Homemade Soap Recipes | From Beginner to Advanced
Homemade soap recipes that you will love! There is a recipe here for everyone from a beginner to a more advanced soaper! Many favorites here so let’s get to it!
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Basic Beginner Soap Recipe with Shea Butter
This is one of my most popular soap recipes and it’s one that I make over and over again. It’s unique in that it doesn’t use palm oil but instead uses Shea Butter and Coconut oil for its main ingredients. This recipe creates a luxurious feeling bar that is smooth and moisturizing!
Mango and Shea Butter Soap
This is another recipe that is great for beginners. It has the added benefit of some special butters like Mango butter. This soap is so nourishing and it is a very smooth and hard bar that is so nice to use!
Turmeric Soap Recipe
This soap is a nice step into more advanced soapmaking. Turmeric is a wonderful antioxidant is a powerhouse in skincare. Turmeric as an additive causes the soap to trace a bit faster, other than that the recipe is very straightforward.
Cow’s Milk and Tallow Soap Recipe
Soaping with milk adds a new challenge but once you have a batch or two of basic soap under your belt, there’s no reason not to try making soap with milk. There is the added step of freezing the milk to ensure the soap doesn’t burn. Other than that the soap comes together like any other bar.
Lard Soap with Extra Bubbles
Lard soap is great for the frugal soapmaker. Lard is readily available and very affordable compared to the more luxury oils and butters. However, lard makes a wonderful bar of soap that you will love using.
Pine Tar Soap Recipe
This pine tar soap recipe gets you into much more advanced soapmaking. This recipe has many additives and pine tar causes the soap to come to trace very quickly. However, the directions are very thorough and if you follow them closely, you will have an amazing bar of soap! My sons both love this soap and it definitely rivals the Dr. Squatch Pine Tar soap!
Squatch Copycat Recipes
Here are two more Dr Squatch Copycat Soap Recipes. The Wood Barrel Bourbon also has quite a few additives but isn’t as challenging as the Pine Tar Soap. The Goat Milk and Oat soap recipe has the added step of freezing the milk and also a few additives. However, both have detailed instructions and should be easy enough for someone with a bit of soapmaking experience.
Liquid Hand Soap Recipe
Liquid soap opens up a whole new world of soapmaking. The process is different as it is a hot process. You will need Potassium Hydroxide rather than Sodium Hydroxide and you will also need a crockpot or slow-cooker. There is a bit more hands-on time with liquid soapmaking but you really can save money by making your own.
Liquid Dish Soap Recipe
This liquid dish soap also uses the hot process and is a bit more hands-on but this recipe produces a wonderful grease-cutting soap! You will love using this soap or giving it as a gift!
Where to Buy Lye and Potassium Hydroxide?
I buy my sodium hydroxide (lye) from Nurture Soap. I like many of their fragrance oils as well.
I purchase this Potassium Hydroxide for liquid soap.
