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DIY Liquid Hand Soap

I am all about ways to make value-added products like liquid hand soap yourself to save money and reduce exposure to harmful perfumes and toxins.

Liquid hand soap is a really great DIY because you can re-use old hand soap pumps, or if you put them in a pretty container they make great and meaningful holiday gifts.

The ingredients are simple and easy to adjust for scents that you prefer. Using essential oils of choice, you can mimic your favorite soap scents or create ones! Let’s get started:

Ingredients:

Two 5oz bars of castile soap

Essential oils of choice

One gallon distilled water

Directions:

Grate up the bar soap using a box grater or the grate attachment of a food processor. The finer the better, but whatever you have will do. You can even shave off pieces if you like, this is the old-fashioned way, but it will take considerably longer.
Heat up your distilled water in a large pot until it is nice and hot, doesn’t need to be boiling but definitely very hot
Stir in the grated soap and stir slowly and consistently until all the soap is dissolved. If your grater was able to grate the soap very finely, it will dissolve quickly, or, if the soap was grated into larger pieces, it might take a bit longer.
Once the soap is fully melted, remove from heat and set aside for 12-15 hours. You can stir it occasionally if you like, but don’t fret too much about it. It will thicken over this period of time as it cools.
Finally, add your essential oils, as much or as little as you like.
Pour your liquid soap into smaller containers. You can reuse old pump soap containers, or, for something very stylish and pretty for gifts, you can either make your own pump top for mason jars or use small oil bottles with metal tops, like the type you see fancy artisan olive oil in.

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