Wedding favours are the perfect way to thank your guests for helping to celebrate your special day. Homemade wedding favours are becoming much more popular and are a lovely way to give a personal touch to the wedding.

One of our favourite D.I.Y wedding favours is using homemade soap! It’s a cool, creative project that you can tailor and personalise to your taste. Soap is also a practical gift, because we all need to wash our hands!

Here are two glorious recipes to make some Grapefruit Lavender Soap and Coconut Mint Soap via A House in the Hills blog.

Grapefruit Lavender Soap & Coconut Mint Soap

Ingredients + Supplies

• Zest of 1 grapefruit
• 1-2 tablespoons fresh lavender
• 3 tablespoons coconut flakes
• 8-10 chopped fresh sage leaves
• 15-20 drops peppermint essential oil
• 15-20 drops lavender essential oil
• 1lb bag shea butter
• Soap mold

Method for Soap Base

– Rinse soap molds to ensure they are free of any residue.  Let dry and place on baking sheet to make transporting them later easier.

– Check to make sure baking sheet fits in freezer, choose a smaller sheet if it doesn’t!

– Melt soap base according to package instructions (we used the shea butter listed above).

– For stove top melting use a double boiler system by filling a large pot with water and putting a smaller pot inside of it.

– Once water has boiled, place shea butter in smaller pot and turn heat to low/simmer.  Cover and heat.

– Stir every few minutes until shea butter is completely melted.

– While soap is melting gather grapefruit zest, lavender, chopped sage, coconut flakes, peppermint oil and lavender oil.

Method for Grapefruit + Lavender

– Once soap base has melted let sit for a couple of minutes.

– Pour out 1 cup of soap base into measuring cup.

– Add grapefruit zest, lavender and 15-20 drops of lavender essential oil to measuring cup, stirring frequently so ingredients don’t settle to the bottom.

– Pour into 3-4 soap molds.

– Use spatula to ensure even distribution of lavender and grapefruit zest.

– Rinse measuring cup.

Method for Coconut + Mint

– Pour remaining soap base into measuring cup and add coconut flakes, chopped sage leaves, and 15-20 drops of peppermint oil stirring frequently.

– Pour into 3-4 soap molds.

– Use spatula to ensure even distribution of coconut flakes and sage leaves.

– Let sit for 1 hour then place in freezer for 1 hour.

-Soaps should pop out of mold easily with use of a knife to cut around edges.

Notes

– Any heat resistant container can function as a soap mold.

– If using baking dish/tupperware as a soap mold you may need to spray with cooking oil or use a liner to ensure soap doesn’t stick to pan.

– Soap base is going to be hot and may burn, handle carefully!

– Coconut flakes and grapefruit zest will act as exfoliants.  If your prefer a smoother soap chop flakes and zest into smaller pieces.

Fabulous! We can’t wait to get started on this project, thanks again to A House in the Hills for this cool recipe.