Chocolate Pie MP Soap

Even though this melt and pour soap recipe is called Chocolate Pie, to me it looks more like a treat from my youth called a moon pie. If you long for this treat without the calories, then you need to check out the instructions from Wholesale Supplies Plus.

Creamy Coffee Melt & Pour Soap

Do you drink coffee every morning and can not get enough of it?  Here is an easy melt and pour soap project from The Soap Queen called Creamy Coffee  that takes no time to make and results in six bars of soap.

Free Beginner’s Guide to Soapmaking: Melt and Pour

Are you a crafter looking looking for a new craft to learn?  Have you found one yet?  Well, I found something you may want to look at.  Melt and Pour Soap making is an easy craft to get your feet wet in the soap making realm.  That is how I started.  If you are interested in learning this craft, please take a a look at The Soap Queen's post called Free's Beginner's Guide to Soap Making:  Melt and Pour.

Watermelon Soap Pops

Watermelon is my favorite summer time fruit. When I get the chance I eat as much of this fruit as I can. If you love watermelon as much as I do...here is a fun melt and pour soap project from Wholesale Supplies Plus called Watermelon Soap Pops.  It is a moderate level project and you will get six soap pops.

Soap Petal Guest Soaps

Looking for the perfect wedding or shower gift?  Here is an adorable project from Wholesale Supplies Plus called Soap Petal Guest Soaps that just fill the bill.  This is an easy melt and pour project that takes very little time but gives you a big bang for your buck - 235 petals in one batch.  You can catch the colors to fit your special occasion.

Sugar Scrub Soap Making Tutorial

Do you love using sugar scrubs?  And do you make your soap by the melt and pour method?  Here is a project that combines the two. This Sugar Scrub Soap Making Tutorial from Rustic Escentuals us an easy soap project to do.  The finished soap will provide you with a wonderful exfoliating and moisturizing later.  These soaps are helpful to have on had for both summer and winter when the skin can get dry.

How to make a Beautiful Soap Gift!

When I first saw this tutorial on Facebook, I thought how cute these are. These soaps are a definite soap to make as a party favor, soap ornament to adorn on a package or whatever comes to mind.  This step by step melt and pour "Ornament" Soap Tutorial is a very easy project to do. So collect your supplies and get started.

Free Beginner’s Guide To Soapmaking: Melt and Pour

My first introduction to making my own bath and body products was taking a melt and pour soap class through a local community education course. I could not believe how easy it was. Once I learned how to make soaps this way, I really started getting interested in making my own bath and body products as a hobby. It was a great introduction that gave me the confidence to purse this interest. For those who are interested in getting started on a new craft, The Soap Queen has proved a Free Beginner's Guide to Soapmaking:  Melt and Pour. Give this craft a chance and see where it leads you.

Snowflake Soap Tutorial From All Things Hold Together

Is Winter your favorite season? Then why not recreate these Snowflake Soaps to bring in the season? I found another Snowflake Soap Tutorial which is from All Things Hold Together. It is similiar to the earlier tutorial from Annie-Marie but it slightly differently. It is just as simple as Annie Marie's project and it is perfect to give out as gifts whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah.

The materials for this project are a six cavity silicone muffin pan, Goat Milk Soap Base, Cornflower Blue Mica, Peppermint Essential Oil (second distillation), Small Metal Snowflake Cookie Cutter, Alcohol in a Spray Bottle, Measuring Cup, Spoons, Etc.

Although this recipe asks for goats milk soap base, some of you may be hesitant to use that particular soap base for certain reasons, you could subsitute any white opaque glycerin soap base to your liking. I have seen soap base with coconut and others out on the market. So it will be easy to find.

Spicy Plum Soap-A Homemade Gift Soap.

Spicy plum soap is a wonderful and extravagant experience for the face, hands and body. This homemade gift soap feels silky-smooth and smells terrific.

Supplies Need:

8 oz. Unscented white soap, grated
4 oz. Milk
2 tsp. Plum fragrance oil
1/4 tsp. Cinnamon fragrance oil
1 tsp. Ground nutmeg
Brown food coloring
Gold mica dust

To Make This Homemade Gift Soap:

In the top of a double boiler, heat milk, along with the fragrance oil. Grind soap as fine as possible in a food processor (not absolutely necessary, but makes it easier). Put the ground soap in a bowl and add the nutmeg, food coloring, gold mica dust. Stir to distribute the color evenly. When milk and oils are hot, add soap and, stirring occasionally, allow the soap to soften to a creamy mass (then water in the bottom of the double boiler should be hot, but not boiling). It may take as much as 1/2 hour. After the soap is fully melted, press into a small bunt pan (or two, depending on the size). Present your homemade gift soap on a plate, sliced.

This homemade gift soap also makes a perfect gift. Your friends and family will appreciate a homemade gift soap that is a relaxing and unique bath and body product. That this gift came from the heart and your hands makes them even more special. Packaging and presentation play a predominant role in the gift-giving of your handmade gift soaps, salts and lotions. Below are several packaging ideas, but don’t let this brief list limit your creativity!

Sticky labels, round labels and heavyweight card stock can be used for labeling your plum soap.

