For this week’s Soap Queen tutorial I’m going to show you how to make these complicated looking marbled soaps – but they couldn’t be easier! I love this project because you can use up leftover soap scraps and it makes a fancy soap from a plain tray mold.
Timing is the most important aspect of this project, so just make sure you don’t have any distractions so you can closely pay attention to the temperature and consistency of your soap bases as you create your marble soap.
Ingredients
2 lbs Shaving M&P Soap
Energy Fragrance Oil
Guest Rectangle Slab Mold
Opalescent Green
Merlot Mica
Copper Sparkle
Luster Black
Heavy Metal Gold Mica
Tools
Microwave safe container
5 small bowls or mugs for soap
Spray bottle of rubbing alcohol
Stir stick or spoon
Soap Cutter or Knife
One: Chop up the shaving melt & pour soap base and place in a glass container. Melt in a microwave in short 30 second bursts – stirring in between each heating.
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Two: Separate the soap into 5 different containers. If you don’t have enough heatsafe measuring cups, try using ceramic coffee mugs. The key is that the containers need to be able to be heated if your soap hardens up on you.
Three: Add your fragrance and a different color of mica to each container. Stir to combine.
Tip: Try spraying the top of the liquid soap with rubbing alcohol if the micas aren’t mixing in well.Four: Drizzle a little soap from one of your mugs into the mold and spritz with alcohol. Leave lots of ‘blank’ spaces. These are where the next colors will go. You’ll do many passes so less is more.
Tip: Try spraying the top of the liquid soap with rubbing alcohol if the micas aren’t mixing in well.Four: Drizzle a little soap from one of your mugs into the mold and spritz with alcohol. Leave lots of ‘blank’ spaces. These are where the next colors will go. You’ll do many passes so less is more.
Five: Once the soap is cool but not solid, drizzle another color on top. Continue alternating between soap colors until you fill up the mold. Spritz with alcohol frequently. Be sure to keep stirring the other colors so that they don’t form a skin on top before you can pour them into the mold. And, don’t forget, keep that alcohol spray going generously.
Six: Give a final spritz of the rubbing alcohol to the soap and allow to cool for 24 hours before removing from the mold.
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Seven: Once the soap is set-up, cut the marbled bars into individual rectangles using a knife or soap cutter.
Be sure to check back next Thursday for another great step-by-step Tutorial!
