Healthy LivingMaking a natural homemade antibacterial foaming hand soap isn’t has hard as you think it might be. It is actually quit easy and safer for you and your family.
Over the course of the past couple of years, I’ve enjoyed learning how to make homemade products–like homemade liquid dish soap, homemade deodorant, and homemade antibacterial foaming hand soap as well as various homemade food products, like bread crumbs and cream of chicken soup.
Today I’m giving you the recipe for a safe, natural antibacterial foaming hand soap.
Besides being void of the harmful triclosan found in conventional, store-bought antibacterial soaps, this soap recipe is easy, frugal and 100% natural!
The antibacterial ingredient in this soap is germ fighter or immune strength. The oils are a natural antibiotic and disinfectant (source).
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, robbers (or thieves) used the oil blend of cinnamon, eucalyptus, lemon, rosemary and clove to rub over their bodies to protect against the plague in Europe.
We use several different brands of oils. We first used it by making our own disinfecting room spray when we suffered from nearly 4 weeks of the norovirus last spring.
Without further ado, here’s a super easy tutorial for homemade antibacterial foaming hand soap!
Homemade Antibacterial Foaming Hand Soap
- 3/4 cup distilled/purified water
- 1/4 cup liquid castile soap
- 5 drops germ fitghter or immune strength
- foaming soap pump
- old canning jar (optional)
- Combine water and soap.
- Pour soap mixture into bottle/jar with foaming soap pump.
- Add 5 drops essential oil to soap, mixing gently.
- Enjoy your antibacterial foaming hand soap!
You can really reuse any foaming soap dispenser for this tutorial, but my family has enjoyed using this tutorial to make attractive soap bottles out of old canning jars. We made a peppermint version of this soap to give as Christmas gifts last year!
This tutorial can really be changed and used with any variety of essential oils to alter the scent. The germ fighter or immune strength, though, makes it a great soap to use during the fall and winter months when illness runs rampant–but you don’t want to break out harmful antibacterial soaps!
Want more information about how to use essential oils for your home and health? Check my other posts:
- Safely Using Essential Oils with Babies and While Breastfeeding
- Why We Love Plant Therapy (an honest review)
- Common Essential Oil Mythstakes {Part 1}
Lauren
PERfect timing Erin! I have been wanting to make my own soap with Thieves but wasn’t sure how 🙂 ps loved meeting you and your sweet baby girl this past weekend!
Erin
I LOVED meeting YOU, Lauren!! Can’t wait to read your birth story–I hope you post it (although I know from what I read in part 1 you might be backing away a little bit? I need to go back and catch up on the rest!). I wish we could have hung out more…it all seems a blur!
I hope you enjoy this soap!!!