Homemade Honey Handsoap for Dry Hands

I learned this recipe in church, and found it easy enough to not only use for myself, but use without having to go and buy ingredients from the store, which I find super handy. I love recipes and beauty crafts that don't require shopping around for ingredients I've never heard of. If you want a super easy recipe for homemade handsoap (this is a liquid pump kind), then try this one out!

All you need is a blender, hot water, honey (this is super soothing for dry hands, and smells yummy and is so creamy),a cheese grater, and a bar of soap. Our lesson was in using what you have, so we used pieces of soap that were too small to use but combined together created the bar of soap we needed. So dig around your bathroom for those flecks of soap stuck to the sink, they come in handy for this.

Shred the bar of soap (I looked at a whole bar of soap, it's about 6-8 ounces total) with the cheese grater to create flakes. Pour those flakes into your blender and add a cup of super hot or boiling water and blend the mixture until it's all soapy and whipped up into a frothy milkshake-type consistency. Add a half cup or so of warm water and then stir it again by hand. Add the honey (about 2 tablespoons, at least one tablespoon but add a bit more for really dry hands) and stir it up again by hand.

To really mix up the liquid handsoap, blend it again after you have added the honey, and add a bit more water if it's too thick for you, until you get a consistency like a milkshake beginning to melt. Your final result should be a liquid and golden-colored handsoap that you can easily pour into a pump container for washing your hands with anytime. Give a little shake before use if it starts to settle. This recipe is particularly great for when you have all those tiny soaps lying around that you don't know what to do with!

What's cool about this recipe is that honey preserves itself - you can give this handsoap away as gifts if you'd like. There are other variations of this recipe you can do as well, like adding a teaspoon of Vitamin E oil to create a handsoap for aging hands, or adding lavender or vanilla essential oils to give the handsoap a great scent. This is a basic recipe for handsoap that can be added onto and altered easily! Super easy and fun- you can even add a bit (a tiny, tiny bit) of food coloring to give it a nice color as well, like pink or baby blue.

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