After making my first batch of laundry soap I decided to look into making our own liquid hand soap. We don’t go through it that quickly but I figured I should look into it as it might be cheaper to make some myself. To my surprise it is rather easy. I did a bit of online research and decided to give it a try.
This is all you need to make your own liquid hand soap:
The ingredients for liquid hand soap.
Cheese grater
2 Tbsp of Liquid Glycerin (I didn’t have any on hand but a good friend gave me some)
One 8oz bar of soap
1 gallon of water
The first step is to grate the bar of soap.
Grate your bar of soap.
Fill a pot with 1 gallon of water and add the soap shavings.
Add 2 Tbsp of liquid glycerin to the pot and turn the heat to medium-high and stir until the soap dissolves. At this point it pretty much looks like soapy water.
Looks like soapy water to me!
Leave it alone to cool for at least 10-12 hours. It begins to cloud up after 3-4 hours.
Water finally begins to cloud up.
After it has cooled completely, around 12 hours later it will thicken and look like liquid soap. If it is thicker than it should be you can take some beaters and blend it while adding just a bit of water until the consistency is more like liquid soap.
For the cost of a bar of soap and some liquid glycerin you now have a gallon of liquid hand soap. Now you can refill your bottles of liquid soap. In a cute dispenser this would make a great handmade gift!
Success, a gallon of liquid hand soap.
