Make your own Calendula Tallow Soap Bars. This natural soap recipe features tallow and calendula flowers, for a hard, skin soothing soap bar.
This basic soap recipe uses coconut oil and olive oil and is made in a crockpot or slowcooker. A simple and moisturizing recipe you can make at home!
Back when people first started making soap, there were only two readily-available ingredients: lye and tallow. Tallow is basically animal fat rendered for soapmaking, and many soapers still use tallow in their recipes. While it can be a controversial ingredient, it acts similar to palm oil in soap, adding lather stability and hardness to soap. …
Agretti or Monk’s Beard, is a wildly delicious and nutritious weed that grows in Italian marshlands and the mediterranean basin. Once used to make soap and glass, it’s now cultivated for culinary purposes. It’s tangy and a bit sour when eaten raw and has a delicate flavour reminscent of spinach whe
This is an advanced soap design using natural soap colorants. It includes calendula and paprika for color and texture. The design uses both swirling and layering techniques. I'll also show you how to do the thin cocoa line you can see between layers. New to making soap? Check out our free cold process soap
After a few weeks of some fancy-pants, layered-up, Christmas themed soaps, I fancied a bit of a rustic break. A simple to make, quick-to-assemble, low-fuss bar soap made with some lovely oils and butters, lots of creamy clay, and no … Continue reading →
Now THAT is a lot of soap! Twelve pounds, to be exact, cut into 72 bars. The sales conference for fall books is coming up, and my publisher asked if I would send “swag” for the marketing team to hand out to promote my book. I’m excited that they’re excited about my book, so I...Read More
This herbal apple cider vinegar face soap recipe features sage for its astringent and anti-inflammatory properties, plus chlorella, a nutritious algae that has impressive acne fighting and anti-aging skin benefits. This vinegar face soap recipe is designed for those with normal to oily, and/or acne-prone skin.
This is my version of a gardener's soap. They are usually soaps that are effectively cleansing, scrubby and yet moisturizing. This on...
Making your own liquid soap is much easier than you might think. You start with a normal bar of soap and a cheese grater. Yes, that's right....Bars of soap grat…
This detoxifying (and oh-so-easy) activated charcoal soap recipe with tea tree essential oil is great for acne-prone skin!
This tutorial will help you make your own gentle soap at home and provides soap making resources for newbies to DIY cold process soap. CP soap making help with a basic recipe.
Welcome to our Soap Bar of the Month Club! We offer 3, 6, 9, or 12 month subscription options ranging in price from $39 to $144, with free shipping to anywhere in the US included. Your first bar of soap will ship immediately and then by the 10th of each month for the duration of your subscription. Each continuous three month period you remain a part of the club we will also send you an appreciation gift selected from our other offerings, including but not limited to our aromatherapy products (soy wax candles, sprays, sachets), dish bars, soap accessories, and sundries. This begins with your first delivery which will include a natural wooden soap pallet to keep your bars dry and extend their life. If our soap club offering sounds appealing, the first decision you will make is your scent profile preference based on how our soaps are scented. Most of our soaps are scented with plant based therapeutic grade essential oils; a smaller number are scented with fragrance oils. We also offer fragrance free options. You can design your scent profile preference as 1) all essential oil scented soaps, 2) all fragrance oil scented soaps, or 3) either. The second decision you will make is club duration (3, 6, 9, or 12 months) with following pricing structure: 3 months $39 6 months $75 9 months $111 12 months $144 These costs INCLUDE shipping to anywhere in the US AND periodic thank you gifts that will arrive with one of your bars in each three month subscription period. Here are more details about the exceptional ingredients that go into our handcrafted soaps: Most of our bars are vegan, made with cocoa butter, shea butter, coconut oil, castor oil, and olive oil. Some include avocado oil and one or two bars at any given time include locally sourced (Central Texas) beeswax and/or honey, and therefore are not vegan. Clay powders, plant based pigments, and mineral pigments are used for color in some bars. Botanicals such as dried flowers, herbs, grains, and charcoal may be included. And as discussed above, we use both therapeutic grade essential oils and fragrance oils to scent our bars. Always, each bar comes packaged and labeled with its ingredients. Please message us with any allergy concerns, vegan vs non-vegan preferences, or any questions you may have and we will respond to you promptly! Our soap is handcrafted following the cold process method, then aged and cured for a minimum of 4 weeks. As in all soaps, sodium hydroxide (lye) is used to produce this soap. Our soaps are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness or affliction. If a rash or other reaction occurs please stop use immediately and consult a physician. Woodhoek Wild is a professional member of the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild.
