10 Holiday Scented Foaming Hand Soap Recipes with Essential Oils

My foaming hand soap was such a hit that I decided I would make some holiday scented foaming hand soap recipes! They are a great way to bring your favourite holiday scents into your home without spending a ton of money and without adding unnecessary chemicals!

I have listed the different scents below and if you scroll to the bottom of the post you will see the soap base recipe!

Looking for more Holiday DIY’s? You may like these:

DIY Winter Room Sprays 

Holiday Diffuser Blends 

Holiday Roller Bottle Blends

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10 Holiday Scented Foaming Hand Soap Recipes with Essential Oils

Some of these blends use citrus essential oils. If you choose to make a blend with citrus, I would recommend using a glass foaming hand soap bottle. You can see some examples HERE.

Candy Cane Foaming Hand Soap

• 4 drops Ylang Ylang
• 2 drops Peppermint
• 2 drops Wintergreen
• 2 drops Cassia (optional)
• 2 drops Lemon

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Winter Magic Foaming Hand Soap

• 4 drops Cardamom
• 3 drops Rosemary
• 2 drops Lemon
• 2 drop Eucalyptus
• 1 drop Melaleuca (Tea Tree)

Note: Scroll down for full soap recipe

Jingle Bells Foaming Hand Soap

• 5 drops Lavender
• 3 drops Tangerine
• 3 drops Lime
• 1 drops Spearmint

Note: Scroll down for full soap recipe

Sugarplum Foaming Hand Soap

• 6 drops Citrus Bliss
• 3 drops Passion
• 2 drops Bergamot
• 1 drop Juniper Berry

Note: Scroll down for full soap recipe

Ginger Snap Foaming Hand Soap

• 3 drops Ginger
• 3 drops Clove
• 2 drops Cinnamon Bark
• 2 drops Wild Orange
• 2 drops Cardamom

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‘Tis the Season Foaming Hand Soap (immunity blend)

• 4 drops On Guard
• 3 drops Lemon
• 2 drops Oregano
• 2 drops Frankincense
• 1 drop Melaleuca (Tea Tree)

Note: Scroll down for full soap recipe

Yuletide Foaming Hand Soap

• 6 drops Lemon
• 4 drops Lavender
• 2 drops Copaiba

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Family Tradition Foaming Hand Soap

• 3 drops Vetiver
• 3 drops Cedarwood
• 3 drops Lavender
• 3 drops Bergamot or Tangerine

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Holiday Wish Foaming Hand Soap

• 6 drops Blue Tansy
• 3 drops Siberian Fir
• 3 drops Wild Orange

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Joyeux Noel Foaming Hand Soap

• 4 drops Geranium
• 3 drops Neroli
• 3 drops Ylang Ylang
• 2 drops Hawaiian Sandalwood

Note: Scroll down for full soap recipe

Base Foaming Hand Soap Recipe

What You Need:

• 2 Tablespoons of Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap (I get mine from Amazon HERE or Costco)
• 1 1/2 Tablespoons of Grapeseed oil (this is what I used but I think fractionated coconut oil would work just as well if that is what you have on hand).
• Essential oil blend of choice as listed above
• 1 1/2 cups of water
• A recycled foaming hand soap bottle (If the blend you are using includes citrus essential oils, then use a glass bottle like the ones seen HERE).

How to Make It:

1. Rinse and clean your foaming hand soap bottle.
2. Add 2 Tbsp of Dr. Bronner’s soap, 1 1/2 Tbsp of grapeseed oil and eo blend of choice into the empty bottle.
3. Add 1/2 cups of water to the bottle.
4. Screw the pump top on to the bottle and you are ready to use!

Helpful Tips

1. 1. Do not shake the bottle once you add the water. You will notice that the soap interacts with the water as soon as it is added and shaking could cause the bottle to overflow with soap suds.
   2. Some of these blends use citrus essential oils. If you choose to make a blend with citrus, I would recommend using a glass foaming hand soap bottle. You can see some examples HERE.

Now that you have the recipes, where do you plan to store them?

On a scrap of paper? Pinterest? Written on whatever was near you at the time? I was always finding great essential oil recipes but didn’t have a place to store them! This resulted in scraps of paper that often got lost or pinterest pins that got buried on my boards. So I decided to solve this problem by creating my Essential Oil Toolkit & Recipe Journal! Take a sneak peak at the video below and if you like what you see, purchase your copy as a paperback book or PDF printable HERE!

There you have it, wonderful homemade holiday scented foaming hand soap recipes!

Enjoy!