Essential oil soap is a great way to incorporate natural ingredients into your beauty routine. From energizing orange and zesty lemongrass essential oil, there are plenty of options to choose from. The Natural Soap Kit for Beginners contains the ingredients to make essential oil soap. It comes in three versions depending on what color and essential oil you’d like. The kit ships free to the lower 48 United States. There are also Refill Kits if you’d like to try a different variation or make more of your favorite.
In the Soap Queen TV video above, my friend Courtney and I go step-by step through the kit instructions, including prepping lye and measuring essential oils. If you’d like written instructions for these recipes, click here for the orange soap and here for the lavender soap. There is also a lemongrass version of the Natural Soap Kit for Beginners. Which color and scent combination is your favorite?
That was fun! I like your friend. She is very interesting and fun to watch
I had recently been wanting very much to make my own oils and thanks to you I now know how!
You made it all so easy for anyone make their own EOs 🙂
Great post for me! Thanks Kelsey
OMG, thank you for this detailed article, I have been looking for it for so long
You’re welcome, thanks for reading.
Hi. I made the lemongrass soap today for the first time, and the loaf cracked down the middle. I chose to cover the freshly poured loaf (I used the Brambleberry silicone mold) with a cardboard tent and covered the tent with a towel so the gel process would intensify the color and help harden the soap. Do you think that contributed to the crack?
Soap usually cracks when it gets really hot, so I think that’s what happened. If your house is pretty warm, you can put the cardboard and towel over the soap but check it after about 10-20 minutes. If it looks like it’s getting pretty hot, go ahead and take those off and let it sit uncovered at room temperature.
Learn more about why soap cracks here: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/why-did-my-soap-crack/
The good news is the batch now should be just fine to use.
it´s true, I live in a very hot place and the same keeping happening, until left it on the floor just with loose plastic film on top ,previously sprayed with alcohol and bingo, no ash, no cracking 🙂 average temperature at day time is 36-40 celsius..imagine…at night when I make it is around 34 celsius
That’s a great tip!
All 3 essential oil soaps sounds wonderful. I am thinking about making 1 of these batches. My questions is after the soap has been cured(4-6 weeks). How long does the smell of the soap last? If it’s a short time, what can I do to make the scent last longer if I want to sell them?
The scent usually remains strong for about a year. After then, some of the lighter top notes can fade.
This is the first time i visit your website, my thinking is “OMG, how can someone make a lot of wonderful soap like this?”. I’ll try to make my own soap today.
Thank you for your video!
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed the video. Have fun making soap.
Sorry about this inquiry asking not related to the topic, but can I ask why does your herbal and fruit extracts are clear? Like carrot extract, why is it clear, isn’t it supposed be orange? Will it still be effective as the real extract? Thanks and have a good day! 🙂
Our extracts are mixed with fractionated coconut oil, which is clear. The extracts may add a bit of a tint, but they will mostly be clear because of that oil. The good news is they still add unique properties to the soap like moisture and vitamins. Learn more about extracts here: https://www.soapqueen.com/bramble-berry-news/sunday-night-spotligh-extracts/
Fractionated coconut oil: https://www.brambleberry.com/capryliccapric-triglycerides-fractionated-coconut-oil-p4957.aspx
Hello,
I was curious to know how much fragrance or essential oil should be used in a recipe?
It depends on the fragrance and the recipe. To find out how much you need, just plug in the fragrance and weight of your recipe in our handy Fragrance Calculator: http://www.brambleberry.com/Pages/Fragrance-Calculator.aspx
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Is there a book featuring how to make essential oil soaps?
Yes! Our CEO and founder Anne-Marie wrote a book that has 32 recipes made with essential oils and natural colorants: https://www.brambleberry.com/Pure-Soapmaking-How-to-Create-Nourishing-Natural-Skin-Care-Soaps-P6298.aspx
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
I bought this beginner kit in lavender and my CP world has expanded!
The only problem I need advice on is the lye measurement. I have used the lye calculator on Bramleberry to make my own recipes now. However, the calculator has me confused.
I will get a lye amount of (for example) 4.87 grams.
With the scale included, do I round up or down. I really don’t want to buy a new scale. Help!
You can round up if the number is 5 or up, or round down if it’s 4 or less. So, that would be 4.9 grams. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Hi Kelsey
I love CP soap making and I find that your resources and tutorials are fantastic! I am looking to make some soaps using multiple essential oils. I have tried Sweet orange and lemongrass; Lavender and Anise – and I liked both. Im looking for other combinations that work and I was wondering if you had any suggestions?
Absolutely, you can create really lovely combinations with essential oils. This post has a list of oils that work well together: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/lori-novas-top-ten-essential-oils-2/
And this post talks more about blending them safely: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/how-to-blend-essential-oils-safely/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Hi,
I just purchased two of your books but the recepies are advanced and I want to make the begginers soap as shown in this video. I don’t live in the stases so I can’t bey the kit, and I am wondering were can I find the exact amount of oils and the axact recepie you need for these three soaps? The orange, lavender and green…
You can find the ingredients on BrambleBerry.com. You can add all the ingredients individually shown here except the lye: https://www.brambleberry.com/Natural-Soap-Kit-for-Beginners-P6607.aspx
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
for my first cold process i tried the energixing orange and it was interesting, smells great didn’t come out so pretty lol have the refill for the lavender have been nervous to try it maybe after watching this video i will give it a try
Oh that’s awesome, glad the orange soap smells great! It’s going to feel really nice on the skin too. The lavender version smells really lovely as well. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
It’s so funny that Courtney filmed this first but the charcoal soap video was uploaded before this, making it an awkward introduction of first time in years of soap making. I was like, wait, I know that face, is she a twin?
I don’t consider myself as a beginner soapmaker, but this video makes me want to buy that beginner kit. I just love your videos.
Ha, soon Courtney will be an expert soaper! This soap is really fun to make, hope you get a chance to try it. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Hey, Michael: I know we all have our different preferences for cleaning up and not wasting any soap. I often leave a fair amount of soap in all the mixing bowls, let it sit a couple of days and put it all in a bucket of hot tap water to clean it. That not only cleans it, but I use it to do a load of dishes by hand so the soap doesn’t go to waste.
On another note, I absolutely LOVE the orange 10X oil and I just did a batch of soapqueen Sunshine Soap last weekend and it looks and smells so good.
That’s awesome Eric, glad you’re enjoying that recipe! 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Sunshine Soap: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/cold-process-soap/making-sunshine-cold-process-soap/
OMG you totally need to use a spatula and clean those bowls out!
We did after this video! We always keep extra molds nearby just in case. The leftover soap usually goes in the Bramble Berry bathrooms. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry