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Foaming Hand Soap Refill Recipe

This easy foaming hand soap refill recipe is a quick and simple way to save on hand soap. You can refill your soap for just pennies a bottle!

This easy foaming hand soap refill recipe is a quick and simple way to save on hand soap. You can refill your soap for just pennies a bottle!

Vickie asks: I really like the foaming hand soap; do you have a foaming hand soap refill recipe for making it at home?

Tawra: I forked over $1.67 to buy one of those new foaming pump hand soaps just to see if it would last longer. Interestingly it lasted 1/4 of the amount of time than normal hand soap does. My friend told me of a way to refill them without using the expensive refills that they so nicely have for you too.

Here’s how to make a foaming hand soap refill for just a few pennies per bottle!

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Foaming Hand Soap Refill Recipe

This easy foaming hand soap refill recipe is a quick and simple way to save on hand soap. You can refill your soap for just pennies a bottle!
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  • Author: Tawra Kellam

Ingredients

2 Tbsp. of regular liquid hand soap or bubble bath
enough water to top off the bottle

Instructions

  1. Pour the liquid hand soap into the bottle.
  2. Fill to the top with water.
  3. Swirl it around gently until it’s mixed and you have foaming hand soap!

I figured that the store-bought soap lasts about the same amount of time as regular liquid hand soap but costs twice as much. Isn’t that nice of them? :-)

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  1. Berly

    January 26, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Thank you!! I bought a foamy soap dispenser because it was the smoothest – wouldn’t look dirty as fast as those dispensers that have little ridges all around the screwtop lid and paper on the body that wouldn’t come off. Now I can refill it without costing me an arm and a leg. :-)

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  2. Rona's Home Page

    February 3, 2006 at 4:26 pm

    I like having hand soap dispensers in the bathroom. I probably am spending too much money. Thanks for the tip.

    Reply
  3. ash

    August 8, 2016 at 10:16 am

    worked great thanks

    Reply
  4. Laurie Vilneff

    October 10, 2016 at 4:14 pm

    so we could use cheap bubble bath in the foaming dispenser too ?

    Also would I use the same amount of dish detergent in the dispenser ? I figure if Dawn can do a foaming dispenser I should be able to using dawn or any other dish soap

    Reply
    • Jill

      October 11, 2016 at 9:44 am

      Yes to all your questions Laurie.

      Reply
    • Mitsi

      June 14, 2024 at 5:53 am

      Castile soap works the best! 4 T then top off. Drop in some essential oils if you want.

      Reply
  5. Lynne

    April 16, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    Just a suggestion I read “once upon a time.” Lots of times, the foaming hand soap dispensers are light and difficult for children to handle. (The bottom frequently skids out away from the child as they are trying to depress the top (pump).) I read to put rocks(clean, of course), decorative stones, marbles, etc. to add weight to the base of the dispenser.

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    • Lynne

      April 16, 2017 at 10:21 pm

      In case I wasn’t clear, you add the stones into the container along with your soap refill.

      Reply
  6. Linda Certuche

    June 21, 2017 at 4:20 am

    I bought a expensive (to me) bottle of foaming soap for $1.90 and then a week later I saw one at the Dollar Tree for a dollar. I love the foaming soap so much better and now I can have it cheaper. Before I would never buy it because I didn’t think it could be refilled. This works great. Thanks for the tip.

    Reply
  7. Joan

    June 8, 2022 at 3:26 pm

    I like the foaming hand soap in a touchless container that comes out when hands are underneath. It means not touching anything with dirty hands. I use Dawn soap in it and figure if Dawn is gentle enough for Wildlife, it’s gentle enough for my hands. Also, on dishes that need soap, the foaming Dawn works.

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  8. Sharon Radcliff

    June 15, 2023 at 11:59 am

    I’m so happy for this foaming handsome recipe, I go all the way to Walmart to get this due to the price, but I’ve often wondered how to refill. Now that I know because of your newsletter, I’m very eager to make my own refills. Thank you so much.

    Reply
    • Jill

      June 16, 2023 at 1:51 pm

      You are so welcome Sharon. Glad it will help you.

      Reply
  9. Judith Teters

    June 16, 2023 at 9:02 pm

    I make my own foaming cleaner by putting Lysol in a foam cleaner bottle either use it diluted or undiluted. Other cleaning products can be used. I’ve tried melted bar soap and a little water for body wash or handwash. Just label the bottles.

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  10. Carol Barr

    August 1, 2023 at 11:28 am

    Thanks for having amounts to use! I got a bottle of body wash at Dollar Tree and use it for body wash and make my foaming hand wash for my 3 sink areas from that also!

    Reply
  11. Mrs. H

    June 12, 2024 at 3:50 pm

    Thank you so much for posting this. I recently had collected 3 empty foaming soap bottles. I tried refilling and ended up with a bubbly gurgling non foaming result. I used it all to clean out sinks and such and “almost” threw away the bottles. I faintly remembered seeing a recipe somewhere. And here it is on your website!! We go through A LOT of hand soap, I am always asking kids and grown adults, did you wash your hands?? I have been that way for years, lol. My kids say they are going to have my tombstone engraved with: DID YOU WASH YOUR HANDS? 😂🤣😂

    Thanks,
    Mrs. H

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    • Jill

      June 13, 2024 at 2:58 pm

      LOL Mrs. H -my mother in law did the same thing with her adult kids too.

      Reply
  12. Lisa Joy Draper

    April 7, 2025 at 5:22 pm

    Love this recipe, by the way, I use a Dove brand, and body wash as well. Am going to make up 2 bottles asap! Usually I get the mixture too thick, and won’t come up thru the pump. This fixes that. Thank you!

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This easy foaming hand soap refill recipe is a quick and simple way to save on hand soap. You can refill your soap for just pennies a bottle!