The Soap Making Made Simple Mini Course...

More Melt and Pour Soap Making Recipes

Welcome To Day 9 of the Soap Making Made Simple Mini Course!

Today you'll get two more great recipes for making soap with the melt and pour process.  This is, perhaps, the easiest way to make great soap at home.

In Lesson #3, we showed you how to make shea butter soap and butterfly soap with the melt and pour process.  These are very popular recipes.

Today, we'll follow that up with a couple of soap making recipes you can use immediately.  And they are also very easy to make.

Floating Bath Soap

• 3 ounces cocoa butter
• 1 tablespoon creamed coconut
• 1 teaspoon almond oil
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 tablespoon powdered oatmeal
• 2 drops tangerine essential oils

This is not only beautiful but smells great, leaves the skin feeling soft, and can be used for a romantic setting or fun for the kids. Start by melting the cocoa butter in a double boiler.

Remove from heat and mix in the creamed coconut, almond oil, honey, and oatmeal, blending well. Add this mixture to the melted cocoa butter, again blending well.

Now, add the tangerine essential oil and blend. Pour this mixture into ice cube trays and chill until hardened. When ready to use, simply toss one or two into running water and enjoy.

If you prefer another fragrance, you can choose something different. One note of caution, this soap can be slippery so enter and exit the tub carefully.

Buttermilk Soap (Skin Softener)

• 9 ounces (225 grams) buttermilk
• 2 teaspoons (4.5 grams) powdered benzoic
• Peppermint scent

1. Put simple soap in saucepan and soften over low heat
2. Gradually add the goat's milk, stirring as you do so
3. When the soap is thoroughly melted, add the benzoin and then the scent
4. Pour into molds

As you're beginning to, hopefully, see there's many ways to create soap and make it to your own specifications.  Making soap if fun in itself, but the ability to make whatever kind you want really adds to the experience.

And it's sooo... gratifying to watch the looks on the faces of friends and relatives who have received a special soap, made personally by you, and just for them.  Many people aren't too good when it comes to crafts, but soap making it surely one craft that you can easily master.  Soap gifts are so very unique that you will be proud when you give one to someone.

Enjoy the soap recipes!

And...

For more melt and pour soap recipes, see our new book, "Soap Making Made Simple!"

Regards,

Dave Cushion