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DIY Honey Oatmilk Soap

Since my first trial with CP soap (DIY Caffeinated Soap) and it ended up great, I am more keen to try on other recipes. And when I stumbled on this honey and oat milk soap recipe, I knew I just couldn’t go pass it. Honey is well-known for its anti-bacterial benefit, packed with anti oxidants and can help with clarifying pores. Oatmeal has anti-inflammatory properties hence is really good for sensitive skin, moisturising, helps treat acne, eczema, and rashes. I can only imagine how good the soap be if I can include those two super ingredients together.

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DIY Caffeinated Soap Bar

On our Bali honeymoon trip where we had a walk around Monkey Forest Street and found this handmade soap shop has inspired me to make my own soap bar. I personally prefer soap bar to soap gel/liquid and I used to use Dove, I think it smells so good especially during winter time and it claims to leave the skin soft, which I can’t attest because I used body lotion after shower. Soap bar also lasts a lot longer that soap liquid, hence the savings that I can allocate to other stuffs on my shopping list 😀 It is also a good practice that is environmental friendly (still proud however small my contribution is). Since I started my research on handmade soap bar, I became more conscious of long list of chemical substances put into a store-bought soap bar and that I actually rub them on my skin. Although they have never irritated me so far or as I aware of, it still kind of puts me off buying them.

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