Lately I've been doing research on what's in our hand soap, and it gets frightening when you start to dig a little deeper. It encouraged me to find an easy way to make hand soap easily at home with out needing a ton of ingredients and that would be worth the price.
Well, I found it. I started with a small bottle of castile soap I purchased from the travel section at Target a while back. It was 89 cents. Organic castile soap, is very inexpensive. I'm happily surprised too at the ingredients listed in them. Here they are:
Ingredients: Water, Saponified Organic Coconut*, Organic Palm* and Organic Olive* Oils (w/Retained Glycerin), Organic Hemp Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Essential Oils**, Citric Acid, Vitamin E
I grabbed an empty bottle of foaming soap and added in 1 part castile soap, 4 parts water. Gave it a little swirl and was done. Each push comes out just like the soap that was in it before. It smells wonderful and does a fantastic job getting your hands clean.
Castile soap is so safe for your skin that you can use it with out diluting it as a shower soap. I've even heard of some people brushing their teeth with it. I don't know if I'd go that far.
I probably won't be buying a smaller bottle of castile soap anymore, but I'm hanging onto the little bottle to use for travel, and to make more hand soap when I run out. The big bottle next to it goes for about 5 dollars. That's pretty cheap for organic hand soap if you think about how many times you can refill the bottle.
