For our soap making I envisioned striped Easter egg soaps, it was a longer process than I really bargained for, and I have yet to master the pretty aspect of soaping. But we did fine for newbies.
1. I started by making a soap mold using a box that I filled in the center seem with to allow for a flattened bottom. I then taped it together and cut down the side of the box to make a tray.
2. I then wrapped the box with freezer paper to allow for a leak proof seal.
3. Then I got my colorant out and chose which ones I would use. I use this ELF pallet only for coloring crafts.
4. Using a tooth pick I took a bit of the eye shadow out and ground them up with my mortar and pestles(for this project I chose 3 colors, pink, orange and a bluish green). I wrapped them in plastic wrap so I wouldn’t lose most of the color onto their rough surfaces.
I just love using the eye shadows for colorant, because you can mix your own colors so easily if you cannot find the one you like. Here I chose to add a bit more yellow to the somewhat orange color I already had.
5. I then cut my white Melt and Pour into chunks and placed them into a heat safe container.
6. I then melted it in the microwave for about 50 seconds (depending on your microwave this might be different for you).
6. I then mixed in one of the colors and poured it into the mold. After the soap had hardened I popped it out and repeated with the next color until I had all 3 colors made into flat soap sheets. I then began to cut sheet using a cookie cutter that was in the shape of and Easter egg. I then bagged up the scraps of leftover soap to use in a project at a later time.
7. I repeated this until all 3 colors were cut into egg shapes and the scraps were all picked up. I then stacked the egg shapes into pile of 1 orange, 1 bluish green, and 1 pink.
8. I then cut the stack into 3 equal parts, creating the “stripes” that I was envisioning.
9. I then chunked up a very small amount of clear melt and pour soap and place in a heat safe container.
10. I then melted the soap in the microwave for about 40 seconds, and added fragrance to it.
11. I then poured the melted clear melt and pour into the cookie cutter about 1/3 of the way up, while holding it on a sheet of freezer paper.
12. After the soap had set up I was able to add 3 of the chunks of soap that were of different colors into the the cookie cutter to create the striped egg, then I pour clear melt and pour to fill the cookie cutter to the top.
13. In order to make this process a bit faster I began doing the same process but in a soap mold instead. (Whew! I didn’t think I could hold onto that cookie cutter forever!)
14. And here is the final results.
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