How to Make Homemade Oatmeal Bar Soap
Oatmeal soap exfoliates the skin and provides a relief to itchiness. Homemade oatmeal bar soap will allow you to use natural ingredients that are environmentally friendly to help heal your skin. Commercial soaps often do not contain many natural ingredients, and the chemicals can often irritate sensitive skin. You can customize homemade oatmeal soap bars with your favorite scent and colors to make the soap suit your personal tastes.
Things You'll Need
- 1 ½ cups tallow
- ½ cup coconut oil
- Saucepan
- ¼ cup lye
- ½ cup cold water
- ½ cup oatmeal
- Blender
- Essential oil
- Soap mold
- Towel
- Rack
- Sharp knife
- Tissue paper
Instructions
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Place the 1 ½ cups of tallow and ½ cup of coconut oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Remove the saucepan from the heat source once they melt.
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Stir ¼ cup of lye into ½ cup of cold water until the lye dissolves. Allow the mixture to cool.
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Place ½ cup of oatmeal into a blender. Blend the oatmeal until it appears fine and powdery in texture.
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Pour the lye mixture into the tallow and coconut oil mixture once they both are lukewarm. Stir the mixture to make it thick. Once the mixture looks like pudding, add 10 drops of your preferred essential oil.
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Stir until the essential oil mixes into the soap.
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Pour the soap mixture into a soap mold. Cover the mold with a towel, and allow it to cure for 24 hours.
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Remove the soap from the mold. Place the soap onto a rack to dry for two to three weeks.
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Cut the soaps into bars with a sharp knife. Wrap the soap in tissue paper.
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Tips & Warnings
Tallow is made from suet or beef fat. You can purchase tallow at most butcher shops or grocery stores.
Lye will burn your skin and cause you to go blind. Always wear gloves and goggles when working with lye.
References
- Photo Credit bars of soap image by Jale Evsen Duran from Fotolia.com
