Today, various soaps made by yourself are very popular. They are bought for themselves, as a presentation. In addition, they are a beautiful accessory for the bathroom, so they are not ashamed to present a birthday to a friend. But not everyone knows that it is possible to make liquid soap at home. We suggest you learn how to make a shower gel with your own hands. You will find the most varied recipes.
Gel base
To make homemade liquid soap, you need to combine two components: a foaming washing base and a set of additional ingredients. Ideally, if all components are natural. For a detergent base, it is better to choose either soap nuts or a mild baby soap. The first ingredient is difficult to get and it does not apply to budget purchases. But baby soap is sold everywhere. It has hypoallergenic properties and does not dry the skin. It is better to choose an odorless soap. So, it’s easier to put together various aromatic oils and additives. As additional ingredients, oils, herbs and their decoctions, cane sugar, liquid vitamins, cosmetic clay, sea salt, oatmeal and honey are used.
The easiest gel recipe
If you make such a shower gel soap with your own hands, then you can then create other varieties based on it. Remember that to create a fragrant cosmetic product you will need the following components:
- The soap base is odorless baby soap.
- Glycerol.
- Essential oil. The smell depends on what the gel is created for: for a calming or invigorating effect, anti-microbial or anti-cellulite properties and so on.
- Dry herbs. Of them will need to make a decoction. If there are no stocks since the summer, then in the pharmacy you can buy boxes with chamomile, lemon balm, mint, sage, celandine, nettle.
- Capsule Vitamins: A and E. They help maintain healthy skin.
- Food coloring. It is necessary if the color of the finished gel is important to you. For example, you want to give it to someone. In other cases, you can safely do without it.
- Tableware. You need a bowl or a small saucepan in which all the ingredients will be mixed, and an empty bottle from the old gel or liquid soap.
Cooking method
Do-it-yourself natural shower gel is made as follows:
- Prepare a decoction of herbs. Boil water, and then fill it with seven tablespoons of grass. Prepare a water bath. Put a container of grass in it and wait half an hour. Then set aside the pan and let the broth brew for 10 minutes. Strain the liquid to remove grass. Dilute the finished broth with hot water. As a result, you should get two liters of fluid.
- Take a bar of baby soap and rub it on a coarse grater. While the broth has not cooled, pour in the chips and stir. To dissolve the soap, you can put the saucepan on a small fire and lightly heat it. If a foam appears, simply remove it with a slotted spoon.
- Allow the solution to cool.
- Pour two tablespoons of glycerin into a cool liquid. Stir well.
- Drop a few drops of aromatic oil and place the solution again.
- Open the capsules with vitamins and pour their contents into the mixture.
- If you decide to tint the gel, then it's time to add food coloring. Dissolve it in a cup or glass, and then add a little bit to the main liquid. In this way, color intensity can be controlled.
- Stir the solution for the last time and pour into bottles. They must first be washed and dried.
Shower gel is ready! As you can see, several options for a cosmetic product can be made from one base.
Gel-scrub at home
This is an excellent tool to exfoliate particles of dry skin, cleanse pores, refresh the body and add tone to it. To make a scrub, you need to take the finished gel and add scrubbing elements to it. It can be ground coffee beans, sea salt, oatmeal. And if you want the scrub to have an anti-cellulite effect, you need to add a few drops of citrus aromatic oils to all of the above. It is best to take an orange and grapefruit.
To moisturize the skin
Such a shower gel with your own hands is good to cook in winter and summer. It is at this time that the skin needs additional hydration. To do this, you need to make a base gel, select the appropriate aromatic oils. They will help moisturize the skin with rose, orchid and musk products. Add three drops of all three oils best.
Relaxing Liquid Soap
If there is no desire to take a bath or it is contraindicated by doctors, then there is an alternative procedure. Take a shower with a special soothing gel. To do it, you do not need a foundation. All components will mix from the start.
The recipe for a relaxing shower gel is simple:
- Rub baby soap on a coarse grater.
- Pour 50 ml of water into the chips and melt the soap in a water bath.
- Add one teaspoon of finely ground sea salt, grape seed oil, dry blue clay to the liquid. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Add ten drops of lavender oil.
- Prepare a bottle and pour the finished gel into it.
- Shake the bottle well several times to mix the ingredients even better.
The gel is ready. To experience a relaxing effect, it is recommended to take a shower with such liquid soap at night.
DIY gel: make for children
The function of baby liquid soap is not only to cleanse the skin of sweat and dirt. It should be antibacterial and not overdry the body. Natural components perfectly cope with this all. To make a children's shower gel with your own hands, you need to take the following components:
- baby soap;
- glycerin (1 tablespoon);
- ready-made chamomile broth (50 ml);
- lavender essential oil (5 drops);
- cane sugar (1 teaspoon);
- aloe juice (1 teaspoon).
If you want to make the gel color, then use natural dyes (for example, beetroot juice). Grate the soap and melt it in a decoction of chamomile in a water bath. Then add sugar, glycerin and, if necessary, dye. Stir everything thoroughly. Sugar must be dissolved. Then you can add oil and juice. Pour the liquid into a jar and shake it a couple of times. Baby gel is ready! As you can see, making it is not so difficult.
Create your own personalized shower gels. Use natural products and you will be pleasantly surprised, because in a short time your skin will become much better looking and to the touch. Just to avoid the opposite effect, do not use a large amount of aromatic oils. It is also recommended that you first check them for an allergic reaction. To do this, drip a small amount of the selected oil onto the skin and see if there is redness.