fresh hand made skincare

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Make your own bespoke soap easily.

You need a box of either vegetable soap flakes or 4 bars of plain unscented soap, grated. Add to a mixing bowl.
To this add1 tablespoon honey or glycerine, about the same of aloe vera and about 2 teaspoons of olive oil. Now add between 3-6 tablespoons of boiled water. Stir all ingredients together until thoroughly mixed,it should bind together nicely.Now add about 70 drops of essential oils and knead with your hands, do this for about 3 mins. Put onto greaseproof paper and flatten to about 1 inch thickness. Leave this for 1 hour then either cut into squares with knife or use cookie cutters. Put into a dry cupboard to dry for a couple of days..now enjoy.


you can add melted shea, cocoa or coconut oil for extra moisturisation and instead of olive oil add jojoba(good for oily skin if used with tea tree oil) you might like to try adding porridge oats to the soap, this is good for exfoliating and softening the skin.

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