What Type of Soap Should You Make?
Washing with a bar of handmade soap is truly an experience. While mass-produced, store bought soaps often dry the skin, handmade soaps moisturize it. Pleasant scents and colors, often with bits of plant matter...
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How to Make Encased Blocks Soaps (melt and pour)
Two colors of transparent soap give a little pop to an otherwise plain melt and pour soap bar. The encased blocks appear to float in their transparent glycerin background.
How to Make Soap with Rubber Stamps (melt and pour)
The possibilities of rubber stamp soaps are limited only by your stamp collection.
How to Make Checkerboard Soaps (melt and pour)
With two colors you can make fun and easy checkerboard soaps.
How to Make Shredded Layer Soaps (melt and pour)
Shredded layer soaps consist of cutting up an opaque bar of soap, and immersing the shreds in a transparent bar of soap.
How to Make Cookie Cutter Soaps (melt and pour)
A few cookie cutters and a little melt and pour soap equal creative cookie cutter soaps.
Homemade Lye
Lye is one of the ingredients used in old-fashioned soap making. I usually make the glycerin soap because it’s safer and pours into a mold more crisply, but once in a while someone puts...
How to Make Fossil Soaps (melt and pour)
It’s easy to make “fossil” soaps with safer melt and pour soap, and it makes a fun craft to do with kids (under adult supervision).
DIY Ninja Turtle Soaps
These Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle soaps are super easy to make, all you need to add is some googly eyes.
Easy DIY Dolphin Embed Soap Bars (melt and pour)
This melt and pour soap bar gives the illusion of a dolphin swimming in the ocean.
