Homemade Shaving Soap Recipe

I would add in Castor Oil….it is a natural anti-inflammatory and cleanser. The chemical makeup of Castor Oil allows it to penetrate deep into the layers of the skin. I use Castor oil and olive oil mix as a face wash. It is awesome. The Castor oil can actually dry out the skin. My mix is about 85% olive oil (unrefined organic first cold pressed of course) and 15% Castor oil. (to try it I mixed it up in a kids medicine cup .5tsp castor to 3.5tsp olive oil which makes up the 4tsp cup) Even then I have to use additional Olive oil on the spots I have some eczema or it would still be too drying. My boyfriend already uses this to shave and loves it. He uses a 5050 mix because his face is naturally oily. I know this probably sounds crazy to wash your face with oil but it is incredible. I’m not sure if this site includes the Oil Cleansing Method or OCM in it’s recipes because I haven’t gone through the whole site yet but if not WOW it’s a must try. For this to have maximum effectiveness you must steam the face. Steaming should be done anyway to open up the pores before washing or shaving. It only requires a wet rag rung out from hot water and placed on the face….probably do it a couple times. If just washing then use the mixture and rub all over face for about a minute to really get it saturated, then steam a couple times and gently wipe face of excess oil and steam again a couple times. One more gentle wipe over and that’s it. Rub and remaining oil into face….I could tell right away that the 80% EVOO to 20% Castor I tried originally was too drying right away. My mouth area and chin felt really dry and like my face would crack if I smiled. So I rubbed in some EVOO to remoisturize. To close pores of free radicals in the air after cleansing a few splashes of the coldest water you can stand would work. If you can’t OCM everyday then the ratio is not right for your skin. I also use microfiber rags instead of terry. It’s not so bad if you were washing your face in cold water but when steaming it hurts. I just bought a 2 pack in the automotive area because they are used to wash cars and cut each one into 4 lol.

Back to shaving, med should steam first always anyway. I’d also heat the shave cream in warm water bath or the like to aide in effectiveness. Apply cream, shave….it usually helps to have a cup with soapy water to vigorously “swish” the razor in because the oils can clog the blade up pretty quickly so a few swishes are needed regularly. This could also be used for women, I use oil myself, and the swishing still needed lol. After the shave is complete use a little more of the CastorEVOO mix and rub in the face and proceed to steam away. My BF is of Syrian descent and as you can imagine he has thick hair and also shaves his head. Good shaving creams and habits are a MUST. He approves of the OCM for shaving and facial cleansing.

If you are curious about WHY cleansing with oils would actually be beneficially and not magnify acne issues please read about it here…. https://theoilcleansingmethod.com/ Mainstream would have you believe a lot of lies. This includes the food industry as well which is a completely different rant lol so it’s up to us to expose the real truth in healthy living as a whole.

My shaving cream came out too runny. Can I still salvage it? I used the clay and the baking soda. Not sure what went wrong. Do I need to use an electric blender? Any tips would be incredibly helpful. Thank you.

Where do you buy your ingredients? I’ve been looking online, but I’m having a hard time discerning the quality of the products.

How does the bar soap work? Do you lather it in your hands and then put it on your body, or do you just rub it straight onto where you’re going to shave? I’ve never used anything like that before!

I’ve just whipped up the shave cream batter and am so excited to try it.  I tried another recipe from pinterest without success, way to runny.  I used almost half the bottle to shave my legs and it still all ran off.  This is now in the process of cooling and I can tell it’s going to be a much thicker lather!  The only nice thing for the other recipe was that my legs were SMOOTH!! 

I’ve been switching to homemade as we use up our conventional toiletries and have been relying on your recipes 🙂  so this was timely. I had actually started to wonder if coconut oil by itself would work or do you think it would get too gummed up? Thanks again for another helpful post!