My Favorite Soap & Bath Making Supplies

✨ Welcome

These are my go-to ingredients and tools that I personally recommend for creating high-quality, skin-loving bath & body products at home.

Whether you're just getting started or leveling up your recipes, this page will help you find exactly what you need. 

Listed in This Order: 

  1. Bath Bomb Supplies
  2. Soap making Supplies - Cold Process and Melt and Pour
  3. Lip Product Making Supplies
  4. Body Butter Making Supplies
  5. Bath Salts Making Supplies
  6. Packaging & Small Business Supplies
  7. Branding & Shipping Supplies
  8. Fragrance & Essential Oils
  9. Botanicals

Making DIY Mother's Day Gifts? Find Recipes Here: 5 Easy DIY Bath Products You Can Make for Mother’s Day

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1.🛁 Bath Bomb Supplies

These are the key ingredients I use to create luxurious, skin-softening, and foaming bath bombs.

Learn How Here: How to Upgrade Your Bath Bomb Recipes

🫧 Foam & Performance

👉 Adds bubbles and turns basic bath bombs into a foaming experience

🥛 Creamy Additives

👉 Makes bath water feel soft, creamy, and moisturizing. Liquid coconut milk for soaps will be below in Soap Making Supplies.

🎨 Clays for Skin Feel

👉 Improves texture and adds a silky finish to bath water. Also used in Soaps.

💧 Oil Dispersing Agent

👉 Helps prevent oily residue and tub ring, important if using oils or colorants

Other Bath Bomb Ingredients

Cream of Tartar

Citric Acid

You can find Baking Soda and Cornstarch at the grocery store probably a lot cheaper than ordering online.

Bath Bomb Press Machine Upgraded Version,with 4PCS Bath Bomb Mold,All-Aluminum Soap Making Machine KBath Bomb Press Machine Cnbnd

Bath Bomb Molds: Stainless Steel Round Molds

                                 12 Piece Round Molds

                                  Pattern Molds

Salts: Aromasong Dead Sea Salts

2.🧼 Soap Making Supplies (Cold Process)

These are my essentials for creating gentle, cold process soaps.

Learn More Here: Melt and Pour Soap vs Cold Process

🧴 Oils & Butters

Handcraft Blends carrier oils: Avocado, Grapeseed, Sweet Almond, Castor and more. Excellent quality and affordably priced. 

Soapeauty provides excellent quality oils in larger containers that are very cost effective , especially if you make body oil/butter products.

Shop my handpicked beginner list here: Beginner DIY Soap Making Essentials

Melt and Pour

👉 Recommended Products: Beginner-friendly soap bases from LAVIONY

Pre-Cut cubes. Gentle & Safe for All Skin Types – Made with natural glycerin, coconut oil, and olive oil extracts, these soap bases are pH-balanced, cruelty-free, and gentle enough for sensitive skin and babies. 

LAVIONY Soap Base - Moisturizing Melt Pour Soap Base for Crafting and Soap Making, Pre-Cut, All NatuSoap Base.

Multiple Varieties including Goat Milk Base and Shea Butter Base.

Soap Base - Moisturizing Melt and Pour Soap Base for Crafting, Pre-Cut, All Natural & Gentle on SkinMoisturizing Base.

Includes 1 LB. Clear + 1 LB. Honey.

Soap Base - Moisturizing Melt Pour Soap Base for Crafting Soap Making, Pre-Cut, All Natural Gentle o5 LB or 1 LB, Multiple Varieties.

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🧪 Additives

👉 Great for sensitive skin and soothing properties

⚖️ Tools & Equipment 

If you want to make your own nut milks, oat milk, etc. for your soaps I recommend:

Knhuz Nut Milk Maker

Kuhuz Nut Milk Maker,42oz Plant Based Milk Machine For Homemade Almond/Oat/Soy,10-in-1 Countertop Bl

Soap Molds

Easter Silicone Egg Molds for Baking Chocolate, DIY Mold Tray for Egg Bites, Non-Stick Silicone ChocEaster Silicone Egg Molds

Sakolla Multiple Variety Molds

 Sakolla 2 Pack Cavity Molds

  3 Pack Flower Molds

  2 Pack Decorative Cavity Molds

  Lerykin 2 Pc. Rectangular Soap Molds

I started with these molds and still use. The rectangular mold is perfect size for a 900 gram recipe.

