Curious about soap making for beginners? These homemade soap recipes will get you started. Some are melt and pour, which is the easiest way to make soap.
What’s Great about Natural Soap Making?
Soap making is a great way to create natural, healthy and eco-friendly soap. You can control the ingredients that go into your soap. Choose from shea butter, cocoa butter or even castile soap bases for your bar of soap.
It’s also a fun and creative process that’s totally crafty. So you get to express your personality and style through your finished product.
And it can be cheaper than buying soap at the store. You can make a large batch of soap for a surprisingly small amount of money.
You can learn all about how to make homemade soap. Melt and pour soap making is easiest for beginners, because it doesn’t involve lye like cold process soap making.
Homemade Soap Recipes
The following DIY soap recipes vary in difficulty. Not all of them use lye. Some of them are simple re-batching or "melt and pour" recipes which are more suitable if you want to keep it simple.
Others are cold process soap recipes, which lets you make fantastic-looking layered or ombre bars.
An easy melt and pour recipe that gives you a lovely elderberry soap that has very few ingredients. Comes out as a translucent purple bar - very pretty!
Your morning coffee isn’t just for drinking. Well, the actual coffee liquid is, but the grounds? don’t throw those in the compost just yet. You can use them to whip up a quick batch of this lovely Vanilla Coffee Soap.
This apple scented DIY Glittery Layered Rainbow Soap is so pretty and perfect. Use at home or give as gifts, this soap is sure to leave you with joy!
The Brown Sugar in this Brown Sugar and Vanilla Handmade Soap gives it a beautiful translucent golden colour with a light and sweet scent enhanced by the vanilla essential oil.
Learn how to make a lovely, invigorating, exfoliating, loofah soap easily with these step-by-step instructions. Your skin will feel smoother and fresher after you make, and use, your own loofah soap!
This DIY Charcoal Soap Face Wash Bars recipe is an easy way to deep clean skin during your normal beauty routine.
Activated Charcoal Soap is a wonderful beauty care item and making your own is very easy to do. This easy DIY charcoal soap tutorial will keep you stocked up and your skin will be looking great too.
An easy fun melt and pour recipe that gives you a honey and oat soap that's good for soothing sensitive skin.
Learn how to make this DIY loofah soap. Exfoliating your skin regularly is a great way to get rid of dry, dead skin cells and reveal healthy, glowing skin.
Rose Vanilla Exfoliating Sugar Scrub Soap Cubes are a great way to add exfoliation and moisturizing properties to your soap. This recipe is made with sugar, coconut oil, and essential oils for an amazing smelling product that will make you want more!
This Poppy Seed Soap DIY makes the perfect soap to exfoliate tired, winter skin. Melt and pour soap recipes are so easy to make. You can easily stock your cabinet with your favorite homemade soaps in different scents.
Do your kids love Shark Week? They will love these DIY Baby Shark Soap Bars for Kids – a simple craft that is perfect for little hands!
Want to encourage hand washing with your kids? Create these easy homemade soap for kids with hidden toys inside and they’ll be begging to wash their hands to get to the prize inside!
Do you like Harry Potter? Then check out this homemade Butterbeer soap that would make an amazing gift for your favorite HP fan. I’m planning on giving some to my friends and family too!
This Botanical Goat Milk Handmade Soap is so easy to make using the recipe I am sharing below.
Loofah Soaps (aka luffa soaps) are an easy way to cleanse and exfoliate skin at the same time, so it stays smooth and radiant. While Loofah Soap may look like a high-end beauty product, it’s incredibly fun and easy to make!
Turmeric soap is great for the face and body for all skin types. Adding this natural spice into your skin care products will help reduce both dark spots and blemishes. This easy turmeric soap recipe leaves you with a glowing even skin tone.
Make goat’s milk charcoal soap by following these step-by-step instructions. You will feel fresh and clean with this terrific activated charcoal soap recipe. We use this particular bar soap for face soap, as well as a hand soap, and love it.
Make Easy DIY Rosemary Vanilla Essential Oil Soap using goat’s milk soap base, rosemary essential oil and vanilla extract. It’s good for your skin and smells great!
Beautiful heart shaped layered soap bars with a toy gemstone ring pressed into them. Great for kids who love bling and also cute for Valentine's Day!
DIY crystal soap that looks like gemstones is the first of, hopefully, many magical projects to come. I don’t do a ton of DIY projects, so I am easily intimidated. However, I was encouraged by my friend, Dawn at Cutefetti to do some magic-like creations.
This homemade rosehip soap smooths and moisturizes with triple action of rosehips. Enhanced with rosehip seed oil, rosehip powder and dried rosehips, this rosehip soap heals from bruises, acne and wrinkles.
f these cupcakes look too good to eat, that’s because they are! Although they look like a sweet Fall dessert, they are actually adorable pumpkin spice soap.
This homemade rose soap will pamper your skin, leave it smooth and moisturized.
These DIY Oatmeal Soap Bars are easy to make using natural ingredients to gently cleanse and exfoliate skin.
The scent of lavender is so relaxing, you may find you want to keep them for yourself instead of giving them away as gifts as you intended! Just be sure to make extra soap for yourself.
If you want a fun project for your kids or even just an easy-to-do DIY that everyone will love, then this glowing ghost poop soap is perfect! It’s made with simple materials, and it only takes minutes to complete. The melt-and-pour soap base also makes this an affordable DIY.
Make this colorful rainbow layered soap at home with easy-to-find supplies. This homemade, personalized gift is perfect for friends and family of all ages!
Homemade soap loofahs uses loofahs as a mold to hold soap. The result is a wonderfully fragrant homemade soap with exfoliating properties — so you can wash and exfoliate at the same time.
This DIY coffee soap recipe has a fresh brewed coffee scent and exfoliating properties. It is very easy to make since it utilizes a melt and pour soap base. The homemade soap is a simple craft project that produces giftable results and is perfect for soap making beginners.
This DIY Pumpkin Spice Goat Milk Soap is easy to make and is perfect for your own bath or to give as a gift.
What does a unicorn smell like? That was the first question when thinking about Unicorn soap. Cotton candy sounds like a great choice!
If you are a coffee lover or know someone that is, this is just the soap for you! Learn how to make this DIY cold processed coffee soap right at home!
Jasmine Flower Soap is a luxury soap you can make at home. It is a deliciously creamy and moisturizing soap featuring goat milk and jasmine essential oil. This amazingly creamy soap requires only a few ingredients and is easy and inexpensive to make!
This soap is fragranced with lavender. It’s an old-fashioned scent that is calming and relaxing. This soap will soothe after a long, stressful day and is perfect for gift giving.
This homemade soap bar comes out looking like a lump of coal! Perfect for a holiday stocking stuffer joke (or, um, not)!
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These fun melt and pour pencil soaps are perfect for a back to school gift or as a teacher appreciation gift. And they’re so easy to make!
This DIY Thanksgiving hand soap gift is such a fun Thanksgiving gift idea! The free printable tag makes this super easy to put together!
These adorable translucent soaps feature spider rings inside. They make great Halloween non-candy treats, but they're also fun all year round if you love the spooky motif. (You can also switch out the spiders for other seasonal trinkets!)
This easy melt and pour monster soap is going to bring the smiles! Grab the kids and some googly eyes and click to see how easy it is to make.