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By jasmine@eccentricitiesbyjvg.com

Craft Your Own Natural Soap: Easy Recipes Without Lye for Beginners

Making your own natural soap at home is a rewarding and creative way to control the ingredients that touch your skin. If the idea of handling lye seems intimidating, don’t worry—you can still craft luxurious, skin-loving soaps without it! This guide will introduce you to melt-and-pour soap making. This beginner-friendly method allows you to create beautiful, customized soaps with natural ingredients and without the need for handling caustic lye.

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Why Choose Melt-and-Pour Soap Making?

Melt-and-pour soap bases are pre-made soaps that have already gone through the saponification process (where lye and oils react to form soap). This means you can skip working with raw lye while still enjoying the creativity of making homemade soap. These bases are available in a variety of natural options, such as:

  • Oatmeal soap base
  • Goats milk soap base
  • Shea butter soap base
  • Honey soap base
  • Aloe vera soap base
  • Cocoa butter soap base

Essential Ingredients and Tools

To make your own natural soap, you’ll need:

  • A melt-and-pour soap base of your choice – see the ones highlighted above. These are all great!
  • Essential oils for fragrance (lavender, peppermint, citrus, etc.)
  • Natural colorants like turmeric, spirulina, or beetroot powder
  • Add-ins such as dried flowers, oats, or ground coffee for texture
  • Soap molds (silicone molds work best for easy removal)
  • A double boiler or microwave-safe bowl to melt the soap
  • A stirring utensil (wooden or silicone spatula)

Simple Natural Soap DIYs Without Lye

1. Spring Flower Garden with Shea Butter and Honey Soap

In this flower garden melt and pour soap I am using a double layer technique for the green bottom of the soap. The top of the soap is done using the double pour technique which makes lovely unique designs for each soap. These techniques can be used in combination or one at a time in your soap-making.

spring flower garden melt and pour soap finished

Another great project that uses both the Honey and Shea Butter soap bases is the Fall Tropical Leaves – Monstera Melt and Pour Soap DIY.

2. Goat’s Milk Nourishing Layered and Marbled Soap

This soap is great for pampering yourself and gifting loved ones. It is a simple layered and marbled soap using the Goat’s Milk soap base. The Goat’s Milk soap base is a creamy and moisturizing option ideal for sensitive skin.

This one is themed for the holiday season but simply change the colors and you’ll have a perfect hand soap for any season!

Twisted peppermint melt and pour soap in layers of green and red for the holidays

3. Soothing and Hydrating Aloe Vera Soap

The aloe vera soap base is usually recommended for dry or irritated skin, since the aloe vera added can help in soothing the skin.

For this melt-and-pour soap, I am using a marbled technique with green mica and activated charcoal for the black color. I am using fun Halloween-themed soap mold but you can use any mold you have on hand; even a milk carton box will work. The marbled technique is another way to create intricate designs for your handmade soaps.

Halloween marbled melt and pour soap

Exfoliating soaps using melt-and-pour soap bases

Two of my favorite exfoliating soaps are the salt scrubs and the loofah scrubs. These are perfect to use after a fun day at the beach or simply to pamper yourself. Check out both of the DIY’s below, I think you’ll have fun making them and love using them.

Lilac Whipped Soap Salt Scrub with Goat’s Milk melt and pour soap.

lilac whipped soap salt scrub with goat's milk melt and pour soap

Exfoliating Loofah Cashmere Soap.

Finished and unmolded cashmere exfoliating soap.

Tips for Success

  • Avoid overheating the soap base to prevent it from becoming too runny and losing some of the lather properties.
  • Mix well after adding essential oils or colorants to ensure even distribution.
  • Experiment with different combinations of essential oils and natural additives.
  • Wrap your soaps in parchment paper or store them in an airtight container to keep them fresh.

Final Thoughts

Creating natural soaps without lye is an enjoyable and beginner-friendly way to make your own skincare products. Whether you’re making them for personal use or as thoughtful handmade gifts, melt-and-pour soap crafting allows for endless creativity. With these simple projects and ideas, you can start your soap-making journey today—no lye required!

While melt-and-pour soap is a fantastic way to create natural soaps without handling lye, cold process soap making is another wonderful option for those who want even more control over their ingredients. By using the right safety precautions, you can craft luxurious soaps from scratch, customizing oils, butters, and additives to create unique, skin-loving bars. If you’re ready to take the next step in your soap-making journey, check out my Beginner’s Guide to Cold Process Soap Making — it’s packed with everything you need to get started with confidence!

Jasmine
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Cold Process Soapmaking with 25 unique formulations

Cold Process Soapmaking with 25 unique formulations

Have you ever wanted to take control of the ingredients that go on your skin and make it a hobby or a business opportunity at the same time? This is exactly what I wanted several years ago when I was trying to figure out how to stop dry skin and start making my own natural products. I spent several months doing research and trying to understand the process and went over so many websites. I wished there was one single place to get all the information I needed to feel comfortable.

This is why I decided to create this ebook with lots of great information and 25 different formulations that can help you get started and put you on the right path for cold process soap making.

One of the main reasons you will fall in love with soapmaking is that you have full control of the ingredients you use to make your perfect batch of cold process soap for your needs. Cold process soap making is also a wonderful hobby that allows you to create a beautiful practical piece of art as well.

With 25 different formulations, best practices to tweak and some ideas on how you can test your batches, this ebook is the perfect resource to get you started.

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