Comments on: Homemade Liquid Hand Soap – Recipe

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:30:26 +0000

I guess I didn’t get the soap chips small enough. I still have small pieces in my mixture. Any suggestions?

By: Jeri

Jeri — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:14:47 +0000

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.

By: renee davenport

renee davenport — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:36:25 +0000

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.

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By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:27:59 +0000

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.

By: bernie

bernie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:47:43 +0000

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!

By: Mimi

Mimi — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:16:57 +0000

Buy a blender at a yard sale for $2-$3. Then your margaritas will taste just fine.

By: SUBHASH KOHLI

SUBHASH KOHLI — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:31:44 +0000

The liquid hand washprepared becomes thicker after few days (becomes solid) and does not come out of the bottle. Please advise

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:10:32 +0000

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?

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:01 +0000

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.