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Customized Wedding Soaps for Everyone

June 8, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

It’s summertime and officially ‘Wedding Season.’ Pull up a chair, rent Bridezillas and start figuring out how you can create customized wedding soaps for a lucrative side business or to make your own wedding something memorable. Over the next three days, I’ll be focusing on making easy wedding soaps. And then, on Thursday, another episode of SoapQueenTV comes out. This week’s episode focuses on using Vanilla Color Stabilizer and UV Inhibitor– two key ingredients for getting your soaps to stay white and your colors to stay bright.The favors below are easy, adorable and interchangeable. You can mix and match colors, fragrances and designs for complete customization to match wedding colors and themes.

What You’ll Need:
Clear Melt and Pour
White Melt and Pour
Champagne Fragrance Oil
Sparkle Gold Mica
Light Gold Mica
Basic Shape Soap Mold
Silicone Brownie Pan
Microwave Safe Bowl (pyrex)
Rubbing Alcohol Spritzer
Exacto Knife or Cookies Cutters

Step 1: Melt 8 oz of white melt and pour soap base. Mix in about 1 teaspoon of sparkle gold mica (feel free to use more). Pour between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch of soap into your brownie pan. Spritz with rubbing alcohol to eliminate bubbles. Let cool completely. This layer will be used for the embedding cut outs pieces.

Tip: To avoid spots and speckles when using powdered oxide colorants, mix your oxides with a little rubbing alcohol before adding it to the soap base.

Step 2: Pop the cooled soap out of the mold and prepare to get creative. Cut out initials or hearts using cooking cutters or cut them out free hand (we used an exacto knife). Do whatever your heart desires and put your cut outs aside, they will be needed shortly.

Step 3: Melt 4 oz of clear melt and pour soap base and add 1/4 oz Champagne Fragrance Oil (or fragrance of your bride’s choice).

Step 4: Let the clear soap cool to 120 degrees and pour about 1/8 inch of the clear soap into one cavity of your basic soap mold. Immediately spritz the clear layer with rubbing alcohol and spritz your cut out piece (generously). Place your cut out piece into the liquid clear soap and give it a final spritz to eliminate bubbles. Repeat process in each cavity of your basic soap molds and let the layers cool.

Note: If the soap does not cool to 120 degrees, it will melt your cut-out pieces. So make sure to control the temperature of your soap by heating in 30 second intervals in the microwave and stirring in between heat bursts.

Step 5: It’s time for the second layer. Melt about 16 -20 oz of clear melt and pour soap base. Add 1/2 oz of Champagne fragrance oil and approximately 1/4 teaspoon of light gold mica. Spritz your first layer with rubbing alcohol before pouring your second layer to help the layers adhere. You can choose to fill your mold all the way up or only half way up if you want to create a third layer. The sky is the limit! Let the soaps cool for 4-6 hours before popping out of the molds.

*Yields 4 fabulous wedding favors.
Interested in making these favors in a larger quantity? No problem! Just keep in mind that 16 oz of soap base makes roughly 4 bars of soap (with your standard 4 oz soap mold). We recommend 1/2 oz of fragrance oil per pound of soap base. And for the colorants? It’s really up to you. Add as much or as little as you want to create the perfect shade. Yes, that perfect eggplant color that your cousin Edna adores really can be matched in soap. And, don’t worry, you’ll be able to reuse the dress.

Soap Queen TV Episode 6!

June 4, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

The newest Soap Queen TV Episode is all about the ‘double pour’ technique. I like this soap project because it’s versatile and looks much more complicated as a soap than it is as a technique.

Soap Queen TV Episode 6: The Double Pour from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

Ingredients used for the first project in this episode:

Clear soap base
Orange mica
Light gold mica
Energy fragrance
Loaf mold
Basic shapes mold

Ingredients used for the second project in this episode:

Clear soap base
Copper mica
Merlot mica
Heavy Metal Gold mica
Energy fragrance

Tools for both projects:

Heat safe containers
Spoons
Spray bottle with Rubbing Alcohol

Happy Soaping!

Soap Queen TV – Clam Shell Soaps

May 28, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Our most ambitious project of the Soap Queen series to date is a project developed by Paula of PJ Soaps. She taught this project at last year’s Soap Weekend Intensive and everyones’ soap came out beautifully – even those that had never made soap before.

