Hoping to receive roses for Valentine’s Day? Make them last even longer by using some of the petals for soap. This is an easy project – you just need soap, roses, red color and fragrance or essential oil.
What you’ll need:
Pyrex
16 ounces Melt and Pour Base (clear or white)
Roses (dried or fresh)
Rosehip Jasmine Fragrance Oil
Optional: Red Coloring (food coloring is fine)
Soap Mold (plastic Tupperware works great)
16 ounces Melt and Pour Base (clear or white)
Roses (dried or fresh)
Rosehip Jasmine Fragrance Oil
Optional: Red Coloring (food coloring is fine)
Soap Mold (plastic Tupperware works great)
Step 1: Melt 8 of opaque ounces of soap in the microwave on 30 second bursts. Scent soap with approximately 1/8 ounce of fragrance or essential oil. Stir in well. Pour half way into molds.
Step 2: Melt another 8 ounces (clear soap for a contrasting look) of soap in the microwave. Fragrance this soap. Color this soap with a few drops of food coloring or soap coloring like mica. Pour into mold. It should swirl and mix nicely with the non-colored soap. Then, take the 4 ounces that are left from Step 1 and drizzle the rest of the soap into the mold. Finally, complete the look by drizzling the last of the soap in fun and varying patterns. I used a flexible Jelly Roll pan but you can use anything that is flat and has “give” (this means no glass pans).
Step 3: Sprinkle roses on top of the soap for a lovely and different appearance.
Optional: Mix dried and chopped-up roses into soap for a scrubby feel.
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Do you have to use alcohol between layer’s?
Since you are swirling the soaps together you really don’t need to spray between the soap pours, unless you just need to get rid of some air bubbles.
Any type of dried flower would be great with this concept =)
I know this is an older post but I just found it. I was wondering if it would be possible to use other types of flowers.
This soap looks so decadent! I can't wait to make this.
Those are beautiful!
Very pretty. Would be great with in a bubble bath.
I used to use dried roses in my soap but they turn the soap around them black quite quickly which is just sooo sad because they are sooo pretty!
Looks great AM….Now I just need roses! Lol
Mmm, looks like candy!
I know! Umm…I’m drooling at my computer screen LOL 🙂
Aren’t we all? I constantly find myself wanting to have a scratch-and-sniff computer monitor to smell all the yummy soaps our customers make! 🙂
-Becky with Bramble Berry