This is a quick and easy Valentine's Day or Mother's Day Soap recipe! You'll be surprised just how simple it is to make these gorgeous, love sprinkled soaps!
Ingredients:
- 1kg SFIC White Melt & Pour Soap Base
- 500g SFIC Clear Melt & Pour Soap Base
- 25ml Pink Strawberry Champagne Fragrance
- 10g Candy Pink Mica
- 100ml Isopropyl Alcohol
- 50ml Spritzer Bottle
- BW Flex Mould - 4 Deep Rectangle
- Flex Embed Mould Tiny Hearts One (55 cavity)
- Long Spout Jug
- Pigment Scoops *Use small pinch if unavailable
Equipment:
- Microwave safe jugs - to hold 500ml
- Stirring stick, spoon or spatula
- Knife and board to dice the soap
Method:
- Firstly make three trays of hearts! Our graphic shows the three colours in one pour; this is for demonstration purposes only.
- Each soap bar requires approximately 20 hearts to have them fairly closely packed.
- It is better to make all one colour, unmould and repeat for the other colours.
- I like to allow 200 - 230g per pour as a guide, depending on how full you want to make the hearts. The ones in this project were poured to the rim of the mould and then quickly levelled off with a blunt knife. You can remelt any left over soap scrapings.
- Colour 1 = Clear Soap and 3+ pigment scoops of Candy Pink Mica - just use enough mica to ensure you have a good depth of colour.
- Colour 2 = White Soap with 2+ Pigment Scoops Candy Pink Mica - colour until you have a colour tone you are happy with.
- Colour 3 = White Soap = NO colour at all.
- Unmould each colour and set aside in colours ready for the embed layer.
- Chop 350g White Melt & Pour Soap Base in 2 - 3 cm cubes.
- Place in the microwave safe jug, and melt in short bursts until liquid.
- Stir to dissolve any small pieces that remain.
- Add a pinch of Candy Pink Mica (or more if you want a darker colour) and stir to combine.
- Add 3 - 5ml (¾ teaspoon) Fragrance Oil and stir well.
- Spritz with Isopropyl Alcohol to remove any surface bubbles and then pour into the mould cavities
leaving ½ cm head room at the top.
Pour low down to the mould and then spritz with Isopropyl Alcohol to remove any surface bubbles and leave to set.
- Ensure that your heart embeds are sitting UPSIDE DOWN on your work surface
- Check the surface of the soap with your fingertip. Press gently! If it is firm it is time to prepare and pour the clear layer.
- Dice 150g Clear Melt & Pour Soap Base and place in the small jug.
- Heat in short bursts until liquid.
- Spritz the set soap well with Isopropyl Alcohol and then spritz the hearts sitting on the bench - you are spritzing the BASES of the hearts, not the tops!
- Arrange approximately 12 hearts on the surface of your first soap - remember, you are placing the spritzed side of the soap down on top of the spritzed soap - this makes them adhere well. Leave a little space for the rest of the hearts after your initial pour.
- Pour the hot, clear soap over the top to just below the rim of the mould cavities.
- Spritz with Isopropyl Alcohol immediately.
- Pop in the remaining hearts to fill the gaps and then pour hot soap over the surface again.
- Spritz with Isopropyl Alcohol immediately.
- Allow the soap to fully set up.
- Remove from the mould and wrap in cello or shrink bags.
- Repeat for another batch of soap.
| Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Yields: | 8 bars + |
