How to Make Lavender Sage Olive Oil Soap

Whip up your own batch of lavender sage soap with olive oil.

Making soap from scratch is a complicated, drawn-out process that requires a fair amount of expertise. The melt-and-pour method, however, allows even beginners to make a beautiful bar of soap. While the method is incredibly simple, it also allows you to completely customize your soap when it comes to the scent and other ingredients. A mix of oils and dried herbs allows you to create a great lavender sage olive oil soap bar.

Things You'll Need

• Double boiler
• Vegetable glycerin soap base
• Lavender essential oil
• Dried Sage
• Olive oil
• Soap molds
• Cooking oil spray
• Rubbing alcohol
• Plastic spray bottle

Instructions

1. Set up a double boiler on your stove so that the water in the bottom section simmers.

2. Use a knife to cut up a block of vegetable glycerin soap base into the top of the double boiler.

3. Stir constantly as the soap base slowly melts into liquid.

4. Add a few drops of lavender essential oil, a small handful of dried sage and a teaspoon or so of olive oil. Stir well to incorporate.

5. Pour the hot liquid carefully into soap molds that have been lightly coated with cooking-oil spray.

6. Drop the soap mold gently on a table to make any air bubbles rise. Spray the bubbles away with rubbing alcohol in a plastic spray bottle.

7. Allow the soap to cool and harden completely before turning the molds upside down and easing the bars out.

Tips & Warnings

• Even though extra-virgin olive oil is the premium choice for cooking, soap-making olive oil should be pure-grade quality, which is less expensive and adds a rich, moisturizing finish to soap.

• Always be careful with any new soap you make and do a

• patch

• test to check for allergies.

References

• Teach Soap: Melt and Pour Soap Making
• Soap Nuts: Melt and Pour Recipes