Super-easy Homemade Honey & Oatmeal Soap Recipe

"This melt-and-pour soap takes about 20 minutes of actual hands-on work, then you just wait two hours for it to set. No lye handling, no curing time, no complicated chemistry - just melting soap base and stirring in ingredients. The recipe uses a goat's milk soap base (half a pound makes four full-size bars), mixed with honey, olive oil, and finely ground oatmeal. The oatmeal creates a gentle exfoliating texture without being scratchy, and the honey adds natural moisture. Each bar comes out around 3.4 oz, roughly the size of store-bought bath soap. The process is straightforward: cube the soap base, melt it in 30-second microwave bursts, stir in your add-ins, pour into silicone molds, and spritz with rubbing alcohol to pop any surface bubbles. The hardest part is resisting the urge to poke them before they're fully set. What surprised me most was how different these feel from commercial soap. The lather is denser with smaller bubbles, and the bars last significantly longer - I'm still on my second bar after three weeks of daily use. They don't get that mushy, dissolving-too-fast thing that happens with some handmade soaps. The finished bars have a natural creamy color from the goat's milk and smell like actual honey, not artificial fragrance. They look professional enough to wrap in brown paper and give as gifts - my sister-in-law thought they came from a farmer's market. The recipe is surprisingly forgiving. You can adjust the oatmeal texture (grind it finer or leave it coarser), skip the honey for a plainer bar, or add different oils. The basic melt-and-pour method stays foolproof regardless of what you mix in. Cost works out to about $2-3 per bar once you factor in all ingredients - less than artisan soap but more than drugstore brands. Worth it for knowing exactly what's in them."

Primary TechniqueCandlemaking/Soapmaking

Materials List

• 1/2 lb of that goat's milk soap base
• 1 tablespoon of honey (I used the regular stuff from my kitchen)
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (also from the kitchen)
• 1 tablespoon of porridge oats that I blitzed in my Nutribullet for literally two seconds
• For equipment, I used a silicone soap mold
• A glass Pyrex jug for melting
• Some rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle