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.
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!
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.
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
Make the Lye Water
Make the lye solution according to How To Make Lye Water. Mix it until the vapors start to dissipate.
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.
By now your soap should look like in the picture or in the video (3:41)
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.