Soap Embed Bars

Ok Well this post has been sitting in draft mode for too long. (needed to add more pictures)

anyway today I'm showing how to make embedded soap bars.

So for this you will need

• Melt and pour soap (this was from Michael's craft store)
• Colorant (from michaels.) Mica (from brambleberry)
• Fragrance oil F/O (from Natures Garden Candle )
• Soap mold ( Michael's)
• Scale
• Thermometer
• Spatula or spoon
• Mixing cup (microwave safe)
• Cookie Cutters.. (various resources)
• Knife
• Spray bottle with Isopropyl 70%

Let's begin

Here you see the supplies laid out.

Here I've placed the cookie cutter I'm going to use into the molds to see how they will fit later

Here I placed something on the scale, then pressed the "tare" button, which put it back to zero.

Then I put the mold on top and poured water in it. This tells me how much soap I need to full the mold.

Here I'm doing it again. the cup it self weighs 13 ounces. I press "tare" (below), so that when I add the soap I can tell when I've hit 4.3 oz

Here's the white soap base, what I like about this base is the case it comes in. It has a grid pattern, which you can see here. Each of those "squares" is actually 1 oz. maybe slightly more.

Extremely easy to cut!!

Place in microwave safe mixing bowl, until you get your desired amount.

Place into microwave for 30 second intervals until it's completely melted

Check your temperature, (sorry I had it upside down, but its 101.5, this is fine)

Add your colorant, here I added a blue and light gold mica

Pour into your molds, these wont be filled up since I divided them. spray with alcohol and allow to harden.

Now I'm using the clear base and, I love this clear base because it melts SUPER clear, unlike some bases that have a yellow tint to them.

Melt some... add colorant purple and light gold mica

Pour into other two molds. Place cutters to see where they will fit best.

Pop the soap out the mold and cut using the cookie cutters.

Melting more clear soap base, pour a small layer and place cut outs into soap. Spray with alcohol. Allow to harden.

I remelted the blue soap from the cut outs, added more white and color. This I added F/O to. mix and pour. Spray with alcohol.

Here... well it's actually clear base. I had the light gold mica container in my had, had to sneeze... and well accidentally while I did sneeze away from the bowl.. i dumped quite a bit into the bowl. I poured this into the remaining mold. ( i had used left over purple for one mold)

This is left over Clear/sparkle gold mica soap.

Here are your finished bars...