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Natural, handmade soap recipes from Lovely Greens. Learn to make your own soap using essential oils, herbs, flowers, minerals, and rich oils.
An introduction to seven creative ways for how to make soap at home including cold process, hot process, liquid soapmaking, melt-and-pour, and rebatching Before I made my first batch of homemade soap I studied up different methods to see which would be best for me. What I found is that there are two main ways…
A simple guide on how to make cold process soap the easy way. Includes information on each soap making step, temperatures, bringing soap to ‘trace’, molding, and curing soap. This is part four in the Natural Soap Making for Beginners series. Making cold process soap is the most common way to make soap from scratch….
Make this Soleseife soap recipe with seawater to create smooth, hard, and easy to un-mold bars. Use water collected from the beach or a homemade salty brine to make natural seawater soap.
Use just three ingredients to make this simple coconut oil soap. It uses a 20% superfat stops the bars from being too drying and is one of the bubbliest soap recipes to make. It doesn’t even require an immersion blender.
Use real pumpkin puree and natural essential oils to make pumpkin spice soap using the cold-process method. Instructions include making homemade pumpkin puree and how to use it to naturally color soap orange. With autumn comes pumpkins, whether you grow them in a garden, visit a farm’s pumpkin patch, or see a stack of them…
Festive Christmas soap recipe made with simple layers of creamy and gold-tinted soap batter and subtly scented with raw golden honey. This swirled honey soap recipe creates Christmas soap that looks like fudge — but with none of the calories. Naturally scented with honey, you make it by layering spoon fulls of uncolored and honey-tinted…
How to make an all-natural seaweed soap recipe from scratch using babassu oil, sea kelp, and skin-brightening essential oils. Full instructions using the cold process method and explains why seaweed is great for skin.
Easy recipe and instructions for making pure white goat milk soap. It’s a simple and nourishing soap recipe that’s especially great for sensitive skin. Includes guidance on temperatures, equipment, and ingredients. When you make goat milk soap, you can substitute some of the water used to make the lye solution with milk. Easier said than done…
Use golden calendula flower petals to make natural yellow soap using the cold-process method. This calendula-infused oil soap recipe uses calendula petals infused in olive oil and a few other natural soap ingredients.