So, it turns out that many cleaning fluids, such as anti-bacterial liquid soap, contain something called methylisothiazolinone, a chemical found to be allergenic, cytotoxic and linked to nerve cell death, as well as Triclosan, another anti-bacterial chemical registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as a pesticide and is believed to destroy fragile aquatic ecosystems. 
The obvious alternative to using these chemical-filled detergents is simply to use all-natural bar soap. But, waaa, you don't like bar soap because it slips into the sink, looks messy and "dirty" sitting in its dish, and then it gets so tiny that you can't use it anymore. What to do? You can make natural liquid soap from a bar! To learn how, read more.
Supplies
- 4 oz. bar of natural soap
- Grater
- 1 gallon of distilled water
- 1 big pot
- Hand mixer
Here are the steps, summarized from Suite 101:
- Grate your bar of soap.
- Heat the water just enough to steam.
- Add the grated soap to the water.
- Take the mixture off of the heat, and let it sit for 15 minutes.
- Blend the mixture, with a hand mixer if you have one.
- Let it sit overnight.
- Make sure the mixture is completely blended. If not, blend again, and let it sit. Then, blend again.
- Pour it into an olive oil bottle and wash your hands!
Morgan
Penhaligon
See by Chloe
What about diluted Dr. Bronner's?
1What about non-antibacterial liquid soap?
2What about - Hey! Awesome idea!
I just found, at Big Lots, a ton of Every Man Jack soap for 50 cents a bar. I stocked up because as you know the soap is tallow, paraben, and sulfate free. Perhaps I'll make some handsoap from a bar of this.
But how much liquid soap does this recipe make?
3casasugar- where do you get that top for the olive oil bottle? and like terryt18 said how much does this recipe make?
I really like bath and body works soaps but they all have Triclosan
We use Method hand wash in
our kitchen but our bathroom has the anti bacterial soap :\ eek.
4I wonder, witchbaby, if it will make a gallon of soap, beings you need one gallon of distilled water. IDK. . . I'm sho gon' try this tho.
5What a great idea. I'm definitely going to make a batch, but maybe not an entire gallon's worth. terryt18, if I cut the distilled water back to 1/2 gallon how much do you think I'll end up with?
6Burt's Bees liquid soap! I love it and I have it in both of my bathrooms...smells great and it's all natural.
7Oh, Just Oh, I have no idea. I wonder how much will be lost to evaporation, as it says heat water to steam. I don't know, but as I said before, I'm sho gon' try this tho.
8Thanks for this great tip!
9FYI this is also a way to "save and use" those micro-slivers of soap bars that can be so annoying. Just save them up, and when you feel you have enough, melt them together to make hand soap from the leftovers.
10Its a nice idea, but its something I don't have time for.
11I love this idea. I'm trying to reduce the plastic I use, so making my own liquid soap and putting it into a beautful container is just the thing. Thanks! A gallon should last a long time so any effort will be worth it.
12you should send you receipe to spokane with all the soap smuggling going on
13Has anyone tried this? I want to try this out but scared that the soap with turn into a huge goopy lump after awhile. An experience with it?
14I tried this. I ended up with a gallon jar of the most amazing blob of soap-slime, so oddly slippery and stretchy that I could not remove a smaller quantity from the jar to put into a smaller container to use next to my sink. Looked online for what to do now, and one source suggested melting it with more water. I dumped the "blob" into my largest soup kettle and added another half gallon of water and heated it gently on the stove, after an hour it had dissolved and looked more like liquid soap, and could be dipped out with a ladle without stretching back into the pan. Unfortunately, as it cooled, the liquid changed back to a blob of gel. The soap that I put in my next to the sink dispenser is very difficult to pump out, and then a long string of soap gel stretches away from the spout... Any suggestions? I was hoping to save some money and make my own liquid soap, since Dr Bronners is well over $30/gallon
15i suggest using coconut oil to the finished product, it will help to liquify it more,.
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