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Melt and pour soap base block

Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base

Fan of melt and pour? But you hate the price of soap bases, or, like me, you'd rather do your own bases? Then this tutorial is for you!! This is a very simple homemade and natural melt and pour base (glycerin soap base), with kitchen ingredients! You just have to source for the vegetable glycerin, the rest you can find in your kitchen dispenser (assuming you have coconut oil and sunflower oil at the ready). This recipe is from Silvana Liviero.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Method: Melt and Pour Soap Base
Cosmetic: Soap in Bulk
Servings: 10 soap bars
Author: Sofia Matias
Cost: $5,3 / 4,5€

Ingredients

Lye Water

Other Ingredients

Sugar Syrup

Instructions

Get Ready!

  • Wear goggles, gloves and mask! Look at “Safety Recommendations” in the video above or in How to Make Soap From Scratch
  • Assemble everything: ingredients, equipment, safety equipment. Prepare your workstation, including a well ventilated area to make the lye water. Measure all the ingredients. Don’t start the recipe without having everything ready!
    soapmaking-workspace-preparation
  • Learn how to make sugar syrup in this video, but make sure you use the quantities indicated above: 110 g of sugar and 40 g of water. Do not let it turn into caramel - keep it thin.
    sugar syrup

Heat the Oils

  • Heat the oils until the coconut oil is fully melted. You will benefit from heating the oils up to 65ºC but it is not mandatory
    Heating soaping oils in a microwave

Make the Lye Water

  • Make the lye solution according to How To Make Lye Water. Mix it until the vapors start to dissipate.
    lye water
  • Add the alcohol to the lye water and mix well

Make the Soap

  • Pour the lye water with alcohol into the oils. Mix well for around ten minutes. The mixture will start to create a bit of foam, and then will make a small "parafin-like" film at the surface. Add the glycerin and the sugar syrup and continue to mix well.
    making glycerin soap base2
  • By now your soap should look like in the picture or in the video (3:41)
    making glycerin soap base

Molding and Curing

  • Pour the soap into your mold. Your mold can be pretty much anything, but I've used a silicone cake mold. Sprinkle with alcohol to remove any bubbles. Let your soap set for 24 h, preferably in the fridge. It might take longer than 24 h to fully solidify outside the fridge.
  • Let it cure for 15 days, to dry out the alcohol and water.
    Melt and pour soap base block

Video

Tried this recipe?Send a pic to @herbalcochete!