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DIY Foaming Hand Soap

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Ditch the chemicals and make your own foaming hand soap with just 3 ingredients. This gentle, natural soap is moisturizing and cleans thoroughly without artificial ingredients. Add any scent you like with essential oils!

Ditch the chemicals and make your own foaming hand soap with just 3 natural ingredients.

Who has walked down the hand soap aisle at Target and been amazed at all the varieties of soap you can buy? I saw Fig & Rhubarb foaming hand soap the other day…wow.

When you buy those fancy brands of soap, you’re getting a lot more than you’ve bargained for. Most–even natural brands like Method–contain artificial colors, preservatives, and sodium chloride. Yes, there is table salt in your liquid soap.

Let’s take a look at this bottle from the Stinky Bath Store.

Ditch the chemicals and make your own foaming hand soap with just 3 natural ingredients.

That’s a whole lotta chemicals! And it costs $6.50, to boot. It would cost me $25+ to put a bottle of this at every sink in the house.

With two kids (and their friends) making messes at our house all the time, we have a lot of hands to clean. We don’t use antibacterial soap, and I don’t want to buy soap with weird chemicals in it.

It’s easy to make your own moisturizing foaming hand soap with three natural ingredients. Let’s do this!

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DIY Foaming Hand Soap Ingredients

Distilled water. We’re using distilled water because it’s less likely to have contaminants, bacteria, pharmaceuticals, lead…many of which can be found in tap water. Yuck.

Vegetable glycerine. Vegetable glycerine is made from plant oils. It’s moisturizing and gives your soap a thick, luxurious feel.

Liquid unscented castile soap. Castile soap is a gentle, plant-based soap that can be used in numerous ways for cleaning.

Foaming hand soap dispenser. These have a special mechanism that turns the liquid into foam. You can get them on Amazon or recycle one you already have.

Essential oil. Essential oils are optional, but are great for scenting your soap and/or giving it antibacterial properties.

Ditch the chemicals and make your own foaming hand soap with just 3 natural ingredients.

DIY Foaming Hand Soap Instructions

Measure 2/3 cup distilled water, and pour it into the soap dispenser. If you’re clumsy like me, a funnel will help.

Add 1 teaspoon of vegetable glycerine and 1/3 cup castile soap.

If you’re using essential oils, add 15 drops. You can use a single oil or a combination of oils.

Put the top on the dispenser and gently swirl the ingredients together.

Label the bottle and you’re done! How easy was that?!?

Prefer bar soap? No problem. Learn how to make bar soap without using lye.

There's an answer for us scaredy-cat soapmakers who don't want to use caustic lye when making soap! This method is easy and safe to do with kids around.

DIY Foaming Hand Soap Scents

Kitchen: 10 drops Lemon essential oil, 5 drops Rosemary essential oil

Antibacterial: 12-15 drops On Guard essential oil blend

Sleepytime: 8 drops Lavender essential oil, 4 drops Cedarwood essential oil

Bright & Fresh: 6 drops Peppermint essential oil, 6 drops Wild Orange essential oil

Kids: 12-15 drops Citrus Bliss essential oil blend

Baby’s Bath: 6 drops Lavender essential oil

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DIY Foaming Hand Soap

  • 1 foaming hand soap dispenser
  • 2/3 cup distilled water
  • 1 teaspoon vegetable glycerine
  • 1/3 cup unscented liquid castile soap
  • 15 drops essential oil (optional)
  1. Measure 2/3 cup distilled water, and pour it into the soap dispenser.
  2. Add 1 teaspoon of vegetable glycerine and 1/3 cup castile soap.
  3. If you’re using essential oils, add 15 drops. You can use a single oil or a combination of oils.
  4. Put the top on the dispenser and gently swirl the ingredients together.

P.S. If my comment above makes you wonder what’s in your tap water, check out EWG’s Tap Water Database. Type in your zip code to find out what’s in your water…and then get a Big Berkey.

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  1. Elizabeth says

    September 17, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    Can I use a non-foaming soap dispenser? I have a lot of the normal kind and would rather not purchase something new.

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    • Cheryl Ann says

      February 22, 2015 at 8:02 am

      No, I don’t think you can. I remember reading once that it’s the soap DISPENSER that makes the soap foam. I believe you need a foaming kind. It somehow pumps air into the mixture…

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