DIY Pink Lemonade Soap Recipe
Last summer, I went on a bit of a soap making kick. It started because my daughter kept asking if we could make “something pretty” together, and honestly? I needed a project that didn’t involve me cleaning up glitter for three days straight!
I’d been making homemade soap for a while at that point, but mostly simple, no-fuss bars for everyday use. But I had just made a pink lemonade sugar scrub, so we decided to create this DIY pink lemonade soap, and it turned out even better than I imagined.
This recipe is a melt and pour soap, which means it is absolutely perfect if you’re just getting into soap making for beginners. No lye, no complicated chemistry, no special soap making supplies beyond what you can easily find online or at a craft store.
The whole process is fun, a little artistic, and my daughter was completely obsessed with the swirling step (more on that below). If you’ve been curious about DIY soap making but felt intimidated, this is genuinely the best place to start 🙂
What you’ll end up with are these gorgeous pink and yellow swirled rectangle bars, with adorable little lemon-shaped soaps pressed right on top as decoration. They look like something from a fancy boutique. They smell like summer in a bar. And you made them yourself!!
Ingredients
Here are the ingredients in this homemade pink lemonade soap:
Lemon Essential Oil has been used for centuries as a cleansing and uplifting ingredient. It’s naturally bright and energizing, that citrusy scent actually signals your brain to wake up and feel refreshed (my favorite benefit!!).
Grapefruit Essential Oil is lemon’s cheerful cousin. It has long been valued in traditional wellness practices for its mood-lifting, invigorating properties. Together, lemon and grapefruit create that unmistakable summer citrus scent that makes this a perfect DIY summer soap recipe.
Melt and Pour Soap Base A good quality melt and pour base is already formulated with skin-nourishing ingredients like goat’s milk, which helps skin hold onto moisture. It cleanses without stripping, which I love for my kids’ sensitive skin.
Mica Powder is a naturally derived mineral colorant. It’s skin-safe, doesn’t bleed or fade, and gives that beautiful, vibrant color without synthetic dyes!
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DIY Pink Lemonade Soap Recipe
Makes: About 3 ½ soaps
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound melt and pour soap base
- 15 drops lemon essential oil
- 10 drops grapefruit essential oil
- Pink and lemon mica powder (for color), I used around 1/2 teaspoon per color
- Lemon soap molds
- Rectangle soap mold
Instructions
Cut up your soap base. Put into 2 separate glass jars and melt slowly either in the microwave or double boiler.
Add pink mica powder into one and stir. Then add in yellow to the other.
Add in your drops of essential oils and stir to mix. If it gets hard, slowly melt again.
When the melted soap is around 125 degrees F, slowly pour both colors at the same time and swirl it around as you pour.
While you wait for those to harden, add the remaining soap to the small lemon molds.
When the rectangles are hard, melt the remaining small soap. Use as glue to add on the lemons to the top.
Notes
- Citrus essential oils will cause sun sensitivity. Never use citrus essential oils and immediately go in the sun afterward.
- Swap lemon and grapefruit for a floral blend, or try orange and vanilla for a creamsicle vibe. The swirl technique WORKS with so many color combinations!
How to Use It
Use just like any bar soap, wet your hands or a washcloth, lather up, and rinse. These bars are gentle enough for daily use and work beautifully as a hand soap or shower bar.
Store finished bars in a cool, dry place. Wrapping them in wax paper or kraft paper keeps them fresh and makes them incredibly cute as homemade gifts.
Pink Lemonade Soap
Bright and cheerful pink lemonade-inspired soap bars with swirls of pink and yellow, topped with adorable mini lemon soap embeds for a fun handmade summer aesthetic.
Materials
- 1/2 pound melt and pour soap base
- 25 drops essential oil of choice
- Pink and lemon mica powder (for color), I used 1 teaspoon per color
Tools
- Microwave or double boiler
- Glass jars/bowls
- Thermometer
- Rectangle soap mold
- Lemon soap molds
- Stirring sticks
Instructions
- Cut up your soap base. Put into 2 separate glass jars and melt slowly either in the microwave or double boiler.
- Add pink mica powder into one and stir. Then add in yellow to the other.
- Add in your drops of essential oils and stir to mix. If it gets hard, slowly melt again.
- When the melted soap is around 125 degrees F, slowly pour both colors at the same time and swirl it around as you pour.
- While you wait for those to harden, add the remaining soap to the small lemon molds.
- When the rectangles are hard, melt the remaining small soap. Use as glue to add on the lemons to the top.
Notes
- Pour both soap colors at the same time while they’re around 125°F—this creates cleaner swirls without the colors fully blending together.
Final Thoughts
This is by far my FAVORITE soap making recipe to do with my daughter, the swirling step alone is worth it just to watch little hands get so excited.
We’ve gifted these at birthday parties, wrapped in brown kraft paper with a little twine, and people always assume we bought them somewhere fancy 🙂
If you’ve been putting off trying homemade summer soap, let this be your sign! It’s easier than you think, and the results are absolutely worth it!
