spatreats4u Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 im seeking both a great face wash and then a body wash that foams with a pump bottle...my kids really love this kind. Anyone have a great recipe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniedb Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 You know what I love for a body wash in the foam pumps? Dr. Bronner's Liquid Soap. If you want to make your own, I like a combo of olive oil, hemp seed oil and coconut for your liquid base. I add about 1 inch of soap to the bottle and fill the rest with water, works like a charm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladysj Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Is that in a liquid soap? Where do you find that soap? That sounds like a very nice recipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniedb Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Yep, it's just a liquid soap. They sell it at health food markets like Whole Foods, Central Market (if you're in TX), Sunflower Markets (in the West) and lots of smaller venues...not GNC, but other healthy living stores. You can also get it online, but then there's shipping. The co. makes like 6 kinds, but the only difference is the EO they're scented with...I buy the unscented (called Baby Mild), and add my own EOs to it before I add the water, they blend with the soap and that way I don't have to buy three different kinds. They're super concentrated, so a little goes a long way. Just know that Dr. Bronner, the founder and creator of the soap, is a total nutjob and he's got this totally whacked out stuff on his label about his religion that he invented, it creeped me out at first, but now I just read it and crack up. It's like a combo of all the major religions thrown together, with some good ol' spaceship theology thrown in there, LOL!His site sells their products too, you can check out http://www.drbronner.com/main.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryGal Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Yikes, it's kind of spendy isn't it? Is that the only stuff that works for the foaming or can you use any liquid soap base? Or is it semi economic because you don't actually end up using a lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnsaitch Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Ok, this might sound weird, but my 14-year-old said the bathrooms at school were out of soap and wanted to take some of mine to school. I don't make liquid soap but as a way to test a theory and appease my daughter, I grated some of my bar soap into a sample foamer bottle, added some hot water, waited for about an hour to let the soap flakes dissolve and OMG, it worked! Simple as that. She's happy and now all of her friends are borrowing her bottle of soap to wash their hands. It's a quick, easy solution to try out if you have the foamer bottles. For me, I'm more determined than ever to try a batch of liquid soap so I can do it *right*. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladysj Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 Ok so it's a pure castile soap I've got some of that in the Baby Mild too and now that I've seen the site I do believe it's his lol. So it's equal parts of oils,(about how many ounces total?) 1 inch soap and the rest water. Now I gotta get some foaming bottles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmsojka Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 I make up two kinds of foaming soap, one anti bacterial hand soap and one aloe body wash. I use two different kinds of pumps, one tall and slender, one shorter and broader. EAch pump requires a different ratio of soap to water. So I am thinking the pumps mix it differently. I tried the same ratio for both and it did not work.So I don't think it is the soap so much as the pump. I think you could pick up a bulk shower gel somewhere, mix it according to directions, (believe me, they mean it too). I use BCN's hand soap, and body wash. WSP has the shorter pumps, and I get the taller ones from Essentials of Catalina. But I see more and more people are coming out with them. freda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniedb Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 It certainly can get expensive, but I find that since I only use ~1 inch of it (about an ounce or so) in the foaming bottle and the rest water, it takes me forEVER to go through a bottle. The thing I love so much about it as a body wash is that it's super mild, so I can use it on Henry, and it's also incredibly easy to wash off. There's never a residue. You can certainly use lots of other things, it's really the bottle that produces the foaming stuff, I just like the Dr. Bronner's because it's such a great, basic, TRUE soap instead of a detergent like a body wash. Purple Lilac makes an amazing liquid castile soap that I've used in the foaming bottle and it works wonderfully, as well.Just to clarify, ladysj, it's just a little of the soap, a few drops of EO and th rest water...no additional ingredients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryGal Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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