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How To Make Pretty Eco-Friendly Soaps For Favors, Shower Gifts or Just Because

Are you looking for a wedding or shower favor that’s Eco-friendly? If so, I’ve got the perfect one for you. How about making some natural, absolutely sumptuous smelling soaps? They’re perfect for reducing waste and believe it or not….they’re amazingly easy to make!

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 pound melt-and-pour Castile base (makes about six 3-ounce soaps)
Dried flowers
Honey
Coarse Oatmeal
Essential Oil
Soap molds

There are endless combinations of dried flowers and essential oils you can use to make a soap that is just as lovely as you want it to be. I purchased my soap making products from Bulk Apothecary, so I perused their supplies to find the perfect combinations that would work for me. I made three batches:

1. Dried Chamomile, honey, course oatmeal & eucalyptus essential oil
2. Dried orange peel, sage leaves & Bergamot essential oil
3. Peppermint leaves, coarse oatmeal & peppermint essential oil

STEP ONE: Cut the Castile base into small chunks and place into a microwave safe bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and heat on high for 1 minute. (Microwave temps vary so make sure the soap base does not boil). Basically you want to melt the base in small spurts. After heating for one minute, swirl the soap base around to see if there are any chunks left to melt. If so, heat in 15 to 30 second increments until the soap base has completely melted.

STEP TWO:
For the Chamomile soap – Add 3 tablespoons of slightly warmed honey, 5 tablespoons dried Chamomile, 4 tablespoons coarse oatmeal and 10 drops of eucalyptus essential oil to the melted soap base.

For the Dried orange peel soap – Add 5 tablespoons dried orange peel, 5 tablespoons sage leaves and 10 drops Bergamot essential oil.

For the Peppermint soap – Add 5 tablespoons peppermint leaves, 4 tablespoons coarse oatmeal and 10 drops of peppermint essential oil.

Stir ingredients thoroughly.

STEP THREE: Pour soap mixture into your chosen soap molds. I purchased some plain square molds from Bulk Apothecary, but you can find all kinds of shapes and designs pretty much anywhere. Craft stores sell them and many online retailers do too. But if you don’t want to buy something, you can also use muffin tins if you’re okay with a round style soap.

STEP FOUR: Let the soaps sit for 4 hours to mold. When ready, carefully run a knife along the edge of each mold to pop the soaps out.

STEP FIVE: Now comes another fun part – dreaming up your packaging! If you’re making soaps for favors, you can simply tie a piece of raffia, twine or glittery ribbon around the soap or wrap it gift wrap style with parchment paper or some pretty wrapping paper. A pretty ribbon or fabric would work too.

There are countless ways to wrap, package and present these little lovelies so let your mind wander until you come up with the perfect idea.

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  1. @FabYouBliss
    View August 1, 2013

    How To Make Pretty Eco-Friendly Soaps For Favors, Shower Gifts or Just Because http://t.co/pMXXg3v0GR

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  2. The Perfect Palette
    View August 1, 2013

    Such a great project for a rainy day! love this.

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  3. Erika {Borrowed & Bleu}
    View August 1, 2013

    I love making soap!

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  4. @FabYouBliss
    View August 1, 2013

    Have you seen today’s Eco-friendly soap DIY? They’re perfect for favors or just because? http://t.co/RjZGf1YZW7

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  5. Sara
    View August 1, 2013

    Whoah. Your DIYs are always so awesome. I can’t even make a salad correctly. This one I especially love – tempted to try it!

    Reply
  6. @AngelicaLeilani
    View August 1, 2013

    “@FabYouBliss: Have you seen today’s Eco-friendly soap DIY? They’re perfect for favors or just because? http://t.co/MgUq0o7EBH” I love this

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  7. Anne-Marie Faiola
    View August 7, 2013

    Just love how your soaps turned out, they are so beautiful! =)

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  8. Carol
    View August 10, 2013

    Do you need to coat the molds or muffin tin with anything to avoid the soaps sticking?

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    • Stephanie Elizabethreplied:
      View August 11, 2013

      Hi Carol – Thanks for the comment. No, there’s no need to coat the molds. If you use a muffin tin, you might want to pour the soap mixture into paper muffin cups. That’s what I used. But for the plastic molds, you can just pour it right in. Hope this helps and thanks for following!

      Reply
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  11. Kendra
    View January 12, 2014

    Where can you buy Castile soap like this?

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    • Stephanie Elizabethreplied:
      View January 13, 2014

      I Kendra! Thanks so much for the comment. I’m glad you like the tutorial. You can find the soap bases at the same place I purchased them, Bulk Apothecary. The link is listed above in the tutorial for your convenience. 🙂 Enjoy, and thanks for following!

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  12. stephanie LubbeBourland
    View February 14, 2014

    I heart all your crafts bunches I’ve made soap homemade but not w dried flowers oatmeal or orange peel can’t wait to do this people love to get lil gifts like this

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    View February 21, 2014

    Love this! Since Facebook is notorious for not letting page owners know when I tag them, I thought I would stop by myself and let you know I featured this post and my readers loved it! https://www.facebook.com/CraftsbyAmanda/photos/a.353593675216.349539.323548680216/10153844553905217/?type=1&stream_ref=10

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  15. Angela
    View June 3, 2014

    I’m assuming it’s ok to choose a different soap base if I wanted to ?

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    • Stephanie Elizabethreplied:
      View June 4, 2014

      Absolutely!

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