Soap Queen TV Episode 5: Clam Shell Soap from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

We did a blog post on the project and got feedback that photos may be worth a 1000 words but a video would be better. Given the complexity of the project, I agree.

Watch the video and gather your supplies. You’re going to love these soaps! You will need:

Pre-heat 4 quart pan of water on simmer (for rinsing your tools)
Gardenia Fragrance Oil
Sensuous Sandalwood
Sea Moss Fragrance Oil
shea melt and pour
clear shaving soap
Brown Oxide
Green Oxide
Black Oxide
4 heat safe containers
1 Clamshell Mold
1 double sided cleaning tool (in the tool kit)
1 strong metal dinner fork (with straight tines)
1PJ Scraper tool (in the tool kit)
1 Misting sprayer filled with rubbing alcohol

Are You Ready for More? SoapQueenTV

May 21, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Hooray! It’s the newest edition of Soap Queen TV.

Soap Queen TV Episode 4: Embedding from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

In this episode, I embed one of our super cute, painfully adorable penguin erasers in a bar of soap AND I show you the secrets to embedding soap. . . in soap with a quick and easy loaf project. It’s 2 for 1 day at Soap Queen TV!

Ingredients for making the ‘Penelope’ Penguin Soap:

Clear soap base
Blue Mix Labcolor
Pearberry fragrance
Penguin eraser
Aqua Labcolor
Iridescent glitter
Basic shapes four in one mold

For the soap loaf:
2 pounds white soap
loaf mold
Pearberry fragrance
1/2 to 1 pound of soap pieces
ours are made with Ultramarine blue, Chrome green oxide, and clear soap base.

Tools you will need:
Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle
Heat-safe containers
Spoon

Soap Queen TV Episode 2

May 7, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Get your Soap Queen TV fix with a fresh, new episode!

Soap Queen TV Episode 2: Herbs and Colorants from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

Follow along with me as I discuss more another basic soapmaking technique: using herbs and colorants. Add herbs to your soap for a bit of texture or grind them up for a refreshing exfoliating effect. I’ll also help you choose the best colorant for your specific soaping project.

For easy reference, here is the ingredient list for this week’s project:

Clear Soap base
White Soap base
Ultramarine Violet (violet oxide)
Lavender herb buds
Lavender fragrance oil
Royal Purple Labcolor
Amethyst MicaTools:
Heat safe container (like a Pyrex measuring cup)
Droppers
Spoon
Spray bottle with Rubbing alcohol
Soap mold

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Soap Queen TV is here!

April 30, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

The first episode of Soap Queen TV!

Soap Queen TV Episode 1: Fragrance and Essential oils from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

This is the first episode and will lay the foundation upon which I am building all future episodes – so pay attention. Just kidding!

For more information about fragrance oils visit the RIFM (Research Institute for Fragrance Materials) here

For more information about essential oils and how they’re made, this wikipedia article is a great place to start.

For easy reference here is the ingredient list for this week’s project:

4 oz. clear melt and pour soap base
2 ml tangerine essential oil

Soap mold
Heat safe container
Dropper
Spray bottle with rubbing alcohol.

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Apologies to all who wrote applauding my fine dance moves in the preview video – I was too busy making soap and trying not to forget anything to dance.

Karma Soaps & New Loaf Molds

March 25, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

We’re ecstatic! Our new 2.5-3 lb loaf molds are finally here! We couldn’t wait to try one out so we took a mold straight to our soaping lab and created an earthy and colorful Karma Goodness soap. See our instructions below to make your own “good karma”.

Here’s What You’ll Need
3 lb. Loaf Mold
3 lbs. Clear Melt and Pour
1.5 oz Karma Synergy Essential Oil Blend
Ultramarine Purple Oxide
Heavy Metal Gold Mica
Gold Sparkle Mica
Cellini Blue Mica
Microwave safe bowl (pyrex)

Layer 1: Melt 12 oz of clear melt and pour (30 second intervals in the microwave). Add fragrance oil and a pinch of ultramarine purple oxide. Pour soap into loaf mold.

Tip: Mix your micas or oxides with a little rubbing alcohol first to eliminate spots and speckles. Then add to soap base. Give it a final spritz to eliminate bubbles.

Layer 2: Melt 12 oz. of clear melt and pour. Add fragrance oil and a pinch of heavy metal gold mica. Spritz the first layer with rubbing alcohol (to make sure layers adhere) and pour your second layer. To achieve the texture in this layer, stir the soap in the mold until it cools (2-3 minutes), creating a chunky type layer. Give it a spritz with alcohol 2-3 times during the cooling process to eliminate bubbles.

