Liquid Hand Soap Recipe
2-quarts of water
2-tablespoons of glycerin
4-bars of shredded or grated Tea Tree Oil soap (from Trader Joe's)
Bring water to a boil and add glycerin with shredded soap until dissolved. Let it cool. (It takes a little while to cool down and will thicken as it does.)
I filled around six of my 14-ounce containers with this one batch. You can reuse your empty soap pump containers and store the leftovers in a Tupperware-type container in the fridge. Think of all of the money you will save and how easy this is to make.
This is a basic simple recipe that I had written down from long ago and always wanted to try. I do have to say that I found out that the results may vary according to which particular bar soap brand is used. Dove is not the ideal choice and I just avoid using it. It has too many moisturizers and ends up too watery for this recipe.
I like the tea tree oil soap because it has very few ingredients, (which is my goal here; ingredient control). The reason I don't make this particular recipe completely from scratch is because using lye around little ones makes me a little nervous. So for now this will be just fine.
If for some reason the end result is not thick enough, here is a suggestion to help:
Dissolve 3-tablespoons of table salt in about 8oz hot water and add to mixture using a hand mixer.
Here are a few other sites that have recipes to make soap completely from scratch:
Enjoy,
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