Keep bugs away!
Body soap offers the obvious benefit of cleaning your skin. It can also serve to nurture and protect the skin as a moisturizer, antibacterial, anti-microbial or other essential purposes. One other important role it can play is as a bug repellent, repelling mosquitoes and other bugs. What's more you can make your own pure, natural bug repellent soap. Read on to learn make bug repellent body soap.
Instructions
1. Gather all the materials and supplies you need so as to have them handy when you begin. Grate the Castile soap and set it aside. Grate it as fine as possible to help it dissolve faster.
2. Pour the water into a saucepan and place it on the stove. Bring the water to a boil. Turn the heat down low and then pour your grated Castile soap into the saucepan. Stir it continuously, allowing it to melt and thoroughly dissolve into the water.
3. Stir the crushed penny royal leaves into the melted Castile soap solution. Make sure you keep stirring it constantly to ensure all the ingredients get mixed without burning.
4. Pour the mixture into a bowl. Stir in the eucalyptus essential oil and citronella essential oil. Now, use your electric mixer to mix the ingredients even more thoroughly. Your pure soap mixture will gradually increase in volume as you continue mixing. As soon as the solution increases to about double the volume you begun with, you will need to move quickly to pour it into your molds.
5. Spoon the soap solution into your soap molds, and pack it down as well as you can. It is essential that you do this step as quickly as you can. This is because mixing with the electric beater will result in the solution cooling down and thickening. If it gets too thick, it will be increasingly difficult to pack into your molds.
6. Place the mold aside to allow the soap to set. Once it has set and completely cooled, tap it out of the mold.
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