My Special Soap Collection and Soap Making Tips!

Soaps are amazing. Talk about a good pandemic craft, am I right? 

Well, to make soaps you’ll need some meltable soap blocks. They come in big bags, usually pre-cut into small cubes. 

Take about two cubes for a large soap or one for a smaller soap. Place the soap in a microwave-safe container. Add some colors, scents, and edible glitter if you wish, and melt it for 30 seconds.

Pour it immediately into your mold. There are some really fun molds out there - squares, animals, circles. Make sure to not cook anything in your molds after they have been “soaped.” Trust me, no one wants lavender snacks. 

Some molds dry quickly (30 minutes), but most take about an hour. 

You can do so many creative things with soaps, which I am about to reveal, like: Make two thin soaps, each with a different color. Let them harden. Use a little bit of hot melted soap to stick them together, and make a gorgeous layered soap. You can even make a rainbow tower using all the colors of the rainbow, stacked on top of each other. 

I love taking some shaped soaps that have dried, and placing them in the center of a slightly solidified square soap. Here I have taken a sparkly diamond and placed it in the green soap block. 

You can make a polka dot soap by dripping small dots of hot soap at the bottom of a mold, letting them dry, then pouring a regular amount of a different color soap. 

Make a night sky soap by coloring some edible glitter, sprinkling just a little at the bottom of a mold, and pouring black, blue, or purple soap on top. 

We have some Christmas molds. I made a snowflake and, using a drop of hot soap, stuck it to a regular soap square. 

Adding a full layer of glitter to the bottom of a mold makes this beautiful soap. 

If you have star molds, cover the top in yellow edible glitter to make a cool, reflective top. 

This time I took a peace sign soap and placed it face down in the bottom of a mold, poured soap on top, and achieved this result. 

I made two separate square soaps and when they dried, I cut them in half diagonally. Then I used some hot soap as a glue to stick the two halves together. 

Here’s a diamond with the same reflective surface as the star. 

Here’s a rose with the top dusted in edible glitter. 

And here is the layering technique in action.

And lastly, another Christmas-themed s-ho ho ho -ap. Get it? 

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good soap. 

Love you all!