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Have you seen hand made soaps and thought wouldn't it be cool to be able to make my own - but it's a bit too hard and time consuming? Well aside from that being not true, there is a simpler way to dabble in making your own soaps.
Melt and pour soaps are created as a simple way to create your own personalised soaps. They really are as simple as melting down the soap base and pouring into moulds. You can add essential oils, colours and botanicals into them to give them some extra special touches. They make beautiful gifts and are really simple to make and lovely to use.
We have everything you need to get started making your own melt and pour soaps - a wide range of melt and pour natural soap bases, moulds, oils, colourants and botanicals. We also have a great book - Soapmaking the natural way, which is full of recipes you can try with your melt and pour soaps.
This is how you use melt and pour soaps:
What you need:
Melt and Pour Soap
Essential Oils (optional)
Natural Colourants (optional)
Dried Botanicals (optional)
A soap mould and knife
Microwave / Double boiler
What you do:
Open / Cut:
Open the packaging and cut the melt and pour soap base into smaller cubes, doing this will make the soap easier to handle and melt.
Melt:
Gradually heat the soap base ensuring that the soap melts evenly and does not boil and burn. If you are melting in a microwave please be careful and keep an eye on the soap as it can bubble over the container.
Mix:
You can add Essential Oils, Colours and Botanicals. Simply add to the melted soap base, mix gently ensuring that anything you have added is evenly distributed throughout the soap base.
Pour:
Working quickly, simply pour your soap base into your soap mould. At this point you can also add dried botanicals to the surface of the soap, by gently pressing them into the top of the soap if you wish.
Create:
Once your soaps have set and fully hardened simply remove from the moulds. It is recommend to always wrap your soap bars immediately after releasing from the moulds to protect and preserve the soap. You can use cling wrap or paper.
We have 6 different melt and pour soap bases available for you to try your making your own soap. We took a while deciding which ones to stock as some can have questionable ingredients in them. The melt and pour soap bases we stock are all natural and have safe ingredients.