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Homemade Lavender Soap Bar
February 26, 2025
Lavender soap is a popular choice for those seeking a natural and calming skin care product. Known for its soothing aroma and skin-nourishing properties, lavender soap can help relax the mind while promoting healthy, hydrated skin.
Making your own lavender soap at home ensures that you use only high-quality, natural ingredients, free from harmful chemicals found in many commercial products.
This article provides a step-by-step guide to making a homemade lavender soap bar using a proven recipe, along with the benefits of its key ingredients for skin health.
Key ingredients
This homemade lavender soap bar is far from complicated. In fact, all you need are three ingredients and the soap mold of your choosing.
For starters, you can’t make homemade lavender soap without a soap base. This recipe uses an all-natural hemp oil glycerin melt and pour soap base, but you can use whatever natural, organic soap base you prefer.
Here are the other two main players:
Lavender oil
The star of this DIY recipe, of course, is the lavender oil.
Lavender oil provides several skin benefits due to its antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Here’s how it helps:
- Soothes inflammation and redness. Lavender oil has anti-inflammatory properties that help calm irritated skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis and rosacea.
- Promotes wound healing. Research has suggested that lavender oil may speed up wound healing by promoting collagen production and tissue repair.
- Fights acne. Its antibacterial and antimicrobial properties help kill acne-causing bacteria, reduce breakouts and prevent clogged pores.
- Hydrates dry skin. Lavender oil acts as a natural moisturizer, soothing dry, flaky or itchy skin.
- Reduces hyperpigmentation and scars. The antioxidants in lavender oil may help fade dark spots, scars and discoloration over time.
- Protects against free radical damage. Rich in antioxidants, lavender oil helps protect the skin from oxidative stress, which contributes to premature aging.
- Soothes burns and sunburns. Its cooling and anti-inflammatory effects can relieve pain and redness from minor burns and sunburns.
- Calms skin irritations and bug bites. Due to its antimicrobial properties, lavender oil helps soothe itchiness, reduce swelling, and prevent infections from bug bites or rashes.
Vitamin E oil
Vitamin E oil offers several skin benefits due to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and moisturizing properties. Here’s how it helps:
- Protects against free radical damage. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals caused by UV rays and pollution, helping slow down signs of aging, like wrinkles and fine lines.
- Moisturizes and hydrates. Vitamin E oil is an emollient, meaning it helps lock in moisture, making it beneficial for dry and flaky skin.
- Supports wound healing. Research has found that vitamin E may aid in wound healing by promoting collagen production and reducing oxidative stress.
- Soothes inflammation and redness. Its anti-inflammatory properties help calm irritated skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis and dermatitis.
- May reduce hyperpigmentation. Vitamin E oil may help lighten dark spots and uneven skin tone, especially when combined with vitamin C.
- Protects against UV damage. While it does not replace sunscreen, vitamin E oil can provide an extra layer of protection against sun damage by reducing oxidative stress.
- Strengthens skin barrier. By reinforcing the skin’s natural barrier, vitamin E oil helps prevent moisture loss and protects against environmental stressors.
How to make a homemade lavender soap bar
To begin, put your soap base in a glass bowl, and then put the bowl in a saucepan with a bit of water.
Heat the stove on medium heat, and melt the soap base.
Remove the melted soap base from the heat, and let it cool for a couple minutes. Then add the lavender and vitamin E oils.
Mix the lavender, vitamin E and soap base well to combine the ingredients. Then transfer the mixture to your soap mold.
Let the soap cool completely so it sets and melds into its proper shape. Once it’s cooled and formed, you can pop it out of the soap mold and begin using your new lavender soap bar.
Keep it at room temperature, as you would any other bar of soap.
Creating your own lavender soap is a simple yet rewarding process that allows you to control the ingredients for a nourishing and chemical-free skin care product. With its soothing scent and skin-enhancing properties, this DIY lavender soap makes a perfect addition to your beauty routine or a thoughtful handmade gift for loved ones.
Try this recipe today, and indulge in the natural benefits of lavender soap!
More DIY lavender recipes
If you’re looking for more ways to use lavender oil to make your own beauty and skin care products, here are some more DIY recipes to try:
- DIY Makeup Setting Spray with Lavender Oil
- Homemade Lotion with Frankincense, Lavender and Peppermint Oils
- DIY Moisturizer for Dry Skin with Lavender Oil
- Homemade Burn Salve with Lavender and Honey
- Hydrating Lavender and Rose Water Toner
- Lavender and Rosemary Homemade Hair Spray
- Home Remedy for Sunburn, with Aloe and Lavender Oil
Homemade Lavender Soap Bar
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 30 uses 1x
Description
This homemade lavender soap bar recipe provides hydration and vitamins while cleansing your skin. It’s easy to make and free of harmful chemicals.
Ingredients
- 30 drops lavender essential oil
- 1/4 pound soap base
- 3 drops vitamin E oil
- Soap mold
Instructions
- Put soap base in glass bowl, and then place that bowl in saucepan with water.
- Heat the stove to medium and allow the base to melt.
- Remove from heat and let it cool slightly. Then add the lavender and vitamin E oils.
- Mix well and transfer to a soap mold.
- Let the mixture cool fully before popping the bar out of mold. Keep it at room temperature.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
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What other oil would be a good replacement for the vitamin e?
Do you have a recipe for a hand or body cream with glycerin base. Love your recipes.. Thanks
This may be a good option: http://amzn.to/1zQaljH
How do you get the purple swirls in it the soap. Is the lavender oil purple?
Thank,
Debbie
What makes the lavender swirls in the soap?
What is a good all natural soap for eczema? My 3 yr old grandson had it and it flairs up something terrible. Any other suggestions for eczema would be appreciated greatly. Than you.
Check this out: https://draxe.com/health/eczema-treatment/
How many bars of soap does this recipe make?
What is the best soap for sensitive skin, redness and pimples.
Is this glycerin soap base? It looks creamy. The link provided goes to glycerin base. Also, what makes the lavender swirls? Do you ever put crushed lavendar in ? Thank you.
I have a 25 lb. of soap base and have no idea how to cut it up or weigh it for a loaf. Suggestions anyone???
I make oatmeal soap, it’s sodium laurel sulphate free.
I buy my soap base from Debbie May, wonderful company!
I have seen plant like stuff added to homemade soaps…what are they?
Can’t wait to make this. I have suffered with migraines for 40 years. I have lavendar planted outside by bedroom windows, I wash my hands with lavender soap every night before bed. Taking Imitrex makes me almost as sick as the migraine.
Do you have a receipe for oatmeal soap?
Love all of the information.
Thank you for sharing.
I don’t yet but new recipes are added every week! I’ll make a note to make a recipe for that!
Are there better brands to choose from for the soap base?
I think this is a great option: http://amzn.to/1mpwy4U
This may be a dumb question, but what is soap base and where do I get it? Also where do I get the molds? I would like to try this
If you click on the ingredients, they are links that will take you to where you can purchase those items
Hi There,
I would also suggest you use an organic base soap as well!
Enjoy your new endeavor!
Cathy
Your muffin pan or mini tart pans make great molds.