5 Great Fall Soap Recipes - Simple Life Mom (2024)

Thanks for checking out my 5 Fall Soap Recipes! Fall is such a beautiful time of the year where I live. Whether you love the hot summers or the snowy winters, Autumn is a transition time that often involves new scents outside the home as well as inside the home. The coolness of the mornings, the decomposition of leaves, Fall flowers, Holiday scents like cinnamon, cloves, and pumpkin all create wonderful memories.

One way to create wonderful scents in the home and give meaningful homemade gifts is to make your own Fall soaps using these 5 Fall Soap Recipes.

Don’t forget to check out 5 MORE Soap Recipes HERE too!

As always, I only create recipes using pure ingredients. You will find no fragrance oils here (No matter what they claim to not have in them, fragrance oils are a chemical brew that is not natural or healthy).

These recipes have affiliate links to Amazon for your convenience.

Fall Soap Recipes and Tips:

1. I’ve included a few Vegan recipes along with the traditional tallow recipes.
2. You can interchange essential oil scents from one recipe to another if you like the ingredients to another recipe better.
3. If you want to double a recipe or switch out an oil for another one, make sure you run it through a lye calculator to make sure it adds up. You don’t want to end up with too much lye and have a crumbly soap.
4. All Recipes are 2lbs
5. Any extra ideas? Please leave a comment below. 🙂
6. Learn how to Color your Soap Naturally Here!

Orange and Cloves Soap Recipe

Makes: 2 pounds

Superfat: 5%

Ingredients:

• 10 ounces Grass Fed Beef Tallow or Lard
• 5 ounces Coconut Oil
• 9 ounces Olive Oil
• 3.4 ounces Lye
• 9 ounces Water
• 0.25 ounces Orange Essential Oil
• 0.50 ounces Clove Essential Oil
• 1 teaspoon Moroccan clay
• 1 teaspoon ground turmeric

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine tallow, coconut, and olive oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat over low heat until oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water and lye in separate containers. Outside, with protective gloves, goggles, and mask, slowly add lye to the water (be careful. Lye will burn your skin if it touches you. Don’t inhale vapors either!). Stir. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Pour lye water into oils and blend with hand mixer until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and blend.
5. Remove 1/4 cup of soap to one bowl and 1/4 cup of soap to a second bowl. To one bowl add 1 teaspoon orange Moroccan clay. To the second bowl add 1 teaspoon ground turmeric.
6. Pour main batch into a prepared 2 pound mold. Drizzle colored soap back and forth over soap. Use a chopstick and swirl soap back and forth in the opposite direction that you drizzled.
7. Cover and insulate for 24 hours.
8. Remove from mold and cut. Cure for 3-6 weeks.

Pumpkin Spice Soap Recipe (Find this in my Shop)

Makes: 2 pounds

Superfat: 10%

Ingredients:

• 10 oz Grass Fed Beef Tallow or Lard
• 5 oz Coconut Oil
• 9 oz Olive Oil
• 3.2 oz Lye
• 7 oz Water
• 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 0.25 oz Cinnamon Essential Oil
• 0.25 oz Clove Essential Oil
• 0.15 Nutmeg Essential Oil
• 0.15 oz Allspice Essential Oil

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine tallow, coconut, and olive oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat over low heat until oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water and lye in separate containers. Outside, with protective gloves, goggles, and mask, slowly add lye to the water (be careful. Lye will burn your skin if it touches you. Don’t inhale vapors either!). Stir. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Pour lye water into oils and blend with hand mixer until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and pumpkin puree and blend.
5. Pour into a mold and insulate for 24 hours.
6. Remove from mold and cut. Cure for 3-6 weeks.

Spiced Cider Soap Recipe (Vegan)

Makes: 2 pounds

Superfat: 5%

Ingredients:

• 5oz Sweet Almond Oil
• 5 oz Coconut Oil
• 9 oz Olive Oil
• 5oz Palm Oil
• 3.4 oz Lye
• 9 oz Aloe Liquid (or Water)
• 0.50 oz Orange Essential Oil
• 0.50 oz Cinnamon Essential Oil
• 0.25 oz Ginger Essential Oil
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine sweet almond oil, coconut oil, olive oil, and palm oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat over low heat until oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh aloe (or water) and lye in separate containers. Outside, with protective gloves, goggles, and mask, slowly add lye to the water (be careful. Lye will burn your skin if it touches you. Don’t inhale vapors either!). Stir. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Pour lye water into oils and blend with hand mixer until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and ground cinnamon and blend.
5. Pour into a mold and insulate for 24 hours.
6. Remove from mold and cut. Cure for 3-6 weeks.

Walk in the Woods Soap Recipe (Vegan) – Also in my Shop

Makes: 2 pounds

Superfat: 10%

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Cocoa Butter
• 9 ounces Olive Oil
• 5 ounces Coconut Oil
• 5 ounces Palm Oil
• 3.2 ounces Avocado Oil
• 3.4 ounces Lye
• 9 ounces Water
• 0.4 ounces Cedarwood Essential Oil
• 0.4 ounces Fir Essential Oil

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine cocoa butter, coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, and avocado oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat over low heat until oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water and lye in separate containers. Outside, with protective gloves, goggles, and mask, slowly add lye to the water (be careful. Lye will burn your skin if it touches you. Don’t inhale vapors either!). Stir. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Pour lye water into oils and blend with hand mixer until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and blend.
5. Pour into a mold and insulate for 24 hours.
6. Remove from mold and cut. Cure for 3-6 weeks.

Autumn Leaves Soap Recipe

Makes: 2 pounds

Superfat: 10%

Ingredients:

• 10 ounce Grass Fed Beef Tallow or Lard
• 9 ounce Olive Oil
• 5 ounce Coconut Oil
• 3.2 ounce Lye
• 9 ounce Water
• 1 tablespoon orange Moroccan clay
• 0.50 ounce Orange Essential Oil
• 0.25 ounce Patchouli Essential Oil
• 0.25 ounce Ginger Essential Oil

Directions:

1. Weigh and combine tallow, coconut, and olive oil in a large stainless steel pot and heat over low heat until oils are melted. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Weigh water and lye in separate containers. Outside, with protective gloves, goggles, and mask, slowly add lye to the water (be careful. Lye will burn your skin if it touches you. Don’t inhale vapors either!). Stir. Cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Pour lye water into oils and blend with hand mixer until light trace.
4. Add essential oils and Moroccan clay and blend.
5. Pour into a mold and insulate for 24 hours.
6. Remove from mold and cut. Cure for 3-6 weeks.

There you have it! Do you have a favorite soap recipe or Fall essential oil blend? Please share your ideas with us below.

Don’t forget to check out 5 MORE Soap Recipes HERE too!