Tip: Before pouring your second layer, make sure the melted soap has cooled to 120 degrees. If it’s any hotter it will melt the bottom layer of soap.
Layer 3: Melt 12 oz of clear melt and pour. Add fragrance oil, a pinch of Gold Sparkle Mica and stir. Spritz the textured layer before pouring the soap and spritz again with alcohol to eliminate bubbles after pouring.

Layer 4: Repeat step 3 using the Cellini blue mica. Remember to give the soap a final spritz to eliminate bubbles.
Final: Once the soap has cooled, turn your soap mold upside down and pull the edges away from the soap to break the air lock. Once the air lock is completely broken your soap loaf will fall out of the mold.

P.S. – I’m traveling today to sunny Arizona to go listen to Jim Collins (from Good to Great fame) speak. He’ll be talking about how to build a company to last the ages. I’m excited and will definitely be blogging as I can.

Chunky Soap (St. Patty’s Soapy Scraps)

March 14, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Wondering what to do with the scraps left over from the Plaid Soap? Never fear, with melt and pour nothing goes to waste!

Here’s What You’ll Need
White Melt and Pour
Loaf or Tray Mold
Fragrance (optional)
Soap Scraps (Ours are from the Soapy Plaid Project)
Microwave Safe Bowl (Pyrex)
Rubbing Alcohol in a Spritzer Bottle

Step 1: Melt just enough white melt and pour soap to fill your mold about half way full.

Hint: If your soap scraps are fresh and strongly scented you may not need to add any additional fragrance to your melted soap. However, if your scraps are a little older or lightly scented then you can add more fragrance now.

Step 2: Make sure your soap is no hotter than 120 degrees (if the soap is any hotter it will melt your embedding pieces). Pour the soap into your loaf or tray mold and spritz with rubbing alcohol to eliminate any bubbles.

Step 3: Grab your soap scraps and generously spritz them with alcohol (they should look wet all over). Once they have had a good dousing, sprinkle them into the melted white soap. Spritz the top of the soap again with rubbing alcohol.

Hint: You can flatten the embeds down into the soap so they are fully submerged or leave some poking out the top for a different look.
Optional: If needed, you can melt and pour some additional white soap and fill your mold the rest of the way up. If your mold is completely full after adding your scraps then you are done. Let cool completely.

Step 5: Once the soap is cooled and hardened you can release the soap from the mold and cut into bars. Cutting the soap will reveal all the hidden chunks inside!

Hint: Again, you can trim all the sides of your soap for a nice clean look, or leave the top of the soap with a few embeds sticking out for a more fun, textured bar.

Have a question about this blog post? Come join us at Bramble Berry’s Facebook page and we can help you out with any of your soapy questions!

Soapy Plaid (Inspired By Soapy Love)

March 6, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Here’s our version…

Here’s What You’ll Need
White and Clear Melt and Pour Soap Bases
Brownie Pan Tray Mold
Shamrock Mold
Colorants (mica)
Fragrance Oil
Rubbing Alcohol
Microwave Safe Bowl (pyrex)
Knife, Paper and Pen

Step 1: First, we need to make 4 thin colored layers to cut our the plaid pattern. Melt just enough soap base to completely cover the bottom of the loaf mold (about 1/8″). Add your favorite fragrance oil and mica before pouring. Let the layer completely cool.

Step 2: Once the layer has cooled, remove this layer and cut into strips of random thicknesses. We found that cutting with a large butcher knife works the best. Cut them diagonally or straight across. Set the strips aside, we’ll use them later.

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 for all four colors you want in the plaid design. We used Gold Sparkle Mica, Opalescent Green Mica, Shamrock Green Mica and Blue-Green Mica.

Step 4: While waiting for the layers to set up, this is a good time to make the shamrocks (you might need to make 2 batches). We used White Melt and Pour with Green Chrome Oxide.

Hint: Oxides and micas mix into melt and pour a little easier if combined with a little rubbing alcohol first. This technique will eliminate spots and speckles. The tutorial on using oxides in melt and pour is here.

