If you love the warm, comforting smell of a hot bowl of cinnamon oatmeal in the morning, then you’re going to love this exfoliating cinnamon oatmeal soap bar recipe!

This homemade soap recipe is so easy! Trust me – you don’t have to worry about getting everything right when you use a melt-and-pour soap base.

And I love that the ingredients are natural with this soap: goat’s milk, cinnamon and oatmeal!

Benefits of Oatmeal in Soap

A lot of sensitive skin products have oatmeal as an ingredient. Why?

It’s because oatmeal naturally has anti-inflammatory compounds called avenanthramides. These compounds help calm down irritation and inflammation.

Oats are full of protein, too. That’s why they’re such a great breakfast! Those proteins and lipids naturally found in oatmeal that we eat also work great when applied to the skin. The proteins helps to repair your skin by adding in moisture and antioxidants.

Oatmeal is great if you have:

Eczema
Dry skin
Sensitive skin
Insect Bites
Itching
Poison Ivy or Poison Oak

Benefits of Cinnamon in Soap

Other than just smelling heavenly, cinnamon does offer some pretty great benefits for you skin.

Cinnamon helps to warm your skin and stimulate it. When your skin is stimulated like that, extra blood comes to the surface, which brings in fresh nutrients.

The natural spice also is an anti-fungal and an anti-bacterial ingredient, both good things when it comes to properly cleaning your skin.

While cinnamon can have a lot of beneficial aspects for your skin, extremely sensitive skin could be irritated by the spice. Keep this in mind when making the soap if your skin is easily angered by ingredients.

Exfoliating Soap Bar Recipe

This DIY goat milk’s soap not only has nourishing ingredients, it will exfoliate your skin, too.

It’s hard to believe that the ground cinnamon would have an exfoliating property, it seems so small. But it does!

And the ground oatmeal definitely has exfoliation properties, too.

Which means that you’ll effortlessly revive your skin by removing old, dead skin cells and letting fresh new skin cells rise to the surface.

Handmade Exfoliating Cinnamon Oatmeal Soap Bar Recipe

Here’s the recipe for the goats milk cinnamon oatmeal soap bar. This recipe makes 5 soap bars, so you’ll have plenty to store in the cupboard. Or lots to give away as gifts, too.

Be sure you use 100% real cinnamon essential oil, rather than a cinnamon flavored oil. Otherwise you could have problems with fragrance allergies from artificial scents.