Boxes and baskets are nice containers for homemade gift soaps, especially when you fill the boxes with other materials. You can fill the box or basket halfway with herbs, dried flowers or potpourri that matches the scent of your homemade gift soap. Gift basket fillings, other toiletries, washcloths or sponges also make great fillers in the basket with your spicy plum soap. Once you have added the filler and soap, wrap the box or basket in cellophane.

Coffee mugs also great "baskets." Add a filler to the cup and place your spicy plum soap in the center and wrap with cellophane or tulle. Small brown paper bags, cello type bags, wood crates and soap dishes are other containers you can use to package your soaps and salts.

Source: http://www.add-adhd-help-center.com/bathbody/plum_soap.htm

Rubber Band Shaped Soaps

Here is a really cool idea that is supposed to be the hottest trend in school today - Shaped Rubber Bands.  Why not take this new fangle item and put them in a bar of soap?  If you are interested in learning how to make this very simple melt and pour project check out the Rubber Band Soap instructions from the blog Soap and the Finer Things in Life.

You can purchase these shaped rubber bands from Brambleberry.com.  Branbleberry carries  Cat and Dogs, Princess or Sea Creatures.  Maybe in the future they will offer more shapes.  Do you anywhere else someone can find other shapes?  Let us know. In addition you would have to purchase the following soapmaking supplies 24 ounces of Clear Melt and Pour Soap base, Fragrance Oil (of your choice), 6 Lidded Molds and Colorants (of your choice).

Love Tacos?

Then why not make your favorite treat into a soap?  Here is a melt and pour soap video tutorial from Denise at Go Planet Earth. These soaps definately look good enough to eat! It makes my run down to my local Taco Bell and place an order. 

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If you would like to purchase a hard copy of this taco soap tutorial, you can purchase a copy from Go Planet Earth for $5.95. Once you make the purchase, Go Planet Earth will send the PDF tutorial file to the email address listed on your order form. You can open, print and save the file to your computer. A complete list of supplies needed are included in the printed PDF tutorial.

Debbie May's Lemon Sugar Soap

This soap recipe from Wholesale Supplies Plus just reminds me of summertime and lemonade. 

Project Level: Beginner
Estimated Time: 1 Hour
Yields: Approx. (16) 4 oz Bars of Soap

Ingredients

• 2 Pound(s) Crafter's Choice Ultra White Soap Base
• 2 Pound(s) Crafter's Choice Extra Clear Soap Base
• 2 Ounce(s) Crafter's Choice Lemon Sugar Fragrance Oil
• 1 Crafter's Choice Yellow Soap Color Bar
• 2 Ounce(s) Crafter's Choice Vanilla Color Stabilizer
• 16 Crafter's Choice Rectangle Clamshells

Equipment

• Droppers - Plastic
• Gloves
• Microwave
• Pyrex or Microwave Safe Cup (16 - 32 oz)
• Rubbing Alcohol with Fine Mist Sprayer
• Soap Slicer/Cutter
• Spoon

Directions

Using a soap slicer, cut clear soap into 1-2 inch pieces. The soap slicer is dull and perfect for this project. Do not use a knife as it is very sharp and the soap is slippery. The knife could slip causing injury.

Place 8 oz of clear soap in a microwave and heat for 30 seconds. Stir well. Repeat until soap is completely melted.

Cut a small piece of yellow color from the color bar. Place into soap and stir. The color bar will melt as you are stirring. Depending on your preference, you can add more color.

Set the small cup on a flat surface. Using a dropper add 7 ml's of fragrance oil to the cup and add 7 ml's of vanilla color stabilizer to the cup. Stir thoroughly.

Immediately pour the yellow soap into a clamshell until it is 1/2 full. The 8 ounces of soap you are working with should fill 4 clamshells 1/2 full.

Using a soap cutter, carefully cut white soap into 1" cubes.

When colored clear soap has cooled to 130ºF, hold the soap cubes in your hand and apply a spray of rubbing alcohol. Be generous! It is the rubbing alcohol that allows the white and clear soap to adhere to each other.

Place cubes of soap into bar. Add enough cubes so that bar is completely full.

Spritz top of soap with rubbing alcohol. (This will pop bubbles and give a smooth surface to the soap)

Allow soap to naturally re-harden. Apply clamshell lid.

If you are sellling your soap, don't forget to label the soap to complete the package. Label according to FDA cosmetic label guidelines.


Source: http://wholesalesuppliesplus.com/RecipeDetail.aspx?RecipeID=46

Melt & Pour Soap Making: Miss O Princess Heart Soaps

If you loved the Miss O Princess Soapsicle Soaps from Denise at GoPlanetEarth, then here is an instructional video clip to make the Heart Soaps.

http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/01/melt-pour-soap-making-miss-o-princess.html.

Both of these projeccts would be great to give out as gifts for Valentine's Day!

Reindeer on Ice Pond Melt & Pour Soaps Instructional Video from Soapylove

How would you like to learn how to make this adorable holiday melt and pour soap?  Then check out this video on Go Planet Earth - http://goplanetearth.com/project_reindeerPond.htm.

What is great about it is that once the soap is gone, you have a bendable toy to play with.