Making Hand Wash Liquid Soap

Dr. N K Srinivasan

It is really easy to make liquid hand wash soap at home with quality
ingredients and with special formulation .The cost is minimal.!The fun is
really great!!

You create liquid soap without harmful preservatives [methyl paraben ,ethyl
paraben , sorbic acid etc or harmful detergents and foaming agents like
lauryl sulphate and mineral oil which affect your skin over a few years…
You can make
“High quality natural or synthetic liquid soap” which improves
hygiene at low cost.

After some experience , you can try many useful ingredients---essential

oils,fragrance and special colors.
Here I give only one recipe with simple mixing procedure as a starter.

Ingredients
1 Soap chips –from any of your favourite soap; you can use left-over pieces
too. Check the quality first.

2 Glycerine

3 Aloe-vera gel

4 Rose water
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Optional Ingredients
5 Vitamin C [ascorbic acid]

6 Vitamin E or wheat germ oil

Equipment: A water jar,

a measuring cylinder,
stainless steel spoons,
hot plate or microwave oven to boil water,

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 a squeeze bottle or dispenser.
A thermometer [0 to 100 deg C] (optional)

Recipe [for 200 ml liquid soap]

Water 100ml [distilled or purified water]

Soap chips 10 gms

Glycerine 10 ml [2 teaspoon]

Aloe- vera gel 5ml [1 teaspoon]

Rose water 100ml

Vitamin C –500 mg tablet –one

Vitamin E 400 IU capsule ---one

Procedure

Step1: Boil about 120 ml water and measure out 100 ml

Step 2: Stir soap chips in the boiled water till completely dissolved. Use the
stainless steel spoon.

Step 3; Mix glycerine and Aloe-vera in a small cup

Step 4: Add glycerine-aloevera mix to soapy water after it cools to about

60 deg Centigrade and stir well

Step 5: Add rose water and stir well

Step 6: Add crushed Vit C tablet….Squeeze Vitamin E capsule after pricking
with a pin..add to the soap solution

Step 6: Pour into squeeze bottle or dispenser.

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[Since no preservative is added , use the soap within two weeks. Vit C and Vit
E act as mild preservative too.
To reduce cost, you need not add Vit C and Vit E ingredients.]

It is easy to increase the quantities to make a batch of 500 ml liquid soap at

a time.

Suggestions

1 You can add a few drops of rose essence or lavender or other essences.

2 You can add herbal ingredients like turmeric, neem,sandal wood oil,
cucumber juice in small quantities.
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