How to Make Foaming Hand Soap (2025)

Make your own homemade foaming hand soap at home with our easy tutorial. Here is how to make it!

Did you know that you can make many cleaning products including soap at home?

Hand soap is a must have, especially during the winter cold and flu season.

In recent years, foaming hand wash has gained popularity for its luxurious lather, pleasant scent, and foaming clean.

Offering a rich, foamy experience that leaves your hands feeling clean, soft, and refreshed this soap can be made at home in minutes.

Our recent tutorials on how to make your own cleaning supplies have been so popular, we have a couple more new DIY’s to add to our library.

The next project the Two Kids and a Coupon team has for you is a luxurious foaming hand wash that you can make yourself and also personalize with essential oils to get your favorite scents.

How to Make Foaming Hand Soap

This soap makes around 13 ounces of liquid hand wash.

The bottle we recommend is 13.5 ounces, which allows room for foaming, as well as shaking the bottle to mix in the oils.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons Castile soap
• 1 1/2 Cup Water
• 13.5 oz Foaming Hand Wash Dispenser
• 1 teaspoon carrier oil (optional)
• 20-30 drops essential oils (optional)

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Instructions

Whether you are making this foaming wash for the first time or making a foaming hand soap refill, you will want to add water to your soap container until it is almost completely full.

If you use the dispenser we recommend above, this will be about 1 1/2 cups of water.

Then add essential oils to your carrier oil and mix.

Add the carrier oil and castile soap to your container and fill slowly the rest with more water if needed.

Shake to incorporate.

Adding Essential Oils to Your DIY Foaming Hand Soap

Not familiar with using essential oils or sure if you want to add them to this hand soap?

That’s Ok! With this homemade cleaning supplies tutorial, the essential oils are optional.

While they do add a nice scent that you can personalize, they are not necessary to clean hands.

When mixing this soap, you do not have to use a carrier oil.

This is absolutely optional and you’ll only want to include if you are using essential oils.

The carrier oil isn’t required, but it does help keep your hands nice and smooth.

If you do use essential oils in your foaming hand soap, we do recommend giving the bottle a shake before using it every time to make sure the essential oils are still immersed.

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Be sure to also try our regular (non-foaming) DIY homemade hand soap.

We also love this homemade elderberry soap. It makes a great gift!

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