Hey everybody it's Charlotte with The Wooden Wick Co. and today on Makers Moments
I'm going to be sharing with you how to make melt and pour soap. Making melt and
pour soap is super easy, fun, and perfect for beginners. I'm going to walk you through
a step-by-step tutorial of everything you need to do to create the perfect bar
of soap. In our tutorial today I'm going to be using our Coco Mango Butter Melt
and Pour base. This base is a hundred percent natural - no nasties, no toxic
chemicals, and it's also a hundred percent good for you. So this contains
coconut oil, mango butter, and jojoba oil. These three ingredients have incredible
benefits for your skin - they're moisturizing, toning, get rid of fine
lines and wrinkles, and overall just help to replenish the surface layer of your
skin. So to get started you can simply just take the plastic wrap off of your
bar and you're going to want to put it into a glass
pouring pitcher so that we can microwave it. When you are making melt and pour
soap you can either microwave it or you can use a double boiler. Personally, I
prefer the microwave because I find it to be a little bit easier. And what we're
going to do is we're going to microwave this soap in 30-second intervals until it's
fully liquefied. When you are making melt and pour soap you're not
necessarily striving for a specific melt temperature like you do with candle
making, but you're just looking for it to be completely liquefied. Once it's
completely liquefied that is when we're going to add our fragrance and our other
fun ingredients. Without further ado let's get started, and we're going to start
with microwaving this for 30 seconds, so here we go.
Hey guys! Okay so my soap is fully melted now. I gave it a few 30-second intervals
in the microwave. Okay so this is fully liquefied. I'm just going to stir it to make
sure there are no hidden lumps in there. And it looks like it's completely
liquefied! so now I'm going to add in my fragrance and some fun botanicals. So the
fragrance I'm using today is Cashmere + Vanilla - that's one of our fragrances
from the Wooden Wick Co. This fragrance like all of our fragrances is phthalate
free and this one is also skin safe for soap. So this is a one pound block of
soap and this is .33 ounces of fragrance oil.
I'm going to be using about 3% fragrance oil in this today and I'm
going to mix that in thoroughly. So you can see I also have some fun botanicals here.
I have lavender buds, rose petals, blue cornflower, and calendula petals. And then
I have some of our Pearl Mica. So this is going to add a pretty shimmer to your
soap. I am going to add about a teaspoon
of this mica to my 1-pound block and I'm just going to mix that right into my base.
Again that's just going to give a nice little pearlescent shimmer to your soap.
And then I'm also going to add in some lavender buds into my mixture. Lavender
buds, obviously very popular, used for centuries. And these are going to give a
nice little soft exfoliant to my soap. So again just to recap, the ingredients for
what I'm using today I have our Coco Mango Butter melt and pour base, I used our
Cashmere and Vanilla fragrance oil, added about a teaspoon of pearl mica, and then
I just sprinkled in some buds directly into my soap, and then I'm going to add some
more on top once I pour this as well. So now that is all fully combined, I am
going to pour my soap. I have our square silicone mold here.
Just going to slowly pour into each cavity.
Okay perfect, I have a little bit left over I will use for my next project. And
now I'm just going to sprinkle some of these lavender buds onto the surface of
my soap. You want to do this quickly because the soap can cool pretty rapidly,
so add your botanicals right away to the surface. Beautiful! Okay so with melt and
pour soap, as soon as these bars have cooled they are ready to use. So we'll
circle back once these have cooled and I'll show you guys the finished product.
Okay so our soap has fully cooled and now you can see it's really easy to
unmold. Simply pull it out, and we've got this nice creamy white bar of soap that
is ready to use. So that is how you make melt and pour soap! Again I used mica
and lavender buds in this - you can add any color micas, dried botanicals or
exfoliants to your soap to help customize them. So thank you guys so much
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