How to Make Natural Homemade Soap Bar with Essential Oils

Bathing soaps, these days, which are available in the market, are full of chemicals and ingredients that are rather harsh on your skin. These harmful chemicals are absorbed by your body, which can get into the bloodstream, causing havoc in your body. As they form much lather, we tend to consider them as good soaps, but that’s not the case.

That is why; it is always advisable to go for natural soaps when it comes to taking care of your daily hygiene and skincare routine. Don’t worry; you don’t need to spend a lot of bucks in buying these soaps as we are going to tell you an awesome and easy way to prepare a natural soap at home with essential oils.

How to Make Natural Soap Without Lye

Yes, you can make a homemade soap bar without lye for that; you can use a premade soap base from VedaOils. So, no need to worry about other kitchen supplies now. You can choose goat milk melt and soap base or shea butter melt and pour soap base for a natural soap bar. These soap bases are good skin moisturizers and soothing agent. Also, these premade significantly work with colorants and various essential oils so that you can easily create your homemade soap bar.

Homemade Soap with Essential Oils Ingredient List

• Coconut Oil - 2/3 Cup
• Virgin Olive Oil – 2/3 Cup
• Almond Oil – 2/3 Cup
• Lye ( Sodium Hydroxide) – 1/4 Cup
• floral water – 3/4 Cup

Know Your Homemade Soap Bar Ingredients First

• Coconut Oil : Common Essential Oil used in hundreds of cosmetic properties, especially in soap bar due to use to is an excellent moisturizing and skin elasticity properties. The anti-Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial nature of coconut oil keep your skin healthy. .
• Virgin Olive Oil : This Grade A essential oil lighter then cooking oil and used to create hard and mild soap bar. It produces good lush and moisturizing properties, nourish your soft skin.
• Almond Oil :This essential oil holds lots of vitamins such as Vitamins E, A, and D and Oleic and Linoleic fatty acids. Adding sweet almond oil to a homemade natural soap bar, get relief from dry and flaky skin. This oil also has anti-aging properties that help in regenerating skin naturally.
• Lye in Homemade Soap Bar : Lye know as Sodium Hydroxide and caustic soda, It is in crystal form that causes saponification process which turns oil, fatty acid into soap form.

Homemade Soap with Essential Oils Recipe - Step By Step

Step 1: Heat Floral Water

First of all, it’s important to ensure adequate safety measures. Cover your work area with newspaper and put on the gloves. Take 3/4 cup of floral water into a bowl and keep it to heat. Slowly pour the measured 1/4 cup lye into the water, stirring it constantly with a spoon. When the water starts to clear, let it sit while we move to the next step.

Step 2: Add Essential Oils

Take another bowl and add all the three oils together. Heat the mixture in a microwave for about a minute. Check the temperature of the oils – it should be about 120° or so. Lye should also have come down by then to about 120°. Wait for both to cool more – somewhere between 95° and 105°. Temperature is critical while making soap. Too low and it’ll come together quickly, but be coarse and crumbly.

Step 3: Mix Essential Oils & Lye

When both the lye and oils are at the correct temperature, pour the oils into a mixing bowl. Slowly add the lye, stirring for full 5 minutes, until it’s all mixed. It’s important to get lye in contact with the soap as much as possible. After 5 minutes of spoon stirring, use an immersion blender. The soap mixture will lighten in color and become thick. See, if it looks like vanilla pudding, then you’re good to go.

Step 4: Pour Mixture In Mould

Take this mixture and pour it into mould and cover with plastic wrap. Place it in an old towel and wrap it up. This will keep the residual heat in and begin the saponification process - the process of the base ingredients becoming soap.

Step 5: Cool & Wait

Check your soap after 24 hours. If it’s still warm or soft, let it sit for another 12-24 hours. When it becomes cold and firm, turn it out onto a piece of baking rack. Allow soap to cure for 4 weeks or so. Ensure that you turn it over once a week so that all the sides are exposed to air.

Step 6: Store in Glass Jar

When your soap is fully cured, keep it in an airtight container or wrap it in a wax paper. Handmade soap has this tendency to create its own glycerin, by pulling moisture from the air. It should be wrapped to keep it away from attracting dust along with the moisture.

Use Essential Oil Soap Bar for Longer Period

To use a natural homemade soap bar for a longer period, you need to use hard oil, creating a firmer bar. These oils are stable at room temperature, so in this DIY of making soap with essential oils, we use Coconut Oil, Virgin Olive Oil, and Almond Oil. These oils also act as preservatives that keep soap bars for a more extended period without skin irritation and redness issues.

This was the easiest method to make organic soaps in the comfort of your home, using all the essential oils. Now, go, enjoy your healthy beauty bath. Don’t forget to share your experience in the Comments Section below.

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