We go through a lot of hand soap around here. At the sale price of $1 a pump for store bought it was high time to come up with an alternative. I am continuing to perfect this one but I had a few random bars of soap lying around and I decided to give it a whirl with what I had at my disposal. I know that some people only use pure castile soap for this but I went with what I had, and it worked great.
I thought about how I make my homemade laundry soap (recipe here) and wondered why I couldn't just make some hand soap with the same method of grating a bar of soap and adding water over heat until it was dissolved. It worked! It is definitely runnier than store bought but the price break down is phenomenal. This bar of Dove soap was $1 and it made 3 quarts of liquid soap. Being that a normal store bought dispenser type soap is $1 for 8oz and I got 96 oz out of $1 bar of soap that makes my 8 ounces of hand soap cost .08 cents!!!
What is my recipe? it's simple, I took 1 bar of soap (any kind would do, you can use a bar of castile, your favorite bar of homemade soap or any other kind you choose) and 3 quarts of distilled water. (You can use tap water but boil it first and let it cool)
I thought about how I make my homemade laundry soap (recipe here) and wondered why I couldn't just make some hand soap with the same method of grating a bar of soap and adding water over heat until it was dissolved. It worked! It is definitely runnier than store bought but the price break down is phenomenal. This bar of Dove soap was $1 and it made 3 quarts of liquid soap. Being that a normal store bought dispenser type soap is $1 for 8oz and I got 96 oz out of $1 bar of soap that makes my 8 ounces of hand soap cost .08 cents!!!
What is my recipe? it's simple, I took 1 bar of soap (any kind would do, you can use a bar of castile, your favorite bar of homemade soap or any other kind you choose) and 3 quarts of distilled water. (You can use tap water but boil it first and let it cool)
I shredded the bar of soap with my cheese grater (no worries folks, its just soap, it washes off). Then I added the water and shredded soap flakes to a pot and heated it over medium until all the soap flakes were dissolved.
After it cooled I simply refill my bathroom soap pumps and keep the remainder in mason jars in my laundry room for soap refills! That was simple.
Do you have a favorite recipe for home made liquid hand soap? Feel free to link up or comment below.
Do you have a favorite recipe for home made liquid hand soap? Feel free to link up or comment below.
