Foaming Hand Soap

This is probably the most simple and money saving DIY you can do outside of laundry soap.  Hand soap will run you anywhere from $2.50 to $6.50 a bottle depending on where you buy it.  Anyone who has dish soap and water on hand can make their own for roughly $0.11.  I like to add essential oils to mine as well particularly with my kitchen soap dispenser and would suggest lavender, peppermint, lemon, or tea tree essential oils.  These oils all have antibacterial properties and particularly the lemon and peppermint are good for kitchen use to get yucky smells off of your hands. The addition of the oils will bring the cost up to roughly $0.50.  

Below you will find my recipe for hand soap.  You can also add sweet almond oil or fractionated coconut oil to make the soap more moisturizing which is great in the winter.  The addition of these oils will add about $0.25 per bottle to the cost.  I recycle foaming hand soap bottles.  If you are so inclined, you can purchase decorative ones.  They generally run anywhere from $10-$15 per bottle which is why I just recycle the old ones. 

Foaming Hand Soap
1 Foaming Hand Soap Bottle
2 Tablespoons Dish Soap (any kind will work)
20 drops Essential Oil per preference (optional)
2 teaspoons fractionated coconut oil or sweet almond oil (optional)

Add essential oils and coconut oil to soap dispenser bottle.  Fill with water to about 2 inches from the top.  Add dish soap.  Place lid on soap dispenser and gently shake.  All of the oils I suggested above mix nicely for example lavender-lemon, lemon-peppermint, lavender-peppermint, so feel free to experiment with what scents you like.  I pretty much always add at least 5 drops of tea tree to all of my soaps as it has the strongest antibacterial properties of all the oils.