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Homemade Citrus + Herb Soap

It's easy to make homemade herb soap with a just few simple ingredients. Add herbs and citrus for a homemade soap that smells amazing!
Prep Time5 minutes
Active Time15 minutes
Cooling TIme2 hours
Total Time2 hours 20 minutes
Course: Bath and Body Soap
Keyword: soap
Yield: 6 bars
Author: Stephanie Gerber
Cost: $12

Equipment

  • Food processor
  • Glass bowl or measuring cup
  • Plastic spoon or scraper
  • Soap mold – any plastic or cardboard container will do

Materials

  • 1 pound glycerin soap base sold at craft stores
  • 3 tablespoons Fresh basil, mint, rosemary, orange and lemon or any other herbs you like
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  • Put the soap blocks in glass bowl & melt in the microwave for 30 second intervals until melted. Stir every so often to break up big chunks.
  • While the soap base is melting, puree the herbs and squeeze out excess water in a paper towel. For citrus, zest the peel. You’ll need about 1 tablespoon of additives for each cup (or about 3 tablespoons for a pound of soap base).
  • Once glycerin is melted, let it stand & cool for a few minutes. Before it sets too much, add the additives. Keep stirring to ensure they don’t all float to the bottom.
  • Spritz your mold with nonstick cooking spray and wipe out the excess. Then, pour the soap into the container.
    Pouring into molds
  • Let the soap sit on the counter for about an hour to completely set. If you get bubbles on the top of the soap (and it bothers you) spritz them with rubbing alcohol and they’ll go away.
  • Put the soap mold in the freezer for another hour or so. Then it should pop right out. Slice the soap with knife, if needed, and give them to someone you love.

Notes

Feel free to use a shea butter soap base or even goats milk soap base. Both are creamy and moisturizing and also make pretty soaps with ingredients like rosescocoa, and rosemary.
As far as containers are concerned, you can buy cute molds at the craft store, but any plastic container will work. Though you might want to use something you can just pitch in the recycle bin when finished, such as old milk cartons or yogurt cups. Be sure to spray with cooking spray and wipe out excess.