DIY Essential Oil Blends and Recipes for Soap

Making soap with essential oils is a great way to save money, have fun and get creative. It also has many benefits such as being natural, non-toxic and environmentally friendly. I’m going to share with you a super fast and easy essential oil soap making recipe that will give you homemade soap in a few hours with only a few minutes of actual hands on time.

I’m also going to share some of my favorite DIY essential oil blends and recipes for homemade soap. These include Lavender, Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Rosemary, and Lemon Balm.

There are many benefits that come from making your own soaps.

1) Soap Making is a cost-saving process.

2) You can customize the soap to fit your needs or wants

3) It’s a great way to be creative and have fun crafting

4) You can use any type of essential oil you want for the recipe, so it will fit any skin type or preference

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Make sure to use real essential oil and not fragrance oils.

Fragrance oil is typically synthetic fragrance and is no different than buying a premade soap. It’s basically perfume.

To get all of the benefits of essential oils, make sure you are using a true essential oil.

If the bottle of your essential oil says “fragrance oil’ anywhere on it, then it is not a true essential oil.

Benefits of making your own DIY Soap with essential oils

Some of the benefits of using your own homemade Essential Oil Soap for Skin Care are:

• It’s cheaper than buying commercial products.
• It contains all natural ingredients so there are no harmful chemicals or preservatives that can disrupt hormones and cause other symptoms.
• It is super moisturizing and doesn’t strip or dry out your skin
• You can make the scent as strong as you like. If you like a strong scent, add more drops essential oil. If you prefer a lighter scent, add less drops of essential oil.
• You can use this homemade soap as hand soap at your bathroom skin, or body soap in the shower/bath. It’s versatile and works wonderfully well as both.

Essential Oil to Use in your DIY Soap

There’s no limit to the essential oil blends and recipes that you can use in your homemade soap. I’ve included some simple essential oil soap blend recipes here as suggestions, but it’s entirely up to you which essential oils to use in your soap.

You can use just 1 essential oil scent, or combine 2 or more for a custom scent.

A Note about adding essential oils:

To add essential oils to your homemade soap recipes, you’ll want to start by adding small amounts of pure essential oil to your melted soap base. Start small and add more as needed.

The total amount of essential oils you use is going to vary depending on your personal taste, the essential oil, and the soap base you’re using.

I recommend experimenting with different oils to find a blend you love. You can try some of the blends below or come up with your own essential oil blends. Just combine an oil that has top notes with an oil that has base notes to come up with your own recipe.

Here is a list of the best essential oils to use in your soap:

• Peppermint
• Wild Orange
• Tea Tree oil
• Lavender oil
• Lemon
• Vanilla
• Ylang Ylang
• Cinnamon (great for a fall soap recipe)
• Clove Bud (also great for a fall soap recipe especially when combined with Cinnamon. Will boost your immune system, too!)

Citrus oils smell fantastic and make great soaps. They are also good at cutting grease.

Favorite Essential Oil Blends for your Homemade Soap

Use these essential oil blends in the Homemade Soap recipe you’ll find below.

Spearmint and Rosemary essential oils

• 15 drops Spearmint oil
• 15 drops Rosemary oil
• Optional: 1 – 2 teaspoons of additives such as Dried herbs, oatmeal, coffee, himalayan salt.

Disclaimer: Although these images show fresh herbs in the soap, we highly recommend only using dried herbs. The fresh herbs (although beautiful) turn the soap brown after a few days.

Adaptive and Lavender soap bars using melt and pour soap base

Combine the soothing and uplifting aroma of Adaptiv with the calming scent of Lavender to make your own soap bars. This simple recipe is the perfect way to introduce Adaptiv to your love ones and add a new dimension to your daily routine. 

• Dried Lavender 
• Soap coloring (optional)
• 20 drops of Adaptiv essential oil blend
• 5 drops of Lavender essential oil

Lemon Poppy Seed Soap

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• 2 lemons, zested
• 2 tablespoons poppyseeds
• 20 drops Lemon essential oil

Note: Citrus oils can cause photosensitivity, so we do not recommend exposing the skin to direct sunlight after topical application of these essential oils. However, essential oils in the soap bars are found in small, appropriate amounts that will not cause any phototoxic harm.

Rosemary-Lemon-Sage soap with cornmeal

Mix-ins:

• 1 tablespoon cornmeal
• 10 drops Lemon essential oil
• 10 drops Rosemary essential oil
• 10 drops Sage essential oil

Cinnamon-Orange-Ginger soap with coffee grounds:

Mix-ins:

• 2 tablespoon organic coffee grounds
• 15 drops Cinnamon Bark essential oil
• 10 drops Ginger essential oil
• 10 drops Orange essential oil

Related Post: You may also love this Rosemary Lavender Infused Goat’s Milk Soap Recipe

How to make your own handmade soap using melt and pour base

There are several ways to make your own soap at home. The easiest way is to microwave olive oil pour soap base until it’s liquid, add your essential oils, and then pour it into molds.

Melt and Pour base is a ready to use base for your soap that has already gone through the saponification process. Which is a fancy word that means the soap base has already undergone the chemical process to turn lye into a useable, safe form to use and eliminates the need for your soap to cure for weeks on end.

With a melt and pour soap base, your homemade soap bars will be ready in a few hours instead of weeks!

Supplies you’ll need to make your own DIY Soap

• Silicone soap mold – There’s so many fun shapes available. I bought THESE basic rectangle shape molds.
• melt and pour base – see my recommendations below
• Glass jar or microwave safe bowl – I used my glass pyrex measuring cup.
• essential oils for fragrance – see my essential oil soap blend recommendations below

There are so many fun silicone molds available. I’m loving THESE SILICONE MOLDS that are a basic rectangle shape and have beautiful patterns on them. I bought the plain molds without patterns, but wish I had bought these:

Melt and Pour Soap Base for your DIY Soap

You can use whatever type of melt and pour base you like. There are many to choose from. A few of my personal favorites to use are:

• Goat’s milk – I have bought and used THIS ONE and LOVE IT
• Olive oil
• Oatmeal – I haven’t tried oatmeal yet, but it’s on my list to make. I will be using THIS ONE. It’s the same brand as the Goat’s Milk soap base that I love
• Honey – I recommend THIS ONE
• Shea Butter – I recommend THIS ONE
• Organic Glycerin – Use THIS ONE if you want a certified organic soap base.

Not sure which one you want to try first? Then check out this sampler pack that contains 7 different types of melt and pour soap base. You can try them all!

Essential Oil Recipes for Homemade Soap using Melt and Pour Soap Recipes

Here is a really good basic homemade soap recipe to follow. This essential oil soap recipe takes only 5 – 10 minutes to make!!

Did you make this? Comment below with your favorite essential oil soap blends!

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