DIY Foaming Hand Soap

What is so special about this hand soap?  It is chemical free! It cleans your hands well and it is much gentler than store soaps.  It's very easy and simple to make, while taking a short amount of time.  We usually make 5-6 bottles at once, and it may take about 10 minutes.  We have been using this for over a year and have been very happy with it.  

I work at a cafe and bakery, where we wash our hands very frequently throughout the day.  The frequent washing is so hard on one of our waitresses' hands that at times her phone won't even recognize her fingerprint!  She has used this soap and loved it!  It was so much gentler on her hands.

Here's what you need to make your own soap:

2 Tbsp. castille soap

1 Tbsp. fractionated coconut oil

12 drops Young Living Thieves essential oil

3 drops Young Living Lemon Oil

Distilled water

Foaming hand soap dispenser

Pour castille soap, fractionated coconut oil, Thieves essential oil, and lemon essential oil into the bottom of your soap dispenser.  Fill mostly to the top with water, leave some room for the foam (about an inch space).  Screw the pump on and shake everything together.  And that's all there is to it! 

This recipe is for 1 soap dispenser.

Our empty dispensers.

It may be hard to see in the picture,
 but the liquid in the bottom of the bottle
is everything except the water.

My mom and I did a rough estimate on how much it would cost to get started making this soap.  Since it's been a while since she had to purchase the ingredients, she looked up the fractionated coconut oil and castille soap on Amazon.  We also use organic products, which is usually more expensive.

32 oz. Bronner's organic castille soap was $16- you should get approx. one batch per oz of castille soap, this bottle should give you 32 batches of soap.

16 oz. MoliveraOrganics was $14- this should also give you 32 batches of soap. 

15 ml Young Living Thieves Essential Oil wholesale is $35- If you use this for nothing else, you will be able to get 21 bottles of soap.

15 ml Young Living Lemon Essential Oil wholesale is $11.50- If you use this for nothing else, you will be able to get 83 batches of soap!

Hand pumps- My mom just went to the clearance section in stores and bought the cheapest foam soap.  When she got home she dumped it all out and washed the bottles out well.  

With these numbers, it would cost you $76 to get started. I know, that's a lot for soap! But it comes out to about $2.76 per bottle. Think of it as bulk soap shopping!  You can also change up which essential oils you would like to use and the amount that you use, depending on what you need and how you would like it to smell.

My mom and I are both independent distributors of Young Living, so we get our oils at the wholesale price.  I have no affiliate links for Young Living, Amazon, or any company on my blog.  But if you would like more information or have questions about Young Living or any of it's products, please contact me.

We use Young Living for a variety of reasons, some of them being that they have safest, purest, therapeutic grade oils. They refuse to cut them with chemicals or to sell any oils that do not test Young Living's high quality standards.

I hope you will give this recipe a try and that this will be one step towards a chemical free home! If you do try it, I would love to hear what you think about it!