Servings: 20 soap bars (50g)
Cost: $7 - 13$ / 6€ - 11€
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 kg crystal clear soap base Make your own soap base: How To Make Transparent Soap Base.
- 5 ml distilled water
- 10 ml essential oil lavender other essential oil or fragrance oil
- 5 ml sweet almond oil
- 5 ml coco glucoside optional
- alcohol to sprinkle
- 20 small toys (heat resistant)
Instructions
Preparations and Good Practices
- Disinfect all your equipment before starting. You can boil some of your equipment (like the double boiler, glass cups, spoons), and use a solution of 1 liter of water with 1/2 cup of bleach, for items that are not heat-resistant (like the milk frother, plastic cups or the lotion containers)
- Check out the post How To Make Melt and Pour Soap. Besides having a simple recipe, it explains in general the steps and ingredients to make soaps with melt and pour soap base.
Melt The Soap
- NOTE: You can purchase the soap base... or you can make it yourself with the following recipe: How To Make Transparent Soap Base.
- Cut the melt and pour soap base into small cubes (2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm) into your bowl or pan, with the distilled water.1 kg crystal clear soap base, 5 ml distilled water
- Take it to an electric stove and set the heat to medium. Let the soap base melt completely. Spray with alcohol if you have a solid layer at the surface.
Add Addictives
- NOTE: Coco glucoside is a mild synthetic detergent you can add if you want to give more foam to your soap. However, if you want to keep your soap natural, this ingredients should not be added. It's completely optional.
- Set the heat to low. Add the oil and the surfactant and mix well. Let the ingredients incorporate.5 ml sweet almond oil, 5 ml coco glucoside
- Turn off the heat. Let it cool a bit and add the essential oil. Sprinkle with alcohol if you have a solid layer at the surface.
Mounting the Toys Inside The Soap
- Place the small toys inside the molds. You can use any soap mold you like as long as the small toys are able to fit in. I've used these rectangular soap molds and also flower ones.
- Pour a small layer of soap, enough to cover the bottom of the soap mold. Let the soap harden, it should take around 30 minutes. This will allow to hold the toys when you pour the rest of the soap. Otherwise, they will float.
- Pour the rest of the soap into the soap molds then let them harden for 1-3 hours. If needed, you can reheat your soap to liquid state.
- Once solid, unmold and, if applicable, cut your soaps into small ones (I've cut my rectangular soaps in half to make small ones). Cover them with thin plastic film to keep them away from moisture. They are ready to use!! See How Do You Store Homemade Soap
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