Make your own hand soap

I’ve not been so great at submitting posts consistently and wondered if it’s because they’re just too long.  I am not a natural writer so I write, delete, write, delete.. you get my drift.  So, here’s my first attempt at a short, concise and yet still interesting post.

I’ve been making my own hand soap for a while now and it’s so simple I thought I’d share it with you all.  It’s simply diluted Bronner’s soap, which comes in several scents and can even be found at Meijer- woohoo!  I’ve looked up the dilution amounts literally every time I’ve made it, and somehow failed to make note of it for future reference.  So today I found one that intrigued me because it also calls for vegetable glycerin, which I learned from one of the comments on that post, is used as a humectant, or natural moisturizer.  That’s something I’ll definitely have to try during the upcoming dry winter months. 

So here’s what I do:

Fill a 2 cup liquid measuring cup with 1 cup of water and add Bronner’s castile soap up to the 1 1/4 mark- adding the soap TO the water reduces any foaming.  (*In the future I will also add 1 tsp. of vegetable glycerin.)  Mix with a spoon and pour into a (re-used) foaming hand soap dispenser.

Currently I am re-using a couple of Bath and Body foaming dispensers, but they are hard to clean being so strongly scented and the labels are also hard to remove.  I learned today, again from the comments on this recipe, that Method makes a foaming hand soap. I think I’ll pick some up at Target to use for the hand soap and retire the Bath and Body ones for homemade carpet cleaner. I originally used a regular soap dispenser, however the runny diluted soap is hard to control and would squirt in all directions; I’ve had it on my face, clothes and even the wall.  

I use Bronner’s peppermint scented soap because that’s what I use for my household cleaner recipes, but I’m looking to try something different for the hand soap- maybe citrus, almond or lavender. What scent would you suggest?

So much for a SHORT post today huh? *grin*