It’s no secret that I have a sweet spot for dessert-inspired soap. From cupcake soap to doughnut soap, beautifully decorated desserts have inspired a lot of fun projects. These melt and pour soap truffles look incredibly realistic, and make perfect guest size soaps. They are scented with Butter Mints Fragrance Oil, which was the number one pick for our Summer 2015 S.O.A.P. Panel. It features rich chocolate-y notes enhanced with zingy peppermint and maple sugar. It’s the perfect scent for these small soapy treats.
For this project, I used Color Blocks to create three colors of soapy truffles. Once hardened, melt and pour is drizzled on top and sprinkled with pink sea salt. Jojoba beads would also look great. I packaged the soap in chocolate boxes to give to friends for Valentine’s Day. They are an awesome, calorie-free way to enjoy chocolate. =)
What You’ll Need:
3 Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds
14 oz. Shea Melt and Pour Base
7 oz. Clear Melt and Pour Base
18 mL Butter Mints Fragrance Oil
12 mL Vanilla Color Stabilizer
Brown Oxide Color Block
Electric Bubble Gum Color Block
Medium Pink Sea Salt
Dropper
99% Isopropyl Alcohol
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ONE: Cut 14 oz. of Shea Melt and Pour Base and 7 oz. of Clear Melt and Pour Base into small, even pieces. Split the soap into 3 heat-safe containers, with 7 ounces of soap in each (2 shea and 1 clear). Place the clear soap in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst. Using short bursts prevents the soap from scorching. Read more about burnt melt and pour and how to prevent it here.
TWO: Add shavings of the Brown Oxide Color Block to the melted soap until a rich chocolate color is achieved. Then, add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and stir to fully incorporate.
THREE: Slowly and carefully pour the brown soap into one of the Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
Note: You can make the soap in batches if you only have one mold. After each batch has hardened and cooled, wrap it tightly with plastic wrap to keep it fresh and prevent sweating. Read more about how to store melt and pour soap here.
FOUR: Place one of the shea soap containers in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst to prevent scorching.
FIVE: Add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and 6 mL of Vanilla Color Stabilizer to the melted soap and stir to fully incorporate. Butter Mints Fragrance Oil discolors, so the Vanilla Color Stabilizer will prevent the white soap from turning tan. Read more about fragrance discoloration in this post.
SIX: Slowly and carefully pour the white soap into one of the Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
SEVEN: Place the last shea soap container in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst to prevent scorching.
EIGHT: Add shavings of the Electric Bubble Gum Color Block until a light pink color is achieved. Add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and 6 mL of Vanilla Color Stabilizer to the melted soap and stir to fully incorporate.
NINE: Slowly and carefully pour the pink soap into the last Medium 9 Ball Silicone Mold and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
TEN: Allow the soap to fully cool and harden. This will take about 1-2 hours. When the soap is ready, press on the back of the cavities to release it from the mold.
ELEVEN: Melt the remaining pink soap in the microwave on 5 second bursts. Let the soap cool to 130°F so it won’t melt the truffles. When it’s the correct temperature, select the truffles you want pink soap on and spritz them with alcohol. Then, drizzle the pink soap on with a dropper. You can put the pink soap on any truffles you like! We drizzled it on the white and brown truffles for a nice color contrast.
Note: If too much alcohol is spritzed on the truffle, the glaze can slide off. To prevent this, spritz the truffles lightly with alcohol.
TWELVE: Quickly sprinkle medium pink sea salt on the top of each truffle. The soap hardens fast, so make sure to get the salt on the wet soap so it will stick. We had the dropper in one hand and salt in the other to make the process go a little bit faster.
THIRTEEN: Repeat this process with the remaining white and brown soap until all the truffles are decorated. There is no wrong way to decorate them, so have fun!
FOURTEEN: Allow to fully cool and harden and enjoy.
Did you make some Valentine’s Day inspired soap this year? I would love to see it on the Bramble Berry Facebook page!
- 3 Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds
- 14 oz. Shea Melt and Pour Base
- 7 oz. Clear Melt and Pour Base
- 18 mL Butter Mints Fragrance Oil
- 12 mL Vanilla Color Stabilizer
- Brown Oxide Color Block
- Electric Bubble Gum Color Block
- Medium Pink Sea Salt
- Dropper
- 99% Isopropyl Alcohol
- Cut 14 oz. of Shea Melt and Pour Base and 7 oz. of Clear Melt and Pour Base into small, even pieces. Split the soap into 3 heat-safe containers, with 7 ounces of soap in each (2 shea and 1 clear). Place the clear soap in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst. Using short bursts prevents the soap from scorching.
- Add shavings of the Brown Oxide Color Block to the melted soap until a rich chocolate color is achieved. Then, add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and stir to fully incorporate.
- Slowly and carefully pour the brown soap into one of the Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
- Note: You can make the soap in batches if you only have one mold. After each batch has hardened and cooled, wrap it tightly with plastic wrap to keep it fresh and prevent sweating. Read more about how to store melt and pour soap here.
- Place one of the shea soap containers in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst to prevent scorching.
- Add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and 6 mL of Vanilla Color Stabilizer to the melted soap and stir to fully incorporate. Butter Mints Fragrance Oil discolors, so the Vanilla Color Stabilizer will prevent the white soap from turning tan.
