Amazing Natural Bath Soap Recipe

Natural soaps are made with a number of ingredients such as Shea butter, essential oils, botanicals, oils, and lye. A natural soap is made in a number of processes. But the most common process is the cold process. This process is convenient for homemade soap making. But before knowing about how to make natural soaps, let’s learn what exactly natural soap is.

What Is Natural Bath Soap?

Natural bath soap means fewer amounts of toxic substances in the soap composition. This means there is no place for artificial colors and fragrance. That is the reason natural soaps are so great to use daily, as they do not harm your skin the way a commercial soap does. The first and foremost important thing is to make your soap hundred percent safe to use for you and your family.

Necessary Ingredients For Natural Soaps

Lye

This is the one thing you cannot do without even if you plan to create an all natural soap. Lye, in other words, is sodium hydroxide. Make sure you use only 100% pure sodium hydroxide and not some liquid substitute as that will not ensure proper measurement of the substance and might have some metal bits. There’s a concept that lye is harsh for the skin. Well, this is absolutely true, but not relevant. When you make soap, the finished product does not have the properties of sodium hydroxide. Rather the reaction with essential oils and shea butter or vegetable oil causes the finished product safe for use.

Essential Oils

Essential oils are extracted from plant parts. Some are extracted from roots or stems, some from flowers or seeds. You can infuse your natural bath soap with essential oils to give natural fragrance. Blend two to three essential oils to create a mesmerizing fragrance and add to the mixture of the soap while it is still liquid. Some of the widely used essential oils for natural bath soap making are ylang-ylang, bergamot, rose, cinnamon, vanilla, geranium, jasmine, sandal, and lavender.

Colors

You can use cinnamon or cocoa powder for natural brown colored soap, turmeric for yellow tint, beetroot for orange color or magenta. These natural colors are always best to use, avoiding the artificial coloring substances available in the market. Moreover, these naturally extracted colors blend well with the soap mixture.

Making Of Natural Soaps

In cold process soap making, you need to heat the base oils in your soap and slowly add the diluted mixture of lye. As the mixture will thicken, add your fragrance and essential oils, herbs (if you want), colors, and then pour it into the soap mold. You need to let the soap cool down completely so that it can harden. After the soap hardens, cut them into pieces to use. You can wrap these soaps into beautiful wrappers and gift your friends and family members.

Handmade natural soaps are easy to make with few tips to follow. Once you get everything done correctly you can enjoy a relaxing bath experience with your self-made soap.