6 Handmade Salt Soap Recipes - Simple Life Mom (2024)

Handmade Salt Soap is a fun, exfoliating, hard soap bar that is great for the skin and body. I’ve included 6 Handmade Salt Soap Recipes so you can choose which one fits your needs. (Note that salt soaps will not dry out your skin! See 8 Reasons Salt Soap Bars are Fabulous for the Skin for the science behind it.)

If you are new to soap making, you can learn how to make soap in this 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners tutorial. It will walk you through the ingredients and tools needed and help you learn more about the safety of handling lye and essential oils. Making salt soap is slightly different, so I will walk you through the ins and outs of it below, but already having a general understanding of soap making is helpful.

To learn more about WHY you should choose a salt soap: 8 Reasons Salt Soap Bars are Fabulous for the Skin

BEFORE you try these recipe you must learn about How to make them.

Remember:

1. You can change the amount of salt. For a more typical body bar with a highly lather and less exfoliating, try 50% of salt compared to the amount of oils. Want a true salt bar, increase the salt to 100% of the amount of oils (32oz oils in the recipe, use 32oz salt).
2. These set up fast. Add any coloring and fragrance to your batch at trace before adding the salt.
3. It’s best to use a segmented mold, but if you only have a slab mold, then remove it from the mold after 3-4 hours or it will be too hard to cut and may crumble. You can use the oven method by heating the oven to its lowest temperature and turning it off when you place the soap in it. Check after 3-4 hours. This is not necessary if your salt content is very low or you have a divided soap mold.

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Recipe #1 – 2lb, 80% coconut, 80% salt, 20% superfat

Ingredients:

• 16-oz coconut oil
• 3-oz olive oil
• 1-oz castor oil
• 7.6-oz water
• 2.8-oz lye
• 0.5 to 1-oz essential oils
• 16-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap

Recipe #2 – 2 lb, 70% coconut, 100% salt, 20% superfat

Ingredients:

• 14-oz coconut oil
• 4-oz avocado oil
• 1-oz castor oil
• 1-oz shea butter
• 7.6-oz goat milk (or some combination of water and milk)
• 2.7-oz lye
• 0.5 to 1-oz essential oils
• 20-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap

Recipe #3 – 3 lb, 90% coconut, 100% salt, 20% superfat

Ingredients:

• 27-oz coconut oil
• 2-oz olive oil
• 1-oz castor oil
• 11.4-oz goat milk(or some combination of water and milk)
• 4.3-oz lye
• 1-oz essential oils
• 30-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap

Recipe #4 – 3 lb, 50% coconut, 50% salt, 15% superfat

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Ingredients:

• 20-oz coconut oil
• 10-oz tallow
• 7-oz olive oil
• 3-oz sweet almond oil
• 15-oz water
• 5.5-oz lye
• 1-oz essential oils
• 30-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap

Recipe #5 – 8 lb, 80% coconut, 100% salt, 20% superfat

Ingredients:

• 67-oz coconut oil
• 2-oz avocado oil
• 6-oz olive oil
• 2-oz castor oil
• 2-oz shea butter
• 3-oz sweet almond oil
• 31-oz aloe vera water
• 11.4-oz lye
• 3-oz essential oils
• 82-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap

Recipe #6 – 8 lb, 80% coconut+Palm oil, 100% salt, 20% superfat

Ingredients:

• 34-oz coconut oil
• 33-oz palm oil
• 8-oz olive oil
• 2-oz castor oil
• 2-oz shea butter
• 3-oz sweet almond oil
• 31-oz water
• 10-oz lye
• 3-oz essential oils
• 82-oz salt

Directions:

1. Combine oils, melt, and then cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Add lye to water out in an open aired location and cool to 90-100 degrees F.
3. Add lye water to oils and mix with hand mixer on and off until it comes to light trace.
4. Add essential oils and salt and combine.
5. Pour into mold and let set for 3-4 hours before cutting.
6. For more information read 7 Easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners and How to Make Natural Salt Soap