DIY Dish Soap

Easy DIY Dish Soap

Ingredients

4 TB borax 

4 TB washing soda

 2 cups distilled water

1 1/2 cup castille soap

15-20 drops each: peppermint essential oil and tea tree essential oil

1 TB glycerin

½ TB nourishing oil (jojoba, almond, etc.)

Instructions

In a saucepan, heat the the water just until it reaches a boiling point. Turn off the heat and add the washing soda and borax, stirring to dissolve. Let the mixture cool for 3-5 minutes, just until warm, but no longer hot.Add the  soap and and essential oils to the water mixture. Vigorously whisk the ingredients together.Use a funnel to pour the dish soap into a soap dispenser. The soap may separate after sitting for 24 hours. If this happens, vigorously shake the soap bottle until the ingredients are combined.

DIY Steel Cut Oatmeal Scrub

Since I made the oatmeal lavendar soap and didn't want to waste the oats; I made this scrub.

Citrus Oatmeal Scrub
1/2 cup soaked oatmeal
1 tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp jojoba oil
1 tbsp castille soap

Took the steel cut oats I had soaked for the hand wash.  Added baking soda, Citrus Fresh oil, jojoba, Vitamin E and soap.  Mixed well.

Placed into an amber glass jar for storage until use!  All natural stuff!

DIY Homemade Body Wash

Homemade Body Wash
1/2 cup of liquid castile soap

1/4 cup of coconut oil 

1/4 cup of filtered or distilled water

10 drops  Ylang Ylang essestial oil

5 drops Idaho Blue Spruce essential

2 tsp glycerin

1 tsp vitamin E oil

Mix all together.  Ylang Ylang and Blue Spruce are supposed to be great for getting in the mood…if you know what I mean!

More adventures in Soda Stream

Another batch of home made syrup.  Boiled up fresh lime, agave nectar and fresh mint.  Turned the flame down and reduced it.  Then drained it off and mixed with some #SodaStream.  Delightful.   Will make a nice mojito.