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Homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap

By Maura in Natural Homemade Ideas

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Close your eyes, and imagine inhaling fresh rosemary combined with lemon and orange zest.  Sounds amazing, right?

Today, I’ll show you how to capture that perfect blend of aromas into homemade rosemary citrus goat’s milk soap bars.

Never made homemade soap before? That’s okay. It’s a lot easier than you might think!

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What You’ll Need for Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap: 

  • 2 lb block of Goats Milk Glycerin Melt & Pour Soap Base – this is enough for 12 bars
  • Silicone Mold
  • Orange Essential Oil
  • Lemon Essential Oil
  • Rosemary Essential Oil
  • Liquid Soap Colors – you will need yellow
  • One orange and one lemon
  • Citrus zester
  • 2 cup glass measuring cup
  • Spatula
  • brown paper, twine, and fresh rosemary

Makes 12 bars

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

One note about the goat’s milk glycerin melt: you can find cheaper blocks of goat’s milk soap online, but let me caution you. Since I always try to save money, I’ve tried them and they do NOT work as well. The cheaper blocks of milk don’t melt as smoothly and they are not as natural. Take my word for it; pay the extra couple of dollars and get Dr. Adorables Goat’s milk soap base!  (Not sponsored either!)

The large block of the goat’s milk soap base is smooth and silky, and it cuts easily with a kitchen knife.  Slice the soap base into strips, then cubes, and place them inside the microwave safe measuring cup. My Pyrex measuring cup holds about half of the soap – so I made my citrus rosemary soap bars in 2 different batches.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Microwave your soap for 1 minute.  Take it out and stir; you’ll see that it’s starting to melt. Put it back in the microwave for another 30 seconds and stir again.  Repeat until all the solid soap is melted.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Next add 8 drops of yellow soap coloring and stir until the color is mixed well and smooth.  This will give you a nice pale yellow color.  If you want soap bars a brighter yellow, then add a few more drops of coloring.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Zest one orange and one lemon.  You will want about 2 tablespoons of both orange and lemon zest for each soap batch – so 4 tbsp total orange and 4 tbsp of lemon zest.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Add 2 tablespoons of orange and lemon zest, 2 tablespoons of dried rosemary, 15 drops lemon essential oil, 5 drops orange essential oil, and 15 drops rosemary essential oil.  Stir this all together well.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Now pour your liquid soap into the silicone soap mold.  You can see in my picture that I should have stirred a little more in between pouring the bars so the rosemary was spread out better in each bar of soap. But it’s not a huge deal.

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Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Let your rosemary citrus goat’s milk soap bars cool and harden for a few hours before popping them out of the mold.  

You can finish your freshly made goat’s milk soap bars by wrapping each bar in brown wrapping paper with some twine and a sprig of fresh rosemary.

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!

Homemade rosemary citrus goat’s milk soap make wonderful gifts; the scent is lovely and inviting. You can make them for your kids’ teachers this school year or save them for your own family!

Soap-making is easier than you thought! Here’s how to make homemade Rosemary Citrus Goat’s Milk Soap Bars. With a perfect blend of essential oils, it’s all-natural and great for your family or as a homemade gift!
Here’s a couple more varieties of homemade goat’s milk soap:

Easy Lavender Goat Milk Soap Recipe

Peppermint Goat Milk Soap Recipe

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    Filed Under: Natural Homemade Ideas, Natural Living Tagged With: homemade, rosemary essential oilPublished on August 25, 2016

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    About Maura

    Maura, her husband and 2 daughters live in upstate NY. She is a former high school biology teacher turned into a work at home mom. She loves to have fun and find a great deal. As well as writing for Living Well Mom, she shares her frugal tips and DIY projects on happydealhappyday.com.

    Comments

    1. Ellen LaFleche-Christian says

      August 26, 2016 at 9:37 am

      That sounds absolutely amazing. I love the scent of rosemary.

      Reply
    2. diane says

      August 26, 2016 at 12:43 pm

      I love homemade soap. I buy ours from a local crafter but would love to start making it myself.

      Reply
    3. Audrey McClelland says

      August 26, 2016 at 6:48 pm

      Oh, that sounds FANTASTIC! I love goat’s milk soap, and this rosemary and citrus variety sounds divine. I can’t wait to make some of this!

      Reply
    4. Angela Ricardo Bethea says

      August 27, 2016 at 10:09 am

      Oooh, that is yummy! Citrus is EXCELLENT for the pores, and rosemary is so relaxing. I’ve dabbled in making my own soap, so I can’t wait to give this a try.

      Reply
    5. Olivia Douglass says

      August 27, 2016 at 5:03 pm

      I’ve always wondered how to make homemade soap! This one sounds like a great one for me to try out! Thanks for sharing! These would be GREAT gifts.

      Reply
    6. Letty says

      November 11, 2018 at 11:51 am

      May we use fresh rosemary in the soap instead of dried rosemary?

      Reply
    7. Paul says

      December 20, 2018 at 6:08 pm

      Is everything you added for half of the recipe or is it for the full recipe (i.e. 30 drops of rosemary oil. Is that for half of your batch or your full batch?).

      Thanks 🙂

      Reply
    8. Sherry says

      May 1, 2019 at 11:13 pm

      Do you use a preservative in your soap? And if not would it not turn moldy.

      Reply
      • Erika says

        May 8, 2019 at 2:30 pm

        Hi Sherry, since we are using a pre-made soap base, there may be a preservative in it – you would need to read the ingredients of the soap base you use. I’ve never seen mold on any of the bars I’ve made – and some of them have been sitting around for over a year.

        Reply
    9. carole says

      May 10, 2019 at 12:30 pm

      I am actually concerned about the fresh zest we are using in this recipe. Wouldn’t be safer to use died zest instead?

      Reply
      • Erika says

        May 10, 2019 at 3:46 pm

        Hi Carole, we haven’t had any issues using fresh zest in this recipe however you can certainly substitute something else if you prefer.

        Reply
    10. Terri says

      November 25, 2019 at 3:07 pm

      I made a batch of this soap and it looks lovely and smells divine however it’s really oily. I’d like to make another batch, is it supposed to be oily to touch?

      Reply

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