Making Soap

For school I thought it would be fun if we tried to make our own handsoap. Okay, so we didn't start from complete scratch! We got some soap from Garden of Francis, an online Homeschool, Montessori & Homemaking store.

Their soaps are all safe and easy to use even with young children. You can choose vegetable oil or animal fats.

The girls and I had a blast melting the soap and adding color, scents, and a few exfoliants that we had picked up from Michaels earlier.

When you order the soap it also comes with a basic soap making booklet that gets you started on the right track. The girls want to sell a few of their creations on my Etsy site as well as using them as gifts.

We decided to also do a give away. Please leave in the comments what your favorite soaps are. Deadline is July 10th. Winner will be picked at random on July 11th, and notified by email.

This is a quick shot of some of the soap and the booklet.

Here the girls are grating the soap into a pan and stirring it to melt the soap so we could reshape the soap.

Of course we had to try the soap to make sure that it worked well!