Does anyone have any good recipes ?

Question

I am looking for a simple transparent soap and bath confetti recipe. Only serious answers please . . .

Answer 1

i'm not exactly sure what kind of soap recipe that is but here are some i found on the internet
Fizzling Milk Bath
© Pat Storer at Skinny Dippin
11-part goats milk powder
3 parts dry milk
1 part citric acid
1 part cornstarch
1/2 part borax
2 parts Epsom salts
2 parts baking soda
2 parts rock salt crystals
Few drops of FDA color


Blend all in a Ziploc. For each 2 oz. of mix, I put in 1 ml. Herbal essential oils. This is milliliter not part on the essential oil. It is not very much. You can substitute fragrance oils or other essential oils but will have to use judgment on how much. Remember also that not fragrance or essential oils are sensible to use in baths. Check with someone who knows if you are not sure first since a person will be soaking in them.
Note: You can make in the quantity you desire: (example a 'part' can be one tsp., one T., one cup, one bucketful, etc.)



Basic Bath Salts Recipe

1 cup Epsom salts
10-20 drops fragrance oil
1 cup sea salt
10 drops food coloring


Place the salts in a large bowl and mix well. Scoop out about 1/2 cup into a small bowl. Add the fragrance oil and food coloring to the salts in the small bowl and mix well. Add the blended mixture to the large bowl a little at a time until you are pleased with the color strength. Pour your salts in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake every day for one week before packaging.
To Use: Draw a warm bath and add 1/4 cup of the fragrant salts to the running water. Hop in and relax, inhaling deeply to experience the soothing qualities of aromatherapy.

Makes six to eight uses.

Crystal Rain Bubble Bath

8 oz. unscented liquid soap
2 oz. distilled water
7 drops bergamot oil
5 drops lime oil
3 drops vanilla fragrance oil
2 drops gardenia fragrance oil


Mix all together and pour into a container.

Simple Bath Bombs

10 T. baking soda
5 T. cornstarch
5 T. citric acid
1 1/2 T. safflower, sweet almond, or canola oil
1/2 T. water
small amt of borax (1/2 tsp.)
1 T. fragrance oil or essential oil of your choice


Sieve all dry ingredients. Mix oil, water, borax, and scent in a jar - make sure to shake well. Drizzle this mixture onto the dry ingredients and then work it in with your hands. Press into a mold and then carefully pop them out. Let set for at least 24 hours to be totally hardened.

Milky Oatmeal-Honey Soap

4 oz. Milk
12-14 oz. Water
48 oz. Shortening
6 oz Lye
6 Tbsp Oatmeal (powdered)
3 T. Honey


Make as normal. Add oatmeal and honey at trace.

Simple Olive Oil Soap

16 oz. pure olive oil
2 oz. lye
6 oz. water


Heat oil to 150° and add the lye to the water slowly while stirring with a wooden spoon.Mix lye solution and oils when the oil is at 120-130° and the lye between 90-100°. Mix them together until it comes to a trace. Pour it into a mold and let set 72 hours before unmolding. You can add scents, colors, herbs, etc. at trace.

Small Recipe

4 oz. coconut oil
8 oz. olive oil
4 oz. palm oil
6 oz. distilled water
2.25 oz. lye
.5 oz. essential oil or fragrance oil


Combine oils and lye 110-120° temperatures. Add fragrance at light traceand then pour into a mold at medium to heavy trace. Insulate and let it remain in the mold 18-24 hours. Unmold and cut into bars - let cure 2-3 weeks.

Citronella Soap

1 cup grated Castile soap
1/2 cup water
10 drops citronella essential oil
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 T. dried, crushed pennyroyal leaves


Mix the ingredients into the melted soap/water mixture. With an electric mixer, whip the soap until it has doubled in volume. Spoon the soap into the prepared molds, pushing it into the molds as best you can (the beating action cools the mix, so work quickly). If the mixture has cooled off and thickened so much you can't put it into the molds, hand mold the soap into large balls.

Answer 2

First off, I make a lot of homemade soaps, lotions and other body products. I have to tell you, there is no "simple" recipe for transparent soap. I don't know if you have a lot of experience with cold or hot process soap making, or even if you know what those are. If you do, I apologize. :)

I'm assuming that you don't want to actually cook this soap up, if you did, it certainly would NOT be simple.

The best way for you to get "simple transparent soap" is to go to this website www.wholesalesuppliesplus.com.
On the homepage there is a column... under Soap Supplies, go to Melt and Pour. They have some really nice soap bases that are easy to use.
You simple cut off the amount that you want, melt it in the microwave, stir in the color and fragrance, pour into a mold and let it cool.
This website sells the soap base, the fragrances, the colors and the molds. Their shipping is reasonable and their products are all very nice. Their clear soap base is only $3 for two pounds, at craft stores you would pay around $8 for that.

If you don't want to order online, many craft stores will carry similar products, only they won't have as good of a selection and they will be a lot more expensive. I recommend this website, though.
As for bath confetti, I think they sell that too.

If you are actually a person that makes real soap, drop me a line because I have lots of awesome recipes and bunch of soap experience. :)


Edit: I see that someone offered you soap recipes. If you are not experienced with making soap with lye, IGNORE THAT POST. Making soap when you are not experienced with the safety precautions is incredibly dangerous. I notice that this person told you to use lye but didn't tell you what to use if you got a lye burn, which are incredibly painful. I'm hoping that you're a soaper and already know this and haven't tried that and gotten seriously hurt.