Essential Oil Loofah Soaps

Hey everyone! So lately I've been on a clean living adventure. I've started paying a lot more attention to the foods that I eat and the products I use in my home, and as I dive more and more into the products that I'm using for my skin I'm learning that most of them have some seriously questionable ingredients in them!

I saw a blog post online about DIY loofah soaps, and decided to give it a try! Loofahs are great for exfoliating, and many people don't realize they're actually from a plant!

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Here's what you'll need to make the soaps:

- organic melt and pour soap base

- soap mold

- loofah (I got mine here)

- essential oil(s) of your choice (I used this and this)

- string

- microwave safe dish

I bought both loofah slices and a whole loofah. Some of the slices were too big for the mold, so I ended up slicing the big one myself. Beware, they're a little hard to cut!

Next, I tied string through my loofahs so they can be hung in the shower, then put them into the soap mold. A little trick I learned is that loofahs float once the soap base is poured in, so try to pick loofah slices that fit flush against the outsides of your mold

Next, I cut my soap base into cubes and heated it in a microwave safe dish at 30 second intervals. Once it's completely melted, add in your drops of essential oil and stir. I chose lavender and citrus for mine.

One pound of soap base made 5 loofahs for me, and I used 10-12 drops of oil in each batch. For the lavender that was a good amount to get a strong scent, but I'll probably add more citrus next time, those don't have a super strong scent to them.