It's the first edition of Tootsie Tuesday!
Formally Thrifty Tuesday (which will now be Thrifty Thursday) Tootsie Tuesday will be focused on DIY beauty products, fashion, and any and all things related to fabulous style!
Today's post is a tutorial on how to make your own liquid soap.
You can use it as hand soap or as body wash.
Amy did the math and says
"This recipe can be made for less than $1.50 and it refills a soap dispenser 6 or more times.
That is 25 cents a bottle!"
The reason I choose to make my own liquid soap is because I usually
receive lots of bar soaps in my subscription boxes or I can get them
super inexpensively online.
Like Amy, I grated my soap and used 11 cups of water.
The difference is that I used:
a perfume oil instead of essential oil
DID NOT USE A BLENDER! I've done this before and it was a mess!
added in some unscented lotion to make it moisturizing
I suppose you could also use coconut oil instead of lotion but I've never tried it.
So that means my recipe looks like this:
11 cups of water
1 bar of all natural soap
1 tablespoon of glycerin
10 drops of perfume oil
bring 4 cups of water to a boil
while waiting for the water to boil, use a grater to shave the soap
once at a boil add the
grated soap to the water
whisk until it melts completely
add the glycerin
once
the soap is completely melted turn off the heat
add the remaining water
allow to cool for at least an hour
add the
essential oils
let it sit overnight
slowly whisk in about a cup of lotion
if it needs a bit of water to thin it out
you can add some
if you want it thicker add 2 more tablespoons of
glycerin and allow it to sit for a few hours
use either an old hand soap or body wash bottle for storage
Amy says:
For use in foaming soap pumps, add about 1/4 cup to the bottle and add the rest water.
Shake to incorporate it.
I did not try this and I'm not sure if the foaming action will occur with the addition of the lotion.
What do you think? Did you make any changes? Let me know about it!
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