Would you like to make your own liquid hand soap? Bottled liquid hand soap is expensive-making your own can save you money! Homemade liquid hand soap can be customized with scents and colors, if you like. Read on to learn how to make hand soap.
Would you like to use up all the odds and ends of bar soap you have? Have you accumulated a large collection of hotel soap? Do you want to save money on liquid hand soap? This page will teach you how to make liquid hand soap from bar soap, helping you to use up what you have on hand and save money in the process.
Making Home Made Hand Soap
This video demonstrates an alternative method of making liquid hand soap. The grated soap is mixed with 8-10 cups of water on the stove, and stirred while cooking until it is melted. While this method is useful if you don't have a blender, the blender method below produces a smoother soap which is closer in texture to commercial liquid hand soap.
Step 1: What You Need to Make Liquid Hand Soap
Step 2: How to Make Liquid Hand Soap
- Grate the bar of soap, and place the grated soap in a blender.
- Boil one cup of boiling water.
- Add the boiling water to the blender, and process until smooth and creamy.
- Add honey and glycerin to the mixture in the blender.
- If you're using color or fragrance, add them now.
- Pulse to blend, and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Process again to make sure the soap is well blended.
- Add cold water to the mixture until you reach the 6 cup line on the blender.
- Process until smooth and creamy.
Step 3: Fill the Liquid Soap Dispemser
Filling the dispenser is messy, so make sure to work over the sink.
- Use the funnel to transfer the soap to a pump dispenser. Place the extra soap in an airtight storage container.
- Turn the pump attachment upside down, and fill the pump tube, making sure there are no air bubbles in the tube.
- Insert he pump attachment into the pump dispenser.
- Rinse and dry the container, to remove any soap that may have dripped on the outside.
