DIY: Shaving Cream

Hey Guys today I'm going to share my own recipe for homemade shaving cream. You can make this have any scent, and If you wanted to you could even add color.  This recipe makes about 2 and 1/2 1 pint mason jars full which that is about 8 or 9 cups.  This shaving cream is safer for your skin than other ones, and will save you money on shaving creams. Now lets get to it.

 What you need:

• 1 Bar of Sensitive Dove Soap, you could also use any other kind of bar soap you have
• 30-40 drops of essential oils or until your shaving cream smells good to you
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2/3 cups coconut oil
• Stand or hand mixer
• Not pictured in the picture is 2 vitamin E capsules
• Optional: Food Coloring (I don't recommend this)

Step 1: Bring 1 and 1/2 cups of water to a boil and while that's boiling grade your bar of soap. After your water is boiling add all the grated soap and pop your Vitamin E capsules and add to the mixture, boil the mixture for 5-10 minutes stirring constantly boil until when you lift your spoon out you don't see soap flakes in the mixture. After pour into a cup and put in freezer or fridge to cool.

Step 2: melt the coconut oil in the microwave on 30 second bursts, then put that in a bowl and add essential oil until desired smell is achieved, this smell will change when soap is added. After this is done put the bowl into the freezer to the point where their is a layer of solid coconut oil, but this can be busted to reveal a more melted coconut oil, I accidentally left mine to long so it was more solid this caused me to have to keep mixing it during the whipping process. After the freezer you want to whip the coconut mixture until light and soft.

Step 3: Lastly add 3/4 of the mixture of soap mixture to the coconut oil and whip until texture is like shaving cream. The texture is VERY shaving cream like.I decide to store my shaving cream in 1 pint jars, one of my jars I decide to seal, for preservation.

 ~If you try this out let me know how it went, and if you have questions feel free to ask.~