Christmas Homemade Soap Recipes

Find Christmas Homemade Soap Recipes

There are Christmas scents, Christmas molds, and Christmas colors, but how do you combine them all to make the ultimate gift or put yourself in the holiday mood? You can find tried and true recipes online:

• Idea Queen has quite a few beautiful recipes that can be tweaked to be more holiday-friendly. Any of them will make fabulous gifts, but you may want to change the color, scent, or shape to suit your needs.
• Soap Delicatessen has a great one for Christmas that most people probably wouldn't think of: Coffee and Cream Soap. This unique project uses actual espresso and milk.

Christmas Soap Molds

You don’t have to have a designated soap mold to make your Christmas soaps. You can use cookie cutters shaped like bells, candy canes, reindeer, or gingerbread men and color them accordingly. If all else fails, you can mix red and green with white soap for any of the Christmas shapes. Here are some other spots to check for soap molds:

• Brambleberry has a selection of winter soap molds that includes Rudolph, Santa, snowflakes, angels, ornaments, gift boxes, and more. They've got exquisite detail for soap molds. There is even a gingerbread man set that includes white and clear soap bases, gingersnap, Santa's spruce, and cappuccino and merlot mica. Another thing they offer is red glitter, ideal for making extra special soap. Use it for candy cane stripes or Rudolph's nose.
• Soap and Candle Molds has what you need to make soap and candles. If you decide to make a Christmas gift basket, you're set in one spot for all your supplies.
• Soapy Molds offers molds that are mostly geometrically shaped with a picture in the middle. You can pick up fun ones like Santa's Butt or more traditional ones like Mother and Child.

Ingredients and Options

• A double boiler (you can also use a pot with a lid inside of a pan)
• Soap mold of your choosing
• Rubbing alcohol
• Clear soap base
• Essential oils
• Fragrances
• Miscellaneous extra ingredients for the outcome you desire, according to the recipe

For Glycerin Soap

You'll need glycerin soap, essential oil, purified water, and herbal tea or Hydrosol. Glycerin soap is good for softening skin. It's devoid of harsh chemicals traditional soaps usually have. Idea Queen has two recipes for skin-silkening glycerin soap: the simple glycerin soap recipe and the herbal glycerin soap recipe. The difference boils down to the scent.

For Lye Soap

Lye is the more old-fashioned soap to make. Idea Queen has oatmeal soap and olive oil soap you can make. The recipes are more different than you'd think, even though they're both lye soap recipes. It's all about when you add ingredients in, and the temperatures are much more important when making lye soap than when making glycerin. For example, with a lye soap, the oil has to be 120-130 degrees and the lye has to be 90-100 degrees.

For Melt and Pour Soap

This is the fun type. The website already lists quite a few recipes that are amazing on their own, but to do Christmas homemade soap recipes you can add your own scents and colors. Use red color in white soap with a peppermint scent for a rejuvenating, uplifting bar to use first thing in the morning.

Other soaps that make great Christmas gifts include: Lemon Cheesecake Soap, Cookie Cutter Soaps, Peach Tea Soaps (perfect for the traditional Southern woman), Peach Vanilla Soap, and Sea Salt and Pepper Soap, recipes for which can be found on the Idea Queen website.

Gift Baskets You Can Make

When you make your own soap, why stop there? You can make color and/or scent coordinated gift baskets to give to your friends, family, teachers, or anyone else you feel compelled to share a Christmas gift with. These gift baskets are less expensive to make than they are to purchase from major bath and body stores, and they show you've put some thought, effort, and creativity into the gift. Add bath salts you made yourself, a soothing CD, a candle (you can make those yourself, too!), and anything else (cookies, perhaps) that you think will be comforting for the recipient.

Additional LoveToKnow Resources

For more tips on preparing for the Christmas holiday, visit LoveToKnow Christmas.