How To Make Simple DIY Foaming Hand Soap
One easy and inexpensive way to ditch chemicals in your home is by making your own DIY foaming hand soap. I often will use unscented Dove bars to wash my hands on a soap dish, but making your own foaming hand soap is extremely easy and takes only a few minutes. You may even have a lot of these ingredients on hand already.
I bought this Glass Reusable Foaming Hand Soap Dispenser from Target for only $5.99 and filled it with my ingredients. Using glass is important, not only because I try to avoid plastic, but if you use essential oils it can literally eat away at the plastic. I also found these super cute glass mason jar foaming dispensers if you are looking for something more stylish. I learned this the hard way after I made a DIY bug repellent in a plastic spray bottle and it basically melted (a story for another time!). Here is my recipe for easy DIY foaming hand soap:
1 tbsp aloe vera gel
2 tbsp liquid castile soap
20 drops essential oil of your choice (optional)
1 cup distilled water
Simply combine the ingredients into the foaming pump of your choice and swirl to mix and incorporate.
I have purchased a lot of my ingredients and essential oils from Mountain Rose Herbs website for years. I used lavender essential oil to make my soap scented but some of my other favorite scents are: orange essential oil, lemon or lemongrass essential oil or any floral scents. You can also make your foaming soap unscented if you wish.
This is also a great way to save money since it costs way less than buying natural soaps at the grocery store. With one 32 oz bottle of liquid castile soap, you can make 32 batches of DIY foaming hand soap. So if you purchase a 32oz liquid castile soap for $16, each batch of soap would cost you approximately $0.50 in castile soap to make. You can get 2 gallons of distilled water for $4, so 32 batches of soap would be approximately $0.13 to make. You really can use plain old filtered water if you go through your soap quickly, too. I have done it and it’s been completely fine! I can get 32oz of aloe vera gel for about $19, which would make 32 batches of soap using $0.60 worth. So without including essential oils, you can make this soap for roughly $1.25 when you’d be paying about $4 minimum for a lot of the foaming hand soaps in the stores. Just think, also, that the soaps sold in stores contain tons of preservatives so they can sit on store shelves for months and years! If you go through 3 soap bottles per month, that’s 36 in a year which can save you $100!
Let me know if you try this super easy DIY foaming hand soap recipe!