DIY Liquid Hand Soap...

I Love Homemade Soaps!

My girlfriend taught me last year how to make bar soap

and this year I learned how to make the liquid soap from the homemade bars.

I am in love with this soap!

It's so nice to be able to make something from scratch.

To really get those creative juices flowing is huge, in my opinion.

I don't have to do everything this way,

 but I enjoy learning new things.

After all, we learn something new daily, right?

Have you ever tried your hand at making homemade bar soap?

Liquid Soap?

I have made homemade laundry soap and fabric softener too!

I have a folder that I keep of all my

 DIY Household  Products and Remedies in.

It's nice to have, if I ever had to rely on making everything from scratch.

I would rather be prepared and have the recipe on hand than not!

Here's the recipe if you would like to give it a try.

DIY Liquid Hand Soap

4-4 oz. bar soap

1 gallon of water

2 Tbsp. vegetable glycerin

20 drops of essential oils

(if using your homemade bar soap, you won't have to add extra oils)

empty containers with soap pumps

Pour your gallon of water into a large saucepan.

Boil your water.

Cut up your bars of soap or use a cheese grater.

Stir into your saucepan.

(Sorry, I didn't get a photo of the cut up soap)

Stir continuously until fully incorporated.

Mix in the glycerin.

Turn off heat and allow your soap to cool.

Then stir in your essentials oils.

Let set overnight.

Mix again with either a whisk or a hand mixer.

Pour into the gallon container the water came in, until ready to use.

I noticed when using the homemade bar soap, my liquid soap

turned out a bit thin, so I added in another 2 bars of grated soap

and then it seemed to thicken up a bit more.

Just play with your recipe, until you get it to your desired thickness.

If by chance you make it to thick, 

just stir in some water about a 1/4 c. at a time.

I used some of my old soap dispensers

and I bought a few new soap bottles.

This was a lot of fun and I just Love my soap!

DIY Laundry Soap...

Have you ever tried making your own laundry soap?

My youngest son's skin is really sensitive to a lot 

of the powdered soaps from the store, so 

we always bought the liquid soaps.

Just the other day, I was browsing at Do It Yourself

Laundry Soaps and came across this one 

and thought, Hmm... this one is different than all the 

other recipes out there.

So, I bought all the stuff and only spent $22.00

And, this recipe said it would make a year supply!!

So, who doesn't want to at least give it a try?

For that price?  YES!!

So, here's what you do:

 Grab a big trash bag and pour everything in it.

( I cheated and bought the Zote's Soap all ready grated)

Here's what it looks like all mixed up.

Thanks you to my oldest son for shaking it all up for me!

(insert smiles here)

Now, pour it into a pretty glass jar!

( I ended up with this jar full and another one 3/4 full)

And, here you go....

Ready to wash, wash, wash!

DIY Laundry Soap

1 box Zote's Soap (It's all ready grated, Yay!) 

or 3 bars Fels Naptha, grated

1 box Borax (76 oz.)

1 box Washing Soda (55oz.)

2 cups Baking Soda

2 containers of Oxyclean (you can find this at your Dollar Tree Store)

2 containers of Purex softener crystals, any scent

Mix everything in a large trash bag 

and store in a jar or plastic container.

For Laundry:

Use 2 Tbsp. of laundry soap per load

I have been using this soap for 3 weeks now 

and my son or anyone else for that matter

have no signs of itchy skin or rashes.

It really does make your clothes soft

and they smell like lavender fields!!

You just can't go wrong, really...

I hope you all consider giving it a try

and if it even lasts for 6 months, I'd be happy!!

Have a terrific day!