Natural, handmade soap recipes from Lovely Greens. Learn to make your own soap using essential oils, herbs, flowers, minerals, and rich oils.
Two ways to use indigo powder to create natural blue soap. Indigo is an excellent natural soap colorant for blues that range from pale blue to deep denim. Includes an introduction to the differences between blue and green indigo powder in soapmaking.
Make this fragrant orange soap recipe with a special orange essential oil and tiny flecks of orange zest. These are truly beautiful bars and the scent is long-lasting! Includes full cold-process soap making instructions
Instructions on making gentle shea butter face soap from scratch using pure oils and natural ingredients. It’s suitable for sensitive skin and loaded with conditioning shea butter. Cold-process soapmaking instructions included.
A simple homemade dish soap recipe with long-lasting fluffy bubbles that get dishes squeaky clean. Includes full cold process soap making instructions and uses recycled glass ramekins as containers. This recipe is perfect for the natural and zero-waste home
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
Plant-based and natural ways to color handmade cold-process soap. Tint your soap with brilliant hues from roots, leaves, flowers, clays, and more! Includes natural soap colorants listed by hue, ingredient, and how to use them.
Recipe and instructions for how to use fresh herbs and colored clay to make natural rosemary soap. It’s a blue-green hue with a gorgeous scent and pretty pieces of rosemary leaves throughout. Cold-process soap making instructions included, along with a DIY video.
Make this Christmas soap recipe with festive swirls of madder root, minerals, and candy cane scented peppermint essential oil. This recipe uses a simple swirl technique called In-The-Pot-Swirl.
Learn how to make alkanet root soap, a natural purple soap that can be a lovely lavender to deep purple. Alkanet root is a plant-based ingredient that you can add directly to soap recipes or infuse into a carrier oil. This recipe follows the latter method and is scented with essential oil, and decorated with organic rose petals.
