Liquid Soap Making Tutorial – Complete Process and Easy Beginner Recipe

This is a comprehensive liquid soap making tutorial and easy beginner recipe to get you started with making your own liquid soap from scratch at home. This recipe is great for beginners (no volcanoes!), it’s super fast to come together and it makes a nice general use liquid soap, perfect for handwashing, bathing and household cleaning. *Recipe details* 700g total oil batch 20% lye concentration for the lye solution (this dictates the water amount in the recipe) (1% superfat calculated into the recipe) 489g olive oil (70%) 140g castor oil (20%) 70g coconut oil (10%) 597g distilled or demineralised water (boiled filtered tap water can be used but your soap may not be clear) 149g potassium hydroxide (90% KOH - more details about that below) I added essential oils at a rate of 2% of the total finished soap weight – you will need to calculate this for your own soap batch, depending on how much paste you dilute. You may also want to reduce this amount to 1 or 1.5%