- Start with a basic soap recipe.
- Up the coconut (or palm kernel) oil a bit, (to somewhere between 30-40%) to increase the cleansing and lather qualities. (Remember to run the recipe through your lye calculator!)
- At trace, for every pound of soap in your recipe, add 3-4 tsp. corn meal, poppy seeds, or ground walnut shells.
- Stir well.
- Add a colorant if you like.
- I like to scent my gardener’s soap with either lemongrass and rosemary essential oils, or a combination of lavender and tea tree essential oils...really anything citrus or botanical works great.
Enjoy your super sudsy, super scrubby soap!
