Make Natural Exfoliating Soap Recipes
Having your own homemade soap bars at disposal can make one feel good. To make soaps that can do one particular job very well. A soap can address many things whether its skin lightening or fighting off acne, you can make a soap bar that can suit your needs. This recipe is about making exfoliating soap bars🧼🧼 for more radiant skin. Welcome to yet another post and make natural exfoliating soap recipes.
DIY SKINCARE
Soap bars can do more than cleansing the face and body, soaps can be used to tackle various skin issues such as hyperpigmentation, acne breakouts, some type of skin fungus or bacteria and more. But these types of soaps have to be specialized and are more than just normal perfumed regular soaps. There are certain active ingredients that can be added to your regular soap to make it suitable to address a particular skin conditions. Before we go on read this article below on how to make homemade soap.
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Exfoliating Soap Recipes
As we all know, exfoliating is an essential part of any good skincare routine. Exfoliation has many benefits such as boosting collagen production, brightening dull skin, improving blood circulation, promoting cell turnover which are the things that can really help your skin health. Knowing how to make a soap that can give you all this benefits is going to be a life-saver.
These recipes that will be shared on this post are going to have one thing in common and that is exfoliation. So let's get to know some of the ingredients that can help in exfoliating the skin and that can be added to your soap recipe.
Papaya seed powder
Baking soda
Salts
Ground coffee beans
Clays
Some dried herbs and flowers
Including these in your recipe is going to make your soaps more functional, but using a nice silicone mold with unique design is going to make you even more appreciating of the hard work you've put in the soap bars when you start to use them. Now let's begin with the recipe preparation and making!
Selecting Ingredients
Melt and pour soap: To make this recipe making less tedious, it is always a good idea to get a pre-made soap base especially for beginners. If you like making things from scratch then I've included the soap base recipe in the beginning of this post. You can always order a soap base from convenience of your home, order a shea butter or goat milk soap base for more clean and luxurious start.
Activated charcoal: This ingredient is good option for exfoliating the skin. Though activated charcoal is not limited to that, in fact it can detoxify the skin, draw out excess oils (sebum) from the skin and prevent acne breakouts meanwhile brightening dull complexion, making your skin appear more radiant with a youthful glow.
Ground oatmeal: This is another good physical exfoliant to add to one of your soap base. Ground oatmeal is renowned for its moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and exfoliating properties to the skin and has been widely used as a skin home remedy. This ingredient can be well tolerated by itchy, irritated or oily skin. It can also restore the skin barrier.
Green French clay: Clays can be another good ingredients which can help to remove dead skin cells, revealing a new radiant skin. This clay can absorb toxins and excess oils in the skin, adding it to your soap base can make it more better.
Fragrance oil: This is just an optional ingredient and won't break the recipe. Adding fragrance oil or essential oils that are fragrant will make your soap scent stand out but also improve the overall feel once your start to use it.
Dried flower petals: Yet for more customizable soap look adding dried rose petals, chamomile petals or calendula petals will make your soap look unique smell nice and just be visually appealing. This is just another optional ingredient and one may or may not add it.
Ingredients
1 block of melt and pour soap base
1 teaspoon of activated charcoal
1 teaspoon of ground oatmeal
1 teaspoon of green French clay
20 drops of your favorite fragrance oil (optional)
3 heaping teaspoons of dried flowers of your choice
Prepare your gloves, silicone molds or soap box and cutters, measuring spoons, stainless kitchen thermometer, heatproof mixing bowl, glass measuring cups and stirrer. Please gather all your ingredients and tools before starting to make this recipe, you don't want to leave lye just lying around and go looking for a tool or even worse scenario, an ingredient you forgot to buy.
Instructions
Begin making your recipe by cutting your block of melt and pour soap base into small cube chunks. This will make your melting process much easier.
Next prepare a saucepan with few inches of simmering water to create a hot water bath and heat it in the stove top or use a double boiler instead. You can also microwave the soap base till completely melted, though I won't prefer this route. Use a heatproof bowl to hold the soap base chunks if you'll be microwaving.
Now divide your melted sop base into three batches in three different heatproof bowls.
Add your exfoliant ingredients in those bowls, one bowl add ground oatmeal, while the other add activated charcoal and the last one add green French clay.
Add your fragrance oils, essential oils or even vitamin E oil and mix. This is an optional step you can always skip it if you don't have those ingredients.
Stir all the ingredients in this bowls till well combined.
Now when it comes to pouring your soap bases and you have those dried flowers, pour half way in the mold and add your soap base to cover the flowers. This will create beautiful flower embeds. If you don't have the flowers pour directly into the silicone molds.
Tap the mold gently to the sides to remove all the air bubbles.
Cover your molds with soap base with clinging wrap and allow the mixture to settle for 12 to 24 hours.
After one day, ta-da! remove your soap bars from their molds and enjoy using them.
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Hello, my dear gorgeous! Welcome to my blog and learn with me as you walk in your skincare journey. I'm skincare enthusiast and a student. I like sharing my passion of beauty and skincare with the world. I like blogging, reading and binge watching YouTube vlogs and Netflix during my leisure time.
