I have a recipe for you, today, to show you how to make your very own DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe with essential oils (or no essential oils for an unscented version). It is super simple to make and you’ll be scrubbing germs away in no time. If you want to learn to make more than just a foaming hand soap recipe, OR if you’re looking for an even easier way to make it + a gift card, the February Simply Earth Recipe Box comes with everything you need to make your own DIY Foaming Hand Soap + 5 more soap themed recipes! (more info at the bottom of the post)
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To make this diy foaming hand soap with essential oils, you will need one piece of special equipment. You see, to make a foaming hand soap recipe, it requires a special pump top that will create the foamy lather you’re after. You can see, in the photo below, that it has a different type of insert compared to standard soap pumps.
You can purchase one from Simply Earth here or from Amazon here. If you want a fancier version, I adore these mason jar foaming dispensers! You can also buy just the foaming dispenser lid. Mine makes approx 12 oz of foaming hand soap.
Aside from the foaming soap dispenser, ingredients for your diy foaming hand soap with castile soap include:
- Castile Soap (I prefer Dr. Bronners Unscented Baby Soap)
- Glycerin (optional but adds extra moisturizing)
- Distilled Water
- Essential Oils – I prefer Simply Earth essential oils. They have GC/MS reports on all their oils and they are high quality, pure, natural essential oils with no fillers.
My favorite essential oils to use in this foaming hand soap recipe are lavender, lemon and peppermint. These are the 3 oils used most often for allergies and they smell amazing together! I also love using citrus oils like bergamot, orange, lemon and grapefruit.
If you want a super disinfecting diy foaming hand soap with essential oils, opt for a blend like Defender by Simply Earth.
DIY Foaming Hand Soap Recipe
DIY Foaming Hand Soap With Essential Oils (or without!)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup Castile Soap (Dr. Bronner's Unscented Baby Soap)
- 1 TBSP Vegetable Glycerin (optional)
- 12 Drops Lemon Essential Oil ((optional) see notes)
- 12 Drops Lavender Essential Oil ((optional))
- 3 Drops Peppermint Essential Oil ((optional))
- 1 – 2 Cups Distilled Water (You may need less. You need enough to fill the bottle, leaving room for the foaming dispenser top)
Instructions
- Mix castile soap and glycerin (if using) in soap bottle and swirl to mix
- Add essential oils to mixture and swirl again to incorporate oils into soap/soap glycerin
- Let sit a few minutes to allow the oils and soap to fully combine
- Swirl again and then top off with distilled water
- Place foaming soap dispenser lid onto container
- Tilt the bottle back and forth several times to combine distilled water and oil mixture
- Enjoy using your DIY Foaming Hand Soap!
Notes
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Essential oils are VERY concentrated, do absorb into the bloodstream and some may interfere with certain medications and health conditions. For instance, I have high blood pressure and need to be careful when using rosemary essential oil. So, please, do your research before use and use with caution. With that said, essential oils can be an amazing addition to your health and wellness and natural home. This is in no way intended to be used as medical advice and we cannot be held responsible for your use or results.
This foaming soap recipe is so easy to make and I love knowing exactly what is in it! I’m slowly transitioning all our cleaners, skincare and household supplies to handmade/handcrafted/DIY. Weeding out as many toxic products as I can is my 2024 goal! Some things I will leave unscented and some will have health supporting essential oils. Either way, we’ll have safer products in our home!
Want To Make More Than Foaming Hand Soap?
If you’re interested in making more than the soap recipe in this post, or if you want an even simpler way to make a foaming hand soap, be sure to subscribe to the Simply Earth February Recipe Box! It is filled with everything you need to make 6 sudsy recipes including:
Feb Box Theme: Soap Making
📒 Recipes:
- Unicorn Foaming Hand Soap
- Helping Hands Foaming Hand Soap
- Sweet Lemon Oatmeal Melt & Pour Soap
- Healing Hands Solid Lotion Bar
- Lovely Night Roll-On (perfume)
- Heart Balloons Diffuser Blend
💡 Extras:
- Glycerin Melt & Pour Soap
- Soap Mold
- 2 Foaming Soap Tablets (another quick and easy way to make foaming hand soap)
🌹 Oils:
Lovely Night Roll-On
Sweet Lemon Oatmeal Soap
Unicorn Foaming Hand Soap
Helping Hands Foaming Soap
Heart Balloons Diffuser Blend
Healing Hands Solid Lotion Bar
🛒 Suggested Add Ons
- Foaming Hand Soap Container x2
- Lavender Hydrosol (optional)
- Aloe Vera (optional) – I use this brand
- Mica powder (optional) – I like this sample pack
🏡Things You’ll Need At Home
- Distilled Water
- Cornstarch
- Oatmeal
- Isopropyl Alochol
👀 A closer LOOK 👀
- 🧴With this box you’ll be making two liquid foaming hand soaps. For this to be foaming, you’ll need foaming hand soap dispensers. Feel free to add this to your Recipe Box, purchase one on Amazon or reuse one that you already have.
- 🛒 For one of the recipes, they give you a more jazzed up foaming hand soap and suggest adding aloe vera and lavender hydrosol. These ingredients are available as add-ons to your recipe box. Simply Earth gives these suggestions for Earthies who want to try new natural ingredients or already have them at home. You can still make an amazing foaming hand soap without these add-on ingredients.
- 👉 Mica powder is also an optional ingredient add-on. It’s a fun way to add color to recipes, but you don’t need it for an amazing product. No specific color is needed.
- 💧 Distilled water will help promote the shelf life of your recipes, but you can use tap water if needed. Distilled water is found in grocery stores with bottled water. It’s also often in the baby aisle.
- 🌽 Corn starch – I recommend having this on hand to make a product feel less greasy. However, you can skip this or replace it with another starch like arrowroot powder.
- 🥣 Oatmeal is used as an exfoliant as a recipe. I love it. But this ingredient can be skipped if you prefer a soap that is not exfoliating.
- ‣ Isopropyl alcohol – this is a helpful ingredient for popping bubbles that form on bar soaps, but if you’re okay with a few bubbles, you don’t need this ingredient for this recipe box.
Your subscription gets you a new, themed, box each month. Your first and every 7th box comes with a Big Bonus Box filled with ingredients like coconut oil.almond oil, fractionated coconut oil and beeswax as well as supplies like roller bottles and 5ml bottles to help create your creations. Each monthly box comes with 2 – 3 extras, along with your recipe cards, stickers and 4 essential oils, to help create that month’s recipes. EO’s typically include 3 single oils and a blend.
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