Pinterest has done it again. I found a very simple recipe for Crock Pot Soap. It’s hot process soap. There are other methods to making soap, such as cold process soap, but this is the kind of soap I grew up so I wanted to use this recipe. It’s very basic, and you can add herbs or change up essential oils as you see fit.

Resourceful Soapmaking

Ingredients

I purchased most of my ingredients from Amazon. It was inexpensive and the availability far exceeded my local community.

I did use some homegrown herbs, such as German Chamomile and dried Basil flowers (which were messy and I didn’t love)

I won’t try to reinvent the wheel here. The recipe as it comes directly from the Rustic Essentials library:

Why make your own soap?

Here are 5 good reasons to make your own soap. It’s not hard, I promise.

• Natural soap is eco-friendly and non-toxic to the environment
• You can control 100% of the ingredients in homemade soap
• You don’t need preservatives, dyes, colorants or fragrance if you don’t want.
• By using food grade quality ingredients, you’re already miles ahead of most drug store brand soaps
• You can tailor make the ingredients to your skin needs !