Step 5: Grab your brownie pan mold and trace the outside edges of the mold onto a piece of paper. This will allow you to make a blueprint of your plaid design on “dry land” before embedding them into the soap.Step 6: It’s time to start layering! The first layer will be the background layer. Pour just enough soap to completely cover the bottom of the mold (we chose a white background). Let cool completely.
Hint: Most soaps are built from top to bottom (upside down). When you flip them out of the mold then they are right side up. These soaps are just the opposite, the layers go from bottom to top. So the last layer you pour will be the top layer of your soap.Step 7: While the bottom layer cools, we can set up the plaid design before the embedding step. Set up your strips of soap on the piece of paper with the traced mold on it.Hint: The plaid design usually consists of two colors each. The colors are semi-random. The top layer should have some gaps so you can see though it to the bottom colors. (You will be left with quite a bit of scraps. Don’t worry, we have another soapy project coming up that will put these scraps to good use).

Step 8: Once you have a plaid layout that you like, and the background layer has cooled, you can finally start to piece your plaid design together layer by layer.

Step 9: Spray the background layer of soap with rubbing alcohol to ensure your layers stick together, then pour a thin layer of clear soap base. Generously spray your cut out pieces with alcohol and place them directly into the clear soap. Finish this layer off with another spritz of alcohol to eliminate any bubbles.

Hint: This layer should consist of two alternating colors. Make sure you have enough clear melt and pour to completely cover the plaid layers. And temperature matters! Keep the overpour temperature below 130 degrees as to not melt the layers.

Step 10: Once the layer has completely cooled, repeat step 9 with your other plaid pieces.

Hint: Again, consisting of two colors. But this time, laying them in the opposite direction of the first plaid layer.

Step 11: It’s time to add the shamrocks to the final layer. Pour a thin layer of Clear Melt and Pour, generously spritz your shamrocks with rubbing alcohol and place them in the clear soap. Give it a final spritz to eliminate bubbles. Let harden and cut into bars.
Hint: Remember to put the shamrocks in right side up!

Have a question about this blog post? Come join us at Bramble Berry’s Facebook page and we can help you out with any of your soapy questions!

Got Unused Dolls?

February 20, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Not sure what to do with the dolls lying around from your daughter used to play with them? This is an edgy, sort of gross/sort of fun, soap project utilizing old plastic dolls. Perhaps it’s a perfect transition for your teen to say good bye to her younger years and herald a new era. Or perhaps, it’s just a creepy project I dreamed up as a second-date activity with my now-husband (true story. He didn’t even bat an eye). Craft Lab (the HGTV show) asked me to design an edgy soap project to pitch to their producers. This is what I came up with:

What you need:

Dismembered plastic doll
1 pound (16 ounces) Bramble Berry melt and pour soap, clear
1 ounce Pearberry Fragrance Oil
Soap mold (or Tupperware or anything you find like an empty yogurt
container)
Rubbing Alcohol

1. Dismember your doll. They come apart surprisingly easy. And, once you get over the slightly creepy factor of dismembering a doll, it’s also satisfying to say goodbye to your past and hello to your teen and adult years.

2. Cut the melt and pour blocks into 1 x 1″ cubes.

3. Melt the soap in 30-second increments until the soap is fully melted. Stir if there are any big chunks.

4. Add .25 ounces to .50 ounces of fragrance or essential oil. Remember, if you use a yellow or orange colored fragrance, your soap base will look less clear and look more yellow/orange. That’s why I suggested Pearberry. It stays completely clear.

5. Pour the soap base halfway up into your mold.

6. Spritz your dismembered doll part with rubbing alcohol.

7. Embed your doll head, limb or torso into the soap.

8. Pour the rest of the soap all the way up.

9. Do one final rubbing alcohol spritz to make sure there are no stray bubbles on the top of the soap.

Wait for the soap to harden, wrap with saran wrap, label and watch for the varied reactions your dismembered soap creations get.

On a personal note, I’m in San Diego for a long weekend for my brother-in-law’s wedding. Hair and make up starts at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning (eek!). I’m hoping to have a bit of time to sneak away to post photos of our fun. My hubby and I are thinking we might go on a roller coaster later today. Neither of us have been on one in over a decade so if you listen hard around noon, you just might hear us screaming.

Rubber Stamping Soap for Martha

February 6, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

This project was designed exclusively for Martha Stewart Radio. It’s a way to make all of your basic soap molds versatile and season appropriate for pennies.

