These DIY shower gel recipes are made with natural ingredients, making them beneficial for your skin. Adjust the ingredients to your skin and to prevent allergies!
1. Easy homemade shower gel
If you want a moisturizing bath to beat winter dryness, nothing beats raw honey and vitamin E to boost hydration! This recipe includes all of these along with glycerin and castile soap for some lathering action. View the details here.
2. Homemade moisturizing shower gel
This simple 10-minute recipe features a fine balance of nourishing ingredients like coconut oil and lathering ingredients like castile soap. The addition of xanthan gum boosts the probiotic quotient, making it an excellent antidote for dry, acne-prone skin craving some love.
3. DIY gel with orange essential oil and shea butter
With skin-repairing and antibacterial properties, this soothing, orange-scented shower gel helps your skin retain water, eliminating the need to apply moisturizer throughout the day. Click here for the recipe.
4. Lavender spruce shower gel
Mixing liquid surfactants into shower gels is not easy. This easy DIY shows you how to do just that to get an amazingly spreadable consistency that bubbles and lathers like a dream.
5. Homemade shower gel with olive oil
Sure, this homemade shower gel lacks fragrance, but its benefits are undeniable, thanks to the olive oil, which protects against sun damage and deeply moisturizes. Find the recipe here.
6. African Black Soap DIY Gel
This simple DIY let you enjoy the healing properties of African black soap in the form of a shower gel. It works as useful as a facial wash and thus reduces the number of products you need.
7. DIY Sugar Plum Shower Gel
Showering with this sugar plum shower gel feels more like a luxurious spa treatment, giving you all the energy you need to do even more shopping for the holidays. And the recipe can be adapted to individual preferences, so that instead of sugar plum you can use any tea you like.
8. DIY Sweet & Sassy Spruce Shower Gel
With ingredients like honey, vitamin E and jojoba oil, this is one shower gel your skin will thank you for. In addition, it has warm, spicy undertones thanks to the cloves and a mild, fruity scent of orange. Here you will find further instructions.
9. Homemade Castille Soap Gel
This shower gel is a more travel-friendly version of your castile soap, with an intoxicating, long-lasting scent thanks to the addition of essential oils such as grapefruit, lemon and geranium. Don’t forget some maple syrup for a runny texture. Here’s the recipe.
10. DIY Lemon Verbena Bubble Bath Gel
This bubbling, foaming shower gel provides a pleasant bathing experience, one that pampers the inner child in you and also leaves a spicy, spa-like scent in your bathroom. Find full instructions here.
11. Homemade body wash with honey + coconut oil
For an ultra-moisturizing bath in cold, dry winters, this honey-coconut body wash is the way to go. It smells like a dream, lathers easily and leaves a lingering scent in your bathroom too. Here’s the recipe.
12. DIY Shower Gel
This is one of those recipes that has quite a few minerals in it, but the results are worth the extra effort.
13. DIY shower gel from scratch
If your skin often suffers from breakouts and you’re looking for a tried and tested recipe with organic ingredients, this DIY is your answer. It contains glycerin for extra moisture and essential oils such as chamomile and lavender that soothe the skin.
14. DIY lavender spruce gel
Probably one of the most balanced shower gel recipes in this list. This recipe includes glycerin for moisture, baking soda for some exfoliating, sodium coconut sulfate for lather, and lavender for an intoxicating, delicious scent.
15. Gel with fresh essential oil blend
Combining essential oils and moisturizing almond extracts in an aromatic blend, this exfoliating yet nourishing body wash is excellent for renewing flaky skin. Find the details here.
16. DIY Rosemary Lavender Bath Gel
Infused with drops of two mood-enhancing essential oils, lavender and rosemary, this energizing and lathering gel is just the thing to beat Monday morning blues. Here’s the DIY store.
17. Bath gel with all-natural essential oils
This insanely simple video shows you how to make a nourishing blend of shea butter, coconut oil, and almond oil that leaves you with a soapy clean without stripping moisture from your skin.