Discover the DIY castile soap recipe that's perfect for gentle cleansing. Learn how to make castile soap that's kind to your skin and budget-friendly.
Natural, handmade soap recipes from Lovely Greens. Learn to make your own soap using essential oils, herbs, flowers, minerals, and rich oils.
This soap is made with walnut shells and pumice for an extra scrubby feel.
Even though it’s not a common practice anymore, not so long ago people used to make their own soap rather than to buy it. Of course, it was the case when
I’ve written a great deal about making handmade hot process soaps , both for personal use and for selling in your own soap making business. Some topics have included, making soap without lye , common soap making mistakes, and complete picture tutorials too. This time, I thought I’d go over so
There are few things that say "DIY lifestyle" more than making your own soap. Why then, is soap making so intimidating? If you can follow a recipe, you can make your very own soap. Follow
Today I'm sharing how to make tallow soap. Grass fed tallow has amazing skin benefits, and it makes a beautiful soap.
A balanced bar with lemon zest and nourishing shea butter. A beautiful hand or shower soap.
These homemade jelly soaps are like washing with jello, all wiggly and wobbly. They are great fun and not hard at all to make.
The thought of using lye to make your own soap can be downright scary for beginning soap makers. Working with lye isn't nearly as dangerous as you might think, if you know how to work
Why add tallow to soap? There are some very good reasons! Let's take a look at why adding tallow to your soap recipe is a great idea.
Cream Soap (DIY)! Cream Soap (DIY)! I finally have a recipe for cream soap (bath whip) that only requires four ingredients! Three days lots of lard, oil and shortening before I got this recipe and it’s vegan friendly. I wanted to make a cream soap recipe with ingredients that could be purchased at your local... Read More »
Please see more detailed instructions below this printable recipe.I adapted this recipe from the book Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen of Root Simple.
I'd like to thank Anne-Marie Faiola, of Brambleberry, for taking time out of her busy schedule to create this tutorial to share with all of us. And check out those awesome snazzy goggles?? Think I may have to get a pair of those next time I place an order. :) * * * * * Anne-Marie's re-batched soap Did you ever have a batch that you just knew would be perfect … only, it wasn’t? Sometimes, batches curdle, seize, separate or do otherwise strange things on us even when we think we’ve accounted for all of the variables in our cold process soap batch. Not to worry – your batch is not all lost. This post will show you how to save each of these formerly-ruined batches. This technique will work up to 24 hours after your batch has been ruined. If you check on your soap a day after you made it and found it’s separated in the mold into an oily top layer and a goopy hard bottom layer, not to worry, this method will work for that too. Wearing all of your safety equipment, pour your entire batch into a stainless steel pot. The lye in your soap is still present because saponification didn’t quite work out the way we had planned on. Your pot must be 3X larger than the batch size. You need a lot of head space for this process. Put the pot onto the stove. Turn the stove onto medium. With your goggles on, start to stir your gloppy, blobby mess. It’s okay if it’s still in chunks. It will start to liquefy shortly. Keep stirring. If your soap starts to pop oil up at you, turn down the heat until the oil is no longer spitting at you from the pot. You want to stay as close to medium as possible. Keep stirring. The soap should start to fully liquefy and become an oatmeal like consistency, easily stirrable. When the entire batch is fully consistent in texture and color (no oil leaking, no strange looking globby spots) and the batch is sticking together in the pot in a smooth and homogeneous manner, you are ready to glop. This soap is hot, hot, hot. Make sure that the mold you are pouring the soap into can withstand the heat. This plastic mold started to bow on me soon after I put the hot soap into the mold. Let the soap cool for 24 hours and harden up. The soap is ready to use right away. You have literally cooked the pH down to a soap-level (around 9). If you let the soap sit for 4 to 6 weeks, it will become harder as it evaporates out its water. Great save. Great tutorial. Thanks, again Anne-Marie!!
These bars are perfect for beginners! They're scented with Golden Oats Fragrance Oil and topped with oats.
Herb infused homemade soap is so versatile. Depending on the herbs you use, it can soothe irritated skin, help to wake you up, or even put you to sleep!
Here are 3 DIY melt and pour soap recipes with shea butter! Learn how to make your own soap for dry skin, sensitive skin and more!
How to make your own foaming hand soap out of just two ingredients. I now just refill my old foaming soap dispensers instead of purchasing more.
Peppermint is one of my all-time favorite flavors and scents. Especially with the onset of cooler weather! A new friend of mine suggested making a soap that paired peppermint with oatmeal and I …
How to make hot process soap at home in your crockpot for quick-curing, ready to use soap in much less time than cold-process soaps.
