Creating your own homemade soap like this Oatmeal Lavender Soap is easier than you might think. Once you figure out a few soap recipes that you like, it’s easy to customize it by adding in oils, flowers, and scents.

This soap recipe uses finely ground oatmeal, lavender essential oil (so relaxing), and dried lavender flower that make it super pretty.

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Lavender Oatmeal Soap

Makes 5 bars if using same mold

Ingredients/Supplies:
¾ pound melt & pour goats milk soap base
4 ounces rolled oats (finely ground)
1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
10 drops lavender essential oil
Silicone soap mold
Large Pyrex measuring cup
Wooden stir stick

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Directions:
1. Grind the oats. (You can do this with a rolling pin, in the food processor, ninja, magic bullet, or whatever your preferred method is.)

2. Cut the soap into 1 inch chunks. Melt the soap in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. If it is not completely melted, put it back on for 10 second increments, until fully melted; stirring each time..

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3. Add the ground oats to the soap base. Mix well.

4. Add the lavender essential oil. Mix again.

5. Poor into the silicone mold.

6. Add about half of the lavender flowers, and give it a little stir with your wooden stick.

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7. Add more lavender flowers to the top.

8. Let set for about 2-3 hours.

9. Remove from mold. Using the wavy scraper, cut the soap into 2 ¼ inch bars.

You can use a different soap base for this Oatmeal Lavender Soap if you have one that you like better. I bet shea butter would be a great base to use in this soap recipe too. If you try it with a different soap base leave a comment and let me know how it turned out.

Oatmeal Lavender Soap

Yield: 5 bars

Homemade Oatmeal Lavender Soap

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Materials

• ¾ pound melt & pour goats milk soap base
• 4 ounces rolled oats (finely ground)
• 1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
• 10 drops lavender essential oil

Tools

• Silicone soap mold
• Large Pyrex measuring cup
• Wooden stir stick

Instructions

1. Grind the oats. (You can do this with a rolling pin, in the food processor, ninja, magic bullet, or whatever your preferred method is.)
2. Cut the soap into 1 inch chunks. Melt the soap in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. If it is not completely melted, put it back on for 10 second increments, until fully melted; stirring each time..
3. Add the ground oats to the soap base. Mix well.
4. Add the lavender essential oil. Mix again.
5. Poor into the silicone mold.
6. Add about half of the lavender flowers, and give it a little stir with your wooden stick.
7. Add more lavender flowers to the top.
8. Let set for about 2-3 hours.
9. Remove from mold. Using the wavy scraper, cut the soap into 2 ¼ inch bars.