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Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!
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DIY Foaming Hand Soap – How to Make Foaming Hand Soap with Essential Oils

by Shannon Acheson

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Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it’s just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!

Our kids, even as teenagers, like and use foaming hand soap far more than regular hand soap. But, I don’t love paying for it. So, I use this DIY foaming hand soap recipe to make foaming hand soap with essential oils that we like.

Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!

DIY Foaming Hand Soap - How to Make Foaming Hand Soap with Essential Oils

DIY Foaming Hand Soap - How to Make Foaming Hand Soap with Essential Oils

Yield: 1 bottle
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!

Materials

  • 1 foaming soap pump
  • 2 tbsp castile soap, hand soap or dishwashing soap
  • water
  • 12-15 drops preferred essential oils
  • 1/2 -1 tsp almond, jojoba, grapeseed or olive oil, optional

Instructions

  1. Fill soap dispenser about 3/4 of the way full with warm water.
  2. Pour 2 tablespoons of castile soap, hand soap or dishwashing soap into the empty soap container.
  3. Add almond, jojoba, grapeseed or olive oil, if using. 
  4. Add a total of 12-15 drops of your choice of essential oils.
  5. Top with distilled water, twist the pump top on give it a good shake to get it nice and blended together. Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!
© Shannon Acheson
Project Type: Cleaning Recipe / Category: Cleaning Hacks

Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils!

Good Essential Oil Combinations for Hand Soap:

Do you love foaming hand soap, but hate the cost of buying it? After all, it's just a little soap and some water, right? Sort of. Use our DIY Foaming Hand Soap recipe and learn how to make foaming hand soap with essential oils! 

Have you ever made DIY foaming hand soap for your house?

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Comments

  2. Lori says

    I had heard it was super easy to make foaming hand soap with essential oils. This is an awesome step by step! Now time to give it a try!
    #WanderingWednesday

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  4. Crystal Twaddell says

    Shannon, you have just made my life easier! I’ve been thinking about doing this but really didn’t know how. Love, Love essential oils. I’m so glad you shared on Fresh Market Friday!

    Reply

  9. Amanda says

    Awesome! Can’t wait to make my own. Thanks for this recipe! 1 Question….What is the purpose of using distilled water (vs filtered or tap) at the end?

    Reply
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