How To Make Oatmeal Soap At Home For Beginners

Everybody knows that oatmeal is healthy as a breakfast or delicious baked as a cookie, but what some people do not know is that oatmeal can also be used to as a beauty product to keep your skin smooth and healthy. Oatmeal has been around for thousands of years and used in beauty rituals. Oats were used by the ancients Greeks and Romans as a bath treatment. Many beauty products are now made with finely milled oatmeal such as face washes, body scrubs, and soaps. Oatmeal will nourish the skin and can be used as an exfoliate. An easy way to get the benefits of oatmeal on your skin is by using oatmeal soap. Oatmeal soap is a fast and easy soap to make at home for a beginning soap maker.

People make their own soap for a variety of reasons. Making your own soap is a great way to know the ingredients that are in the product that you are using and it is a sure-fire way to keep your skin healthy. An easy soap to make that is healthy for your skin is oatmeal soap. One of the great uses of oatmeal is that it can be used as a natural exfoliate. It soothes the skin and helps relieve itching caused by insect bites or dryness. It is a natural product that is easy to find in any grocery store and is an inexpensive product.

If you have never made your own soap before the easiest method is the “melt and pour” method. This is when you melt an unscented and uncolored bar of soap, add the desired ingredients, and then let it harden into a new bar of soap. The “melt and pour” method does not require you to be in contact with the dangerous chemical lye. Lye is the one of the two main ingredients in making soap (fat is the other main ingredient.) The “melt and pour” method is the method that will be explained in this tutorial of how to make oatmeal soap at home.

-1 large bar of soap (unscented and uncolored -Dove works wonderfully)
-3 or 4 tablespoons of oatmeal
-4 or 5 tablespoons of water
-blender or food processor (optional: if you want the oatmeal to be smaller flakes in the soap)
-large microwave safe bowl
-soap mold or muffin tin
-sharp knife
-microwave

Use the knife to shave the bar of soap into small flakes into the microwave safe bowl. Add the water and melt the soap in the microwave. Depending on your microwave two or three minutes should be enough. Watch carefully so the soap does not bubble over. When the soap is melted, pour in the oatmeal and mix together. **You might want to grind the oatmeal in a food processor to make the flakes smaller before adding it to the soap.** Pour the hot soap and oatmeal mixture into your soap mold or muffin tin. Let the soap dry completely and pop it out from the mold. The drying process will probably take at least a couple of hours. If you are using a metal muffin tin you might want to lightly spray it with natural oil so the soap slides out of it easily when dry.

This recipe works wonders for your skin but there are other things that you can add to make it more personal for your needs. Shea butter adds extra moisture. Goat’s milk will make the skin soft and silky. Essential oils are great for aromatherapy. Lavender is known to help with relaxation or a few drops of vanilla will give the soap a wonderful scent. Tea tree oil is well known to help with blemishes. Food coloring is a great way to make your soap look a little fancier.

This is a very simple recipe to make your own oatmeal soap at home. I have found this to be the easiest recipe for beginners in soap making but it still has enough variety that you can make it personal to your needs as well as the scents and colors that you like.