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Homemade Frankincense Soap Bar
June 19, 2014
This homemade frankincense soap bar recipe is great for your skin! It provides hydration and vitamins while cleansing your skin! It’s easy to make and free of harmful chemicals! Try it today!
Homemade Frankincense Soap Bar
Ingredients:
- 20-30 drops frankincense essential oil
- Soap Base
- 5 drops pomegranate oil
- Oval Bar Molds or Decorative Soap Mold
Directions:
- Put soap base in glass bowl then place that bowl in sauce pan with water.
- Heat stove to medium and allow base to melt.
- Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Then add the frankincense and pomegranate oil
- Mix well and transfer to a soap mold
- Let mixture cool fully before popping bar out of mold. Keep at room temp
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Shouldn’t only organic essential oils be used? What are your thoughts on that vs. conventional? Who do you recommend for organic oils? Thanks!
Please email me at [email protected] for my oil recommendations
Hi Dr. Axe, this soap doesn’t make your skin SQUEAKY CLEAN does it? I normally use Dove for Sensitive Skin because I have dermatographism. I can tell a difference, before I get out of the shower because, if my skin feels like it’s squeaky clean before I get out of the shower, I know that my skin is going to be very dry afterwards. Dove doesn’t dry my skin out, so I’m looking for a homemade version of soap that is comparable to Dove. Thanks!
I think it’s great and has amazing health benefits to your skin and body!
Good afternoon Dr.,
I live in Brazil, and I wonder if there is another word to explaim frankincense, I understand incence (what I aprecciate very much)…would it be a kind of oil made from incense?…so shy, but I love to make my own soaps and really liked this recipe. Looking forward to understand it.
Thanks in advance and have a great day!
Silvia
Check this out: https://draxe.com/essential-oils/what-is-frankincense/
what about hummus?
Are organic blue corn chips allowed to eat if trying to adhere to your food list? Or is all corn not recommended?
As long as it is organic, non GMO corn, it should be fine in small amounts
Would it be ok to use half lavender, half frankincense?
Yes
I have severe psoriasis on my fingers. Which would be better for this the pomegranate oil or the raspberry oil. Or is there a better homemade soap recipe for psoriasis. Thanks
Check this out: https://draxe.com/health/psoriasis-diet-5-natural-cures/
I was so excited to see this recipe and ordered all the ingredients. The soap base came today and needless to say, I am very disappointed to see it is made with coconut and palm oils….which I am allergic. I thought making my own soap, lotions, etc…is the only answer to get away from all the products using variations of the palm family. It does not state on amazon or in the picture what the ingredients were, but thankfully it did on the bars, so I will be returning them. My question, is there another soap base that you recommend? I have never even heard of such a thing until I found this recipe. HELP!
You may just use a liquid soap instead.
I make soap from scratch. Making as batch without the oils your allergic to is very possible. Not sure about a base, but I can make a batch, send it to you void of any ingredients and you can rebatch it very similar to soap base procedures. Grate the soap, double boiler heat pieces with tablespoon I’d the aforementioned oils, put in mold and viola. I’m very willing to help. Contact me if it’s something that interests you. Otherwise, good luck
Typos: void of ingredients you’re allergic to.
Heat pieces of soap in aforementioned oils
Do you know of a similar liquid soap recipe?
Here is a body wash recipe: https://draxe.com/beauty/homemade-body-wash/
And a hand soap recipe: https://draxe.com/beauty/homemade-hand-soap/
How do you use the lavender oil for skin problems ?
Check out this article and email me at [email protected]
https://draxe.com/essential-oils/lavender-oil-benefits/
I love all the DIY recipes you post! I see that the ingredients that are highlighted lead you to a website for purchase. Are these the websites and or brands that you recommend? Thank you!!
Yes they are.
Where do I get the soap base?
Click on the ingredient in the ingredients list in the recipe and it will bring you to a site where you can purchase the same soap base that I use.
Are you using the whole pound of soap base in this recipe?
No, use the amount needed to fill the amount of soap molds you are using
Where do you get the Frankensense oil from?
[email protected]
I am making the Frankincense lotion bar…..where do I get shea butter and bees wax?
If you click on the words there is an amazon link where you can buy them.
Are there any alternatives to the pomegranate oil that you can use?
Raspberry seed oil.
Where can i get raspberry seed oil…organic?
You can find it here: http://amzn.to/1u0ftBk