 Extra Large Wooden Mold

 77oz Large Rectangular Mold

 Large Mold 282oz


🧪 Additives

 3.💋Lip Product Making Supplies

These are my essentials for making quality lip care products.

Learn How Here: 💋 Not-So-Basic Lip Balm Recipes

Tubes, Tins, and Other Lip Balm Supplies Here

Handcraft Blends carrier oils: Avocado, Grapeseed, Sweet Almond, Castor and more. Excellent quality and affordably priced. Love this brand!

Soapeauty provides excellent quality oils in larger containers that are very cost effective , especially if you make body oil/butter products.

Nuvia Candelilla Wax

Yasnay Beeswax

Nuvia Carnauba Wax 

Cetyl Alcohol

Vitamin E-Tocopherol

 

4. Body Butter Making Supplies

These are my must have ingredients for making quality body butter.

Learn How Here: ✨ 10 DIY Body Butter Recipes (Simple to Luxury Formulas for Glowing Skin

Lavendium Arrowroot Powder

Jiva Organics Arrowroot Powder

Arrowroot is essential to keep my butters non greasy. You could also use Tapioca Starch or Cornstarch, however I prefer Arrowroot for my recipes.

Vitamin E-Tocopherol

🧴 Oils & Butters

What Is Squalane Oil? (And How to Use in DIY Skincare)


5.🧂Bath Salts Supplies

Learn More Here: How to Start a Bath Salt Business

Epsom Salt

Aromasong Epsom Salt with Dead Sea Salt

Aromasong Coarse Sea Salt

Aromasong Dead Sea Salt

 Fine Grain Pink Himalayan

Coarse Grain Pink Himalayan  

Baking Soda

 

6.📦 Packaging & Small Business Supplies

If you’re making products to gift or sell, packaging makes a huge difference.

🎁 Gift Packaging

SEEKONE Mini Heat Gun

Lecehivo Glass jars with Bamboo Lids

Glass bottles with cork stoppers 5oz

Lawei 12 Pack Plastic Jars with Lids, 16 Oz Clear Storage Jars 

Yopay 100 Pack Kraft Paper Bakery Bags with Window

 8 Set Baskets for Gifts Large Empty Woven Bamboo Basket KitLECEHIVO 8 Set Baskets for Gifts Large Empty Woven Bamboo Gift Basket Bulk Kit with Handles and Clea

👉 Perfect for snail mail gifts and curated boxes

7.🏷️ Branding & Shipping Supplies

Thermal Printing (no ink!)

I print ALL of my own product labels, tag labels, shipping labels, and this is how! Doing it yourself will save an insane amount of money, especially when you're a beginner.

MUNBYN Bluetooth Thermal Label Printer 941BP, Wireless 300DPI 4x6 Shipping Label Printer for Small BMunbyn Thermal Printer Green

Munbyn Printer Purple

Munbyn Printer Pink with Shipping Scale

Arkscan 500 Pk. Thermal Shipping Labels

 MUNBYN 4x6 Five-Proof Thermal Shipping Labels

Arkscan Round Sticker Labels

Round Circle 2" Thermal Direct Label for Arkscan & Zebra Compatible Printers, White2" Round

Multiple Sizes Round

Shipping Boxes

Shipping Scales

MUNBYN Digital Scale for Packages

TIPRE Shipping Scale 

 

8.🌸 Fragrance & Essential Oils 

Fragrance is where your products really come to life.

🌿 Essential Oils

Ella & Eden:                                                                                                        Organic Pure Rosemary Oil

Organic Jojoba Oil

Organic Pumpkin Seed Oil

Organic Argan Oil

     Fragrance Oils

Mayjam Fragrance Oils

These are what I've always used, good quality products.

👉 Perfect for scent layering and creating signature blends

9. Botanicals

Dried Hibiscus Flowers

Edible Mixed Dried Flowers

💡 How to Use This Page

Not sure where to start?

Here are a few ideas:

  • 👉 New to bath bombs? Start with the Bath Bomb Ingredients section
  • 👉 Want to create a gift set? Check Packaging + Fragrance
  • 👉 Making soap for sensitive skin? Focus on oils + oatmeal

💬 Final Note

I only recommend products I trust and use in my own recipes. I order bulk ingredients from Natural Bulk Supplies, as I have found them to have really quality ingredients for better prices. When they are out of stock however, I rely on the above-named brands and products from Amazon.

If you’re following along with my blog tutorials, you’ll see these products used throughout my recipes and guides.