Lavender Loofah Soap Recipe: Easy Melt and Pour Bars

Updated November 2026
To make lavender loofah soap, melt a clear glycerin soap base, stir in lavender essential oil, and pour it over loofah slices in a mold. Each bar has a slice of loofah set right inside, so you can wash and scrub at the same time.

Below you'll find what you need, step-by-step photos, and a few easy ways to change the scent. For more lavender ideas, see my lavender diffuser blends and essential oil guide. Jump to the recipe.

Melt-and-pour soap base makes this easy. The hard soap-making part is already done for you, so you're left with the fun part:

• Choosing the type of melt-and-pour soap base
• Blending in the essential oil
• Picking a color (or leaving it natural)
• Choosing a mold for the shape and look of the bar

Change any one of those four and you have a brand-new soap, which makes this an easy one to batch up for gifts.

Lavender Loofah Soap Recipe Ingredients

In this recipe I took it a step further and added a small piece of loofah to each bar for a little scrub (and it looks cool, too!). Loofah buffs away dead skin and leaves your skin feeling soft and smooth.

Lavender Essential Oil for Loofah Soap

I love to use lavender essential oil whenever I get the chance. It's easy on skin, and I know whatever I'm making will smell lovely.

Swap the Scent

Want a different scent? Use any of these, alone or mixed, keeping the total at 40 drops. They're all starter oils, so the soap still works for kids 2 and up.

Loofah and Soap Base

I bought a kit on Amazon for the loofah and the soap mold (affiliate link). You could easily get these two items separately. I didn't have any loofah (affiliate link), and the kit was just easy.

One thing about the kit: the mold is very flimsy, so set it on a solid wooden tray like the one pictured. That way you can move the soap without the mold bending and spilling.

I used a glycerin melt-and-pour soap base (affiliate link) so the loofah would still show through the finished bar. Other bases work too, but you wouldn't see the loofah, so it would be a loofah surprise soap!

Coloring for Soap Base

I thought purple mica powder was a fitting color since I was using lavender essential oil, but you can choose any color you like. Here's the set of 24 mica powder colors (affiliate link) I bought for different DIY projects.

A Few Safety Basics
• Keep essential oils away from babies under 2.
• Always dilute oils before they touch skin, and patch test a new blend on your inner forearm for 24 to 48 hours.
• Check the age on each recipe. Kids 2 to 4 use only six starter oils at 0.5%, after checking with your pediatrician. Kids 5 to 11 stay at 0.5 to 1%.
• If you're pregnant, check with your doctor or midwife first. For the first 16 weeks I use only six oils, and only in a diffuser or inhaler: lavender, sweet orange, lemon, ginger, cedarwood (Virginian), and frankincense. After that, skin blends stay at 0.5 to 1%.
• Store bottles and soap where pets and little hands can't reach.
• Never swallow essential oils. If someone does, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222.

DIY Lavender Loofah Soap Recipe

Most of the time here is waiting: about 20 minutes for the base to melt and 2 hours for the bars to set. Want a stronger lavender scent? The grown-up version below uses about five times the oil.

Lavender Loofah Soap

Bar soap · Ages 2+ · 40 drops in 1 lb soap base

A clear purple bar with a slice of loofah inside, so you can wash and scrub at the same time.

• 1 lb clear glycerin melt-and-pour soap base (affiliate link)
• 1 loofah, 4 to 6 inches long
• 40 drops lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
• ⅛ tsp purple mica powder (optional)
• Silicone soap mold

Step 1: Cut the loofah into 4 to 6 rounds with a bread knife and set them in the mold. Keep them below the top edge so the soap can cover them completely.

Step 2: Cut the soap base into cubes and put them in a glass measuring cup. Set the cup in a pan with about 2 inches of simmering water.

Step 3: Stir with a glass rod until the base is fully melted. It's slow and takes almost 20 minutes.

Step 4: Take it off the heat and stir in the mica.

Step 5: Let the base cool for a minute or two, until a thin skin starts to form on top, then stir in the lavender. Adding it to cooler soap keeps more of the scent in the bar.

Step 6: Pour the soap over the loofah, pressing the rounds down so they're covered. This batch covered 4 loofahs completely and 1 halfway. Next time I'd skip the half bar and fill each cavity all the way.

Step 7: Let the bars set for 2 hours, then pop them out of the mold.

Note: Glycerin soap pulls moisture from the air, so keep each bar wrapped in plastic wrap until it's used.

Lavender Cedar Loofah Soap

Bar soap · Ages 12+ · 2% in 1 lb soap base

A stronger-scented bar for teens and adults, with soft woods under the lavender.

• 1 lb clear glycerin melt-and-pour soap base
• 1 loofah, 4 to 6 inches long
• 1¼ tsp lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
• ½ tsp cedarwood Virginian (Juniperus virginiana)
• ⅛ tsp purple mica powder (optional)
• Silicone soap mold

Directions: Follow Steps 1 to 7 above.

That wasn't too difficult, right? Now you have pretty, eye-catching soap to use yourself or give as gifts. For a gift, tuck the wrapped bar into a cute bag, or set it in an airtight container and decorate it with ribbon and a gift tag.

More Lavender Ideas

• Lavender diffuser blends and essential oil guide
• Lavender melt and pour soap recipe
• Homemade lavender hand cream
• How to dry lavender

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