Homemade soap isn’t just saving you some cash but it also ensures that you know exactly what’s in the soap. This especially important for anyone soap with sensitive skin.
We put together a range of homemade soap recipes that do not just feel good on your skin but they also show all your creativity.
Best Homemade Soaps
There is a large variety of soap types that you can make, from cold process soap to melt and pour soaps.
We take a look at a few different types of soap, so you can learn more about other options for soap making and you can match each recipe with your experience level.
Who could resist a sweetly lemon-scented soap! This melt and pour soap recipe is super easy to make because it is already pre-mixed.
Saying this, you can customize this soap recipe very easily turning it into a unique soap ideal as a gift for friends and family.
What we liked about this soap is that you don’t need to work with messy chemicals, such as lye.
Plus, the citrus fragrance from dried citrus slices create a really refreshing scent.
Make sure that you add the slicers after the soap base has cooled a little bit. As the citrus slices are heavy, they would otherwise sink to the bottom.
You can also add some citrus essential oil to give this soap an extra tropical fragrance.
This cold process soap recipe is perfect for soap making beginners. It has a beautiful scent and you can learn more about the right use of additives in soaps.
With the base of castor oil, shea butter, canola oil and kokum butter, you can create a smooth and creamy soap that has a distinctly masculine scent thanks to the cedar wood essential oils.
This is a simple but super creative melt and base loofah soap. All you need to do is to melt the base, add all your extra ingredients and then cut these little loofahs into your favorite colors for the mold.
You can add any type of colorant and fragrance you want. We particularly like some lavender essential oil when you want to make a lavender soap.
You might also be tempted to eat these sweet sugar scrubs but they are much more useful as small exfoliating soaps.
The key ingredient in this luxurious soap is sugar which you might already find in your kitchen pantry.
The recipes also advises adding some shredded soap to these bath cubes to create a little bit of texture. For an extra zesty scent, you can add lime essential oil and lime soap coloring.
While this is not a traditional soap bar, these exfoliating soap cubes are quick to make and they last up to six months.
You know that a soap batch is a success when you are tempted to eat it! This candy-style soap recipe contains cocoa powder and cinnamon fragrance oil making it smell like a Christmas dessert.
You will need to add vanilla color stabilizer to this recipe. Although any color stabilizer usually turns soap into a brownish color, in this case, it makes the soap look more realistic.
There is very little more relaxing than a nice lavender soap. This soap recipe is ideal for creating a spa day soap that can be used for stress relief and unwinding.
You can also vary the recipe with some different essential oils, including patchouli and orange essential oil.
While you might be tempted to add fresh lavender petals to your soap, keep in mind that they don’t usually keep their color and they turn brown after some time.
Aloe vera has been used as a medicine and gentle skin remedy for thousands of years, so putting it into your homemade soap makes sense.
If you have an aloe vera plant, you can take some fresh aloe vera directly from the plant. Once you have your aloe vera, you need to put it into a food blender to make your soap.
You will notice that it’ll turn beautifully fluffy and white.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Are The Three Main Ingredients In Soap?
There are only three main key ingredients that you need for some: water, lye and fat (or oil).
You can also get more creative and add some other natural ingredients, such as orange slicers or essential oils to your soaps to make them more interesting.
What Ingredients Do You Need To Make Soap At Home?
Soap isn’t just good for your skin but you can also use it for its beautiful fragrance in closets, cars and even to freshen up dresser drawers.
However, before you place your soap in your closet, just remove any outer wrapping and then wrap the soap bar in some fabric. You can then put it amongst your clothes.
Final Thoughts
When it comes to soap crafts, you can get really creative and enjoy all the many different options that soap recipes offer.
Crafts are some of life’s little pleasures, aren’t they? They have the power to transport you to another world for a few hours – it’s just you and the craft.
Hi, my name is Annabel Buser and I love crafts (could you tell?). From knitting to painting, embroidery to weaving, I love trying new crafts out.
What’s not to like? You gain a few hours of peace and self-care, and at the end of it, you’ll have made something gorgeous. My house is covered in my own crafts – and so are my friends and family’s houses!
