Comments on: Homemade Liquid Hand Soap

By: Talitha

Talitha — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:38:02 +0000

hello Felicia, i’m a new reader and your articles will be very helpful. The laundry soap, and hand soap is as far as i have gotten. I look forward to any other ideas and finding you discover.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:14:41 +0000

Thank you ever so much for these recipes! If you have any other recipes I would be thrilled to start making them! I am going to be saving so much money. You are great, thank you again. Feel free to email me to discuss more ways to save money around the house!

-Heather

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:57:40 +0000

I like the way you think!

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:56:08 +0000

Janice, I’m very lazy. I used hot tap water.

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:52:09 +0000

Thanks Felicia for the info. I do have another question though. Do I need to put the soap on the stove every time I need to dilute it or will hot tap water be enough. Thanks

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:53:29 +0000

LOL, Janice, it sounds like its time for you to make lemonade out of your lemons.

When I made my soap I used soap remnants. I pieced together a couple of remnants and added water. If your soap gelled then it sounds like you can use it to make liquid soap enough to last the rest of the year. I would probably continue to dilute it a bit and put it in a separate container. When I needed more, I’d dilute the gel a bit more.

That’s the beauty of this stuff; as long as your hands get clean it works! The soap commercials have done a great job in telling us what soap is supposed to look like. My watery soap kicks up a good lather and does a great job in cleaning our hands. Don’t give up Janice. Just think how far you’ve stretched one bar of soap.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:45:17 +0000

I used 1 bar of soap and 3 cups of water at first and then when it gelled up I put 2 bowls full of water in it and it has made a 64 oz bottle of soap and still gelled up and it hardly lathers when I use it so I have no Idea what went wrong. I cant believe I made a mess of something that simple.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:20:00 +0000

Janice, it sounds like too much soap and not enough water. When I create my soap it’s rather watery, but it does the trick.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:05:26 +0000

Okay so I woke up this morning and checked my liquid hand soap and once again it has solidified. it is not completely solid but it is the consistancy of lard. As a matter of fact it looks like pink lard lol. So I was thinking that maybe it is doing this because I used glycerin soap instead of regular soap. Could this be the reason. I dont know what to do now.

By: janice

janice — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:58:06 +0000

Ok so I tried the liquid hand soap recipe and I dont have a clue what I did wrong. I used a 4 oz bar of dial soap and I melted it in 3 cups of water and when it cooled it looked like lard. It wasn’t solid of course because of the water but it wasn’t a liquid either. I added some more water to it and I think I made it to thin but I put it in a foaming soap dispenser and it seems to work okay but I think it still needs to be a little thicker. Any suggestions?