Soap Making the Melt and Pour Way

I love making soaps with the melt and pour bases.  These pre made soap bases come in all kinds of oil  choices. I love the coconut oil and goat's milk versions with a suspension formula so your added ingredients will float throughout the soap and not float up on top. 

Using the melt and pour bases takes all the stirring and lye parts out. You simple melt and pour these blocks of soap. No hassle soap making.

You Will Need

Fragrance- Essential oils can be expensive and you need more quantities in soap to scent.  I use fragrances I buy on-line or get at the craft stores. They are inexpensive but do not confuse oils used for room defuses or candles. Make sure you buy fragrances that can be used on the skin only.

Molds - look around for repurposed empty food containers. I like the rectangular almond milk containers and just turn the container on its side, trim off the top side at the spout up and get a long  rectangular mold that's flexable and waxy to release the soap. Silicon cake molds work great. Also cupcake papers in a cupcake pan will work. I use empty frozen orange juice cans. Just wash containers  in soapy water and soak in a water and bleach of a 10 percent to 1 mixture for ten minutes. Get them good and clean.

Coloring- Coloring needs to be skin safe.

Special Goodies- Oatmeal-Coffee grounds- Rosemary-Cosmetic Clays- Sage-Lemon Zest

Melt and Pour Soap Base

Trimmed and prepped fresh Rosemary

In a Pyrex measure cup melt the melt and pour base using a 20 second heat cycle in the microwave, followed by 5 second intervals of heat until the solid bases is liquid.

 I cube the melt and pour up to speed up the melting process. Keep an sharp eye on this melting process. Using short five seconds at a time back to back till you have a liquid. Now remove the melted mixture carefully it's burning hot. Add your ingredients, color, scent scrubs and stir quickly as you want to get the mixture poured before it sets up in your Pyrex measuring cup.

 Pour into molds and finish with an rubbing alcohol spray from a spritzer bottle to pop air bubbles. Wait a few hours and you have beautiful soap. That's it, a super easy and fun project.

cake molds work great for soap molds.