Homemade soap is easy to make, relatively inexpensive, and a fabulous homemade gift. I decided to make an almond scented-oatmeal-goats-milk soap because it’s a soap with moisturizing and exfoliating properties and it smells delicious and looks beautiful. It’s the perfect soap! Plus, now that I’ve made just about every scent of sugar scrubs I could think of, I had to move on to something else, right?
Homemade Oatmeal Soap
Homemade Oatmeal soap is a great choice to make because it:
- Smells great – you can choose how mild or strong you want the scent depending upon the amount of scent you add to your mixture!
- Moisturizes
- Gently Exfoliates
- Cleans
- Is Easy to Make
- Looks Lovely
- Is a Fabulous Homemade Gift
Oatmeal Soap Recipe
- Place 8 cubes of Goat’s Milk Soap Suspension Formula in microwave safe bowl and melt in microwave approximately 1-1/2 minutes on high. (I used a 40% off coupon at Michael’s so I paid $6.00 for the pack) Tip: It melts evenly if you use a knife to cut the individual cubes instead of leaving it in a block.
- Add approximately 40 drops of sweet almond oil soap extract (I purchased at Michaels for $2.99). This is about a 6:1 ratio. 5 drops of oil for 1 cube of soap. If you like a stronger scent, I’d use more drops of oil.
- Add 1/4 cup oatmeal that has been lightly blended in blender to make grains smaller.
- Mix ingredients in microwave safe bowl and pour into soap molds (I got mine at Michaels for $1.99). This recipe fills two square molds and makes 2 nice sized bars of soap.
Decorate Soap
I used bakers twine and paper flowers to decorate my bars of soap. They look really cute wrapped in parchment paper too. I figured out that each bar of soap costs about $1.25 – $1.50 to make.
Other Homemade Scrub Recipes
- Cherry Sugar Scrub Recipe {free printable tag}
- Lemon Sugar Scrub Recipe
- Coffee Scrub Recipe
- Peach Sugar Scrub Recipe {free printable tag}
I LOVE how they turned out! I think they would make fantastic “meet the teacher” gifts too! My kids go back to school the beginning of August. I think I’ll add this to my list!
Twitter: 7clowncircus
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I think they’d be great meet the teacher gifts too. In fact, I think that’s what I’ll do this year. You know where to come to make the soap. Thanks so much for helping me make the soap! You ROCK!
Idea: what about making little ones by using those shaped ice cube trays to mold the soap? We have heart shaped ones and dolphins we got cheap at the supermarket.
Twitter: 7clowncircus
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That would totally work, and they would be easy to pop out of the mold. Additionally, they would “set” faster in the freezer! Score! Just don’t forget they are in there or you might ruin your batch.
My daughter and I, well mostly her, made sugar scrubs last wk for birthday gifts. We made coffee, vanilla brown sugar, grapefruit, lemon and vanilla pepperment. The coffee one, we used half brewed and half fresh cofffee grounds. it was a little oily, added more sugar. all in all, it was fun, we like to stamp, so stamped some pretty labels.
Now we are gonna have to try the soap! lol
Twitter: ehellah
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This looks fantastic! How long does it take for the soap to set and harden in the mold?
Sounds great. Do you think that it would be a good product for someone with sensitive skin?
Twitter: ehellah
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What’s the best way to take the soap out of the mold? I cut mine but there has to be an easier way!
xox Elizabeth
Wow! This is fabulous! Great idea for the holiday goodie baskets i make up for family and friends. I’d like to try some of those sugar scrubs too! Great idea!
These would make great gift items. Thanks for sharing! Pinning!
Simple, but very natural I love it! Going to save up those 40% to get started on this project. Thanks!
I made this soap this past weekend. I also added about 15 drops of aloe Vera oil. It was fabulous! So I made another batch for my girlfriends at work. Everyone loved them today. The soap felt like silk when I used it. Everyone raved and ranted over their bars. I felt a little guilty bc it was such an easy recipe. Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to make your scrubs.
Angie,
I just made your Oatmeal Soap recipe to give as a gift to a new neighbor, I love it! The detailed product information you listed made it a one stop shopping to gather the necessary ingredients. I plan to make more to give as Christmas & hostess gifts. Do you have any other recipes using other ingredients? I am going to emboss the next batch I make using the website listed on the Goat Milk soap package. I also plan to make your sugar scrubs. Thank you again!
May i which website to purchase all those DIY soap ingredients?
They said they bought it @ Michael’s
http://www.organic-creations.com/servlet/StoreFront
this is where i get all my supplies!
Blessed be!
Hi, I just want to know what time will be ok to mix all the ingredients in microwave? And after pour into soap molds where I have to let them dry?
Thanks,
Mabel
Your recipe was so helpful! i needed to do it for a school project and I did really well. The only thing that I was a little confused about was what to do with it after but then I looked on a different website and it said just leave it to dry so that was good. I just wanted to say Thanks SOOO much!
how do you keep the oatmeal from sinking to the bottom?
thank you
Use suspension formula soap. Or if you don’t have that then you can do it in layers, letting each layer cool before adding more.
is that chemical free detergent free?
Thank you for this! I have wanted to try my hand at making soap but didn’t want to get involved with lye.
I had no idea there was such a thing as suspension formula! Can’t wait to try it! 