Homemade Lavender Rosemary Soap

This soothing homemade lavender rosemary melt and pour soap not only smells amazing, but is perfect for gifts, party favours or guest bathroom soaps. Making homemade soap is not only cheaper, but you know exactly what is going into the bars, leaving out all the nasties. Your skin is the largest organ in the body and needs to be cared for properly.

Lavender Rosemary Soap

These melt and pour lavender rosemary soap bars are easy to make either in a double boiler. In combining these two scents, you create a soap that is calming, and refreshing in one. For this recipe, I have infused the dried lavender and rosemary in the goat’s milk soap base before using. This helps bring out the properties of both of these amazing plants. You do not have to infuse the soap base at all. If not, melt the soap base with the dried leaves / flowers separately and continue on with the soap recipe.

Adding essential oils is optional, as they do add more benefits as well as smell. Though, be careful when using rosemary essential oil around young children.

Lavender and Rosemary

Lavender not only has a lovely purple colour, but it also has an amazing aroma. Both lavender and rosemary have antiseptic, astringent, antiviral and antibacterial properties which aid in the healing of cuts, blemishes, fever, dermatitis, eczema, acne, boils and burns. The two go so well together as well.

If you already grow lavender and rosemary in your garden, you could dry some of your own and use that in your drawer sachets. Otherwise, you can purchase it from online shops, such as Amazon.

Lavender is known for promoting relaxation and sleep. It also helps with soothing the skin and skin irritations. 

With anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and pain-relieving properties, rosemary can help reduce pain and muscle soreness, redness and swelling, headaches, sprains, and even rheumatism. It can also help improve dry, chapped skin and with improving focus and memory.

Essential Oils

Essential oils are potent, and need to be diluted. As this soap is being used on your body, you will need to use essential oils that are gentle enough to be applied to your skin – and use in the correct quantities. Be careful to avoid sensitive areas like your eyes.

Lavender essential oil helps calm and relax the mind and body. It also may help with fighting anxiety and depression.

Rosemary essential oil is an antiseptic that also helps clean the skin. It is also an anti-inflammatory oil that helps with cleaning the mind.

More Rosemary Resources

• Rosemary Cultivation and Culinary Uses
• Rosemary Salve
• Tips for Growing and Harvesting Rosemary
• Rosemary Salt
• Lemon Rosemary Sugar Scrub

Goat’s Milk Soap Base

Having a child that is allergic to certain ingredients found in many commercial soaps, I like to make my own soaps. Using a melt and pour soap is easy, especially when I don’t have a lot of time. Though there are many different types of melt and pour bases, the one I use the most is goat’s milk soap.

Some benefits of using goat’s milk soap base include:

• Has less allergenic than commercial soaps and detergents and has the closest PH level to our skin
• It is known to reduce skin inflammation and soothe dry and damaged skin
• Can help slow down the effects of aging, reducing wrinkles while moisturising the skin
• Is loaded with essential nutrients and vitamins including A, B6, C, B12, D and E
• Is easily absorbed into the skin
• Acts as a gentle exfoliator
• Soothes the skin helping with skin inflammation such including eczema and psoriasis

More Lavender Resources

• Lavender Bath Bombs
• 5 Benefits of Lavender Essential Oil
• Lavender and Chamomile Cream
• Lavender Body Butter
• Easy No-Sew Lavender Draw Sachets
• Lavender Bubble Bath
• 20 Ways to use Lavender
• Lavender and Sweet Orange Bath Salts
• Lavender Soap

Making Lavender and Rosemary Soap

To make this soap, you will need:

• 1 lb goats milk melt and pour soap base
• 1 cup lavender flowers
• 1 cup dried rosemary leaves
• 1 tablespoon purple mica powder (optional)
• 14 drops Rosemary and lavender essential oils (optional)
• Soap mould

Cut up the soap base into inch squares. Split the squares placing half of them into two different glass jars.

Add the dried lavender flowers on top of the soap base in one of the jars.

Add the dried rosemary leaves on top of the soap base in the other jars.

Heat in a double boiler for one to two hours on low heat. This will infuse the herbs into the soap base.

When done, strain each infused soap base into a different jar, keeping them separate.

If using the colourant, add the purple mica powder into the jug with the infused lavender in it and stir to combine. Add the lavender essential oil to this jug if using as well and mix through.

Leave the rosemary melted soap base white. Add the rosemary essential oil to this jug if using and mix through.

Take both measuring jugs and swirl them into the soap mould at the same time. Make sure to evenly swirl both colors to create the same design.

Just a note: If your soap has bubbles form on the top after you pour your soap base into your molds, you can spray the tops of the soap with rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) as this will help break them up and give you a smooth surface.

Let sit out overnight or until it is completely hard.

Remove and store in a dry, dark place.

Before Using this Soap

Before using this soap, you will need to understand a few things.

• Essential oils are potent, and need to be diluted. As this soap is being used on your body, you will need to use essential oils that are gentle enough to be applied to your skin – and use in the correct quantities. Be careful to avoid sensitive areas like your eyes.
• Be mindful of who will be using the soap when adding essential oils as some people can’t use some oils and some oils can’t be used on young children or pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Some essential oils should not be used on children under 10. Do your research before adding and using any essential oils! 
• Don’t use on skin with open wounds or cuts.  
• Test on small area of skin before using.  If there’s any irritation, dilute with more carrier oils.

Storing Soap Bars

The best way to store soap bars is to wrap the tightly and store in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight.

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