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Homemade Liquid Hand Soap – Recipe
Ingredients
1 bar soap (6 oz)
1 TBS honey
1 tsp glycerin
water
Directions
- Grate bar of soap into small flakes, pour in blender.
- Add 1 cup boiling water and whip.
- Add 1/2 cup room temperature water and stir in blender.
- Add honey and glycerin, stir.
- Allow mix to cool (15 minutes) then whip again.
- Mixture should be 2 cups at this point. Top with cool water until mixture measures between 5 and 6 cups, whip.
- Pour into containers and allow to cool (do not put lids or caps on yet).
- After an hour, close containers. Soap mixture will thicken up.
- Shake before using as needed.
Optional: You can make this with herb infused water, just strain before using.
Source: Adapted from Pearls of Country Wisdom by Debora S. Tukua
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Has anyone made a green tea scented hand soap? Willing to share the recipe?
Thanks!
easy easy stuff
I’d say, just use green tea instead of plain water in the recipe.
What is the total cost for this, and how does it compare to just buying it?
It depends what kind of bar soap you use Pinny since that’s where the bulk of your cost is. If you watch sales you can pick up a 12 pack of soap bars for a few dollars.
After making the soap in my blender, what will my margaritas taste like?
Buy a blender at a yard sale for $2-$3. Then your margaritas will taste just fine.
Don’t you usually put soap into your blender to clean it after you make your drink? If you clean well your next drink never tastes like soap, right? How will this be different? I make soap in my blender all the time and I NEVER have a problem with anything tasting like soap. Just be prepared to have a really clean blender.
where can you get glycerin at?
Hey I buy glycerin at the drug store all the time. I use it in my sewing room to make the fabric stick to my fingers better. Works really good. A small bottle of it goes a long way and is just a couple of dollars or so.
wow! thanks for posting this. i will try it this weekend.
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Ben wrote:
where can I get glycerin at?
you can get glyceryn in several you might want to try where they sell bakery products, caldor, home depot, and many others it is used for many things, you can also get it in most super markets, /just don’t go the Tyler Durden way
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I do have a question does this soap keep it’s gooey properties or do I have to shake it every time I want to get soap? does the soap mixture separate from the water after some time?
Hi Juan, it will need to be shaken up occasionally, not every time though. Thanks for the list of places to pick up glycerin, I get it at the drug store or grocery store.
I made this last night, it was super easy, and has a great feel and smell, but it is really thick – about the consistency of cheesecake! Should I add more water?
they will taste clean!
I found glycerin at my local Walmart, in the pharmacy department. I also added a few drops of lavender oil for a nice scent.
Yes Catherine, add more water because it will thicken up a bit more yet over time.
The recipe didn’t work well for me. Maybe I whipped it too long
Hi, does anyone have a “recipe” or formula for making the reed diffuser scented oils? I haven’t found a place that only sells refills for them and have bought some with scents I love! Too expensive too replace containers and scents as much as I’d like. Thanks..
has anyone tried making this without a blender? by hand? or with a whisk? i imagine it must be possible if the warm water dissolves the soap bar flakes?
Roughly a decade or so ago, one of the ‘big’ infomercial items was a DIY liquid soap maker/dispenser; you added soap ‘ends’ and water and shook the container. A LOT. It made for an odd, watery soap but what “helped” the bits and water combine were the round, plastic “beads” inside the container. We don’t have a blender so I’m thinking of picking up some marbles at our local dollar store, placing them and the above ingredients in, say, an empty milk or water jug, and shaking it til the cows come home. Might be worth a try, especially for those who are worried about using a blender or don’t have one to begin with.
I’m trying this with a bar of Dial soap that already has glycerin in it. My blender is completely full of foam after the second step. I’m leaving it for a while and I hope the foam will eventually settle.
Unfortunately, my blender only has two speeds – off and really, really fast. I’m guessing that I should stir by hand during the final steps.
Kelly,
Same thing happened to me. I used a bar of Dial soap and it is a bunch of foam. I let it sit per instructions. It is sealed now and has been sitting for about 18 hours and it is still mostly foam. It is kind of watery too. I am thinking Dial is not the right way to go. Anyone have any ideas?
Mine also is foamy. what kind of soap is the best to use. and should you find soap with no scent at all. i used caress and it is really perfumy.
i apparently ran out of body wash last night and used this as a body wash, believe it or not, its GOOD! so i went and modified it a little bit and used that as my new body wash (it works better then Palmolive!!)
1 cup green tea liquor water as the hot water
1 cup normal water
1 tsp vit e (got it from vit e capsules)
1 soap (100 grams)(mine is a jhonsons baby soap )
1 tbs honey
1 tbs glycerin
mix the hot water first with the soap grating, then add the rest of the ingrediants and blend away. oh, just use it when the hot water cools down
washes great!!
I found a way on the interwebs somewhere to easily distill extracts out of stuff [you know.. flowers, herbs, meats.. whatever]. would it be possible to add that to the mix for a good scented soap?
Just a warning. I must have had some super frothy soap! I had a lot of soap scraps, about enough to equal 2 full bars of soap. So I thought I’d double the recipe.
I put the soap in and I didn’t have “whip” on my blender, so I picked milkshake. I found out from friends that whip is probably slow on the blender. I put in the boiling hot water, put my hand on the lid of the blender and turned it on. It LITERALLY exploded boiling hot water and soap foam everywhere. I had the lid on tight and the pressure exploded the lid off.
I cleaned up the mess and had a giant blob of foam. So I divided what was left in the blender into two batches and wait for the foam to go down. And waited and waited. The next day it was still a thick blob of foam.
So I put it in a pot on the stove on low and in about 15 minutes it melted down.
Just warning you guys. Don’t make a double batch and “whip” is low! I think next time I’ll just use the blender to grind up the soap scraps and then just melt it down on the stove.
Ok, I shredded 1 bar of Safeguard (my fav) in the cheese grater attachment of my food processor. Added 3 cups of hot tap water & heated it up in the microwave until everything was dissolved.
Looked like it worked, so I put it in the dispenser bottle. An hour later it completely geled up into a pudding-like consistency. I put the dispenser in the microwave to “turn” it back into a liquid just to get it out, then added about 1/2 c of cool water, stirring to incorporate and immersed the pyrex measuring cup in an ice bath to cool it down to room temperature. It remained liquid at room temperature so I left it alone for 15 min only to have it gel back up again!
Obviously this is an agitation issue.
So, do I keep adding water and letting it sit until it STAYS a liquid? Will I dilute it so much it doesn’t actually work as soap?
Anyone else have this problem, and, hopefully, a solution?
The liquid hand washprepared becomes thicker after few days (becomes solid) and does not come out of the bottle. Please advise
I am having a hard time finding emulsifying wax. It is used in making your own hand lotion. None of the craft stores/drug stores carry it and was wondering if anyone knew where I might buy some. This is the first time I have tried to make hand lotion.
Thanks!
I guess I didn’t get the soap chips small enough. I still have small pieces in my mixture. Any suggestions?