How To Make Foaming Soap
Making your own foaming soap is so easy and inexpensive – Use our “how to many foaming soap recipe” as a guide! Anyone can do this! You’ll never wonder what is in your soap, plus an average family using one bottle of foaming hand soap a week will save an average of $180 a year.
How To make Foaming Soap: Supplies
Making Foaming Soap is Simple
The first thing you need is an aerating dispenser bottle.
Ours came from re-using a container from another brand. Method makes one, and I reused a bottle from Clean Well for a year. After a year or so you will notice the bottle begins to have a “skunky” smell, that is when I know it is time to replace the bottle with a new one. If there are effective ways to sanitize and remove the smell from the bottle that you know – please share because I’ve yet to figure it out!
Once you have your aerating dispenser bottle – you can make a variety of foaming soaps. The recipe we’re sharing is a Vanilla Orange Foaming Handsoap, but don’t be shy, select your favorite essential oils for fragrance and adding small amounts of your favorite oil for moisturizing.
How to Make Foaming Soap
Vanilla Orange Foaming Hand Soap Recipe
1 1/4 cup of distilled water
2 TBS of Castille Soap – I used the Citrus. To create your own scent use unscented.
1 Capsule of Vitamin E Oil – Good for your skin and is a natural preservative.
3-5 drops of Vanilla Essential Oil
4-6 drops of Citrus Essential Oil
How to make foaming soap: Instructions
Combine the ingredients and in a measuring cup and use a funnel to pour into the dispenser. Soap will will dispense in an nice foaming lather… and if you kids use the whole bottle in 3 days, you won’t be furious!
Providing you go through your foaming handsoap quickly, the combination of distilled water and the vitamin e should suffice as a preservative, if you need to make this last longer or want to give it as a gift, you’ll want to use a preservative like Germaben 11 or Liquid Germall Plus, I know this is not perfectly natural, but it is preferable to the fungi and bacteria that can grow in the water.
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What is the olive oil for? Won’t that work against the action of the soap? Not trying to be confrontational, just curious. Thanks! Katie
I found it a little drying without any oils in it, you can use an oil of your choosing… it’s a small amount. Still foams up perfectly.
Thank you for this recipe!
This is fabulous! I can’t wait to give it a try
We have to be so careful about what we use on our son’s skin that had the Eczema. His Vidazorb probiotics have made a huge difference but we know that his skin is very sensitive. besides- it’s gotta be cheaper just to make our own right! Thanks, tweeted ya!Lynn
For soap, you are better to use the lowest grade Olive oil you can find, this being Pomace Olive oil, alternatively use either Sunflower or Safflower oil.If you have Eczema, you’ll find that using (just) a small amount of Avocado will make a big difference too.MJ
Thanks for the recipe! I’ve just been using Dr Bronner’s and water
Thanks for the recipe, it will be nice to be able to refill my dispenser when it’s empty!
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My ex-wife is into making soap lately. I just put in my order for 6 bars. Good stuff I will have to have her try the foaming hand soap formula. This is how she has been supporting herself lately……
i made two bottles of this today! all three of my children (ok, not my 13 year old son) squealed with delight! we used a couple of different essential oils. How fun!!
Awesome! Super easy right?!
I have a scented Dr. Bronner’s…could I do away with the essential oils? Would I add a few drops more of the olive oil?
You can omit the essential oil without affecting it’s effectiveness…. if you still don’t love the scent, then add a few drops of a complimentary essential oil!
Thanks Tania! I am so excited to try this out! I have a 14 mo. daughter and we are starting to wash our own hands and I love the idea of a foaming hand soap for her but the commercial products are not only expensive but have an array of ingredients that I’m not too keen on her (possibly) ingesting
This is easier than going to the store when you run out! You’ll save a lot of money too!
Do you use liquid Castille Soap, or grated bar soap?
Yes – Use the liquid Castille Soap!
Hi Tania, did you change the recipe? I just had to make a new batch an dI see you have vitamin E in the soap now and not olive oil. Just wonderig if you tweaked it to perfection
Katie,
Yes! I did tweak it! I found that my soap was sometimes getting a slightly off smell – so adding the vitamin E does the conditioning of the olive oil… while serving as a natural preservative. If you are going through a bottle a week… you can use the olive oil (or no oil), but I think many people will enjoy the better shelf life.
So glad you came back to make it again!
Can i use another brand of soap besides casteel? I have an allergy to an ingredient that is in most liquid soap, so i have to be careful.
There are a few brands of Castille soap, you could try a regular detergent, but not having tried it… I have no idea what the outcome will be.
Would this work with any bar soap? I picked up some Olay soap super cheap and would love to reuse my foaming soap containers.
I can’t see this working with bar soap. It really does need to be a Castille Soap.
Great recipe! Can’t wait to give it a try. Do you by chance have a shower gel recipe??
Thanks Liza, I don’t have one at the moment! I might have to work on one though!