These adorable soaps are super easy – they would be perfect for a gift or to sell at a craft fair! All you need to know is how to layer glycerin soap. {Just spray with alcohol between layers and make sure your soap is no hotter than 120 degrees when you pour it onto a hardened layer. There! Now you know!} 🙂
Supplies:
1 lb. Soapylove Naturally Clear Soap base (Or Clear M&P Base)
Soapylove Scalloped Round or Hearts Mold
Plastic drinking straws
Dropper
Mug of hot water
To create the polka dots, melt 1 oz of clear soap base and color with pink colorant. Use pipette to place drops of soap in the mold and immediately rinse pipette with hot water.
To create “button holes”, pour a thin layer of soap into mold (I used clear soap colored with the white colorant), then place straws vertically into soap, ends standing on face of mold, and hold them steady until soap sets.
Proceed with layering in any color combination you like. All of the Sweet Treats Colorants are non-bleeding!
Once your soaps are hardened, unmold as usual (the straws make nice handles for pulling soaps out!). Then pull straws out from the back side. You can use a chopstick to clean or perfect the button holes if needed.
The holes are really cute as a little detail, plus they make it easy to stack into gift bundles. Just thread a ribbon through all holes and tie. Voila!
-Debbie Chialtas, Soapylove
I am in LOVE with these cute little soaps! I featured them on my Journey of the Heart post:
http://beyondthefringecrafts.blogspot.com/2012/01/journey-of-heart-2012-valentines.html
Carmen
I LOVE these and will be making them soon! I already have the molds! Making the holes couldn’t be easier – I have leather punches that will easily penetrate the layers. You could even use them to make the polka dots in the white soap and then fill with the pink or yellow soap…………….just thinkin’!!!
Sounds super cute! I hope we get to see pictures on our Facebook fan page (hint hint)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bramble-Berry/100412115503
Courtney from Bramble Berry
This is gorgeous !
your beautiful soaps appear on BUTTON Wednesday this week: http://kraplap.blogspot.com/20… . Enjoy !
Kind regards, P8ronella
These are gorgeous !!
your soaps appear on BUTTON Wednesday this week: http://kraplap.blogspot.com/20… . Enjoy !
Kind regards, P8ronella
I think she’s amazing…. yeah soapylove and queen of soap… aka soapqueen
I’m working on solid glitter sticks for shiny décolletages for holiday parties right now. That’s been a super fun experiment! =)
Guauuu!! I didn´t thougth about a little glitter, I´ll keep you updated about the Fair.
Thanks for your giving us new projects for this Holiday Season!!
Burbujas, colores y aromas,
Mariana
Mar D. Jabones
Oooooh, I second that! What a good idea Debbie. =)
That would be so great! I love Bramble Berry’s non-bleeding red colorant, too. 🙂
Thank you so much everybody! I’m so glad you all like the project! Please post links to your photos if you try it out!
Carol,
I can get that ordered for you if you’d like?
Just give us a call at 360.734.8278 and ask to add to your order (#52763). I just looked at your order and as of right now, this second, I can add to the order (all bets are off in an hour though =))) but I need the 3 digit code from the back of your card. I’m sending this to Leah in Customer Service as well so she knows what’s going on too. =)
Happy Soaping!
Anne-Marie
supplies: http://www.brambleberry.com
blog: http://www.soapqueen.com
retail store: http://www.otionsoap.com
learn: http://www.soapqueen.tv
Oooh, in Christmas colors, plus a little glitter, these would be stunning!
Yes thank you that does help, I didn’t realize that. Wish I had ordered some when I place an order yesterday!
Oh yeah, it would be perfect with Valentine’s day traditional colors for sure.
I love the buttons with the ribbon in it. So cute! I’m thinking Valentine’s Day!
I´ll do it for my coming Christmas School Fair!!! Thanks for the super cute idea Anne!!!
Take care,
Mariana
From Mar D. Jabones
Excellent tute, thank you! How easy is that to make button holes 😀
Another adorable soap project!
LOVE this!! Very sweet. <3
The ribbon is a really nice touch and allows you to totally customize your project very easily =)
Those are so pretty. I love the ribbon in them. Very nice job!!!!!!!!!!!!
Debbie, SO adorable!
And I LOVE that you solved a packaging problem right in the
soap!
Thank you for sharing!
LOL! That would be one BIG pump!
I love the straw to make holes idea…here I was thinking about where I’d find a punch to make those holes after the soap was done. :}
The straws was definitely genius inspiration by Debbie …
Debbie is so creative! I never would have thought to thread the ribbon through =)
Darling! And I love that you can thread ribbon through it. Super packaging idea!
Hi Carol! The Sweet Treats colorants are all non-bleeding. You may be thinking of the Jewel Box colorants, which are clear colors that do bleed. I hope that helps!
These are so pretty! I have a question though…I am so confused about colorants. If you use the sweet treats colors, won’t they bleed together? I love these colors though!
Cute as a Button!
~ Oh, you said that already 🙂
Love them, what a great idea about the straws, I was wondering how those holes were so perfectly formed.
So cute if you used a Low Sweat soap and coud just tie a ribbon through with a hang tag, no pacakging needed. Great Job Debbie!
She is very creative =)
Super Cute!