A better way to make premade soap that is eco-friendly that doesn’t involve the chemical processes involved in soap making would be to suggest that someone take all the leftover bits of soap lying around the house and to melt them all together and make a new bar of soap using the same process you suggested.

Honestly, though, if you care about what goes in you and your family’s soap, you should probably learn how to actually make the soap yourself. Choose your oils and fats carefully, and go from there.

I posted this guest post because it allows folks to start working with making their own soaps using items of their choosing. You never need to follow a recipe exactly – but for someone who has never done this, this is a good safe recipe to start with especially if you visit the site and choose a base you’re comfortable with – or of course you can always grab a base elsewhere but most do have some sort of surfactant. The other bonus of listing this post, over store bought is that people like DIY and you’re cutting down on packaging if you make beauty care items yourself. Also, on this blog and many of my others, I support Etsy and other handmade product crafters all the time, just not in this post.

Rather than supporting a company that continues to use similar ingredients as used by companies like Procter and Gamble why not recommend a true eco soap be purchased at your local co-op or from an etsy seller of organic soaps, where all of the ingredients are eco, natural and safe.