Make creative soap crafts with kids of almost any age, or just enjoy them yourself.
Home made soap crafts make wonderful spa gifts for any occasion!
Home Made Soap Ingredients
- One bar color-free soap or slivers of saved bar soap
- Essential oils of your choice (optional)
- Food coloring of your choice (optional)
- Almond Oil
- Vitamin E Oil (optional)
- Coarse sea salt
- Soap Molds: ice cube molds, cookie cutters, or candy molds, or anything you have on hand to shape your new soaps.
Instructions for Making Spa Style Gift Soaps
- Shred soap in a blender or food processor, or use a hand grater.
- Boil a pot of water and put a heatproof glass bowl over the pot to gently heat the bowl.
- Place the soap shreds in the bowl. Mix together. Remove bowl from pot.
- Pour small amounts of hot water from the pot into the bowl and stir gently until
soap changes into paste.
- Allow to cool slightly, then add your choice of essential oils, coloring, sea salt and Vitamin E.
- Pour soap into molds.
- Let soap cool in the molds, then remove and place on wax paper.
- Allow soaps to harden and cure for a day or two, then wrap and label.
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