How to Make Melt & Pour Soap

December 27, 2011

Wondering How to Make Melt & Pour Soap? Melt & Pour Soap is not as hard as you might think to produce. It is all in the set-up and the ingredients. Here are some basic steps to easily making Melt & Pour Soap in your own kitchen.

Basic Materials for Melt & Pour Soap Making:

1 lb or 2 of Soap Base
Serrated Knife
Cutting Board
Soap molds
Glass measuring cup
Soap additives - This can be different added ingredients such as oatmeal, goats milk, honey, aloe vera, apricot bits, herbs, vitamin E oil
Fragrance - in the form of fragrant or essential oils
Saran Wrap
Cosmetic Grade Soap Colorants - liquid dyes or color blocks
A stirring device - This can be a wooden craft sticks or something like a whisk
Alcohol in a spray bottle (use to spray the top of the soaps to get smooth)
Microwave

Instructions:
Within a couple of hours you could make your very own bar soap, an ideal present for house warmings, hostesses, or even if you are feeling truly special, yourself.

Slice the preferred quantity of soap base directly into 1 inch chunks and set inside your set aside measuring
cup.

Liquefy pieces of melt and pour soap base in your microwave oven in 20-30 second time frames up to the point the soap becomes liquified. Just always be cautious to avoid getting burned by the boiling soap.

Incorporate your soap colorant, a little quantity each time, up to the point that your particular color shade is produced.

Blend with a whisk (or other stirring device) very carefully & slowly in order to avoid air bubbles from forming.

If you’re employing color nuggets, make sure that you liquefy a small piece together along with your soap base to obtain the sought after hue.

Reserve a couple of minutes ahead of time to arrange your soap molds, tools, fragrance, as well as any other soap additives that will make your soap special. Arrange your favorite soap molds on a clean and dry working surface that is level and has lots of room. Start off incorporating your favorite ingredients along with an aromatic fragrance (usually this will be between ¼ - ½ tsp. for every cup of melt and pour soap base or 1 oz/lb of base)

Important NOTE! Refrain from incorporating the scented essence when the soap is very hot, or the fragrance could possibly evaporate from the actual warmth of the soap itself. Nevertheless, waiting around for too long can cause the final bar soap to setup with an unintended skin layer.

After you have stirred in your fragrance along with the miscellaneous other soap additives, your molds are ready for the soap to be poured. In case you have air bubbles developing on top of your soap pours, take your alcohol sprayer and gently spray the tops of the soap. Now let your newly poured soap cool for around half an hour or up to the point it is firm. Its then that you can pop it out of the soap mold. Placing the soap mold with the hardened soap inside your refrigerator’s freezer for a couple minutes or so should help the soap let go from the molds much more easily. When you get your soaps out finally, you can dry them in the open air on wax paper over night. In the morning, you can then wrap the new bars in clear Saran wrap, shrink wrap, or some kind of fancy waxed paper in order to maintain the aroma.

Suggestions: When you are doing melt and pour soap, just remember that additives, colorants, or fragrance is not required! Go with what you like.

Just remember to have fun with it and remember to do what makes you happy!

Here is a cool How to do a Melt and Pour Soap Video!