Homemade Hand Soap
With just four ingredients, liquid castile soap, water, Vitamin E oil, and an optional essential oil blend, you can make a gentle, moisturizing hand soap in under two minutes that's free from parabens, synthetic fragrances, sulfates, and artificial dyes.
Equipment
- soap dispenser Glass is ideal, but any pump bottle works
- Kitchen Funnel
Ingredients
- 1 cup Liquid castile soap
- 1 cup Water (distilled preferred)
- 5-8 pumps Vitamin E oil (5–8 pumps)
- 10-15 drops Essential Oils of your choice
Instructions
- Pour your water in first. This is the most important step, if you add the castile soap first and then try to add water, you’re going to agitate the soap and end up with a dispenser full of bubbles and foam that will overflow and take forever to settle. Always add water first. It keeps everything calm and makes mixing easy.
- Add an equal amount of liquid castile soap. So if you added half a cup of water, add half a cup of soap. Pour it in slowly and gently along the side of the bottle.
- Add your 5 to 8 pumps of Vitamin E oil. Don’t skip this, it’s what keeps your hands from drying out.
- If you’re using essential oils, add your 10 to 15 drops now.
- Put the pump lid on and give it a very gentle swirl to combine everything. Don’t shake it, shaking will introduce air bubbles and cause foaming. Just a slow swirl is all it needs.
