Make Homemade Soap

I spent the day making homemade soap for a small shop here at our local mall. I made three batches of glycerin melt and pour and a double batch of goat milk and honey lye soap.

One soap is all red and has a candy cane scent. Another soap is half red and green marbled and half green. It has an evergreen scent. Both of these are ideal for the holidays. The fragrance on both of these soaps is quite light.

Then I made some patchouli scented soaps that I colored a glittery gold. These soaps are really pretty and have a very strong fragrance that will last for quite some time.

All of the above soaps are glycerin based and will be out of the molds by tomorrow morning. In fact, two of the soaps have already been removed from the mold. The patchouli scented ones aren’t dry enough to release yet.

The soap I am most excited about is the lye based goat milk and honey. Not only will this be wonderful for the skin, but it was made completely from scratch by me, plus the goat milk came from our own goats. It is so wonderful when you can utilize products you raised or grew yourself.

I chose to make two different batches of scented soap. The first one is scented geranium and orange. An interesting combination, but one that seems to work well with the strong honey scent that the soap is naturally emitting. The second batch was scented with an essential oil combination called focus. This particular oil contains a combination of essential oils such as pink grapefruit, basil, lavender and rosemary.