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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.
Make soap from scratch using this simple and moisturizing hot process soap recipe. The recipe includes skin-loving mango butter and yogurt and includes a DIY video along with full hot-process soapmaking instructions One of the best things about hot process soap is that you can make it and have the soap ready to use almost…
Plant-based and natural ways to color handmade cold-process soap. Includes natural soap colorants listed by hue, ingredient, and how to use them. Natural soap making is an exciting craft that anyone can do from the comfort of their own kitchen. Here on Lovely Greens, I share many small-sized cold-process soap recipes for beginners, and after…
Recipe and instructions for how to use fresh herbs and colored clay to make Natural Rosemary Soap using the cold-process method This is a natural soap recipe that blends together two special ingredients. Rosemary, in two forms, adds scent, decoration, and anti-bacterial properties. Cambrian blue clay is a cosmetic ingredient that can tint soap a…
Make this Christmas soap recipe with festive swirls of madder root and minerals and candy cane scented peppermint essential oil. With the holidays right around the corner, you might be thinking about making handmade gifts. Soap is always a great option since it can be pretty and festive and practical too! This Christmas soap recipe…
Learn how to make natural purple soap with alkanet root, scented essential oil, and organic rose petals for decoration Although there are dyes and even minerals that you can use to make purple soap, alkanet root helps you to make natural purple soap. One of them being alkanet root. Some people in Britain are familiar…
Recipe and instructions for how to make cold process peppermint soap with essential oil and peppermint leaves. It will make six mint green bars with pretty flecks. Ah, peppermint. You’re zingy, refreshing, and oh so easy to grow. In fact, if you turn your back on it, peppermint will take over whatever space you plant…
Tips for swirling soap with natural colors including the best soap recipes to use, videos of swirling techniques, and recommended natural colorants Swirling cold-process soap with natural colors is a technique that not many soap makers do. It’s more unpredictable than when using conventional colors, the color palette is more limited, and it isn’t easy…