What you need:

Basic Soap Mold (Note: this mold has been discontinued, it has been substituted with the 6 Cavity Oval Mold)
Fragrance or Essential Oil
Melt and Pour Soap (white and clear)
Unmounted Rubber Stamps (examples here – I get mine at the Dollar Store)
Optional: Black Oxide, Fuchsia Labcolor & Rose Pearl Mica

Buy everything you need here!

1. Carefully place the unmounted rubber stamp, flat side down. The textured design side should be facing up, towards you.
Note: The Basic Soap Mold pictured above has been discontinued, it has been substituted with the 6 Cavity Oval Mold

2. Cut approximately 4 ounces of white melt and pour into 1″ squares. Melt in the microwave on short bursts for 30 seconds until fully melted (full tutorial on basic, beginning melt and pour soapmaking concept here).

3. Fragrance your soap. For 4 ounces, approximately 3 ml of fragrance or .10 oz of fragrance or essential oil is ideal.

4. You can color this soap or leave it white. We found that white or pale colors provided the best contrast.

5. Spritz the rubber stamp with rubbing alcohol. Then, start to pour the first layer. Pour this soap carefully. I found that a dropper was ideal for getting the soap into the mold without overflowing onto the rubber stamp. The key to this project is a thin, thin layer that does not submerge the stamp.

6. Allow this layer to harden for approximately three to five minutes. While it is hardening, prepare your second color of soap. Melt, color and fragrance the soap. We used clear soap with black oxide (tips on using black oxide in melt and pour soap are here), fuchsia labcolors and pink rose pearl mica.

7. Spritz the thin layer of hardened soap with rubbing alcohol. Slowly and carefully pour the second colored layer. Make sure your soap isn’t too hot or else you’ll melt your first layer, try to stick around 120F.

Bonus: Carefully dropper in a third color into any stamp detailing for an incredibly exciting finished soap!

8. Allow the soap to harden for at least 4 hours. Gently pop the soap out of the mold.

9. Carefully peel back the rubber stamp.

10. Clean up any little soap overhangs with a dental pick (available in the Bramble Berry Melt and Pour Kit), a small paring knife or anything that has a fine pick and scraping tool.

Voila! You’re done! You can do this with any stamp for any holiday – you’re not just limited to the Day o’Love. Think Easter, St. Patrick’s Day and Father’s Day – there are so many cute unmounted stamps out there. Check your local Dollar Store. That’s where we got our stamps and they had a great selection.

I can’t wait to read what you do with this tutorial and the nifty, creative things you find to do with it.

Champagne Bubble Bath

February 2, 2009 Filed Under: Soaks & Scrubs

It’s time to celebrate and kick up your heels – if not for the start of a great new week, then for the next major upcoming holiday, Valentine’s! Try using champagne instead of water to thin down our liquid concentrate soap. It makes a great hand soap as well as a fabulously luxuriant bubble bath.

What you’ll need:
8 ounces Liquid Soap Concentrate
4 ounces Champagne
Optional: Glitter
Optional: Champagne fragrance oilThe key to making this recipe work is to use an ultra thick bath gel, like Bramble Berry’s Liquid Soap Concentrate or Suspending Soap Base. If you use the Suspending Soap Base, use only 2 to 3 ounces of champagne. The Suspending Base takes extra liquids but in a 1:2 ratio.

Mix all ingredients together slowly and evenly. You need only a small amount of fragrance oil, approximately 6 ml of fragrance in 12 to 16 ounces of soap. If you’re using the Suspending liquid soap base, now is the time to sprinkle in some glitter. The beauty of the Suspending liquid soap base is that it easily suspends heavier additives, like glitter. Most liquid soap bases won’t suspend glitter but the Suspending liquid soap base will.

Hint: the faster you mix, the more bubbles you will whip into your soap. Gentle and patient stirring is the best way to go with this project. After you are done stirring, let the soap sit for ten to twenty minutes to allow all the bubbles to rise to the top of the soap mixture.

Now that the soap has sat, the bubbles should all be sitting at the top of the soap. Give the soap mixture a spritz with rubbing alcohol to get rid of some of those bubbles.

Pour into bottles. If you don’t have a very steady hand, it’s not cheating to use the right tool (a funnel) to complete the job. Lather up with it as a shower gel or use it in the bath for lots of bubbles. Either way, you’ll be bathing in luxury with soap bubbles and champagne bubbles.

