This homemade coconut oatmeal soap recipe gives your DIY soap great texture and an amazing scent. Easy to make and can work as an inexpensive party favor or holiday gift.
Making homemade soap can be as hard or as easy as you want it to be. As most of my DIY projects, I chose the easy route. For this recipe I used a goat milk soap base. This is a perfect and easy recipe for beginners looking to make soap at home.
How to Make Your Own Soap at Home
Easy Homemade Soap Recipe
This process took less than a half an hour, and the soap scent and the oatmeal created a wonderful texture.
What Scent or Ingredients Can You Add to Homemade Soap?
This time I made coconut oatmeal soap, but combinations of scents and textures are endless:
- dry herbs
- seeds
- sea salt
- honey
- fragrance
- oils
- dry flowers
*Some are added as active ingredients and others works as exfoliators or scent enhancers.
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Everything You Need To Make My Goat Milk Soap Base Recipe
Ingredients (yields 12 small bars, or 8 large)
- Glass measuring cup
- Knife
- Spatula
- 1/2 cup of oatmeal
- 1/4 cup of coconut oil
- Coconut oil spray
- 2lbs Goat’s Milk Soap Base *
- Silicone Mold**
*You can find 2 lb. blocks of melt and pour soap base at most craft stores, I chose Goat’s milk soap, but you could also try Shea Butter
**You can have fun with this one, there are so many different molds out there!
Directions
- To melt the soap base cut the goat’s milk base into small cubes. Fill a glass measuring cup and microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval, until melted. It takes about 90 seconds.
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Add your other ingredients and mix.
3. Place your soap mold on a baking sheet to make transporting it to the refrigerator easier.
Does This Recipe have Lye?
Even goat milk liquid soap uses potassium hydroxide (a form of lye) instead of the sodium hydroxide (lye) that is used to make bar-soap. However, to make any soap, lye is a necessary ingredient.
Can Homemade Soap be Made Without Lye?
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I’m hoping to try these soon!!! Love!!