Essential Liquid Soap
"This liquid soap can be used in the bath as well as a hand wash.
For antibacterial purposes use tea tree oil, lemon and/or lavender. Other wonderful scents are jasmine, rose and lemongrass."
- Ready In:
- 12hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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2 pints (about)
ingredients
- 2 - 2 1⁄2 teaspoons essential oils, of your choice
- 2 pints hot water
- 1 soap bar (grated or flaked, Ivory or homemade soaps are best)
- 3 tablespoons glycerine
directions
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Leave to stand for 12 hours and store in a suitable container.
- (If you want to tweak this to your liking, remember that you should use about 10 drops of oil per ounce of soap.).
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Reviews
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I had some leftover soap (Ivory I think) from the kids' attempts at soap carving! I wasn't sure how much soap I had, so I used 3 cups of water and combined the water and grated soap in a saucepot and cooked on low until most of the soap was disintegrated. Then I added the 3 T glycerine and 1 tsp of peppermint oil. It smells so lovely! I then strained it into a quart canning jar (just barely fits) to cool. I poured a little of it (didn't really let it stand for 12 hours :) into my child's humidifier to clean it. It bubbled up nicely. It's not a thick soap, so I'll have to see how it works in a pump dispenser, but if so, it's a cheap way to have liquid hand soap. And it's not the "antibacterial free" kind that I'm avoiding now.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Zuleika L.
Edinburgh
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I am a proud mother of three healthy boys aged 15,11 and 5. I'm originally from the tiny island of Bermuda and have been living in Edinburgh since July 2005.
I've been collecting recipes since I was about 14 or 15 and been cooking and baking since then as well.
I love all kinds of crafts also. In my spare time if I'm not in the kitchen; I crochet, make jewelry, bead, knit, sew, cross stitch, do plastic canvas and quilt. I have a short attention span, so I have plenty of different craft choices when I get bored of doing something. Oh, and I also like to read, listen to music, fiddle with any electronic gadget, collect dvd's and watch them, and I'm an internetaholic! :-) I keep a craft blog at http://hobbyzu.blogspot.com and I sell my crocheted items and patterns at http://hobbyzu.com. I keep pretty busy and being self employed gives me more time to explore cooking! :-)
I'm mostly interested in cook books featuring regular old home cooking and favorites. When I moved to the UK I had to get rid of my cookbook collection. I did keep all my Bermudian cookbooks, charity cookbooks and 'The Foods of Israel Today' and Better Homes and Gardens 'Hometown Favorites'.
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