easy skincare DIYs, beauty crafts and soap making
A nourishing mango butter soap recipe enriched with lots of shea butter, coconut milk and an exotic blend of essential oils. Such a delight!
What I love about making your own soaps is that you get to choose exactly what natural ingredients you want to use to create the perfect recipe. This cold process soap recipe is filled with high quality, nourishing oils and butters. It's gentle enough for sensitive skin and makes for a great hand soap.
...An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make breast milk soap. Making your own soap is a great way to use up any extra milk you might have.
Here you'll find two different methods (melt and pour/ cold process) to make breast milk soap. The first is perfect for beginners that want to make soap without lye, the second is for more experienced soap makers.
Both are a great way to make beautiful soaps using your own milk as a fresh ingredient. And you can customize them both to your heart's desire with essential oils, honey and oatmeal.
[feast_advanced_jump_to] ...Homemade Lavender Soap - elegant, timeless and a real crowd-pleaser! This cold process soap recipe is infused with lavender essential oil and lavender buds and packed with skin loving shea butter, hemp and olive oil.
Mysterious, woodsy, yet bright and refreshing is how I would describe the scent of this wonderful charcoal soap. Certainly more a masculine kind of scent, but one that might appeal to men and women alike. The best thing: YOU can make this soap, no matter if you're a beginner looking for a melt and pour soap recipe or a veteran soap maker who's comfortable working with lye. Here you'll find detailed instructions for both: an easy layered soap (using a soap base) and a more advanced swirled cold process soap.
Last month I experimented with different ways to use bananas in soap. I wanted to find a visually pleasing outcome for today's banana soap recipe. The results ranged from light cream color with a little bit of specks to really brown with lots of specks. You can check out the full post here or see the the picture below for a quick side by side comparison.
For this banana soap recipe I decided to use a fairly ripe banana since I knew from my experiments that I would get this awesome speckled effect which would contrast well with the white piped top. After I was done making the soap I put it in the freezer since I absolutely wanted to avoid gelling.
...Goat milk soap is one of the most popular kinds of handmade soaps out there. If you've ever had the pleasure to try a bar you know why: goat milk makes for a very gentle, nourishing and decadently creamy soap. Give this easy goat milk soap recipe a try - you'll love it!
Today I'll show you how to make a wonderfully rich and soothing goat milk soap. And whether you're a veteran cold process soap maker or a newbie who prefers melt and pour soap (without handling lye), I've got you covered with these easy step-by-step tutorials. The result with both techniques is a gorgeous oatmeal, milk and honey soap that everyone in your family will want to get their paws on!
...This gentle bastille baby soap recipe is great for baby's delicate skin and anyone with sensitive skin. It's super charged with skin loving ingredients like chamomile infused olive oil, Shea butter and colloidal oatmeal to gently cleanse the skin without stripping it of it's natural barrier mantel.
Today I'm going to show you how to make soap in this detailed step by step guide to homemade soap making. This beginners tutorial will walk you through how to make soap with lye (cold process method) and you won't even have to buy a special mold - we're upcycling an empty Pringles can 😉 Hope you enjoy making these beautiful round soaps as much as I have 🙂
A scrubby bar of soap made with strong brewed espresso, coffee grounds and bright peppermint essential oil. A soap recipe not just for coffee lovers.
You know what’s a life saver for new moms? (Hint: not a baby gadget.) It’s the Starbucks drive thru!!! Seriously though: you’re stuck in the house with your little nugget, it’s the dead of winter, flu season, you’re craving a latte and some sort of human interaction- the drive thru it is.
...A new spin on the traditional lavender soap recipe with the addition of oat milk and a dash of geranium essential oil. So soothing!