- Slowly and carefully pour the white soap into one of the Medium 9 Ball Silicone Molds and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
- Place the last shea soap container in the microwave and melt using 10 second bursts, stirring in between each burst to prevent scorching.
- Add shavings of the Electric Bubble Gum Color Block until a light pink color is achieved. Add 6 mL of Butter Mints Fragrance Oil and 6 mL of Vanilla Color Stabilizer to the melted soap and stir to fully incorporate.
- Slowly and carefully pour the pink soap into the last Medium 9 Ball Silicone Mold and spritz with 99% isopropryl alcohol to disperse any bubbles.
- Allow the soap to fully cool and harden. This will take about 1-2 hours. When the soap is ready, press on the back of the cavities to release it from the mold.
- Melt the remaining pink soap in the microwave on 5 second bursts. Let the soap cool to 130°F so it won’t melt the truffles. When it’s the correct temperature, select the truffles you want pink soap on and spritz them with alcohol. Then, drizzle the pink soap on with a dropper. You can put the pink soap on any truffles you like! We drizzled it on the white and brown truffles for a nice color contrast.Note: If too much alcohol is spritzed on the truffle, the glaze can slide off. To prevent this, spritz the truffles lightly with alcohol.
- Quickly sprinkle medium pink sea salt on the top of each truffle. The soap hardens fast, so make sure to get the salt on the wet soap so it will stick. We had the dropper in one hand and salt in the other to make the process go a little bit faster.
- Repeat this process with the remaining white and brown soap until all the truffles are decorated. There is no wrong way to decorate them, so have fun! Allow to fully cool and harden and enjoy.
I had an absolute blast making these. I had to improvise a little bit though. I didn’t have the brown oxide color block or the fragrance oil, so I made Strawberry Truffles with a Lemon Glaze and then Lemon Truffles with a Strawberry Glaze. I used a yellow color block for the lemon and shimmer magenta color block for the Strawberry, which still gave the same pink color. They came out absolutely amazing. I will definitely be making more of these, they are a lot of fun and look great.
Oh that sounds awesome! Yellow and pink go so well together. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Shimmer Magenta Color Block: https://www.brambleberry.com/Color-Block-Shimmer-Magenta-P6684.aspx
do the truffles need to be individully wrapped to preven glycerin dew or put in a box in a zip container? i plan to use a lip balm box and my own chocolates label but dont want them to get dew
Wrapping the truffles individually in plastic wrap is a good idea! Then you can place them in the lip balm box. That will prevent glycerin dew. 🙂
Get more tips for preventing glycerin dew here: http://www.soapqueen.com/personal-ramblings/augh-whats-that-all-over-my-soap-2/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Hi again,
Also i noticed that for the melt and pour, one of the ingredient was water. If I was to use the melt and pour for drizzling the bath bomb, would the water from the melt and pour interfere and cause premature fizzing? Also do you think that the LOW sweat melt and pour from Brambleberry would work for the drizzling?
Thank you
With regular or LCP Melt and Pour, the water in the soap will set off the fizzing reaction in the bath bomb. We don’t recommend using it to drizzle! Instead, you can use a mica painting technique. Find out how to do that here: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/diy-sprinkle-doughnut-bath-bombs/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
These are so ridiculously cute.
Thanks so much Samantha! 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
I make the soy tarts (melts) and would love to begin making some of the melt & pour soap. My question concerning the soap, if I sell these at an event is there any particular license required to sell soap products. Love the Lemon Cupcakes and Truffles – they look like fun to make. Thanks.
Hi Rhonda!
Some states do require business licenses if you’re selling your products. That will vary from place to place! You can check your state’s Department of Revenue to see if licenses are required.
We also have a really helpful series on how to get started selling your soap. I’ll link that below. 🙂
So You Want to Sell Your Soap (Part One): http://www.soapqueen.com/business/so-you-want-to-sell-your-soap-part-one/
Part Two: http://www.soapqueen.com/business/so-you-want-to-sell-your-soap-part-2/
Part Three: http://www.soapqueen.com/business/so-you-want-to-sell-your-soap-part-3/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
These look amazing…loving your work well done!
I don’t think I have ever been so excited to make soap 🙂 never made before but would like to learn.
Thank you so much Nikki, glad you’re loving the soap! 🙂
We have some amazing resources if you’re just getting started soaping, including a five-part video series on how to add color, fragrance, etc. You can find those resources here: http://www.soapqueen.com/bramble-berry-news/beginning-soaper-resource-roundup/
We also have some fun melt and pour recipes! Find those here: https://www.soapqueen.com/category/bath-and-body-tutorials/melt-and-pour-soap/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
I guess if someone eats them then that’s natural selection at work….. I know when I make cupcakes or something that could be confused, I always put in bold red letters that it is soap – don’t eat it. That’s my disclaimer, if they end up in the ER it’s not on me.
That’s a good idea! Sometimes soap and desserts can look very similar. A written warning can help prevent anyone accidentally ingesting them. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
They look delicious. That could be a problem, especially if you put them in a candy box. How many of these do you suppose would be accidentally eaten? I admire the ingenuity, but, hmmmm.
They do look quite realistic! A “Do Not Eat” sign by and on the box would be a good idea to avoid any accidental bites. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry