Make your own liquid hand soap or foam hand soap from soap scraps that normally go to waste!
Total Time: 1/2 hour plus overnight setting
Yield: one gallon
Supplies:
- 1 bar worth soap scraps or little hotel soaps to equal one bar for one gallon
- 1 gal water
- pot
- mixer
- optional: essential oils
- bottles to store
Steps:
- Cut up or grate scraps of soap bars and add to a pot with one gallon water, heat and let it melt until smooth.
- Turn off heat and let cool. I left mine overnight. It will gel up.
- I used my mixer and mixed it for about 3 minutes to break down the clumpy gelatinous mass. You may add more water if you want thinner soft soap. I chose not to this time.
- If you would like you may add a few drops of your favorite essential oils to scent the soap, or not, your choice!
- Then just pour some of the soap into some pump bottles (perhaps your recycling bin?) and save the rest in a larger bottle for refilling!
- Note: You may choose to separate some soap to scent while preserving the rest unscented so you can change scents the next time (by mixing in a different scent before bottling it) for use.
It makes a ton!
- Extra tip: You may thin down the soap to a 1/4 ratio if you have an empty soap foam dispensing bottle to turn it into a foam soap too!