This week I’m teaching one of my favorite projects – candy soap! You may recognize these from my project last year. I think that the video really helps the project to come to life and make more sense.

Soap Queen TV Episode 8: Candy Soap from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

Ingredients:
Clear melt & pour base
White melt & pour base
Hello Sweet Thang! fragrance
Vanilla Color Stabilizer
Red-Blue Mica

Tools:
Round soap mold
Utility knife (like an exact-o)
Spray bottle with rubbing alcohol
Spoon
Droppers
Heat safe containers

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!

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.

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 3: Swirling M&P from Soap Queen on Vimeo.

We’ve made it really easy to follow along by creating a kit for making this exact soap project! It’s only $29.99 and you’ll end up with at least 10 bars of cosmically swirled soap. Check it out!

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

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

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.