Valentine Hugs and Kisses

January 31, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

Here is a really easy project that looks so much more complicated than it is. As a plus, it’s very economical. The hugs and kisses mold is only $2.50 and you can use any plain mold for embedding (we used our rectangle tray mold). The materials to make these soaps work out to be just $1.28 per bar (not including the molds) and you can even make them for less if you make more than 8 bars of soap and soap in bulk.

Here are the ingredients we used:

Clear M&P Base and White M&P Base
Violet Fragrance Oil
Luster Black Mica & Merlot Mica
Rectangle Tray Mold (but any plain mold will do)
Hugs & Kisses Mold
You can use scraps from our last Valentine soap project, or you can make them from scratch using:
N on-bleeding liquid colorant

Tools:
microwave safe containers (we like to use a pyrex measuring cup)
Dropper
spray bottle of rubbing alcohol

1. Start with your Hugs and Kisses mold and make the embeds. We used white melt and pour for the X and O’s and Clear for the lips. You can use which ever you chose, but remember white melt and pour will make black go gray and reds go pink. Bright vibrant colors need clear soap.

2. Next create the soap confetti for the background. If you have left over scrap melt and pour, preferably in non-bleeding pinks or red this is a perfect chance to use them. If not then mix up a batch or two (depending on how many colors you want) using white melt and pour and a non-bleedig color. Pour these into anything that is flexible that you can release. We will be cutting them up into little chunks, so the mold you use and how pretty the soap is does not matter at all. Let these set and harden. You want the soap fresh and pliable so do not put in fridge/freezer. Cut this soap up into little pieces.

3. Now all the pieces are made and we can start assembling the soaps. Think of how you want the embeds to be laid out. You do not want the X’s and O’s to be cut once the soap is finished. If you’re using the Rectangle Tray Mold, stay inside the score marks of the mold. Once we start putting the embedded soaps in there will not be much time to change or move them around, so pre-planning is essential!

4. Melt 1 pound of clear melt & Pour base and fragrance with 1/4 ounce of fragrance. Pour about half of the scented clear melt & pour soap into the rectangle tray mold. We poured until the soap just reached the top of the indented rectangle marks. Spray with alcohol.

5. Working quickly, spray your embeds generously with the alcohol and place them where you want in the mold. Remember, we want the pretty sides to go face down especially with the lips – the detailed front of the lips need to face down.

6. Let these set a minute or two until the clear has hardened or has a thick skin. Then spray with alcohol and pour the rest of the clear – it should come just high enough to cover the embeds.

7. Once that layer has set you can get the little scraps of soap that we cut up in the first step. Spray these with alcohol and sprinkle them evenly over the soap. Ignore the score marks this time… spread evenly everywhere.

8. Finally melt 1/2 pound white soap base and add 1/8 oz. fragrance. Spray the soap layer in the mold with alcohol again and then immediately pour carefully over the scraps, filling the mold to the top. You need to pour slowly, evenly and close to the soap or the force of the pour will move around your scraps. The ideal temperature to pour with the Bramble Berry house melt and pour bases is around 125 to 130 degrees. If your soap is steaming or is so warm that you can’t put your finger in it, the soap is too hot and will melt the pink little chips. It’s a cute look but won’t get you the soap pictured in the top picture.
9. Wait 4 to 6 hours for the soap to fully harden before carefully popping out and cutting your perfectly lovely Valentine’s inspired bars.

Voila! adorable soaps perfect for Valentine giving.

Fly, Fly Away … Again.

January 23, 2009 Filed Under: Melt & Pour Soap

If you missed Day 1 of our embedding project, catch up by clicking here.

Step 5:Spray your embedding object with alcohol and place your object where you want it to be in the mold (usually centered). A note about choices for embedding objects: hard objects may pop out of the soap in an uneven fashion when washing, potentially scratching enthusiastic children. Use common sense and age appropriate toys when making Embedding Toy soaps, please.

Step 6:Continue alternating layers of Super Pearly White and Clear Soap Base to get your desired cloud effect. Remember to let each layer cool slightly and spritz each layer with rubbling alcohol.

Step 7:After the mold is filled to the top let the mold sit for a few hours before unmolding. The longer you wait the easier it will be.

Look how cute this bar turned out! This is a fun project to include the kids on. It’s also a sneaky way to get your children to love their baths. The more scrubbing they do, the sooner they can claim their prize!

I’ll post a photo later, taken in our light box, that really showcases the cuteness of this soap. My skills at lighting and photography at home are minimal at best.