In the simplest lye mixture, you can add olive oil or even the olive extracts – also colors and fragrances can be added to make it look more worthwhile. You can also add various other extra ingredients

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10: Refreshing Mint Soap:

How to make handmade soap is inquired much especially when it comes to using mint in the soaps. The basic ingredients that would be needed are;

Avocado Oil

Coconut Oil

Olive Oil

Castor Oil

Mango butter

Lye (sodium hydroxide)

Mint tea

You can get more knowledge about the mixing of the ingredients on various blogs. The add-ins can be additional fragrance and colorants. Put the mixture in the soap mold for at least 48 hours and get the beautiful soap for use.

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11: Goat Milk Soap:

You can use goat milk as the additional ingredients in the basic soap structure – it will help in leaving softness on the skin and bring drastic changes too. It is truly the best dry laundry soap too. You can even use this as soap with lye. If you are not convenient with the goat’s milk, you can use cow’s milk or even distilled water.

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12: Quick laundry soap:

These kinds of soaps will have little different ingredients like:

Naphtha laundry soap

Borax

Hot water

Washing soda

You need to add all the ingredients in a bowl and mix until it gets a greasy look. Do not forget to keep the flame low.

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By this excerpt, you would be able to know much about handmade soaps, and finally make a few for yourself too. It is fun and a less expensive option.