Do you want to create your own handmade soap? Then the Cold Processed method couldn’t be easier.
Below are three of our favourite homemade soap recipes, but wait, before you begin, why not head over and check out this article, to ensure you are following safe soaping practices.
Homemade Soap Recipes
Rose and Oatmeal Scrub Bar Soap
Ingredients
550 g Coconut Oil
190 g Shea Butter
300 g Grapeseed Oil
10 g Wheat Germ Oil
330 g Distilled or Spring Water
15 g Powdered Madder
150 g Sodium Hydroxide
15 g Ground Oatmeal
8 g Ground Rose Petals
10 mL Vitamin E Oil
Dried Rosebuds for decoration
Essential Oils
5 mL Geranium
2.5 mL Patchouli
2.5 mL Sweet Orange
Instructions
Notes: You need to use a 1.5 kg mould; this is one of the homemade soap recipes that are superfatted at 3%
Fig and Honey Homemade Soaps
Ingredients
500 g Coconut Oil
150 g Shea Butter
350 g Olive Oil
330 g Distilled Water
154 g Sodium Hydroxide
2 Fresh Figs
15 mL Honey
5 mL Vitamin E
Essential Oils
10 mL Ylang Ylang
2.5 mL Cinnamon
2.5 mL Ginger
Instructions
- Start by weighing the Shea Butter and Coconut Oil, then cut into small chunks and put in plastic bucket.
- Next, weigh the water in a plastic bucket, with the Sodium Hydroxide in a jug.
- Either outside or in a well-ventilated area, pour the Sodium Hydroxide into the water and stir until thoroughly dissolved.
- Blend the figs together with the stick blender to a pulp.
- Pour the figs and honey into the caustic soda and stir until everything is dissolved.
- Blend the Essential Oils and Vitamin E together and combine with the mix.
- Then, pour into your prepared mould.
- Leave the soap in the moulds for 48 hours until have become hard.
- Weigh both the Shea Butter and Coconut Oil together and cut into small chunks and place in the bucket.
- Next, weigh out the watermelon oil and add to the other oils.
- Then weigh out the water in a plastic bucket, with the Sodium Hydroxide in a jug.
- Either outside or in a well-ventilated area, pour the Sodium Hydroxide into the water and stir until thoroughly dissolved.
- Pour the caustic solution into the Oils and stir with a spoon, until the Oils have dissolved.
- Then, bring the soap to a light trace.
- Pour the soap into a 15 kg prepared mould and leave the soap to set for 48 hours.
- Finally, turn the soap out of the mould and leave to cure for 4 to 6 weeks.
Finally, turn the soap out of the mould and leave to cure for 4 to 6 weeks
Notes: You need to use a 1.5 kg mould; this recipe is super-fatted at 3%
Moisturising Melon and Shea Butter Bar
Ingredients
400 g Coconut Oil
300 g Shea Butter
300 g Watermelon Seed Oil
330 g Distilled Water
147 g Sodium Hydroxide
Essential Oils
2.5 mL Tea Tree
2.5 mL Rosemary
2.5 mL Lavandin
7.5 mL Mandarin
Instructions
This is one of those homemade soap recipes that are great for making a really moisturising bar of soap.
Notes: You need to use a 1.5 kg mould; this recipe is super-fatted at 3%
If your keen to learn how to learn more about DIY soap making, then the following article offers some really good recipes.
Sure you use expensive oils with your soap but some of the fatty acid profiles are way beyond limits, too much lauric acid (from coconut oil) in a formula can feel drying. Still you can always add whatever value of oils to your liking. But I think a balance formulation will yield a best bar of soaps.
Hi MJ These make a really nice bar of soap that does not appear to drying, but thank you for the feedback i do appreciate any new insights into formulas.
Hi, thanks for all your wonderfully ideas, I have ready made glycerine for soap making so can I just add my goatsmilk with other fats and essential oils to the mixture, thanks
Hi Sheila
Yes you can, goats milk is a lovely moisturising addition to a formula, good luck. Samantha
Hi.. your recipe is awesome. Thx for sharing.
I would to ask , if i would like to put fresh strawberry and goat milk.
Can i blend together the strawberry and goat milk then i freeze it.
When its ready, i mix the lye onto the freeze milk goat and strawberry.
Is it posible to do?
Thakyou very much. I’ll like to tried some. They are all wonderfull
Glad you enjoyed the recipes and thankyou for the feedback
Hi, I was wondering if the Fig and Honey soap also needs to be blended to the trace stage, I couldn’t see it mentioned in the recipe. As I am new to making soap I wasn’t sure if this is just assumed knowledge 🙂
Hi Cara, yes every soap does require this, best regards Samantha
Did you find grapeseed oil in a store? i couldnt find it anywhere… i plan on getting some online from bulkapothecary.com/categories/soap-making-supplies.html , they seem to have everything. i am excited to make this recipe. thanks for the post.
Hi Anne
Glad you like the recipe, grape seed is fairly easy to find and yes you should be able to find it in a store.
I was really happy to see a recipe with fresh figs, I am very new to soap making and would like to use any fresh fruits I have growing in my yard. Do you have any recipes to share that incorporate more fresh fruits? I happen to have a lime , orange, guava and fig tree. Thank you it is the generosity of people like you that help us newbies learn. Much appreciated.
Hi peggy thanks for the feedback. No I am afraid i don’t but really glad you like the resource…regards
Samantha
I have a question, how do you get your soap shaped like that? Is it two separate molds and then joined together or one mold that makes it round with a line around it.
Hi jenny, not my picture sorry but I do believe there is a special pressing mould you can purchase.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful and delicious recipes. I can’t wait to try them.
Really hope you enjoy them kelly, give me a nudge if you would like anymore information x